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…
IT101 Review Session: Behind the Scenes
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…
Innovative Teaching
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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Sandbox featured in Campus Technology Magazine
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.
Going to the moon?
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…
Internship Opportunity at Massachusetts Women’s Forum
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:
- Assist with updating and maintaining the website
- Develop and implement a plan to attract our members to our website.
- Develop and implement a plan to use pages on our website to share information.
- Develop and implement new features to be added to www.masswomensforum.org