Faculty Learn from Teaching with Technology Seminar

May 20, 2014

Faculty members Giorgio Corda, Dave Rickels, Holly Gayley, Janet Casagrand, Elena Kostoglodova, and Jen Lewon participated in both the Teaching with Technology Faculty Seminar and the Hybrid and Online Course Design Seminars this past 2013-2014 academic year. These faculty presented at the Second Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium at...

Technology Facilitates In-Class Discussions in Flaxman's General Biology Course

May 14, 2014

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...

Considering an Interactive Syllabus at the Second Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium

May 14, 2014

Jesse Stommel was the keynote speaker at the Second Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium. About 50 CU faculty and staff representing more than one CU campus attended his talk, "Rewriting the Syllabus: Examining New Hybrid and Online Pedagogies." ASSETT Director Michele Jackson led an introduction about what it means...

Jen Lewon Builds Student Community in Distance-Learning Courses

April 25, 2014

Jen Lewon uses social media to build student community in distance-learning course. Teaching and Learning Challenge The Speech Language Pathology Prerequisites (SLPP) program is a distance-learning leveling coursework program in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. Many of the SLPP students live in areas where they cannot access traditional (on-campus) undergraduate...

Graduate ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Teach with Technology

April 21, 2014

Lead Graduate Teacher Program (GTP) students presented their research collaborations regarding teaching with technology at their capstone event in ATLAS this month. Eight groups of Lead GTP students collaborated across disciplines to research different teaching technologies and their effectiveness. Groups presented their results on Friday, April 4 with posters in...

Gilad Wilkenfeld poses Big Data Questions in Designing Social Inquiry

March 21, 2014

Accurately understanding and interpreting big data can win a presidential election. Gilad Wilkenfeld brings his Political Science statistics students into computer labs to teach them how to apply statistics concepts to the same software tools that professional political scientists use. Wilkenfeld is a Political Science PhD candidate here at CU...

Katie Oliviero uses Digital Games to Teach Social Justice

Feb. 12, 2014

Through ICED Video Game, Players Navigate Lives of Undocumented Immigrants In Katie Oliviero's Gender, Sexuality, and Migration course at CU Boulder, students navigate potential situations that undocumented immigrants may encounter in their everyday lives through the video game ICED (I Can End Deportation). Through the eyes of undocumented immigrants, players...

Annunziata Pugliese: Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language with Technology

Jan. 27, 2014

Imagine your homework assignment is to create an original voice over for a silenced two minute segment of an Italian film. Would you know where to start? Annunziata Pugliese makes use of CU resources to stay current with technology and more effectively reach her students. She has been recognized for...

Holly Gayley: Teaching Religion through Digital Storytelling

July 29, 2013

When we introduce a new pedagogy into the college classroom, how do we know if it's working? In the field of Religious Studies, certain pedagogical approaches are considered tried and true. For example, a mainstay in teaching religion is to engage students in a close reading of a religious text,...

Preparations for Teaching Online by Kathleen Ryan

July 23, 2013

I will be teaching an online History of Documentary course this summer. It is the first time I've taught an online course and want to make sure to be able to use the technology appropriately to engage students and spur online discussions. For example, in the traditional classroom, one can...

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