I try to make sure that I and my staff spend most of our time teaching faculty some basic rules of thumb that don’t change. We try to be less about what button to push than about the meta discussion. Does the tool increase student interactivity? Then try it. If it doesn’t, ignore it and focus on something that does. […]
» Read moreMy favorite rule of thumb: Anything to do with technology that has to happen for your class should happen outside the classroom. Inside the classroom you want to use that precious time to have your students talk to each other and to you. Sometimes you even want to talk to them. If you have them do online journaling or reading […]
» Read moreThere’s a lovely article in one of the New York Times’ blogs from this weekend about consumer tools to use in the classroom. I shouldn’t even call them consumer tools, as they’re programs available to everyone for free. But they’re not tools that we in faculty computing need to set up or authorize for you – they’re out there and […]
» Read moreIt’s been rather unreasonably hot here in Long Island of late, and as July approaches I am as concerned as any faculty member with my summer productivity. As faculty we tend to make lists for ourselves for the summer: the research we will do, the articles we will write or submit, the reformatting of the bibliographies of the articles from […]
» Read moreThere’s a good ProfHacker post at the Chronicle today about grading student blogs. I like the idea of having two student blog grades – one an overall “I did this” grade, and one a grade of perhaps the two best posts, (perhaps revised and) submitted for review. I love portfolio grades in writing classes, and getting students to explain in […]
» Read moreI like the idea proposed on this site for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”, otherwise titled “Project “Develop Self-Paced Open Access DH Curriculum for Mid-Career Scholars Otherwise Untrained””. And I’m still thinking about it even though I already posted a comment disagreeing with it (which contained a typo, which according to academic blogosphere etiquette automatically disqualifies my thoughts). It’s my […]
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