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Chaucer Doth Tweet, and so can you!
I’ve really enjoyed the recent posts on using blogs in the classroom, so I thought I’d share how some of my colleagues in the English department have been using Twitter to interact with their students and the course material. First, … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Methods, Technology
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Teaching Toolkit
Toward the end of the semester, many of us could use an energizing new teaching idea. Or we may be working on planning a spring course. In either case, here’s a resource full of quick and useful strategies that may … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Methods
Tagged critical thinking, group activities, teaching ideas, teaching resources
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Blended Learning and Liberal Arts Colleges
The current buzz about “blended learning” heralds the combination of face-to-face and online education as a great way to teach effectively and economically, especially for underprepared students. While SMU and other universities that take pride in offering small classes and … Continue reading
CPR for Student Writing
Two tough teaching challenges often join forces: getting students to think critically and to write clearly. A teaching strategy that can help with both is student peer review, but it can too easily degenerate into mindless friendly A’s. Enter technology. … Continue reading
A Sense of Wonder
Today I’m attending the annual conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, and I heard a keynote address by Michael Wesch, who teaches cultural anthropology at Kansas State. He gave one of those wildly popular TED … Continue reading
Math and English Meet in the Classroom: Discuss
The Chronicle has published the first in a three-part series narrating the experience of an English professor (who is also dramaturg at the Folger Theatre) and a math professor in co-teaching a First Year seminar called “Mathematics and What it … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinary Teaching, Teaching Methods
Tagged english, interdiscipinary, math, multi-disciplinary, Seminar, Shakespeare, Syllabus, Teaching, Team Teaching, Writing
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Spotlight on Teaching: DeTemple & Kuenzi Shine in Minute Lectures
What a challenge: talk for just one minute about an engaging topic within your discipline that is clear, thought-provoking, and might interest students in exploring courses in your department. The Hilltop Scholars Program is hosting a Sixty Second Lecture Series, … Continue reading
Posted in Students, Teaching Methods
Tagged Daily Campus, DeTemple, dorms, Hilltop Scholars, Kuenzi, Teaching
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Teaching With Blogs
When we assign our students to write things we usually think of traditional papers, but technology has provided us with opportunities for new media and new audiences. Students can learn not only how to write better but also lessons about … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Methods, Technology
Tagged Active Learning, Blogs, collaboration, critical thinking, Technology, Writing
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Flipping the Classroom
In some ways, it’s one of the oldest methods in teaching: introduce new material through out-of-class assignments, then use class time to apply, analyze, dig deeper. In other ways, new technologies like podcasts, video lectures, and automated quizzes open up … Continue reading
