We had the opportunity to work with several classes last semester that were using Digital Storytelling for student projects. Here are some lessons we have learned that will hopefully help facilitate any Digital Storytelling project your students might undertake: Focus on the Writing. The heart of digital stories is not in the technology tools used…
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Faculty Spotlight: Promoting Critical Thinking & Intellectual Honesty via a Hybrid Course
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of attending a Center for Teaching workshop in which Linda Enghagen, Professor in the Hospitality and Tourism Management department, presented “In Pursuit of Intellectual Honesty via a Hybrid Course Model.” People use the term “hybrid course” to refer to a variety of things classes that meet partially online and partially face-to-face. Hybrid…
Why Bother Blogging?
Blogging certainly takes time, one of the most valuable commodities to those of us in Academia. More than one instructor I’ve chatted with this semester has told me they played with setting up a blog, but “who has the time to keep it going?” That’s a hard statement to argue with, but Henry Jenkins, professor…
Faculty Spotlight: Having Students Podcast
Professor BJ Roche from the UMass Amherst Journalism Program shares her thoughts on the benefits of student-created podcasts as well as tips for other instructors considering having students podcast:
Web 2.0 Wednesday #3: Collaborating with Google Groups and Google Documents
Google provides a variety of web based tools such as email (GMail), online mapping (Google Maps), and video sharing (YouTube), but two lesser known tools are Google Groups and Google Docs which may be of particular interest to instructors looking for more ways to collaborate with students and colleagues via the web.
Journaling in SPARK
For those of you that may have missed our SPARK Community of Practice gathering on the Journaling tool; our presenters have copies of their handouts and slides that you should take a look at. Journaling can be a powerful pedagogical tool and the Journal and Discussion tools in SPARK provides one way to implement journaling…