Report: CIS Sandbox makes people smarter
Okay...the headline might be embellished just a little. We cannot prove that the Sandbox makes people smarter. On the other hand, what we can prove is that visiting the Sandbox…
Okay...the headline might be embellished just a little. We cannot prove that the Sandbox makes people smarter. On the other hand, what we can prove is that visiting the Sandbox…
While the students were preparing for finals, the CIS Sandbox was preparing by setting up a review session for all the topics discussed throughout the course of the semester. Students…
Bentley provost Mike Page (at right) awarded professors Denise Hanes, Mystica Alexander, Jay Thibodeau, George Fishman, and me Bentley’s Innovation in Teaching Award for 2012 at the faculty meeting this morning.
My application was for the innovative teaching and learning that happens in the CIS Sandbox. It was an unconventional application: Usually these awards are associated with specific courses, and usually the teachers of those courses are actually teaching. In my case, not this time.
The innovative teachers and dedicated learners who made this recognition possible are the CIS Sandbox assistants and students who have embraced the changes we have made, and turned the CIS Sandbox into a place where students gather to teach, talk, tutor, touch, and try technology.
A summary of my application follows the jump.
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Recently, Campus Technology magazine has published an article featuring the CIS Sandbox.
Subjects touched upon include the labs career events, how Sandbox employees work to improve the lab, and how social media and collaboration technologies are used in the sandbox. There are also videos featured in the article that were produced by Bentley employees ourselves. Featured in the videos are the Director of the Sandbox, Mark Frydenberg and lab assistants Jim Petersen and Hailin Kong.
For the modest price of $1,500,000,000 (that's $1.5 billion dollars), you too could set foot on the moon. Although the idea is exciting to those looking forward to a space…
Massachusetts Women’s Forum is offering an internship (with possibility for pay or for credit) for a web and design-savvy intern to update and revamp their current web site.
Duties will include:
We had another successful Open House at the CIS Sandbox yesterday! Approximately 100 people visited our lab to see the good work that CIS students and Sandbox assistants are doing.…
Here's your guide to Today's open house. F12SandboxOpenHouse
Please join us for our second annual Open House in the CIS Sandbox (Smith 234) on Thursday, November 29, from 3:30 pm until 5 pm. We’ll give away CIS Sandbox…