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Teaching With Technology

At Dickinson, even the age-old embraces the cutting edge.

In some college classrooms, a lesson about a 2,000-year-old Latin account of the Gallic War might use nothing more than a leather-bound book and a blackboard scrawled with conjugations. Not at Dickinson. Here, that text comes to life through Google Earth animations, GIS visualizations, wiki vocabulary lists and digital scholia.

Whether helping students practice a foreign language by Skyping with native speakers on the other side of the world or working with students to build an augmented reality Civil War walking tour in a history class, Dickinson faculty regularly look for innovative ways to enhance their teaching with the latest state-of-the-art tools. Our academic-technology staff ensures that faculty are not only up on the latest in high-tech, but also understand when technology truly enhances learning and when it merely distracts.


The Mixxer

The Mixxer

Created and hosted by Dickinson, this free educational site for language learners connects students around the world for one-on-one foreign-language conversation.


Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities

Dickinson faculty and students harness the power of new technologies through an array of digital-humanities endeavors. Current projects include new models of textual commentary that employ digital tools for readers of Greek and Latin texts.


Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

A powerful technology for managing, analyzing, and visualizing spatial data, Dickinson’s GIS helps students and faculty explore questions in fields as varied as archaeology and international business.


Moodle

Moodle

Many professors use Moodle for classwork, out-of-class discussions, and quizzes.


Smart Classrooms

Smart Classrooms

Dickinson currently has over 100 Smart classroom facilities, ranging from traditional lecture-seminar rooms to computer labs to innovative group-work computer work labs.


Course Blogs

Course Blogs

From the Illiad to international business & management, the college’s extensive use of course blogs places essential course information at students’ fingertips and showcase classwork in a wide range of subjects.


Mobile Classroom Initiative

Mobile Classroom Initiative

The goals of the tablet computer initiative are to explore the use of mobile technologies in the classroom and identify impacts of mobile technology on teaching and learning.


Willoughby Institute for Teaching with Technology

The Willoughby Fellows Program in Teaching with Technology is a year-long opportunity for Dickinson faculty to develop effective, media-rich courses.