WOOL Blog: Ram-ping Up Your Instructional Technology

The Winthrop Office of Online Learning (WOOL) is hosting WOOL Week 2018 on March 19-23. In order to join us in this celebration, be sure to read your WOOL Week email in the Winthrop Daily Digest. You'll find a fact about our office and services or Blackboard and a trivia question. Submit an answer to the question by 5pm each day by emailing instructionaldesign@winthrop.edu . One of the correct respondents will be selected for a daily giveaway that will help facilitate your use of technology. On Friday March 23 at 1:30 p.m, we'll celebrate WOOL Week with the Office of Online Learning in 308 Tillman. We will select for one last giveaway to enhance your teaching or daily work experience from all of the week's trivia respondents.

While next semester may still feel a ways off, it is never to early to start planning for your next set of classes. But getting started, as they say, can be the hardest part. In this post, we'll show you an easy way to check "get started" off of your to-do list: book a meeting with us! Whether you need some help using Blackboard, moving a course online, or just want to bounce ideas off of someone for feedback, you can set up a meeting at a time or date of your choosing in as little as 60 seconds. First, visit our web page at www.winthrop.edu/onlinelearning  and select Contact Us. Now, you might be thinking to yourself "oh no, emailing back and forth during the Summer is going to take forever!" Well, fret not. To schedule meetings, we use a tool called Youcanbook.me, which provides a real-time view of our Outlook calendars. Upon clicking the link to "Schedule a One-on-One Meeting" with anyone in the department, you will be presented with a list of...