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Summer Academy

Every May the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Research holds a two day summer academy training session. Each year we focus on a different technology to help faculty enhance their teaching and engage their students.

Faculty submit a brief one to two page proposal to CITR with an expression of interest and a discussion regarding how they plan to integrate the technology into their classroom instruction. Faculty selected for participation are provided with the software and/or hardware that is being taught at the academy. This resource is placed in the faculty's possession following the Academy for their use up to and until they leave the University. At such time, the resource(s) are returned to the CITR office.

Summer Academy Archive

In this academy faculty learned how to incorporate the iPad in their instruction by learning a variety of helpful tips to manage teaching and learning on the go including downloading apps, creating and consuming content, classroom management, and managing research. Ideas were presented to help enhance student learning through the use of the iPad and apps.

At CITR we get a lot of quetions on how to record what is on a computer screen. In this academy faculty learned how to use Camtasia software to record and edit everything they are doing on their computer screen as well as their spoken voice via noise cancelling microphones. In addition they learned to incorporate images captured using Snag It and edited in Adobe PhotoShop.

Below are examples of what faculty created during the Instructional Images and Screencasts academy.

• Tawnya Adkins Covert - Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  Submitting Assignments on Western Online

Incorporating interactivity into online instruction is great for engaging students and improving retention. In this academy faculty learned how to build interactive lessons that include activities, quizzes, video clips and more all with SoftChalk Lesson Builder.

Instructional video is a great way to provide instruction. It alows students to visualize the concepts being taught. In this academy faculty learned how to storyboard an instructional video, and use that storyboard to record and edit a video using the Flip camera and FlipShare software.

Western Illinois University has partnered with Apple, Inc. to bring iTunes U to the University. In this academy faculty learned how to create audio podcasts, enhanced audio podcasts, and video podcasts for learning. they also learned how to upload their podcasts to iTunes U for delivery to their students.