Leah Sprain: Technologies for Student Presentations of Communication Delimmas

June 1, 2013

My pedagogical goal is to get students comfortable doing disagreement as a means of critical thinking and exploring an issue. Getting students to disagree does not require technology. But I do think that technology might be used to minimize some of the face threats students experience while also creating unfamiliar...

C. Maxx Stevens: Building a Strong Foundation

May 28, 2013

As the role of the artist expands to include an ever-widening range of approaches and materials, it becomes increasingly difficult for teachers to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary art. Consequently, First Year Foundations may be the biggest pedagogical challenge faced by college art programs today. The University of Colorado’s...

Using Technology to Appeal to Different Learning Styles

May 22, 2013

Dr. Robert Buchwald of the Biology department sees in technology the opportunity to reach his students. “Different people learn different ways and it’s very complex material,” he says. Whenever Buchwald introduces a new process or concept, he gives a verbal description, reviews it with an image pulled from the textbook...

Susan Kent: Creating Screencasts for Flipped and Hybrid Course Delivery

May 15, 2013

I love the questions, I really love the questions, but it has meant that I am falling behind on my lectures. Were I able to deliver the lectures ahead of time online, then class could be devoted to discussions of a lot of interesting stuff and I could take questions...

When Technophobe Meets Technology

May 15, 2013

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...

The Language of Physics

May 13, 2013

Photo by Micah Sittig “The central finding of physics education research over the past twenty years is something that kindergarten teachers have known forever,” says Dr. Mike Dubson as rain taps against the windows of his office on the tenth floor of the Gamow Physics Tower. “It’s that students don’t...

How to Find an On-Campus Job

May 9, 2013

Have you ever heard a friend say that it’s impossible to find a job on campus? That all the good jobs are taken and your only choice is to work at the Taco Bell in Westminster? That WWII was started by aliens? Well, your friend is wrong about a lot...

Text as Data: A Digital Humanist's Views on Teaching

April 30, 2013

There are some key differences between a human heart and an artichoke heart. Literature PhD candidate Kirstyn Leuner wants to be clear about that. However, word frequency analysis tools may enhance learning when combined with contextual reading. “It’s a really good sign, as a teacher, when you’re excited about reading...

Helping Â鶹ŇůÔş Connect Academia to the Real World

April 29, 2013

Dr. E. Scott Adler of the Political Science Department does not consider his use of technology to be particularly innovative. He says it’s not much different than how other professors use technology in their classrooms. What is different about it, though, is how Adler thinks about technology’s interaction with learning...

Elspeth Dusinberre: Collaborative Technologies in Creating Narrative of Self

April 28, 2013

I would like to explore the use of technology, and particularly social media, in helping my students to play (in the “deep play sense”) in my class this semester. I'm teaching an upper-division class, our senior capstone seminar, to ten undergraduates, on narrative. It seems to me that the primary...

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