What is Chat, Chow, & Web 2.0?
“Open Locks Whoever Knocks”
The October Session In observance of Accessibility Awareness Awareness Month, Karen Hemker (Director of Access Services) moderated a student panel discussion on the topic of living with disabilities inside and outside the classroom. Students identified their...
September’s Session
IT Director Tianna Johnson opened the first Session of the fall semester to introduce new members of the IT team and to describe its organizational structure. Chad Lang, the new User Services Manager, then took the stage and talked about his experience and what he...
December Session: A Medley
With a head count just shy of 60, the December session set a record for Chat Chow attendance. Clearly people were eager to find out about the new and changing technologies that the session promised to address. Michael Hagarty, Career Services, opened the program with...
November Session: Tools of Engagement
And engaging it was. First up Charissa Jakusz, Dean of Students and Mike Ostman, Director of Student Activities, demonstrated Involvio, the multi-purpose, feature-packed mobile app. Rechristened Cardinals Connect, the app, as Jakusz described it, functions as...
October Session
Chat Chow took the show on the road this month. In Studio "S" up the bluff in St. Yon's Hall, presenter Eric Heukeshoven, Music Department, demonstrated the department's new active learning environment, which includes state of the art digital tools for audio...
e-Medley: November’s Session
Chemistry Department members Brett Bodsgard, Chris Jordan, and Nathan Lien opted to use a free e-text book from OpenStax this year. To open this session they described this project. They learned about OpenStax while at a conference and decided to try it out, hoping...
All Are Included
In support of October as Disabilities Awareness Month the October 21st session featured Karen Hemker (Director of Disability Services), Jason Spartz (Director of Instructional Technology), and Matt Klosky (Social Sciences Lecturer) introducing Universal Design...
Not Your Mother’s Art Class
Using Zurb’s Foundation 6, Kjellgren Alkire (Art Dept.) has been applying mobile responsive web development and design to enhance websites, WordPress pages, and web portfolios. In this session participants learned to better understand HTML as a...
February Session: “It’s All in the Game”
Michael Ratajczyk (Business) opened the first session of the second semester with a fascinating description of the game he created for his microeconomics class, Wealth of Nation Building. Using Google Sites, the game consists of five person teams with each team...
November Session
November's MedleyDr. Crystal Carlson (Psychology) opened the session with a description of how she is using infographics in her psychology classes. She began by defining infographics as a pictorial representation of information or an idea and dated the first use...