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Catherine Kunce’s first year writing students create their own Public Service Announcement videos. Kunce, a CU Boulder Program for Writing and Rhetoric Senior Instructor, planned this feature of her course with the support of the Fall 2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. Watch Kunce discuss her project here: Teaching and...

CU's German and Slavic Languages Associate Professor Laura Osterman implements Just in Time Teaching techniques in her teaching with the support of the Fall 2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. Teaching and Learning Challenge Introduction Through observation of myself, students, and fellow students /scholars in my field (Russian Studies –...

Wondering how your students are really receiving your new teaching strategy? Why wait until after the semester is over to read students' feedback on FCQs? Create your own student survey right now with Google Drive Forms, and check in with your students mid-semester. CU Boulder students and faculty are already...

Dr. Michela Ardizzoni of the Department of French and Italian encouraged her students to create websites to share information with local schools. See her padlet of her students' work here . Teaching and Learning Challenge In the Spring of 2014, I taught a new course on documentary and social change...

Attribution to ynse at Flickr Creative Commons When Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Sam Flaxman, PhD, plans his General Biology course lessons, he asks himself, 'What can I do in the classroom that makes it worth coming to?' Flaxman says he weighs the value of what he can...

University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business professor Dr. Dan Zhang implemented Google Drive to give his students feedback on papers within ample time to reach the deadline. This way, he can see when and whether students incorporated his feedback into their their papers. Teaching and Learning Challenge I...

Reading and understanding academic articles are critical parts of social science education. With the onslaught of information that students confront everyday, their attention span is likely getting shorter increasingly. Yet, the benefits that they would reap from actively engaging with academic articles remain high. This presents a compelling reason for...

This post summarizes my continuing pursuit to move lectures from my classes into short screencasts and reading assignments. It was inspired by my participation in the Fall 2012 Teaching with Technology seminar series and has been an ongoing project since that time. Teaching and Learning Challenge In class, students are...

In the education of preservice teachers, there are two generally agreed-upon main objectives: (1) developing the candidates' ability to engage in self-directed reflection, and (2) developing the candidates' adoption of pedagogically appropriate behaviors. Teaching and Learning Challenge In the education of preservice teachers, there are two generally agreed-upon main objectives:...

Dr. Julie Lieber, a professor of History and Jewish studies, is a self-declared technophobe. That is why she was shocked to receive recognition from ASSETT for excellence in teaching with technology. Lieber recognized that while technology was outside her comfort zone, it made up a large part of how her...