Reviving Yiddish: Harnessing Multimedia to Transform Language Acquisition
June 20, 2019
Author:
Act Staff
Prof. Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish studies and the Director...
Balanced Artistry: the Personal Balance Toolkit
December 31, 2017
Author:
ACT Staff
Jessica Lee (left) and Pei-Chen Chen (right), Graduate students in Piano, play a Rachmaninoff...
ACTion Interview: Dr. Elaine Khoo
November 1, 2017
Author:
ACT Staff
DIGITAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING RESOURCES DESIGNED TO MEET STUDENTS HALFWAY
Dr. Elaine Khoo
At the University...
TEACHING REMOTELY TO SERVE LOCAL COMMUNITIES
August 9, 2017
Author:
ACT Staff
Physician Assistants are in-demand professionals in Canada. In rural and remote communities in particular,...
Usability Assessment: an Unconventional Approach to the Use of Lecture Capture Software
December 19, 2016
Author:
Leelan Farhan
Usability Assessment: an Unconventional Approach to the Use of Lecture Capture Software
In Dr. Colin...
The Anatomy Glove Learning System: From the UofT to Around the World
December 4, 2015
Author:
Jonah Goldberg
Professors Pat McKee and Anne Agur are veteran educators in the University of Toronto’s...
DeckChair Lets Students Cruise Through Learning
September 30, 2015
Author:
Aaron Yellin
Dr. Jeff Graham teaches psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, the place where...
How the ITIF Helped Maureen Barry
September 4, 2015
Author:
Aaron Yellin
Maureen Barry was used to teaching a small undergrad nursing class at U of...
Sim Lab: Pioneering Technology in Nursing Education
September 4, 2015
Author:
Jonah Goldberg
Professor Maureen Barry may be a nurse-educator first and foremost, but she is also...
Teaching a Course of 25,000 Students: Charmaine Williams’ Experiment with MOOCs
September 4, 2015
Author:
Jonah Goldberg
Imagine taking a university course with close to 25,000 students from all across the...
Flipping the Classroom and Making It Relevant
September 2, 2015
Author:
Aaron Yellin
The infinite refrain of the unwilling math student is "when am I ever going...
Introducing Students to Digital Humanities
August 12, 2015
Author:
Ken Kongkatong
It’s difficult to imagine a world without digital technologies. After all, in this digital...
COIL
July 6, 2015
Author:
Ken Kongkatong
Heather MacNeill is a doctor, but she's also a teacher. And her classes are...
A Smarter Proficiency Test
July 6, 2015
Author:
Aaron Yellin
In Canada, placing French language students in university programs is a bit more complicated...
Gaming in an Alternative Reality: Ballon’s vision of making Mental Health Known
June 8, 2015
Author:
Gillian Grossman
Back in 2006, Dr. Bruce Ballon, an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry...
Vascular Invaders
May 4, 2015
Author:
Aaron Yellin
Jodie Jenkinson, a Biomedical Communications professor at UTM, has a track record of success...
Visualizing Inside Computers
May 4, 2015
Author:
Ken Kongkatong
Computers are seemingly used by everyone and almost everywhere. And yet, while the digital...
Learning Pain in a Painless Way: Judith Hunter’s Building Blocks for Success
February 10, 2015
Author:
Gillian Grossman
Almost a decade ago in 2006, Judith Hunter, a professor of Physical Therapy at...
Oral Pathology Education Project Save Time, Money and Leads to Better Outcomes
February 2, 2015
Author:
Ken Kongkatong
Whether it’s piloting a virtual aircraft on the X-Plane or allowing people with disabilities...
For First-Year Dentists, A Virtual Toothscape
February 2, 2015
Author:
Aaron Yellin
When U of T Dentistry Professor Dorothy McComb won an ITIF grant as she...
The Physiology of Teaching: Chris Perumalla’s Decade of Simplifying Complex Topics
December 3, 2014
Author:
Gillian Grossman
For almost a decade, the Faculty of Medicine physiologist Dr. Chris Perumalla, has been...
Evolving From Wikis: Clare Brett’s Work Keeps Pace with Educational Technology Change
December 1, 2014
Author:
Ken Kongkatong
From the idea of ‘cooperation without coordination’ arising from social sites such as GitHub...
Moving Microscopes Online
November 12, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
Microscopes are nothing if not a symbol of scientific progress. If someone is using...
Teaching with Video Games
November 12, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
The beginning of the millennium was a famous time for video gaming. Sony's PS2...
Solving the Technological Learning Gap
November 12, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
If you've ever seen a mock-up drawing of what people in the past thought...
Holograms at the Intersection of Art and Science
November 12, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
If I told you that the practice of holography produces holograms, well, technically, I'd...
Building Better Websites with ITIF
October 1, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
Sian Meikle has also been involved in two other projects with the Provost’s Instructional...
Bringing Library Resources to Blackboard
October 1, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
The Provost’s Instructional Technology Fund is supposed to be the gear that sets great...
MyMedia: Developing U of T's YouTube
October 1, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
Four years ago, the H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic made its way around Canada, approaching...
A Better Way to Teach Art
October 1, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
It was 1998, and Gordon Belray, working for the Department of Art slide library,...
Games That Never Went Out of Style
October 1, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
BIOME wasn’t the only project that Corey Goldman collaborated with the ITIF fund to...
U of T’s First Social Network Casts a Long Shadow
October 1, 2014
Author:
Aaron Yellin
Before Facebook, and before Reddit, there was BIOME—the social networking site at U of...
Connecting with Students through Webinars
November 13, 2013
Author:
Sofia Luu
Don Boyes is a senior lecturer with the Department of Geography and Program in...
