Highlights from #NAIRTL11 (Part 1)
A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Ireland for the NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference & Galway Symposium on Higher Education, hosted …
Using Twitter to Teach Ornithology – Tweets about Tweeters (#EDUSprint, #BirdClass)
Number five on my list of five types of mobile learning is the use of mobile devices while “in the field.” One …
Teaching Science by Reacting to the Past (#STEM11)
Last month I attended the AAC&U / Project Kaleidoscope conference “Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices.” You probably know what …
A Workshop on Leveraging Student Diversity through Crowdsourcing in the Classroom
Last night I led a workshop titled “Leveraging Diversity: The Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching.” My goal in the workshop was …
Lessons Learned by a First-Time Writing Seminar Teacher
This is final (planned) post reflecting on my experiences this fall teaching a first-year writing seminar on the history and mathematics of …
Social Pedagogies: Authentic Audiences and Student Motivation
While visiting Georgetown University last week, I participated in a discussion about social pedagogies with Randy Bass, director of the Center for …
Reflections on My Collaborative Cryptography Timeline Experiment
One of the more unusual components of my fall cryptography course was the cryptography timeline I had my students create collaboratively. Inspired …
Developing Intercultural Competency through Blogging (#lilly10)
More from the the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio… Blogs as a Unique Environment for …
Teaching about Audience Using Projects for Outside Clients (#lilly10)
Two weeks ago I attended the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio. I thought I’d share …