IDT Blog: Teaching & Tech Tips

Tips for Excellent and Efficient Instruction

In this blog post, let us explore strategies that make teaching more effective for our students and more manageable for us as instructors. As educators, we often juggle multiple responsibilities – designing engaging lessons, providing meaningful feedback, supporting diverse learners, and somehow maintaining our work-life balance. This information aims to help you excel at all… continue reading

Changes to ADA Title II Requirements

In April of 2024, the Department of Justice released a final rule with updated regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This ruling provides new digital accessibility requirements for public institutions, including public higher education institutions, such as Rutgers University-Camden. What does this mean for me as a faculty member? These… continue reading

EdTech for Engaged Learning Series

Recorded webinars Collaborative Learning tools Interactive Lecture tools Links referenced in the interactive lecture webinar.  Multimodal Student Presentation tools

Using Flip with Microsoft Teams

Information for Instructors Create a Class in Teams  Create a Flip Assignment Prepare a Folder for Sharing Videos for Class Comments Video Demonstration for Instructors Guide for Students Students must know how to join your Teams class, submit their video to the assignment, and then upload it to the folder for class comments. They will… continue reading

Alert for Flip video users

Starting July 1, 2024, Flip (previously FlipGrid), Microsoft’s video discussion tool, is no longer a free-standing app but available only in Microsoft Teams. We apologize to those using Flip in their teaching, as this change happened suddenly.  If you have used Flip in the past, you can download your videos until September 30, 2024. This… continue reading