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Instructional Technology and The College Libraries are excited to be hosting eFest, an event showcasing new technologies for faculty and students to enhance instruction and learning. The event will take place on Wednesday, November 12 in Lowry Center from noon until 3 p.m. All members of the College community are invited to attend.  Information and demonstrations will feature touch-screen monitors, woodle, RSS readers, Artstor, MDID, Endnote, ILLIAD, and many other tools. Attendees may enter a drawing for door prizes, including USB Rocket Launchers, USB flash drives, and an iPod Touch.

For more information, please contact Instructional Technology by email at or call x4722.

In the fall of 2008, the College of Wooster formed a Learning Community (LC) for Assessing the Effective Use of Technology in a Liberal Arts Curriculum. The work of this group is being funded by a grant from the Ohio Learning Network (OLN). Broadly, the LC’s goal is to develop a deeper understanding of the issues that inform the use of technology in learning and teaching. Each OLN LC must have a project that is the focus of its work. The focus of Wooster’s LC is the use of a Sympodium in John Lindner’s astronomy courses and Michelle Solensky’s introductory biology courses.

The three broad goals of the Learning Community are:

Instructional Technology will be holding introductory training sessions for our course management system (Woodle) on the following dates:

The Office of Information Technology is delighted to welcome Matt Gardzina as our new Director of Instructional Technology.  Matt comes to us from Washington & Jefferson College where he served as Senior Instructional Technologist.  Prior to his tenure at W&J, Matt worked as Academic Technology Consultant at Duke University.  Matt earned his MA in Modern European History at The Catholic University of America and earned his undergraduate  degree at St Lawrence.  Matt’s office is in room 211 of Taylor Hall.  Welcome, Matt!

Matt Gardzina

The second (of two) finalists for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit the campus on Friday, May 9. He will make a public presentation in Severance 009 at 4:00 on that date. He will speak to the role of technology in teaching and learning in the liberal arts environment. All members of the campus community are encouraged to attend the public presentation and to provide feedback on this candidate for this important position. The candidate’s vitae, the position description and an evaluation form are available online.

The first finalist for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit the campus on Tuesday, May 6. He will make a public presentation in Severance 009 at 4:00 on that date. He will speak to the role of technology in teaching and learning in the liberal arts environment. All members of the campus community are encouraged to attend the public presentation and to provide feedback on this candidate for this important position. The candidate’s vitae, the position description and an evaluation form are available online.

Two finalists for the position of Director of Instructional Technology will visit the campus during the week of May 5.  The first will be on-campus throughout the day on Tuesday, May 6.  He will make a public presentation in Severance 009 at 4:00 on that date.  The second will be here on Friday, May 9.  He will make a public presentation in the same location at 4:00 on that date. All members of the campus community are encouraged to attend the public presentation and to provide their feedback on the candidates.  The vitae of the first candidate will be available for download beginning on Monday, May 5.