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This post summarizes my continuing pursuit to move lectures from my classes into short screencasts and reading assignments. It was inspired by my participation in the Fall 2012 Teaching with Technology seminar series and has been an ongoing project

The use of online course-management platforms and interactive learning environments is gaining traction at many Universities, but the use of these systems is certainly far from the norm. In this document, I discuss possible barriers to successful

Travis Rupp believes that the best way to educate is to entertain. “As teachers, instructors, and professors we are essentially entertainers when we lecture. Since my field is Classics, being able to maintain my students' attention is critical to

My pedagogical goal is to get students comfortable doing disagreement as a means of critical thinking and exploring an issue. Getting students to disagree does not require technology. But I do think that technology might be used to minimize

I came to TWT with a two-fold objective: a) to learn how to teach with technology for creative, embodied, human-centered subjects such as Performance and Directing and b) to devise a syllabus for an Interdisciplinary Creativity course. My idea is to

The images are sometimes faded and the voiceovers are rarely crisp, but the stories they tell are real. She is the youngest of five sisters. He plays a perfect game of pool. A daughter struggles to care for her schizophrenic mother. A young woman

As freshmen at CU, Bryce Eaton and Natalie Rechter expected the usual challenges. Leaving high school for college means navigating an entirely new social atmosphere, succeeding in classes like Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods, and

Professor Ken Foote of the Geography department at the University of Colorado at Boulder knows the value of increased technology capability in his classroom. For years Dr. Foote’s class, Elements of GIS (Geographic Information Systems), has been at

While the idea of using technology as a teaching tool in classrooms holds allure, why use technology if it does not have a positive effect on learning? During his Teaching with Technology presentation, Dr. Tim Weston spoke on the importance of

A Chronicle of Education article on 'flipping' college lecture courses highlights Professor Martin's evolutionary biology course.