A Case Against Class Participation Grades: Negating and Remaking Social Contracts
Here are some more thoughts inspired by Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. And, yes, …
Teaching Using Clickers and Games: Some Ideas and a Request for More
Recently, blog reader Elizabeth Lawley, who teaches game design and development at Rochester Institute of Technology, emailed me to ask if I …
Teaching with Clickers Webinar with Stephanie Chasteen, September 28th
I meant to blog about this sooner, but I’ll console myself with the tweets I sent out about it earlier. Stephanie Chasteen …
Blog Posts as Student Writing Assignments
During a recent email conversation with Jeff Nugent at Virginia Commonwealth University, Jeff pointed to a recent blog post of his about …
Hitting the Road (Part 2): Concurrent Sessions at the POD Network Conference
I’ll be heading to St. Louis in November for the POD Network 2010 conference. I’m contributing to two concurrent sessions there. Details …
Plagiarism or Not? More Clicker Questions about Academic Integrity
In my last post, I described the discussions that resulted in my first-year writing seminar from a few clicker questions on academic …
Ethical or Not? Clicker Questions about Academic Integrity
I recently described some of the components of my fall course over on my main blog. It’s a first-year writing seminar the …
My Approach to Facilitating Teaching Innovation
I was recently asked (by Stephanie Chasteen) to describe my approach to helping faculty innovate in their teaching. While I’ve been asked …
Using Cell Phones for Learning in High School
I don’t cover the K12 beat here very often since my experience and interest lies primarily with the use of classroom response …
A Social Media Blackout (Sort of)
Eric Darr is the provost at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, and he’s banning Facebook and Twitter from his campus. Well, …