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Unsure about life after college? You're not alone. Join ASSETT's Student Technology Consultants for an interactive book club. As we read the book Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, ASSETT will lead a series of activities and discussions meant to...

Screencapture of the banner image from Digication's website . With Digication, you can easily create an ePortfolio that showcases your scholarly, research or professional work. An ePortfolio can contain written works, photos, videos, collaborative assignments, projects, or reflective pieces and is a great way to gather artifacts of work in...

UPDATE: The 2020 Innovation Incubator conference has been canceled due to COVID-19 mitigation. Stay tuned for information about other upcoming events! SAVE THE DATE! This spring, the ASSETT Innovation Incubator is hosting a daylong event focused on innovations in active learning and education technology. This free event is open to...

ASSETT is funded through a fee assessed to all students who take courses in the College of Arts & Sciences. We are especially grateful to have four student advisory board members: three undergraduates, one from each A&S division; and one graduate student. Student board members help guide us and ensure...

Welcome to 2020! As we begin a new semester, I am excited to be working with the ASSETT team on several fronts. I will be piloting the use of Wikipedia in the classroom with the assistance of Amanda McAndrew and Joy Adams from ASSETT and Caroline Sinkinson , associate professor...

To further the goal of building a more welcoming and inclusive community, our campus recently introduced NameCoach . Available in Canvas courses, NameCoach allows classmates and instructors to record and share their preferred name pronunciation. To get started, look for the NameCoach area in your course navigation menu in Canvas...

Catherine Kunce, Senior Instructor for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric, speaks about her experience working with ASSETT Student Technology Consultants. When searching for ways to improve her Irish Odysseys class, which she teaches every summer in Ireland, Catherine reached out to ASSETT for help. Working together with Austin Chau,...

The deadline to apply for the 2020–21 cohort of Faculty Fellows has been extended in light of the recent weather-related campus closures. To apply, complete the online application and ask your department chair to submit a letter of support no later than December 8, 2019 . Further details and submission...

Interested in using games and simulations in the classroom? Join in the Gamification Reading Group, a part of ASSETT’s Student Success Innovation Incubator . We are starting out this spring by reading Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform Higher Education by Mark Carnes. He’s a historian at Barnard College...

Our new column presents data collected from our most important source: YOU! In each newsletter, we'll share insights collected from our A&S faculty partners about the effectiveness and impact of ASSETT programs and services. This edition reveals what faculty really think about ASSETT -- the results may surprise you! Read...