Active Learning
- The Department of Communication and Media Studies's Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies Peter Simonson attended ASSETT's Teaching with Technology Seminar this past spring. Simonson designed an eight week conversation module
- Stephanie Mollborn, Associate Professor of the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Sociology Department, participated in ASSETT's Fall 2014 Teaching with Technology Seminar. She redesigned her course to cover general research methods. Watch her
- High tech devices fly high when it comes to archaeological mapping. Professor Gerardo Gutierrez of the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Anthropology Department has found that the right technology can free up hours of work for the archaeologist.
- Tweet for homework? This spring, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· students nominated Sociology graduate student Amanda Tyler for an ASSETT Outstanding Teaching with Technology Award for her teaching of Sociology 2044, Crime and Society. One student wrote
- "Visuals are important," says ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· History Professor Marcia Yonemoto. Yonemoto includes maps and photographs of woodblock art and historic Japanese architecture in her PowerPoint lectures about Japanese history. This
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Anthropology instructor Inga Calvin engages first year students with the research tool Zotero in Anthropology 1190, Origins of Civilization. She participated in the ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. Teaching and
- Sociology graduate student Zachary Owens has taught at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· for seven years, and this past spring was his first time teaching an online course. Owens's online students nominated him for an
- In preparing for a lecture about dueling Nordic poets, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum was reminded of a modern rap battle. Not one to miss an opportunity to reach his students, Teitelbaum searched for and found a
- Imagine that as you walk into your freshman year introductory science lecture hall, you hear your professor playing music. Dr. David Brain of the Astrophysics Department at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· says that before each Astronomy 1000
- Do most of your students bring their computers to class already? Perfect; keep your students engaged in class by creating Padlet.com discussion boards! Create a virtual sticky note / cork board