December 15, 2015 & January 5, 2016 | Flipped Classroom Workshops

Want to try something new in your course? ASSETT is offering a 1 day workshop on techniques that can help you if you find yourself running out of lecture time, covering more remedial material than you’d prefer, or wanting to try a different approach to increase student engagement. ASSETT’s Flipped...

Using New Visualizations in Teaching at the Fiske Planetarium

Nov. 3, 2015

Photo credit: http://www.colorado.edu/insidecu/editions/2005/9-13/ Professor John Bally, a professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, was awarded a Fall 2014 ASSETT Development Award, which he used towards making new visualizations in the Fiske Planetarium to use with undergraduate introductory astrophysics classes. The visualizations were created from data from multiple expeditions and even...

HelloTalk: A New Way of Language Exchange

Oct. 27, 2015

HelloTalk is a language app that I’ve personally found really helpful in the language learning process. As someone who’s studying Japanese (and majoring in it) it can be a little hard to find people nearby to converse with. While CU offers many opportunities for language exchange with other students (including...

October 6, 2015 | Providing Effective Feedback to Â鶹ÒùÔº Through Technology

Tuesday, October 6, 2:30-3:30pm, ATLAS 200. (This is an FTEP sponsored event.) Do you spend hours writing feedback for students? Or perhaps type lengthy responses? Or, do you find that students aren’t reading your comments, but rather just look for their grade? If you’ve answered yes to at least one...

Fall 2015 | Teaching with Technology Seminar

Are you interested in learning alongside fellow faculty from across the College of Arts & Sciences to explore new teaching ideas and new technologies? Would you like to make interdisciplinary connections while investigating new ways to invigorate your scholarship and teaching? If you answered yes, then this seminar is for...

Hybrid French Language Course Development

Aug. 10, 2015

CU Boulder French language Graduate Part Time Instructors (GPTIs) taught hybrid French language courses this past spring thanks to ASSETT -funded training. The combination of online and in-classroom teaching methods can benefit undergraduate students who are enrolled in foreign language courses. The Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities and...

ASSETT Award Funds Stange's Drawing Videos that Explain Math Concepts

July 15, 2015

CU Boulder Math Professor Kate Stange Solves Math Equations on the Wacom Tablet that She Purchased with her 2014 ASSETT Development Award CU Boulder Mathematics Department Assistant Professor Kate Stange won a 2014 ASSETT Development Award to make math videos for Linear Algebra and other classes for flipping the linear...

Watkins's Neuroscience Â鶹ÒùÔº Learn More Through Video Lecture Capture

July 2, 2015

Asking the instructor a question in class from home is possible with Be Boulder Anywhere 's technology. When CU Boulder Department of Psychology's Linda Watkins taught with Be Boulder Anywhere technology for this first time this past spring semester, she could call on distance learning students during class to ask...

Gale's RAP Â鶹ÒùÔº Shared Visual Literacy Images Via Social Media

June 24, 2015

Kendra Gale, PhD, is an instructor in the Communication and Society Residential Academic Program at CU Boulder. Gale completed the Fall 2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. She introduced a social media page into her class as a mechanism for sharing and discussing interesting images in the media. Teaching and...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Nominate Emerson's Use of Media Archaeology Lab for Teaching with Tech Award

June 24, 2015

Does new media correlate with technological progress? That's what students investigate in Assistant Professor of English Lori Emerson's Introduction to Media Studies course. To understand the extent to which technological media has progressed over the past century, Emerson asks her students to handle old computers, typewriters, record players, etc. at...

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