The initial objective (beginning of the project) The initial objective of this project was to assist with communication (the “4 skills of language learning” = written, spoken, listening, and reading) in my intermediate French-language classes. The focus was for the intermediate French levels (FREN 203 in fall and FREN 204 in spring). This year, due […]
Most have heard of the popular business pitch television show, Shark Tank. Here at St. Norbert College, we have our annual Shark Attack! pitch contest where any student can pitch a business idea to a panel of judges in early December. Many of the students who participate in this contest are students in BUAD 215
INTRODUCTION Every Norbertine abbey has a coat of arms that is distinct to that community, as well as coats of arms for each of the abbots. However, many of these have yet to be digitized and there have been no attempts to compile Premonstratensian coats of arms in 50 years. As such, it is difficult
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I have been teaching THEA 102 in various iterations at least once a year for almost 15 years and over those years, I have tried a variety of final projects. These include: designing the storm for King Lear; designing the Skriker poem for Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker; board games and zines and so on. These
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For my Practicing Digital Fellowship, I developed a new core curriculum course – ART 144 Mobile Media Lab. This course explores the creative and critical use of mobile media applications. ART 144 Course Description: This course is an introductory course in the creative use of mobile digital media. Students will learn basic techniques in mobile
Hi there! In this blog post, I’ll be describing my Fall 2023 Digital Fellows project. If you are interested in engagement-based grading contracts, ungrading approaches, or useful applications of Google Sheets and Google Forms, you’re in the right place! background After multiple semesters of considering it, and lots of advice from folks on campus who
Kat O’MearaDirector of WAC, Assistant Professor of English This blog post shares a semester-long inquiry into finding and curating AI resources that meet the needs of both faculty and students. It will recount everything I did—researching, presenting, attending—as well as the deliverables that I am in the process of creating. It also shares, based on
INTRODUCTION In Fall 2023, I was using an online platform, known as the MobLab, to conduct class experiments and economic games in my ECON489 Game Theory class. This kept students engaged in active learning. Navigation was easy, as students could use either their laptop or phone to join the games. Overall, I had a very
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Hello! My name is Bernardo Hinojosa and I am an assistant professor of English at St. Norbert College, as well as a Practicing Digital Fellow for Fall 2023. Check out my fellowship project: “Technologies of Writing: Codex to Code.”
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Introduction While online learning can be used exclusively for a course and in-person learning can be used exclusively for a course, E-learning and in-person learning do not have to be mutually exclusive. E-learning can be used to supplement a course that is an in-person learning course. This blog post will attempt to describe efforts in
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