Teaching with Technology: Benjamin Robertson

Feb. 27, 2012

For every major, there is a key set of skills that students are expected to obtain and refine over the course of their educational experience. In English, the two primary skills are writing and close reading. Close reading can be defined as the ability to look at a text, interpret...

Development Awards: Dancing on the Digital Stage

Feb. 20, 2012

When you hear someone say they are dancer, immediately an image of a person performing on a stage in front of an audience appears in your head. Generally, our view of dance as an art form tends to exist within a narrow scope that is bounded within the diameters of...

CU Denver Professor connects through Adobe

Oct. 15, 2011

A growing number of academic professionals are switching from traditional classroom lectures to online classes. Online learning and in person lectures are now becoming a popular combination of learning tools in academia. At the 2011 COLTT (Colorado Learning & Teaching with Technology) Conference held at CU Boulder, Storm Gloor, an...

Lights, Camera, This is What Beautiful Looks Like!

Sept. 30, 2011

, “If only I were four inches taller…,” “If only I were skinnier….,” “If only I had bigger breasts...,” “If only I had a smaller nose…,” “If only if only…”. For many young women, these thoughts accompany them in their daily lives and can even lead to harmful behaviors. From...

CU Professor Spotlight: A Mathematical Challenge

Sept. 26, 2011

Keith Kearnes is sitting in his unlit office in the second floor of the Department of Mathematics building. In his hand is a set of stapled yellow sheets jotted with formulas and numbers. “Some students will submit it on paper; the other solution was submitted electronically,” he says as he...

Whiteboard Animation to be used in Comm Courses

March 30, 2011

Many professors at CU are motivated to find new and creative ways to teach. Among them is Matt Koschmann, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, who has plans to use Whiteboard Animate as a creative way to orient students to his future courses. If you are not familiar...

Developmental Award Spotlight: A photo lab for art students

Feb. 8, 2011

When Lia Pileggi began conducting workshop classes for photographing artwork she noticed something. With a little help from the people she was helping, she realized her department was missing a resource of potential value for students. “In every single workshop, someone would ask, ‘Ok, this is great, now I know...

Class in U.S. Law benefits from integration of pictures with text

Nov. 2, 2010

Learning becomes fun and comprehensible with the integration of pictures and photos with texts. Pictures help provide tangible aspect to learning which texts alone cannot provide. Anne W. Costain, Director of Women and Gender Studies and professor at CU Boulder, is also fully aware of the importance of pictures in...

A Workshop Created to Empower Women's Voices

Sept. 10, 2010

Inuit Throat singing from parts of North America, particularly Alaska and Greenland, is not only fascinating, but a culture that empowers women by giving them voice to speak. A similar concept is also applied in the workshop created by Beth Osnes, a faculty member of the Dance and Theatre at...

Forget the book, bring in the Flash: A universal tool for math students

March 5, 2010

In field of research where numbers, equations, and charts usually appear on paper, applied mathematics professor Dr. John Flynt likes his math a little more visually interactive. To help construct his vision, Flynt recruited eight students to work in labs developing online visual Flash applications. As part of his program...

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