Good afternoon,

I wanted to tell you about “Teaching & Tech,” a collaborative effort to show how faculty are supporting their teaching with technology and to keep you up-to-date on technologies impacting teaching at UNL. 

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Teaching & Tech, Issue 1, March 2016
In the March 2016 issue, 

•	Jeyam Subiah uses a flipped course design, active learning strategies, and screen capture technology to solve a key problems in two of his biological sciences courses (http://go.unl.edu/9hwi) 

•	Instructional designer and online teacher of English, Brian Wilson, describes how he makes more time for important interactions with students and gives richer feedback through the use of a text expansion tool  - (http://go.unl.edu/jm6s)

•	Updates about the pilot of the Canvas learning management system (http://go.unl.edu/xcah) and the upcoming deadline to move content currently stored on the Adobe Connect server   (http://go.unl.edu/qsmy) 

•	Events on the horizon include the Spring Teaching & Learning Symposium on April 1st (http://go.unl.edu/buap) and the Innovation in Pedagogy & Technology Symposium on May 10th (http://symposium.nebraska.edu/) 

•	The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries invites you to attend its 2016 Visiting Scholar program. The library is hosting three speakers from Purdue University who are affiliated with the Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT) program at Purdue University.  The event will be held April 21 from 10-11:30 am.  (http://go.unl.edu/3y4y) 

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HOW IT WORKS
Each month you’ll receive an email like this from me with a list of links and all the articles are stored at http://teaching.unl.edu.  If you have questions, comments, ideas, or do not want to receive this monthly email, just click reply and let me know. 

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Sydney Brown, Assistant Director, Innovative Instructional Design
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