In-Class Ecological Footprint Data Visualization Challenge
Yesterday’s Math 216 activity brought together several of my favorite teaching ideas: challenge cycles, visual thinking, and mobile learning. We’re starting our …
Shakespeak, a BYOD Classroom Response System
Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) class response systems seem to be popping up left and right these days. BYOD systems are ones in which students …
When Statistics Is Like a Wedding
Today was the first day of spring classes here, and I’m back in the classroom after 12 months of doing other things. …
Building a Better Backchannel
People often ask me, How do you have time to blog? Today’s posts offer one answer to that question. Here’s another post …
Prezi: Substance and Style
There’s been some discussion on a math listserv to which I belong about the merits of Prezi as a presentation tool. The …
Teaching with Clickers for Deep Learning
I’m speaking at Mississippi State University today on teaching with clickers for deep learning. Here’s my Prezi from today’s presentation: Teaching with …
Social Pedagogies as a Framework for Online Learning
“A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network” is the title of my essay appearing in the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s special …
Mobile Learning on the Big Stage (#PODHBCU)
A couple of weeks before the POD Network / HBCU Faculty Development Network joint conference, POD Network president Phyllis Dawkins of Dillard …
Course Blogs in the Sciences (#CIRTLForum)
One of the examples Gardner Campbell shared in his keynote at the CIRTL Network Forum the other night was a course blog …
Learning-through-Diversity at the #CIRTLForum
I’m facilitating a workshop on learning-through-diversity at the CIRTL Network Forum later today. The workshop is titled “Leveraging Diversity: The Wisdom of …