"Using Technology to Build Connections"

What’s this Kaltura thing?

March 23, 9:00 am

image of Brianna Derr teaching a training on Kaltura in the Mac Lab in the ZSR Library

If you haven’t heard, WFU recently adopted Kaltura as its new video management platform. What does this mean? Now you can record, edit, and share all kinds of media content with your students and beyond. Kaltura also contains in-video quizzing options, interactive video, playlist and channel creation, closed captioning and more. Come to this session to learn more about Kaltura and how faculty are using it in the curriculum to enhance teaching and learning.

Presenter Information

Brianna Healey

Assistant Director of Academic Technology

Brianna Healey is the Assistant Director of Academic Technology, a division of Information Systems. Her position aims to enhance teaching and learning in the curriculum using digital technologies. Brianna aims to stay at the forefront of teaching, learning, and technology to provide transformative learning experiences for students at Wake Forest University.

Adam Friedman

Director, Instructional Technology Group
Professor, Social Studies Education

Dr. Adam Friedman serves as Director of the Instructional Technology Group at Wake Forest University. He is a Professor of Education, focusing on social studies education, and served as Chair of the Department of Education from 2014-2020. He teaches numerous undergraduate and graduate level social studies education courses along with a First Year Seminar (FYS) course entitled Sports, Culture, and Geography. Friedman’s research focuses on the advantages as well as drawbacks of technology integration into pedagogy, as he co-edited the book Research on Technology in Social Studies Education, has authored over 30 refereed journal articles and book chapters, and delivered over 80 presentations pertaining to pedagogical uses of technology. He has also been awarded several grants to study technology’s impact on teaching.

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Chris McLaughlin

Project Manager for IS-Client Services

Chris McLaughlin ('99, MBA '04) is a Senior Project Manager in Information Systems where he has worked for over 20 years. From time to time he also teaches courses on Project Management and Management Information Systems for the School of Business.

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John Welsh

Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Spanish and Italian

John Welsh grew up in South Bend, Indiana where he attended the University of Notre Dame (2005). He holds a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (2017) as well as Masters degrees in Italian from both Harvard (2011) and the University of Virginia (2007). Before joining the faculty at Wake Forest in 2018, John held full-time teaching appointments at High Point University and the University of Notre Dame, where he served as teacher/director of the Italian Theater Workshop. John’s scholarly interests include arts-enhanced foreign language instruction and language for special purposes: since arriving at Wake Forest he has designed and taught the first course in Business Italian. Non-scholarly interests include listening to podcasts, singing Tom Waits songs, and cuddling with his miniature dachshund, Olive.

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