Out-of-Class

Extending the classroom experience

Teacher: Mike Wakefield – JRN100
As part of a Summer Innovation Project, Mike Wakefield adopted a variety of technologies to extend the classroom experience for his Journalism 100 students. As part of the project Mike adopted and evaluated the iPad2 as a teaching and learning tool. Below are his notes detailing the activities and outcomes for [...]

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Map of Keene community social services

Teacher:  Margaret Walsh
Course: Social Problems (Honors) SOC290
Introduction
Many sociologists use experiential learning strategies to engage students in their communities.  In the summer of 2010 I participated in a faculty institute sponsored by the National Collegiate Honors Council to explore the physical and cultural landscape of cities.  Central to our discussion was the principle of “active learning.”   I shared a mapping [...]

Tags: Google Maps, Margaret Walsh, social services, sociology
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Setting up Drop Box to move computer files

Teacher: Mike Hanrahan
Course: Computer Science 185 – Computer Programming II
The Assignment

Transferring files from one PC to the other can result in unforeseen disaster if something goes wrong in the process. You can lose the transfer medium, such as the flash drive. You can transfer the wrong version of the file, neglecting a more recent copy, [...]

Tags: Drop Box
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Jing video on opening an Android app

Tool Developer: Mike Hanrahan
Teacher:  Matthew Onyon
Course: CS290 Mobile Computing Programming
Introduction
The purpose of this video was to provide a tutorial on opening up a recently created “Hello World” Android application that I created on an Android simulator running in the Eclipse development environment.  Previous lessons taught by  Professor Mathew Onyon in this mobile computing CS290 class covered how to actually [...]

Tags: Android, Jing, Mike Hanrahan, mobile
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Video lecture of a math problem

Teacher: Dick Jardine
Course: Math 360-Numerical Methods
Introduction
In this assignment the student views a video demonstrating a mathematical process.  The student can view it as many times as they want or need. Then the student uses what he/she has learned to solve the problem using slightly different data. They submit the solved problem to a BlackBoard [...]

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