Latest OATmeal

The last OATmeal of the 2008-09 academic year featured the OAT staff.  Randy Meredith provided a year in review, preview of Blackboard 9, and offered feedback to faculty with questions and discussion.  Jason Archer provided a review of online resources including the OAT Bb Community site as well as the OAT Web site.  Randy also introduced David Goodrich as the new instructional designer.

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Teaching Resources

Welcome to teaching resources at OAT. We've divided this section of the Web site into three key categories to get you where you need to go quickly.

Blackboard Community

BB Community

With the advent of Blackboard Community, the Office of Academic Technology is pleased to continue to grow a Blackboard Community site created specifically for faculty at SAU.  The site contains hundreds of PDFs, video tutorials, resources, help files, strategies, and contact information.  More...

Strategies & Techniques

This growing section will contain various teaching strategies and how they can be integrated. From active learning to learning communities and case studies, you'll find this area the compass of how and why we are using technology to enhance the teaching and learning experience. More...

Technology Tools

The tools area contain the nuts and bolts of making the strategy level work. They are meant to be introductory pages that feature podcasting, wikis, social bookmarking and more. This list will continue to grow as the staff releases new tools for use in the classroom. More...

Services

The Office of Academic Technology offers some targeted services to the academic community. These include a full-service media capture service, podcasting through iTunes U and more. More...