Educational Technology
Last updated October 26, 2017
Welcome to Morningside College's Educational Technology webpage. Here faculty can find information and resources to help assist them to integrate technology into their courses and to explore possible solutions to their teaching and learning needs.
Who am I?
My name is Kim Christopherson and I serve as the campus Educational Technologist at Morningside College. My role is to support faculty in integrating technology into their courses in a way that addresses faculty and student needs and works to enhance and facilitate student learning. I am a faculty member in the Graduate Education program and I teach both online and face-to-face courses. I like to explore different technologies and to experiment with them in my classes. I do so not only for my own interest, but to share the good, bad, and the ugly with my colleagues.
In addition to being a resource for faculty for integrating technology into their classes, I am also that campus Quality Matters coordinator. This makes me a point person on campus for faculty who are interested in integrating the Quality Matters rubrics into their online and blended course designs.
I view my job as having three important components: 1) being familiar with the trends in educational technology and the different technology tools that can be used for teaching and learning, 2) organizing and delivering faculty development in using educational technology and for online and blended learning, and 3) researching and evaluating the effects of technology tools in the classroom.
What's up in Ed Tech?
Faculty Development Opportunities
Each semester I offer a number of faculty development workshops both face-to-face and virtual.
This year the Teaching and Learning Coordinator and Educational Technology are collaborating on a year-long series of workshops focused on the issues of student motivation, what motivates students, and how can we as instructors foster motivation in our classrooms. The dates for these workshops are:
Monday 9/18: Motivation and Students (FtF only)
Monday 10/6: Student Centered Learning (FtF only)
Monday 11/6: Moodle: Database Deep Dive (FtF and Online)
Monday 1/22: Motivating Reluctant Learners (FtF only)
Monday 2/19: Moodle CompletionTracking and Restrictions Deep Dive (FtF and Online)
Monday 3/19: Moodle Workshop Activity Deep Dive (FtF and Online)
Monday 4/23: The End Game: Going Forward to Motivate Students
You can watch some of the previous training and development sessions by visiting the archived educational technology faculty development videos.
In addition to my own development workshops, here are some other development opportunities and resources available for Morningside faculty:
- Morningside Moodle Moot (August 11, 2016)
- Moodle MOOC (Begin August 8, 2016, Next offering January 2017)
- eclass4learning Moodle Reference Desk
- Magna 20-min mentor (on-demand videos for improving teaching (online, face-to-face, and blended)
- Magna Online Seminars (DVD available in HJF Library Reserve)
- Podcast Review Podcast from David Elder. Reivews how different podcasts might be used in the classroom.
- SoftChalk Learning Page for Morningside College
- Quality Matters Development Workshops (fees apply)
Location
My office is located in the Library room 213.
Contact Me
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Phone: (712) 274-5253
Request a consultation meeting: Please indicate in your request 1) your name and 2) the reason for the consultation, 3) how/where you would like to meet (face-to-face, phone, virtual meeting).