Tabletop Games, Systems Thinking, and the 1927 Mississippi Flood
The other week I had the chance to play Rising Waters with my colleagues at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and …
Gene Editing, Twine, and Counterfactual Games (#LearningatPlay)
Learning at Play was a one-day symposium on games for learning and social change held at Vanderbilt University on November 8, 2019. …
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 …
A Few Favorite Blogs about (Educational) Technology
The other day, I shared a few of my favorite teaching blogs. Today, some blogs about technology, mostly in the service of …
A Few Favorite Blogs about Teaching
A tool we use at the center to improve our ability to work together is StrengthsFinder, a research-based tool for identifying one’s …
Article: Higdon et al. (2011) – Word Clouds for Free-Response Questions (#EDUSprint)
Reference: Higdon, J., Reyerson, K., McFadden, C., & Mummey, K. (2011). Twitter, Wordle, and ChimeIn as student response pedagogies. EDUCAUSE Quarterly 34(1). …
Teaching with Maps – Lessons from “The Back of the Napkin”
Continuing a series of posts on Dan Roam’s The Back of the Napkin… Roam has a fairly expansive definition of map, one …
Can Clickers Promote Collaboration and Creativity?
Wesley Fryer, on his “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” blog, recently argued that clickers shouldn’t be put in the same basket …
Ho’od Win? Vikings vs. Samurai – Clickers and Counterfactual Thinking
On his “Old is the New New” blog, Rob MacDougall recently argued that the question “If a viking and a samurai fought, …
Numeric Response Questions in History Courses
Maybe this is obvious to others, but I hadn’t thought of this particular use of numeric-response clicker questions, shared with me by …