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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In Spring 2023 I taught Digital Humanities, a new methodology course for History. This was an eye-opening experience for me. I’ve developed new skills and discovered tools and resources that I’m already implementing in my teaching. My students — through weekly journals, in-class discussions, and formal written work — have helped to shape this course
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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
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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
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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,
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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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