TASC's Bill Burke speaks at the faculty reception to launch a scholarly learning community for faculty and staff focused on first generation college students, sponsored by the office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Teaching and Academic Support Center (TASC). Bill, a first generation student himself, speaks as President Lee Todd, yet another first generation student, looks on.

TASC’s new Teaching Technology Toolkit provides support for H1N1 planning, including ideas for what you can do now to develop alternative instructional strategies. It’s also a great source for learning about a variety of instructional technologies

Blackboard Upgrade: Bb9

Blackboard has been upgraded to Release 9. TASC is pleased to provide these resources to help instructors get up to speed:
Checklist for Your Course
Online Training/Refresher
Bb Support Online
Bb Support Help Desk: 257-1300

Mind Matters Lecture Series

The Teaching and Academic Support Center and the Chellgren Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Education co-sponsored the series "Mind Matters" in which UK faculty conducting research in cognition presented and discussed their research and its implications for college teaching and learning. Thanks to all of you who attended the presentations and made the series a success.

The presentations have been archived for those who could not attend.
To view the presentations, please go to the Presentation Archive.

It is anticipated that this series will continue for the 2009-2010 academic year with presentations by faculty who have implemented scholarly teaching practices – instructional practices that are supported by research as being effective. Our list of speakers is still emerging so consider contacting Kathryn Cunningham if you have a scholarly teaching practice that you would like to share with your UK colleagues. Also, please visit the website again in September to find out who will be presenting.

New Streaming Server

The Teaching  Academic Support Center (TASC) is pleased to announce that TASC and UKIT are offering a larger-capacity streaming server that will provide ample space for your streaming video files to be used in Blackboard. To upload, contact patrick.logan@uky.edu   for folder access to the server. More . . .