Welcome back

and a special welcome to new faculty. The Instructional Resource Center team is looking forward to a productive year. Throughout the summer, we have been working on developing resources and faculty development opportunities. We will continue to offer training in new technology and provide HCC faculty with the technology, tools and support needed to enhance teaching and learning. Please check our calendar http://www.harford.edu/webevent/scripts/webevent.plx?cmd=listyear&userid=guest&show_favorites=0&calID=2139 for training opportunities and other IRC events.

New this Fall: The IRC subscribed to the STARLINK faculty development series delivered via streaming video, DVD, satellite or audio conferencing. The first presentation, Health and Well-Being will be available on your computer (home or office) between September 14 and 21; a password will be provided approximately one week prior to the presentation. Other topics throughout the year will include “Integrating Active Learning Techniques into your Lecture’, “Student Motivation”, “Plagiarism Pitfalls” etc…Dates and access TBA. The subscription also gives you access to previously recorded material available in the Starlink Library.

I-Clickers: More and more instructors are using various types of clicker technology to engage students in their classes. Some of you may have seen Gene Popiolek i-clicker presentation during tech and talk day last May. The IRC purchased a set of 30 for instructor use. A demo and training will take place early October.

Throughout the year, the IRC team will continue to post to the blog; check it out.

Have a great year
The IRC team

Hamlet.doc? Literature in a Digital Age

“If Shakespeare had had a hard drive, if the plays had been written with a word processor on a computer that had somehow survived, we still might not know anything definitive about Shakespeare’s original or final intentions — these are human, not technological, questions — but we might be able to know some rather different things. We might be able to know, for example, the precise date on which he began composing Hamlet indeed the precise minute and hour, time-stamped to the second. We would be able to know how long he had spent working on it, or at least how long the file containing the play had remained open on his desktop. We would very likely have access to multiple versions and states of the file, and if Shakespeare had “track changes” turned on while he wrote, we would be able to follow the composition of a soliloquy keystroke by keystroke, each revision also date- and time-stamped to the second”

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i50/50b00801.htm