After teaching myself how to use learnR to teach students how to apply statistics to real problems using R and RStudio, I started teaching some of my colleagues as part of a Resident Digital Fellows Pilot Program. I divided the content into four sessions with a project being due for the fourth session. For the …
Background The growth of Digital Humanities has been one of the most exciting pedagogical developments in my field over the past decade. Access to texts, manuscripts, and artifacts via numerous databases has revolutionized the study of antiquity. I’ve used many of these resources in my teaching, but after learning of a colleague in Modern Languages, …
Overview: In order to actually apply statistics in real life, it is imperative that students be able to implement statistical techniques using software. It is even better if students can learn a programming language which is either designed for statistical analyses (e.g. R) or one which has many packages designed for statistics (e.g. Python, Julia). …
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My digital fellowship project is for the Accounting Information Systems course in Spring 2022. The project has two components. One is an infographic assignment on blockchain technology topics, and the other is the use of Kahoot! word cloud to facilitate a discussion on artificial intelligence (AI) ethics. The Infographic Assignment In the course, I cover …
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During the Spring 2022 semester, I modified my Spanish 300: Conversation, Composition, and Culture course to include a new digital component, a Domain that hosted a WordPress class blog, to enhance and elevate student learning. During the Spring 2021 semester, with Taylor Jadin’s expertise and assistance, I implemented a Domain that hosted a WordPress blog …
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The goal of our project was to determine whether a virtual platform (Paperspace) would be appropriate for conducting quantum chemistry calculations in the classroom and research lab. Quantum chemistry calculations allow us to model properties of molecules, which can reinforce concepts in General Chemistry (CHEM 105/107) and Physical Chemistry (CHEM 330/332). Here, we test the …
For my Practicing Digital Fellowship period, I used the time to experiment with several different changes to my courses that included aspects of digital pedagogy, open education, information literacy, and other creative approaches to teaching and learning, while incorporating hybrid course design. Below are the changes I incorporated into my courses and a discussion relating …
One of my favorite courses to teach is MUSI 150 – Survey of World Musics. In this class, students explore global culture through the lens of music. Because it is part of the Core Curriculum, the students who take this course are in pursuit of degrees from a variety of disciplines, and possess diverse musical …
Background Convening tablet and specifically iPad users to discuss problems with and strategies for the use of this type of technology to enhance teaching has been something I have been interested in since I started at St. Norbert. I started Tablets in Teaching as an informal gathering several years ago, and it has continued fairly …
Fall 2021, I taught managerial accounting and auditing. The major difference between those two courses is that managerial accounting is a non-accounting major course, while auditing is an accounting major course. This likely leads to different perceptions of learning accounting materials. Especially, accounting courses are generally considered as hard and boring; therefore, my project was …
