Project Spotlight

Nanopore Sequencing

HUIT Supports Cutting-Edge Bioinformatics Research Tools in a Freshman Seminar

January 9, 2017

By Daniel Jamous, Senior Instructional Technologist, Academic Technology for FAS 
In Fall 2016, two HUIT groups – Academic Technology for FAS and the division of IT Support Services responsible for managing Harvard’s computer classrooms – collaborated to provide students with in-class access to cutting-edge bioinformatics research tools.... Read more about HUIT Supports Cutting-Edge Bioinformatics Research Tools in a Freshman Seminar

Academic Technology teams up with History Department, Bok Center, and Harvard Library to offer first Digital Teaching Seminar

Academic Technology teams up with History Department, Bok Center, and Harvard Library to offer first Digital Teaching Seminar

September 3, 2016

On August 29 and 30, HUIT Academic Technology offered its inaugural Digital Teaching Seminar, a two-day interactive event dedicated to providing a hands-on introduction to technologies and technological approaches that are becoming more commonly used in both teaching and research. Attendees in this first iteration included faculty and 2016-17 Digital Teaching Fellows (DiTFs), participants in a program dedicated to the thoughtful integration of technology...

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Canvas Masters Series small logo

Canvas Masters Series Workshops Are Here!

August 15, 2016

Beginning this fall, Academic Technology for FAS will be offering Canvas training that goes beyond the basics of setting up and administering a course website. Designed as interactive workshops, these topical training sessions will cover more specialized elements of the Canvas learning management system that you may encounter as teaching staff member or course administrator.  

Topics include:

    • Canvas Mythbusters
    • ...
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Getting the Picture: FAS ATG Presents Image Media Manager Application at 2016 IT Summit

Getting the Picture: FAS ATG Presents Image Media Manager Application at 2016 IT Summit

June 2, 2016

The FAS Academic Technology Group's Brandon Bentley (senior instructional technologist) and Mike Hilborn (associate director, academic technology development) participated in a session at the 2016 IT Summit on Canvas use and adoption across Harvard schools.

The subject of the demonstration was the new LTI-compliant Image Media Manager tool, an application that leverages the ...

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Turning Point Technologies remote clicker

Using Clickers with Canvas

April 13, 2016

By Daniel Jamous, Senior Instructional Technologist for FAS ATG

One of the benefits resulting from the adoption of the Canvas Learning Management System has been the integration with third-party tools.

An example of this is the Turning Technologies clicker registration app. For several years, many courses in FAS, particularly in the Sciences, have used Turning Technologies clickers in the classroom to make lectures...

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The Rubric feature of the canvas learning management system

Evaluating Project Reports Using Rubrics

November 30, 2015

In Applied Physics 50b, the Rubrics feature in Canvas was instrumental in allowing students to get feedback on their project reports and to submit an improved version based on this feedback.

Applied Physics 50b, which is a new project-based introductory physics course, includes three month-long hands-on projects where students, working in teams, are asked to build physical devices applying the concepts taught in class.

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Michael Brenner: Collaborative Problem Sets

Michael Brenner: Collaborative Problem Sets

February 1, 2012

In his course Applied Mathematics 201, Professor Michael Brenner used an innovative approach in his problem set assignments. Students worked in groups of two or three on each assignment. In a first phase, they collaboratively wrote the solution of the problem set and posted it on a wiki. In a second phase, students were asked to study the solution posted by another group and to provide comments to improve the writing and clarity of the solution. Students then voted for the best solution.

Laurel Ulrich: Tangible Things

Laurel Ulrich: Tangible Things

February 1, 2012

In her General Education class, Societies of the World 30: Tangible Things, Professor Ulrich asked her students to look at Harvard history through the prism of more than a hundred tangible objects collected in Harvard museums that were curated and displayed in an exhibit accompanying the course.

Modern Hebrew and iPads

Modern Hebrew and iPads

April 3, 2013

In the fall of 2012, students in second-year Modern Hebrew piloted an iPad project that combined all their handouts, worksheets, exercises, and review materials into a digital format. The goal was to allow students to review materials anywhere at any time, take self-correcting quizzes, review material that could be updated instantly by course staff, bring text files to life with native speakers and pop-up definitions, and make for a much more interactive and enriching experience.

ATG staff created an interactive iBook, an online flashcard interface, and an enhanced mobile-ready...

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Visualizing the World’s Religions in Multicultural America

Visualizing the World’s Religions in Multicultural America

April 8, 2013

The fall 2011 course, United States in the World 32: The World’s Religions in Multicultural America, explored the dynamic religious landscape of the United States with a special focus on Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh traditions in the most recent period of post-1965 immigration. Students in this course examined the negotiations among civic, constitutional, ethical, and theological issues through the lens of specific cases and controversies.

The goal for educational technology was to bring the “sites of encounter” at the heart of the case studies to life. ATG staff produced...

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Excavating the Cultural History of Shanghai

Excavating the Cultural History of Shanghai

April 10, 2013

Shanghai: A Cultural History excavated the cultural and historical memories of Shanghai. With the goal of rendering legible this city’s multiple layers, the course covered topics such as Shanghai’s literary and cinematic representations, architecture and urban spaces, rural migrants and foreign expatriates, everyday life and consumer culture, and Shanghai in wartime and under Socialism.

Project goals included:

  • Creating an online repository of historical maps and other mapping resources for students to reference when doing their own mapping assignments...
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