Each January the Campus Academic Strategies and Technology (4CAST) event draws together UI instructors and support staff to examine how learning technologies can be leveraged to engage students, make connections between instructors and support staff, and identify educational potential in new technology. In its tenth year, 4CAST focused its two
Summary
For over nine years, the Annual Campus Academic Strategies and Technology (4CAST) event has drawn faculty together in January to examine how learning technologies can be leveraged to engage students, to make connections between instructors and support staff, and to identify educational potential in new technology.
This event is hosted and organized by ITS Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology and the University of Iowa Libraries.
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This session will describe how technology has allowed UI students enrolled in an undergraduate business course to have an impactful cross-cultural experience without leaving the UI campus.
This session will provide a live demonstration of several methods of lecture capture available from the studios at Distance and Online Education. Features will include lightboard use, green screen, live slide keying and interaction/annotation strategies with on screen media.
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