Category: Educational Technology News

Posted March 15, 2019

Dr. Christie Liu from JMU Libraries and Dr. Elizabeth Johnson from Geology and Environmental Science were awarded a Course Redesign Grant in the amount of $16,145.00 through Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA). The VIVA Course Redesign Grant’s goal is to make textbook and course […]

Posted February 6, 2019

A featured story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on January 20, 2019, titled “Virginia has a dark history of lynching. Efforts are underway to bring it to light,” mentions an important project created by James Madison University’s Gianluca De Fazio working closely with […]

Posted April 11, 2018

Gianluca De Fazio, assistant professor in the Department of Justice Studies at James Madison University and Kevin Hegg, Director of Digital Projects in JMU Libraries, with assistance from others, have created a digital research project/resource on the history of lynchings in Virginia from 1877 […]

Posted January 11, 2018

Digital technology is increasingly becoming the norm in college classrooms and History 422 is fully embracing it. This History class taught by Dr. Whitmer incorporates virtual reality technology, provided by JMU Libraries and Educational Technologies, to fully immerse themselves into […]

Posted November 6, 2017

Last month at the 2017 Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference hosted by JMU Libraries and Educational Technologies and LET Innovation Services, three awards were handed out for “Excellence in Teaching & Learning with Technology” and one for the “Charles […]

Posted October 4, 2017

JMU Libraries’ Innovation Services and 4-VA collaborated to create “Teaching with Technology,” a showcase of the different technologies available to the JMU community through JMU Libraries. In the case users can see a 3D printer along with 3D printed items, a drone […]

Posted September 19, 2017

JMU LIBRARIES ARE HOSTING A SERIES OF MAKER SPRINTS this year, culminating in a Hackathon at the end of each semester. Everyone in the JMU community is welcome to participate. The first Sprint will be at the Carrier Makery, and […]

Posted September 8, 2017

LET Innovation Services is embodying the maker movement in new ways – including building a 3D printer Jamie Calcagno-Roach, Eric Stauffer, and Andrea Adams partnered with Cindy Klevickis (ISAT faculty member) and Rockingham County Public Schools to build five 3D […]

Posted August 30, 2017

Welcome (back) to campus! As you settle into the fall semester, we invite you to try some of these 7 things that we bet you didn’t know you could do at JMU Libraries: Design and 3D print your own creations […]

Posted July 31, 2017

Innovation Services is working with the Title IX Office again, but this time they are working with Camtasia. Amy Sirocky-Meck, Title IX Coordinator, reached out to JMU Libraries in June to learn more about Camtasia and how the program could […]