Spring 2021 Grant Recipient Thank you for the Instructional Technology Mini Grant! During the Spring 2021 semester, the grant supported sociology students’ purchase of InQuizitive software associated with the Social Research Methods course (SOCI-300), as well as a Directed Research course (SOCI-492). These students used InQuizitive to practice new material from the course in an […]
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Teaching during the pandemic has been hard on everyone. That is a massive understatement. Regarding my own circumstances going back to the fall of 2020, I chose to teach in person as much as I could. My teaching load each semester typically involves directing three musical ensembles (Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, and Handbell Choir) in
Covid-19 has made classroom teaching more challenging than ever. How do we keep our students engaged in virtual and hybrid settings? How can teachers replicate some of the methods that we might have traditionally used in the classroom? Using Inquiry in Virtual and Hybrid Settings We all love classroom discussion, but how do we replicate
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Do what scares you. This is often a phrase I think about when I am debating whether or not I should embark on something new. I have a different version of this motivational phrase in a silver frame in my office and sometimes when I need more convincing, I look at it. It says: Be
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I regularly teach writing-intensive courses, such as Introduction to the Humanities Through the Fine Arts (HUMA 100) and Introduction to Literary Studies (ENGL 150), and so I require students to hand in one revision of each paper except the final one; they have the option of submitting one or two further revisions of each
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This mini blog post is to start the process of decompressing and explaining how together with some wonderful people that are part of the Academic Technology Team we piloted a learning community focused on learning more about R and R-Studio. This was something that had been brewing for years. But for one reason or another
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Spring 2021 was a transformative semester in teaching and learning. My project incorporates best practices for digital assessment of written and oral assignments. Last semester, COVID-19 presented challenges in traditional classroom assessment and also offered possibilities for innovation and creativity. As an alternative to in-class writing assignments, I explored multiple digital platforms to further develop
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In Spring 2021 I taught a special topics math course on cryptography. A major assessment of the course required students to research a topic pertinent to the course and present their research to the class. Since many academic conferences utilize poster presentations as a means to disseminate research, I chose this model for the class.
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Last spring, we asked our students which of our elective classes they wanted us to teach – both Stephen Rupsch and I had some liberty in our schedules to offer classes we don’t normally (unheard of in our discipline). They chose Directing for Stephen Rupsch and Technical Theatre for me. Technical Theatre is an intensely
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