Deep deep apologies that it’s taken so long for Episode 4 to reach your ears, but it’s been a busy autumn around here and podcast post-production took a back burner to other projects. In this episode we get updates on podcast distribution (we’re on Anchor and lots of other locations now!), campus usage of Blackboard Ally and Panopto. We talk briefly about our Online and Hybrid Faculty Learning Communities (join us each month). We also commemorate the fifth birthday of the Atomic Object Technology Showcase. Coffee in this episode is the Rwanda blend from Grand Rapids’ own Rowster Coffee.

Topics of conversation for our third episode include the University of Wisconsin’s Distance Teaching and Learning Conference, Grand Valley State University’s Faculty Badges Initiative, and the Blackboard Ally tool for improving content accessibility. The coffee in this episode is Mzuzu Specialty Coffee, brought to us by hand from Malawi. We also get an update on Mr. Coffee and declare a temporary embargo on discussing Amazon Alexa.

In the second episode of T-Squared, Eric and Matt discuss Oakland University’s e-Cornucopia Conference and the Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching and Learning. Their conversation covers a broad range of topics: accessibility and Universal Design of Learning, hospitality as a metaphor for teaching, and the role of emerging technologies like virtual/augmented reality and smart speaker technology. This episode’s coffee arrived directly from Guatemala. And did you hear that there will be a new member of the T-Squared team?

In this first ever episode of T-Squared, Eric and Matt discuss the 2018 Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) conference, including Bonnie St. John’s keynote focused on failure, grit, and student success. Your hosts drink Kenyan coffee from Blue Bottle and talk about the Grand Valley’s Atomic Object Technology Showcase.

Grand Valley State University’s eLearning and Emerging Technologies team is pleased to announce T-Square: a podcast about teaching and technology. The first episode of this new podcast about the intersection of teaching and technology will hit the web—and your favorite pod-catcher—in February 2018. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode.