On ChatGPT, Boilerplate, and Ghost Writing
Last week, the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College sent an email to students in response to …
Chatbot as Audience: A Conversation with Chad
After weeks of reading about other college educators having conversations with ChatGPT, the new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot from OpenAI that uses …
A Bigger, Badder Clippy: Enhancing Student Learning with AI Writing Tools
On December 15th, educator and futurist Bryan Alexander hosted an edition of his Future Trends Forum focused on ChatGPT and other AI …
Three Things to Know about AI Tools and Teaching
Everywhere I look online these days, I see educators talking about the challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to teaching and learning. …
Best Season Yet of VandyVox?
Back in 2018, I talked with half a dozen faculty at Vanderbilt who were adding podcast or other audio assignments to their …
A Few #POD22 Takeaways
I couldn’t make it to Seattle this year for the POD Network conference, but I was grateful for all the hard work …
A Philosophy of Faculty Development
As I reflect over my years in faculty development and think through the next steps in my career, I’ve realized it might …
How Does the Fourth Season of a Course Podcast Work?
Asking my first-year writing students to create short audio pieces in lieu of written essays was a bit of a gamble the …
Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Leading Lines Podcast
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog… Five years ago, I pitched the idea of a podcast about educational technology to …
Asynchronous Active Learning with Perusall
After spending most of 2020 helping faculty and other instructors prepare to teach in online and hybrid contexts, I had the chance …