Practicing Digital Fellow

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 …

E-learning Development to Support Outside Learning and a Flipped Classroom Read More »

Background How can we help students engage the stories of the past in their own moments and modes? This question has guided much of my pedagogy, including my work for this digital fellowship. My project for this semester: to design a digital curation project for a future course in Native American literature. This course aims …

Digital Archives and Curation: Assignment Construction Read More »

The modern world has gone through rapid changes in recent years. Music teachers faced real and demanding challenges during the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic and many were able to quickly adapt, invest, and learn from a far more technological reality than they were used to. Now back to the future, post-vaccine, and a reality that …

Piano Video Tutorials: Effective Visual Communication in Piano Lessons Read More »

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). …

Teaching students to Apply Statistics in R and Rstudio Read More »

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 …

Building Community and Spanish Language Skills through Blogging Read More »

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 …

Exploring the World through Music  Read More »

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 …

The use of Kahoot in accounting courses Read More »