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- "I've been gaming since I was a little kid", brags Trent Begin, a TTA at ASSETT."Well I was playing Flight Simulator", says TTA Casey Zahorik, pausing dramatically as he leans back in his swivel chair, when I was three
- “You’re doing it right when you’re playing,” says Dr. Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin. This may seem like a strange statement to make in an upper-level class where students use complex technology and challenging archival material to re-imagine
- What does it mean to live in Boulder? Using video cameras and audio recorders, a group of graduate students in Dr. Jennifer Shannon’s “Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology” class interviewed farmers’ market vendors, business leaders, residents
- If you were to stumble upon Professor John Flynt’s applied mathematics classroom, you may not notice him at first. Dr. Flynt has rejected the podium and now sits among his students, using a tablet to make notes that are then projected onto a screen
- by Celine DauverdI first got interested in this topic, [Using Animations in History Courses] because I regularly teach Maymester sessions on core courses such as Early Modern Societies and was looking for ways to make sessions more interactive while
- by Elena Kostoglodova As a long-time language instructor, I love practical resources. When I first learned how to use VoiceThread, I was very excited about its possibilities in my classroom and for semester-long student projects. For
- One of (but certainly not the only) interesting aspect of the Fall 2011 Teaching with Technology group was to see the various ways in which faculty approach teaching, the assessment of student learning (that is, the effectiveness of their teaching
- By Tim WadsworthIntroduction and Project GoalsIn my years of teaching I have often wondered about the relationship between student effort and academic achievement. While I have always assumed that students who put more time and energy into my
- by Terry KleemanAsian Languages and CivilizationsThis is a not-too-convoluted tale of my search for a website. This website would serve to represent my academic work to the world, but more importantly, function as home to the Daoist Text
- By Phoebe S.K. YoungAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Historyphoebe.young@colorado.eduThis is a description of a tool I developed for my large introductory course in U.S. History. I called it “Weekly Previews” and it entailed students watching