Part 2: Defining the Student ExperienceDavid JakesEdTechTeam's Director of Learning SpacesDavid Jakes is the Director of Learning Spaces for EdTechTeam and leads the Learning Space Design Studio. The Studio, created to support schools in developing compelling and engaging learning environments, is the most recent addition to the comprehensive services offered by EdTechTeam.The design of inspiring spaces for learning begins with identifying the student learning experience that you want students to have.  Have you asked this: What do you want your kids to experience? What constitutes an inspiring experience? If so, then you are ready to go with designing spaces that support that. If not, take the opportunity to craft a set of expectations for learners that defines what kids will do in school.Developing inspiring spaces is not about technology, it's not about chairs or tables on wheels, it's not about whiteboards, beanbags or other things. It’s about creating the vision for the student experience first. All that "stuff" comes later.When really good designers create spaces, they ask about the wants and needs of students for their learning. It’s a deep dive beyond the mission and the vision of the school. It’s about looking at learning from multiple angles and perspectives and developing a community-based understanding of a set of ideas that identify what kids should experience as learners.For example: In this school, students will have the opportunity to engage in learning experiences as an individual and as part of a collaborative team.Or: In this school, students will have the opportunity to determine how they represent their understanding as well as what tools they will use to do this.Doing this first captures a set of statements that can set the stage for an inspiring experience that takes place in an inspiring space.By defining learning like this, the school has effectively created the conditions required for the design of space. If the experience is ___, then the spaces have to be ___ . Creating these expectations for learning first ensures that informed decisions about the "things" of the classroom can be made and that those decisions intentionally guide spatial design.These decisions can then suggest furniture, colors, lighting, floors, technology - all the stuff that goes into a composition capable of manifesting the experience. Everyone knows what a classroom looks like. Everyone knows what a library and a school looks like. The true question is not what those spaces look like now, but how can they be intentionally designed to support a new condition for learning based on what you believe that to be.Try one of these tips to create an #InspiringSpace for your students!

Part 3: The New ClassroomDavid JakesEdTechTeam's Director of Learning SpacesDavid Jakes is the Director of Learning Spaces for EdTechTeam and leads the Learning Space Design Studio. The Studio, created to support schools in developing compelling and engaging learning environments, is the most recent addition to the comprehensive services offered by EdTechTeam.The fundamental spatial unit of learning is a classroom. But that is shifting. With the emergence of technology, and the rise of global connectivity, how people learn and where they learn is rapidly shifting.No one should discount the importance of a location like a classroom. Such a space honors the timeless value of the interactions between student and caring adult. Such a space remains relevant because that’s where kids are located.But it’s time to change what that space looks like and how it supports learning. Are rows of desks, a dedicated front of classroom, with a teacher desk and posters on the wall something that inspires today’s student?The first step in redesigning the classroom is to discard the notion it has to be a "classroom". Re-crafting spaces into contemporary learning spaces can mean many things. The identification of the desired student learning experience is essential in that process, and it should come first, but what schools do with furniture, with wall finishes, with technology, lighting and floors is indeed important.The new classroom is most likely highly flexible and agile. Flexibility relates to the ability to reshape the space; agility refers to the speed at which that can be done. Both concepts considered together create the characteristic of adaptability and the classrooms capability to shift and support a shifting expectation for learning over time, perhaps over a decade or longer. The new classroom is also interconnected with digital spaces that support learning in physical classroom spaces, but can also serve as their own learning venue. There is no doubt that inspiring spaces for learning include both physical and digital spaces for learning and employ student technology devices as the conduit between the two.How schools help teachers see how these new spaces can support learning is an important question. Spatial change guarantees only that students will sit in more comfortable furniture. Obviously, there is much more than that at stake. Schools must work with teachers to understand how that change can support a new vision for learning as specified by the expectations for the student experience. Schools should provide professional learning opportunities for teachers to help them understand how to use new spaces in their roles as designers of experience.It’s time to change the image of the traditional classroom. It’s time for a new tradition, one built on creating dynamic and inspiring spaces that are relevant to today’s student and that support a new and contemporary learning experience.Are you up for the #InspiringSpaces Challenge? We want to see the great spaces you've designed for your students! Enter the challenge for a chance to win awesome prizes from our friends at Smith System each Friday through December 11th! Visit edtechteam.com/inspiringspaces for all the details. Follow #InspiringSpaces on Twitter and G+ to see what your fellow educators across the world see as compelling and inspirational spaces. We hope that what you see will provide ideas, resources, and support your interest in what learning spaces can mean for students.

Part 4: Digital Learning SpacesDavid JakesEdTechTeam's Director of Learning SpacesDavid Jakes is the Director of Learning Spaces for EdTechTeam and leads the Learning Space Design Studio. The Studio, created to support schools in developing compelling and engaging learning environments, is the most recent addition to the comprehensive services offered by EdTechTeam.Many schools have adopted, or are in the process of adopting, a 1:1 program that provides students with a device and a new level of connectivity to resources, people and ideas. As expected, such capacity is disruptive to the ways in which education has operated for decades, and these programs directly challenge schools not only to rethink how students learn, but where they learn.New connective technologies for every student means that learning in the physical spaces of school has the opportunity to change and that this enhanced capacity should encourage the development of additional spaces for learning - specifically, dedicated digital spaces for learning. By using these new technologies to create such spaces, schools can create more expansive conditions for where kids can learn, effectively enlarging those conditions to include a mixture of spaces that can support learning in the typical physical classroom, online, and in a blend of both spaces.This larger ecology of learning spaces can look different for every school, but the time has come for schools to develop serious online locations for learning. Certainly, a thoughtful approach for developing digital spaces could include locations for teachers (Google Classroom) and for students (Google Apps for Education) that provide both with a range of tools that support teaching and learning. Additionally, and beyond "school-owned" digital spaces, schools must negotiate and find value (and acceptance) in the social spaces that students already inhabit. A mixture of school-supported spaces, coupled with student-selected spaces, can create a compelling mix that can support interesting learning connections.Blending a two-part digital space (teacher and student) with the traditional physical spaces of schools can create a multidimensional approach to how spaces are used for learning, and creates the conditions for a new contemporary spatial landscape. Forward-thinking schools will realize that using devices just to connect to the Web is not enough, but connecting students to intentionally designed digital spaces that provide students with a broader learning experience will be essential in creating relevant and inspiring schools.Join the Challenge!Check out the #InspiringSpaces on Twitter for learning spaces ideas from around the globe! We're giving away furniture from Smith System through December 11th so share a picture of your inspiring learning spaces for a chance to win! edtechteam.com/inspiringspaces Week 1 Challenge Winner: Simon's Thinking Road!

Hi all, We here at IITS are happy to announce a 48-hour film event, coming September 11 - 13. Students from the TriCo are invited to participate in the act of coming up with, producing, and editing a film all in the span of a weekend. Students will form groups (or fly solo) and come to the initial kick off meeting (happening at 6PM on  Friday, 11th of September, in the ITC, Stokes 205) to receive their required prop, character, line of dialogue and genre. From there, the groups will then go on to make their film in any manner they like. Finished projects will be due at 6PM on Sunday, 13th of September. A screening for competing entries will be held the week after, with awards to follow. Start thinking about who you would like to work with on this project. Pre-Registration is not required, but is encouraged. At least one representative for each group MUST be present at the kick-off meeting in order to be eligible for the competition. Please direct all inquiries to hc-techlearn@haverford.edu You are asked to not plan the film before the kick-off meeting. Rest assured, the required elements will throw you some curve-balls anyway.

Dear Faculty,   IITS is offering a workshop: Using VoiceThread for Flipped Classrooms, Assignments, Feedback, Group Projects, and Collaboration. This 30 minutes workshop will teach you how you can use VoiceThread in the following scenarios.   Flipped Classrooms: Do you use Powerpoint slides, Word documents, PDFs, or image files to create teaching materials? Do you want to add audio annotations with a highlighter and share them with your students via Moodle? You can ask your students to add comments via text, audio, or video.   Assignments: Do you want to give an assignment to your students to create a presentation using files and adding audio or video comments? This type of  assignment will be tied to Gradebook in Moodle.   Feedback: You can use VoiceThread to give audio or video feedback with a highlighter on your student’s papers.   Group Projects: Using VoiceThread, your students can create a multimedia project or discuss a topic by uploading images, PDFs, Powerpoint slides, or Word documents, and adding comments via audio or video.   International Collaboration:Since the conversation is asynchronous, you can use this tool for collaboration with students at different schools or students who are studying abroad. Workshop Topic: VoiceThread Date: Thursday, September 17 Time: 4:00 - 4:30 PM Location: Stokes 205 Instructor: Hiroyo Saito, IITS Registration Form (Note: If you prefer an individual session, please note that on the form.)

Dear Faculty, IITS is offering two workshops this coming Monday, September 21, 2015.   Panopto (Lecture Capture System) Workshop Panopto is an easy-to-use software that records video of your teaching material. Bonus-it adds universal design to your classroom, so you’re inherently benefitting all your students. We’ll cover how to use Panopto for: Lecture capture Flipped classrooms Event or presentation recording Date: Monday, September 21 Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location: KINSC H109 Instructors: Upma Singh (uisingh@haverford.edu ) and Roger Hill (rhill@haverford.edu) Registration Form (Note: If you prefer an individual session, please note your availability on the form.) Moodle Quiz Workshop The Moodle quiz can help you assess student learning, see how your students are doing as a group, and provide immediate feedback to students-thus helping students understand materials better. At the end of this short workshop, you will be able to use the most popular features of the Moodle quiz tool. Specifically, you will leave with these skills:   Create a timed or untimed quiz Specify when a quiz is open or closed to students Add questions Organize questions into appropriate categories Understand grading Use powerful analytics to find out where students struggle. For example, in addition to seeing what is correct or incorrect, you can see how long students spend answering each question.   Date: Monday, September 21 Time: 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Location: KINSC H109 Instructor: Sharon Strauss (sstrauss@haverford.edu) Registration Form (Note: If you prefer an individual session, please note your availability on the form.) 

In partnership with the OAR, IITS is offering three Adobe Creative Workshops (Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, and Premiere Pro CC) and two Working Faster, Working Smarter Workshops to students this fall. Here is the schedule. After the workshop, if you want to learn more after each workshop, you might want to try lynda.com. (Your Haverford username and password needed for login.) Date Time Title Location Contact/Instructor 9/24/2015 Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Creative Workshop: Adobe Photoshop CC Stokes Hall - STO 205 Instructional Technology Center (ITC) Charles Woodard (cwoodard@haverford.edu) 9/30/2015 Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Working Faster/Working Smarter: Excel at Microsoft Excel Stokes Hall - STO 118K OAR Large Conference Room Sharon Strauss (sstrauss@haverford.edu) 10/7/2015 Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Creative Workshop: Adobe InDesign CC Stokes Hall - STO 205 Instructional Technology Center (ITC) Charles Woodard (cwoodard@haverford.edu) 10/27/2015 Tuesday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Working Faster/Working Smarter: Submit Papers with Style! Dining Center - DC 110 Pendle Hill Room Sharon Strauss (sstrauss@haverford.edu) 11/11/2015 Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Creative Workshop: Premiere Pro CC Stokes Hall - STO 205 Instructional Technology Center (ITC) Charles Woodard (cwoodard@haverford.edu)   IITS Fall 2015 Workshops in Partnership with the OAR

Dear Faculty,   The Instructional Technology Services group in IITS is looking for pilot participants for a program called Zaption.   Do you use existing videos such as YouTube, Vimeo, TED, PBS, Discovery videos to deepen your student’s understanding of content? Do you want to insert interactive elements such questions or discussion boards into specific points in a video? Do you want to access analysis tools to get immediate feedback on how your students interact with the video content?   If yes, please come to this 30 minute workshop or ask for an individual session and see if Zaption can meet your pedagogical needs.   Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015 Time: 4:00-4:30PM Location: Stokes 205 Instructional Technology Center Instructor: Hiroyo Saito Please register for this workshop or individual session on this registration form.   Looking forward to seeing you!   Thank you. Hiroyo

Hi Everyone, At the beginning of the Fall 2015 Semester, we put out a call for participants in our first 48 Hour Film Marathon (you can see the post here.) Participants were tasked with producing a short film within the span of 48 hours, from initial concept to finished product. We also provided each group with a line of dialogue, a prop, and a genre that they must use. Everyone’s line of dialogue was: "I am not a fan of the cactus." The prop was: A bowl of cereal. Each individual group was also given their own unique genre that they had to work with. All in all, we had 3 groups finish work for the event. After they were finished, we had our panel of judges (Vicky Funari, John Muse, and Robert Lukasik) review each piece and pick a winner. Our 2015 winners for our first inaugural event were: Cole Sansom and Anna Saum with their film Noirish (if you can’t tell, they were assigned "Film Noir" as a genre.) We’d like to thank everyone that participated in the event, and look forward to hosting it again next year!

Fall 2015 Teaching with Technology Forum Instructional Technology Services in IITS would like to invite you to the semi-annual Teaching with Technology Forum.   Eight faculty members will share their approaches and experiments using digital teaching and learning tools. Specifically, we will focus on four tools: Zaption, VoiceThread, Baiboard, and Glossary. These tools help increase student engagement with course material, their classmates, and faculty.  Following brief demonstrations of the tools, faculty members will share their experiences. We hope that you can join us and exchange ideas. Date: Wednesday, December 16th, 2015 Time: 9:30 - 11:30 AM Location: Stokes 102 Program Digital tools:  Zaption, VoiceThread, BaiBoard, and Glossary in Moodle Faculty presenters: Kathryne Corbin (Lecturer of French) Manar Darwish (Instructor of Arabic and Coordinator of Bi-Co Arabic Program) John Dougherty (Associate Professor of Computer Science) Ariana Huberman (Visiting Associate Professor of Spanish) Kenneth Koltun-Fromm (Professor of Religion) Monique Laird (Visiting Lecturer of French) Ana Lopez-Sanchez (Assistant Professor of Spanish) Tetsuya Sato (Senior Lecturer and Director of the Japanese Language Program)   This event is sponsored by the IITS (Instructional & Information Technology Services) and LACOL (Liberal Arts Consortium for Online Learning).  If you plan to join us, please register online. Thank you. Hiroyo