Category: Teaching Technology

  • Technology Roundup – Spring 2025

    Technology Roundup – Spring 2025

    Welcome to the Fall 2024 edition of Technology Roundup! This resource is released every Spring and Fall semester to keep our community of educators informed on the latest available instructional technologies that are supported by the university. Table of Contents AI Resources The TLC has curated a collection of generative AI topics, including its impact…

  • Guides to Get Spring Started

    Guides to Get Spring Started

    Welcome to Spring 2025! We hope you’ve had a restful winter break and are feeling ready to kick off another exciting academic term. As always, we at the TLC are here to support you as you work to prepare quality course sites and materials for your students, and we’d like to take a moment to…

  • Formal Citation Standards for AI
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    Formal Citation Standards for AI

    If you are required to formally cite your use of AI here are some relevant standards from Brown University.  APA Style Author. (Date). Name of tool (Version of tool) [Large language model]. URL  Example: OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat  In-Text Citation Example: (OpenAI, 2023)  Chicago Style 1. Author, Title, Publisher,…

  • Online Tutoring through Tutor.com with Dr. Jocelyn Manigo Podcast
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    Online Tutoring through Tutor.com with Dr. Jocelyn Manigo Podcast

    What is online tutoring and how does it work at West Chester University? Dr. Jocelyn Manigo, director of the Learning Assistance and Resource Center discusses tutor.com and how it can support student success. Hosted by Amber Alvord and Dr. Tom Pantazes Closed Captions Research Connection: Hardt, D., Nagler, M., & Rincke, J. (2023). Tutoring in…

  • Types of Instructional Video

    Types of Instructional Video

    Part of creating an effective instructional video is selecting a video style that aligns with both your content and instructional goals. With video styles, there are two components to consider (1) human embodiment and (2) instructional media (Chorianopoulos, 2018). Both components occur on a spectrum ranging from fully digital to fully physical as shown in…

  • Technology Roundup – Fall 2024

    Technology Roundup – Fall 2024

    Welcome to the Fall 2024 edition of Technology Roundup! This feature is released every Fall and Spring Semester to keep our community of educators informed on the latest available instructional technologies that are supported by the university. Table of Contents The Sunsetting of Flip and Jamboard Flip Microsoft has announced that Flip is being discontinued…

  • How can I detect AI use in my class?
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    How can I detect AI use in my class?

    The short answer, you cannot. There is no reliable way to detect AI use. The technology doesn’t work. A recent study explored the detection rates of six major detectors (including Turnitin) and found that they were only able to identify 39% of the AI created content and that percentage fell to 17% when simple evasion…

  • What is Generative AI?

    What is Generative AI?

    Generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools use machine learning models to create new, human-realistic content in response to a prompt. The tools are readily available to everyone, including students, and just as previous educational technologies have done, AI tools are changing educational, learning, and knowledge practices. Given a carefully worded prompt, these tools can compare texts,…

  • Netiquette

    Netiquette

    As we journey deeper into an increasingly digital world, the social norms that come naturally in person don’t always have a clear translation online. Though communicating in virtual space is often second nature for younger individuals, it’s important to distinguish between behaviors in an online academic setting and a more casual space like social media…

  • Ethical Considerations of Generative A.I. webinar

    Ethical Considerations of Generative A.I. webinar

    Recorded on Thursday, March 21, 2024, Madison Steinbrenner and Tom Pantazes discussed 10 ethical considerations that could serve as entry points to ethical conversations or activities with students. The 10 topics were (1) bias, (2) Environment, (3) Truth, (4) Copyright, (5) Privacy Concerns, (6) Datafication, (7) Affect Recognition, (8) Human Labor, (9) Power, and (10)…