A faculty member I’ve been working with from time to time over the years stopped by to tell me how her tech-enhanced class went. She’s adding some online activity to the class instead of some of the face-to-face time. For her, students were willing to do a harder reading and an assignment based on the reading – as long as […]
» Read moreThere were a lot of new topics floating around at this national conference in Washington, DC about a month ago. Some that you might want to know about: *Open Source Textbooks There are state and national initiatives to support the creation and dissemination of open source textbooks. These are important not only because they are free, but also, if they […]
» Read moreI’m going to be very interested to see the results of the experiment being conducted now by faculty and students in Hofstra’s School of Communication: A Week Without the Web. I particularly like that this is a thoughtful encounter with the web; it’s not just wishing it was 1990 again, it’s a true educational exercise, reflecting on where we are, […]
» Read moreExciting title, no? I learned this phrase from the teams building our new medical school, though I’d already experienced the need for the term. Summative assessment, as it turns out, is the type most of us are used to. We give an exam, or a paper, and we give a grade. Bam, the student is supposed to understand how well […]
» Read moreEveryone knows I think computers are evil and that they wait for the perfect moment to turn on us. That moment is often when one wishes to give a presentation. Some thoughts about being prepared for presentations, and some newer ideas in presentation: 1. Turn on and log into your laptop before you need to start presenting! All you should […]
» Read moreSome of the Boot Camp participants have already heard me describe how I used clickers this past spring for peer feedback on presentations in my global media class. It was based on an idea I got from Ling Huang, a colleague from the chemistry department and also a Boot Camp graduate. He had students use clickers to effectively “grade” each […]
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