Report from the UNF Academic Technology Innovation Symposium

By Anastasia Salter. Last week I joined a group of faculty, instructional designers, administrators, librarians and academic technology specialists at the University of North Florida Academic Technology Innovation Symposium. The symposium represents the type of localized exchange of best practices and pedagogical experiments that is vital to university communities, with ideas on display ranging from Google Glass to 3D printing (like the chocolate-holding keychain pictured above.) I was there to talk about extending models of gamification to consider agency and story-telling as key parts of the classroom experience. Read more...