Office of Academic Technology :: Spring Arbor University

PluggedIn: Dr. Brian Lugioyo

When asked about the seemingly complex task of connecting students from across the globe, Dr. Lugioyo responds simply, "We just want to encourage people in their faith. Technology is just one great way to do that." Last week I talked with Dr. Lugioyo about the reality of tying students together through tech.

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How to upload media into iTunes U

We've had a number of requests on how to upload audio or video files into iTunes U. In this tutorial I will walk you through each step of uploading your media to iTunes U as well as organizing your content in Blackboard 9.

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iTunes Tutorials

For more tutorials on iTunes, visit www.atomiclearning.com. At the top, login, use the following case sensitive credentials: Please Login to read the rest of this content using your SAU username and password. Why login? Create a basic playlist Play Movie Burn an audio CD Play Movie Locate a file on your hard disk Play Movie Changing information about a song (Metadata) Play Movie Setting [...]

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iTunes U to Blackboard Workflow

Want to be able to use iTunes U but don’t know how to start? Watch our video tutorials Step One: Initiation | Step 2: Uploading | Step 3: Consuming | Step 4: Connecting Step One: Initiation The first step in the process is to initiate a desire to use iTunes U. You do this from your Blackboard course you are teaching. Back [...]

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Registered User: Login to iTunes U

If you’re faculty, staff or a student, you can login to iTunes U two different ways.  This video helps show you how:

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Guest Login to iTunes U

If you’re a guest, this video tutorial will help you get started to get to iTunes U public content.

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Instructional Design Podcast Series

The term “instructional technology” is often mistaken as a reference to technology used in a teaching or training context. The definition of instructional technology described by Seels and Richey (1994) best describes OAT’s vision of the discipline: “Instructional Technology is the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management and evaluation of processes and resources for [...]

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Last OATmeal Reflects on Past, Looks Toward the Future

The final OATmeal faculty buck lunch of the 2008-09 academic year is finished.  But not without a tease about what is to come.  About twenty faculty joined OAT staff in the Ralph Carey Forum to celebrate the past year and look toward the future. Jason Archer reviewed key messaging conduits for faculty to interface for resourcing [...]

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Edit and Manage Files in iTunes U

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Podcasts Become a Regular Feature of OAT

The Office of Academic Technology is headed to iTunes. Specifically iTunes University. Beginning immdiately, OAT will be releasing a weekly episode featuring emerging technologies and the potential effect they have on teaching. Randy Meredith, director of Academic Technology is excited about this initiative. “In order to begin to not only model but provide another resource [...]

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