Show and Tell: Using Visual Thinking in the Classroom
Our brains are wired to rapidly make sense of and remember visual input. How might we tap into our students’ ability to …
Student Tweets about Clickers (weekly)
Twitter “@livlykmike emike ikhanoba Who the hell thot it was okay to use diff clikers in diff class…now I have 3 diff …
Student Perceptions of Learning Goals – More from My Course Evals
Yesterday I blogged about the challenge of setting appropriate grading standards in my first-year cryptography course. Today, I’d like to follow up …
Tough Questions about Grading Standards
I’ve spent some time today reading carefully through my end-of-course student evaluations for my fall cryptography seminar. Our course evals are online …
Imagination + Private Universes + Expectations + Motivation + Visual Meetings
Okay, so I didn’t finish David Sibbet’s new book Visual Meetings over winter break. But I did read a couple of chapters! …
Student Tweets about Clickers (weekly)
Twitter “@realalicelin Alice Lin Everytime I forget my iClicker the prof always asks extra clicker questions” tags: stac Twitter “@EGMerritt Elizabeth Merritt …
Upcoming Webinars on Clickers from Stephanie Chasteen
My colleague Stephanie Chasteen (@sciencegeekgirl) is leading two free webinars on teaching with clickers in the coming weeks. Stephanie knows her stuff, …
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 …
Student Tweets about Clickers (weekly)
Twitter “@Mz_ChinkyEyes jamayca cole Sitting in my first and last class of the day…omg I forgot my clicker n it’s to cold …
Social Bookmarking with Diigo
As I’ve mentioned here before, I see social bookmarking as a valuable tool for Involving students in surfacing relevant course content we …