Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences (#gr8ideas)
And here’s the Prezi for my second presentation at Boise State, “Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences.” (Note: One reason I …
More Than Just Shiny Objects (#gr8ideas)
I’m just about to deliver a keynote at Boise State’s Great Ideas for Teaching and Learning Symposium. The talk is titled “More …
Tips for Reading Your Mathematics Textbook
Here’s a list of tips I gave my students years ago (while teaching at Harvard) for reading their textbooks. Someone asked me …
ICYMI 2012
Since it’s the last day of 2012, I thought I would take a quick look back at the year here on the …
Creative Teaching with PowerPoint and Prezi (#VizLearning12 Recap Part 4)
My nine-year-old tells me that we’re scheduled for a zombie apocalypse today, so I thought I would go ahead and wrap up …
Thinking about MOOCs: A Link Round-Up
As part of Vanderbilt’s Coursera partnership, I’ve been working this fall to help the half-dozen Coursera faculty here design and build their …
Highlights from Carleton College’s Visual Learning Conference (Part 3)
Carleton College’s Visual Learning Conference was one of the most interesting and unusual conferences I’ve attended. As I noted in my first …
Social Pedagogies at #POD12
I’m giving a talk today at the POD Network conference in Seattle titled “Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences.” Here’s the …
Better Than a Textbook?
As I’ve been talking with faculty here on campus about the Coursera initiative, I’ve discovered that I can often turn skeptics of …
Highlights from Carleton College’s Visual Learning Conference (Part 2)
In my first post on Carleton College’s Visual Learning Conference, I shared a few highlights from the opening keynote by Scott McCloud …