Disclaimer: TLi does not currently offer official podcast services. Instead, we use a podcast-style recording format as a creative solution for academic media inquiries. How it all started At the beginning of 2025, I received an Academic Media Inquiry from Alison Perchuk, Director of the Center for Integrative Studies, requesting a recorded interview. Initially, the […]
As we venture into on-campus teaching again, faculty search for new approaches that best serve themselves and their students. TLi is happy to assist CI faculty in achieving their teaching and learning efforts, located in Solano Hall 1201, TLi’s FIT Studio is here to provide space for faculty design, creativity, discussion, and innovation. We wanted […]
I Shamefully Admit For twenty years, at the start of each academic year, I hunted for a teacher’s gradebook that didn’t scream kindergarten class with apple and worm on the cover. I also popped for a package of overpriced-brightly-colored pens hoping this would light a fire to attack the piles of essays coming my way. […]
Happy Summer! On behalf of the Teaching & Learning Innovations Team, we want to thank you for another fantastic semester and also wish you a wonderful and enjoyable summer! There have been a number of incredible accomplishments this year: Canvas transition complete! We did it! CI Successfully completed it’s transition from Blackboard to Canvas […]
Fall 2017 was my first semester teaching at CI. Prior to joining the faculty here, my teaching experience was mostly in the online environment with graduate students. I thought that I was well prepared to teach an online upper division Health Science program course. I was wrong. Though the class was online, it was different […]
On behalf of the Teaching & Learning Innovations Team, we want to wish you a fabulous summer! We will be working hard this summer to assure your move from CI Learn (Blackboard) to the new and improved CI Learn 2.0 (Canvas) is as smooth as possible. Remember, you may opt-in and use Canvas in the fall […]
As much time as I’ve spent in the FIT Studio since it opened in 2014, I’d avoided wandering all the way back to the Live Action Studio for fear that I was far from qualified to enter its soundproofed walls. Then this past fall, circumstances compelled me to overcome my reluctance and take on a project that would make use of FIT’s Video Recording and Production services. As it turned out, no expertise on my part was required. All I needed was a vision of what I wanted the project to accomplish. The crack FIT team enabled me to turn that vision into reality. Read more about Island Voices: Capturing Student Testimonials in FIT Live Action Studio …
As I take some time to look back and reflect on my online teaching experience, I can’t avoid the feeling that, while it has been transformative in profoundly positive ways, it has been, frankly, lonely at times. We, as traditional face-to-face classroom instructors, have taken different paths to our teaching: an early vocation or […]
Everybody loves getting free swag, and we love seeing your faces stop by the FIT Studio. So to get the best of both worlds, we’ve created our FIT Frequent Visitor card. Every time you stop by the studio and work with us, we’ll give your card a punch. Once you’ve gotten all 10 punches, you’ll […]
Welcome to the second week of the 2015 Fall semester! On behalf of the Teaching and Learning Innovations team, I would like to invite you to our upcoming support workshops for VoiceThread and CI Learn: Introduction to VoiceThread in CI Learn this Friday, September 4th from 10-12p with Michelle Pacansky-Brock Using Grade Center in CI […]
