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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My practicing digital fellows project this semester and beyond included experimenting with technology in order to bring material to life and into the classroom. I wanted to open myself up as a teacher to learn and experience material with my students and have fun. I wanted to liberate myself from the ways I used to
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It can be hard to be an expert in something you fear. The promise of R and R-studio is that an open source software can do what costly packages do but better and at no cost to the user. The costs are however quite large as R is build not around drag and drop menus
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THE PROJECT In Teacher Education technology is integrated into all courses as a means of challenging our students (preservice teachers) to critically think about the ways in which various tech tools can support learning. This is done indirectly (such as by instructors utilizing technology themselves to support preservice teacher learning and model the use of
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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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