Katie Oliviero uses Digital Games to Teach Social Justice

Feb. 12, 2014

Through ICED Video Game, Players Navigate Lives of Undocumented Immigrants In Katie Oliviero's Gender, Sexuality, and Migration course at CU Boulder, students navigate potential situations that undocumented immigrants may encounter in their everyday lives through the video game ICED (I Can End Deportation). Through the eyes of undocumented immigrants, players...

Silva Chang Uses Technology to Illustrate Mathematics Concepts

Feb. 5, 2014

Silva Chang projects her lessons from an iPad onto the board in Calculus classes. She works out problems in different colors, asks students questions to predict next steps, and lets them volunteer answers. Chang believes that seeing problems unfold live helps students better understand proper solving procedures. Chang says that...

Annunziata Pugliese: Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language with Technology

Jan. 27, 2014

Imagine your homework assignment is to create an original voice over for a silenced two minute segment of an Italian film. Would you know where to start? Annunziata Pugliese makes use of CU resources to stay current with technology and more effectively reach her students. She has been recognized for...

The MOOC Decision

Jan. 15, 2014

Anybody can take a MOOC but that doesn’t mean that anybody should. If you didn’t already know, MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. In this acronym, the operative word is “open” meaning that it is free to anybody. The recent increase in the number of MOOCs has opened up...

Great ASSETT Tools

Oct. 21, 2013

Aside from sponsoring SPARC, ASSETT (Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology) does a lot of other student-centered projects as well. Here are some of the neat tools that the neat people over at ASSETT have developed just for you! (Begin the shameless self-plugging, but really, these are pretty...

How to Understand Your Degree Audit

Oct. 9, 2013

We all need to understand our degree audit: it tells us what classes we have and which ones we need and keeps us from having to e-mail our advisor every other week. It can be confusing as all heck, but hopefully this little guide can help. To access your degree...

Holly Gayley: Teaching Religion through Digital Storytelling

July 29, 2013

When we introduce a new pedagogy into the college classroom, how do we know if it's working? In the field of Religious Studies, certain pedagogical approaches are considered tried and true. For example, a mainstay in teaching religion is to engage students in a close reading of a religious text,...

Preparations for Teaching Online by Kathleen Ryan

July 23, 2013

I will be teaching an online History of Documentary course this summer. It is the first time I've taught an online course and want to make sure to be able to use the technology appropriately to engage students and spur online discussions. For example, in the traditional classroom, one can...

Video Coaching in Rural Teacher Preparation by John Hoover

July 15, 2013

Project entails teacher coaching in rural Colorado serving approximately 30 educators in a large rural mountain school district. Project piloted the use of video coaching with one master teacher and one classroom teacher in an elementary school. Purpose of the pilot was test out equipment, identify potential issues with the...

Petger Schaberg: Using Technology to Teach Multimodal Persuasive Writing

July 14, 2013

I would like to help my students develop the paradoxical ability to write clear, creative, logical reasoning and evidence simultaneously with powerful emotional writing, while recognizing the interplay of visual images, video, sound, and social media—as these multimodal media influence the persuasive performance of both logical and emotional writing. Obviously...

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