Applying Science to Learning
Submitted by chromiak on 22 June, 2009 - 12:56.The following link from Claremont McKenna provides interested faculty with a compendium of resources related to teaching. Each is based on cognitive science research.
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/berger/asl/ar.php
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Dean Shareski needs help defining "teacher"
Submitted by webbe on 15 February, 2009 - 21:49.I commend Dean Shareski's blogpost here, where he muses on the changing roles of teachers and, in particular, of good teachers. Content delivery is less central when 'content is everywhere.' But engaging, encouraging, and empowering students is still very necessary, as is the role of connecting them to others who can guide and help them. I don't necessarily buy in to his metaphor of teacher as network administrator, but I do see that connective role as very important to how we can help many students learn today.
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Blogging as a pedagogical tool
Submitted by webbe on 4 February, 2009 - 20:26.I have been invited to take part in a NITLE video conference at the end of this month about using blogs in teaching. Feel free to sign up (by Feb 13), join in, and give me a hard time.
Among other things, I will be discussing my experiment this semester in my course about media and identity in the Middle East and North Africa. Read all about it here, and be sure to check out what the students are blogging about. Comments most welcome.
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Talking through the movie
Submitted by webbe on 8 December, 2008 - 11:13.I described an experiment in using a chatroom to allow discussion during a film showing on my blog here.
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Web-based tools for basic composition (The Topoi)
Submitted by chromiak on 27 August, 2008 - 14:01.Academhack offers a link to Mark Marino's USC Writing Program web-based tools to help students sharpen their essays. Follow the link and discover The Topoi!
http://www.pageflakes.com/markcmarino/23536077
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D. Cohen, "Ways that digital resources can transform teaching and research, grand and small"
Submitted by alvaradr on 22 May, 2008 - 07:19.Dan Cohen has an interesting article on his blog, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, on how scholarly databases can transform how humanities courses can be taught. Here is a snippet:
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Publishers cracking down on Blackboard use
Submitted by alvaradr on 24 April, 2008 - 07:52.An interesting article in Campus Technology this week --"Publishers Sue Georgia State over Digital Distribution." Maybe the days of viewing Blackboard, or any course management system, as a safe haven for flagrant copyright violation are over?
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Michael Wesch, "Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance"
Submitted by alvaradr on 9 April, 2008 - 12:36.Michael Wesch, creator of the incredibly viral YouTube video "The Machine is Us/Using Us" and professor of anthropology at KState has just published an essay on "anti-teaching." It is essentially a write-up of a talk he has been giving at conferences lately. Here it is:
http://www.cea-ace.ca/media/en/AntiTeaching_Spring08.pdf
For those who have not seen his videos, here are three:
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Call for Proposals -- The Willoughby Fellows Program in Academic Technology
Submitted by alvaradr on 11 March, 2008 - 08:17.CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Willoughby Fellows Program
in Academic Technology
Dickinson College
Sponsored by the Division of Library and Information Services
and the Division of Academic Affairs
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Web 2.0--What is it? How might you use it?
Submitted by chromiak on 11 December, 2007 - 08:40.Academhack provides a link to information about using Web 2.0 in teaching.
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=217
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