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Classroom technology consultations

Would you like to try something different using technology in the classroom or as an assignment for your students? We can help to advise, train, and prepare you to add a new technology component to your teaching. For more information, you can request a consultation or appointment. Contact jtemos@princeton.edu.

Clickers - The ETC has several sets of classroom audience response system, or 'clickers', to loan for use in Princeton courses.

Blogs - Incorporating a blog into your course can add a creative component to your class, improve communication, and engage students in the development of a lasting scholarly resource. The ETC can assist you in getting a blog created for your course and offer advice in effective strategies for using blogs for teaching.

Blackboard - Learn how to use the Blackboard Course Management System for more than just posting a syllabus. Contact the ETC to learn how to create tests, quizzes, set up discussion boards, Wimba voice boards, post videos, and more.

Computer Labs - Offer hands-on computer training in the New Media Center or the Humanities Resource Center classroom. Arrangements can also be made to make specialized software for coursework.

Streaming Video - Enhance your Blackboard course website with videos of student presentations, lectures, or reserve materials.

Emerging Technologies - The ETC is always looking out for emerging technologies that may improve or impact teaching and learning at Princeton University. Contact us for more information or to suggest a topic.

Digital Teaching Materials

Create digital materials to help illustrate or enhance the topics you cover in class.

Maps - Online maps can be created collaboratively to create a visually-interesting new perspective on a novel, an historic topic, or other theme. Mark-up locations, notes, and links to further information about locations and events.

Timelines - Build a list of events and chart them on a timeline.

Archives and Databases - Start an archive using WordPress, Omeka, Drupal, or Textgarden. Categorize and tag materials.  Create semantic relationshsips between materials.

Teaching Resource Collections - Create a collection of teaching materials to be shared with instructors in mult-section courses or across thematically similar courses. Build a collection of images, video clips, or teaching plans.

Charts, graphs, and visualizations - Develop visualizations of topics that you repeatedly cover in class.  Generate attractive charts and graphs to help visualize data. Animate your existing illustrations to help get your point across.

Training-on-demand for faculty and academic departments

We offer several forms of training in educational technologies.

First, we offer office visits for faculty members and administrative staff. You can request a visit here.

Second, it is also possible to arrange for a group training session on a given topic. If you can get several people together who share an interest in learning an educational technology, we can arrange a class. A group training session can be requested here.

We have a survey to gather suggestions for future talks and training sessions. If you'd like to express your opinion about future educational technology training sessions, please take the survey.

Learn something new with lynda.com

The Office of Information Technology at Princeton has a site license for lynda.com, an award-winning, online software-training site. The lynda.com training library contains over 1,000 titles featuring a wide variety of software packages, such as Adobe and Microsoft Office products, video- and audio-editing software, web development applications, scripting, and 3D design packages.

The URL for Princeton's web portal to lynda.com is:

http://lynda.princeton.edu

Anyone with a valid Princeton netid has access to this portal. (There is no need to use VPN.)

There is a help page with more exact instructions of how to use the site, with support and troubleshooting information for the Princeton campus community.

Lynda.com has its own FAQ page, and there is a Princeton-specific FAQ for lynda.com.

Please direct any feedback about Princeton's membership to lynda.com to jtemos@princeton.edu.

Want a presentation about lynda.com for your staff or department? Request an office visit or group presentation here.

Faculty websites with OpenScholar@Princeton

OpenScholar is a templated web solution designed to create personal websites for academics. The sites contain biography, CV, publications, projects, and other categories designed to present an online portfolio of academic achievement.

To request a site, or learn more about OpenScholar at Princeton, click here.

Digitization for teaching purposes

The New Media Center will digitize analog materials free of charge for use in current or upcoming courses upon request by a faculty member. Contact or drop by the NMC to learn more.