Illinois State’s customized learning system will be offline on July 22 to install an upgrade, which adds features including dark mode.
Topic: Technology
Illinois State named Adobe Creative Campus Institution
Adobe has declared Illinois State University a Creative Campus.
Scholarship fuels app development
Kirsten Hany ’03, M.S. ’14, is like many Illinois State students as she juggles work, family, and courses in the midst of a pandemic. Hany is a full-time teacher at University High School in the Social Science Department, a part-time professor for the College of Education, and mom to Grace (age 14) and Phillip (age 12). Hany’s desire to create a welcoming and inclusive classroom for her students pushed her to pursue a doctoral degree focused on trauma informed practices in secondary classrooms. She employs an intersectional framework, meaning she seeks to understand how the intersection of students’ most salient identities influences how they experience and process trauma.
ISU prepares alum Basheer Becerra to star in Harvard graduate program
If Basheer Becerra had been told when he began his undergraduate career at Illinois State University’s School of Information Technology (IT) that one day he would attend Harvard University graduate school, he wouldn’t have believed it.
A Day in the Life: Learning and teaching during COVID-19
The 2020-2021 academic year will be remembered as a time when flexibility and patience were essential to fulfilling the University’s mission.
President Dietz shows appreciation to IT community during CITx
The annual spring CITx event was held virtually on April 13, featuring a special guest who wanted to take a moment to salute the work of Illinois State’s information technology (IT) community.
Sample four newly licensed teaching apps
See how you can use Nearpod, Padlet, Flipgrid, and Edpuzzle to enhance your students’ learning.
A Q& A on MFA: All your questions answered by Dan Taube
I sat down virtually with Illinois State University’s Interim Chief Information Security Officer Dan Taube to get the scoop on the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) campus-wide rollout.
A year into the pandemic, a look at the School of Communication
In March 2020 Illinois State and the rest of the world came to a standstill. The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) had begun its course throughout the United States, and life was beginning to look very different.
Get a taste of teaching tech for fall starting April 23
Be prepared with the right technology tools when students start filling classroom seats next semester.