This category is used primarily for posts of faculty interest that relate to teaching and learning.
Whether you’re making notes for a lecture or using a virtual whiteboard in class, apps can be very useful for helping you teach. They can also be helpful when working in office. Here’s Etown’s 2014 List of Top 10 Apps …
August 18, 20, 21 Click on the workshop title to register for the session. Monday, August 18 10:00-11:00 Leveling the Classroom Participation Playing Field: The Pros and Cons of Using Clickers Some topics that will be included: • Using …
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Looking to improve your presentation skills? Look no further! Prezi has compiled a list of the top resources for presenters. The article, “The #PreziTop100 Online Resources Every Presenter Should See” includes articles and blogs, videos and podcasts, presentations, and books. …
Do you wish students would pay more attention to the feedback provided on an assignment or test? Do you want them to learn how to learn so they can be successful in your courses? If so, “Exam Wrappers” is an …
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Have you thought about flipped learning – the teaching and learning model that has students listening to lectures that are recorded for homework and then doing what used to be homework during class? If you have tried this model, even …
This article, originally posted on Faculty Focus, helps us to think about trying out new teaching strategies that we read about in journals, see demonstrated by peers or at conferences. It reminds us that change is hard, success or not …
As part of strategic plan focus group work, ITS has been reviewing options in the learning management system (LMS) market. In fall 2013, select members of ITS participated in online webinars presented by several LMS providers: Sakai, Desire2Learn, Moodle, Canvas …
While summer “vacation” begins for many faculty, it is a good time for some reflection. As our new CETL Director, Michele Kozimor-King highlighted at the Celebration of Teaching Event this week, reflection is key to improved teaching and learning. This …
This Chronicle blog post describes a rationale for creating learning objectives that frame the course content more explicitly for you and your students. Not only does this approach help faculty to plan a structured lesson, but also scaffolds the learning …
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This Chronicle blog post, one in a series on the flipped classroom model, contains useful tips and teaching strategies to help make this model of teaching and learning more effective. Check it out here!
The ideas in this blog post, originally posted to the GradHacker blog from Inside Higher Ed, detail 5 ways to keep students engaged in course content (and with each other) in the second half of the semester. http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/reinventing-your-teaching-mid-semester
This post, originally posted on the Edudemic blog, highlights some useful tools to create rubrics. My personal favorite in the list is Rubistar. Being able to save the rubric as an Excel spreadsheet allows me the ease of rubric creation …