2018 Faculty Technology Showcase Recap

It's been a couple months, but it's never too late for a recap! On December 6th, Educational Technology once again hosted the annual Faculty Technology Showcase. The 2018 event featured thirteen presenters (eleven faculty!) showcasing the variety of ways they have incorporated technology into their instruction and research. This was enough to give us a few challenges space-wise, a 'problem' we're more than happy to have! A full list of our presenters and descriptions is available at the Showcase website.

In addition to showcasing the efforts of our faculty, Educational Technology had plenty to share as well. In our second year highlighting our virtual reality systems, we included two VR demo stations. The second featured mathematics faculty Everett Sullivan demonstrating the immersive vector-mapping program CalcFlow. Our student employee Keegan Milburn demonstrated 3D models of campus buildings, which could have a variety of applications including Virtual Campus Tours and Facilities Diagrams. We displayed these diagrams using our recently-acquired ClearTouch interactive smartboard. Lastly, we saw the return of our lightboard, which made its debut at last year's event. Philosophy faculty Joel Martinez demonstrated how he's utilized the lightboard as a resource for creating instructional videos for his Formal Reasoning course.

It is always a pleasure to host this opportunity for our community to get together, celebrate success, swap ideas, and, of course, win prizes! We hope to see you all (and more) again next year!