The Department of Teaching and Learning Technology Advisory Committee consists of several faculty members as well as a representative from CASTIC. We meet multiple times a year to facilitate our department-approved mission and goals.

Mission

Provide support for Teaching and Learning faculty and students with respect to instructional and professional technology knowledge, skills, and dispositions in teaching, practice, and research. 

Goals

  • Facilitate technology-related faculty workshops and trainings
  • Promote the inclusion of technology as an instructional and classroom management tool in various courses across our programs
  • Provide support and guidance for technology-related proposals, especially tech-fee proposals
  • Increase awareness of available technologies and technological support school- and campuswide, and increase access to procedures for these technologies and support

Resources

Tech Support Contacts

CASTIC (College Application System Technology Innovation Center). To be contacted for CASE technology-related support.

  • Email: castic@fiu.edu
  • Phone: On campus: 7-2694, off campus: 305-348-2694
  • Location PC 318

ZEB-Building Specific Technology Support (Position in Progress)

  • Contact: TBA
  • Email: TBA
  • ZEB Office: TBA
  • Phone: TBA

FIU Online/Canvas

 

SEHD iPad Carts

SEHD has three iPad carts with 30 iPads that can be signed out for faculty to use with students in class and for signed out to take off campus for homework. There are also pelican carts for faculty who want to take a set of iPads out of the building. The pelican carts provide a secure way to move the iPads.  For more information, including the online request form, iPad calendar, and apps on each iPad cart, visit the iPad Carts page.

Online Tools

The online tools below can be used across curricular areas.

  • Bookcreator:  A simple tool to create ebooks on the web, or on an iPad, or Chromebooks.  Create a book and publish it to Apple's iBooks Store, or share it online.  Online books can be created free. App available on some SEHD iPads.
  • Linoit: An online bulletin board, sticky note collaboration program.
  • Padlet: Padlet is an online collaboration tool and app for faculty and faculty to save, organize, and share digital resources. 
  • Popplet: An online, collaborative graphic organizer or mind-map program. Several graphic organizers can be made for free.
  • Remind:  Remind is a free text messaging app that helps teachers, students and parents communicate quickly and efficiently. Messages can be sent in real time to an entire class, a small group, or just a single person. You can also schedule announcements ahead of time and attach photos and other files. 
  • Wakelet: Wakelet is a digital curation tool for faculty and students to save, organize, and share digital resources.