Practicing Digital Fellow
Bringing Spain to life
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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STUDENT ENGAGEMENT in hybrid courses
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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Fueling student engagement in online discussions
Covid-19 has made classroom teaching more challenging than ever. How do we keep our students engaged in virtual and hybrid settings? How can teachers replicate some of the methods that we might have traditionally used in the classroom? Using Inquiry in Virtual and Hybrid Settings We all love classroom discussion, but how do we replicate
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Do what scares you: Navigating new territory with digital Breakout EDU.
Do what scares you. This is often a phrase I think about when I am debating whether or not I should embark on something new. I have a different version of this motivational phrase in a silver frame in my office and sometimes when I need more convincing, I look at it. It says: Be
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Using Moodle to Comment on Students’ Papers
I regularly teach writing-intensive courses, such as Introduction to the Humanities Through the Fine Arts (HUMA 100) and Introduction to Literary Studies (ENGL 150), and so I require students to hand in one revision of each paper except the final one; they have the option of submitting one or two further revisions of each
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Language Assessment in COVID-19
Spring 2021 was a transformative semester in teaching and learning. My project incorporates best practices for digital assessment of written and oral assignments. Last semester, COVID-19 presented challenges in traditional classroom assessment and also offered possibilities for innovation and creativity. As an alternative to in-class writing assignments, I explored multiple digital platforms to further develop
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Digital Poster Presentations
In Spring 2021 I taught a special topics math course on cryptography. A major assessment of the course required students to research a topic pertinent to the course and present their research to the class. Since many academic conferences utilize poster presentations as a means to disseminate research, I chose this model for the class.
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Teaching Painting from Afar
Last spring, we asked our students which of our elective classes they wanted us to teach – both Stephen Rupsch and I had some liberty in our schedules to offer classes we don’t normally (unheard of in our discipline). They chose Directing for Stephen Rupsch and Technical Theatre for me. Technical Theatre is an intensely
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