Timelines, EdTech, and Thin Slices of Student Learning
This year the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching is hosting a few educational technology working groups for faculty, staff, and students interested in …
Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking
Back in 2012, I wrote a few posts for the CIRTL Network on teaching with technology. Some of the technologies mentioned have …
Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking
I have a new guest post over on the CIRTL Network website: “Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking.” Here’s an excerpt: As …
Diigo Versus Pinterest: The Student Perspective
Last month, I blogged about the choice I gave my statistics students between using Diigo and Pinterest for the social bookmarking assignments …
A Crowdsourced Rubric for Evaluating Infographics
I’m teaching a statistics course this spring. It’s the fourth time I’ve taught this course, and, in an effort to make it …
Pinterest, Gender, and Platform Selection
Last week, I had the pleasure of guest teaching in a digital humanities graduate course in the French department. The course is …
Revolution or Evolution? Technology and Higher Ed
I’m on a committee charged by my university’s chancellor to explore how my university can use digital tools to enhance our teaching, …
Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences
I led a workshop on social pedagogies, with a focus on social media tools that support such pedagogies, at Elon University this …
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. …
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 …