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teaching with blogs: a leading lines interview with humberto garcia

aug. 15, 2017—by derek bruff, cft director i’m happy to announce the start of season 3 of leading lines, a podcast on educational technology co-produced by the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分. our new season launches with an interview with humberto garcia, associate professor of english at the university of california at merced. i met humberto several years ago...

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listen to the leading lines podcast with william pannapacker

apr. 17, 2017—in the latest episode of the leading lines podcast stacey m. johnson interviews william pannapacker, dumez professor of english and senior director of the mellon grand challenges presidential initiative at hope college in michigan. pannapacker is a walt whitman scholar, and a proponent and supporter of the digital liberal arts. in the interview, he talks about...

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leading lines episode 7: video games, history, and students as producers

nov. 7, 2016—by derek bruff, cft director in our latest leading lines episode, we feature an interview with vanderbilt’s lynn ramey, associate professor of french. lynn is the author of multiple books and essays, including most recently black legacies: ‘race’ and the european middle ages.  lynn is currently engaged in several ambitious digital projects exploring the use...

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leading lines episode 5: digital textbooks and language instruction

oct. 3, 2016—by derek bruff, cft director in our latest leading lines episode, we feature an interview with lee forester, professor of german at hope college, and bill vanpatten, professor of spanish and second language studies at michigan state university. the cft’s stacey m. johnson, assistant director for educational technology, sat down with forester and vanpatten at...

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leading lines episode 4: jeff rice, university of kentucky

sep. 19, 2016—by derek bruff, cft director our latest episode of leading lines is out today. in this episode, we feature an interview with jeff rice, inaugural chair of the department of writing, rhetoric & digital studies (wrd) at the university of kentucky.  rice also holds the martha b. reynolds chair in writing, rhetoric & digital studies,...

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leading lines episode 2: corbette doyle, 瑞士vs喀麦隆走地

aug. 15, 2016—by derek bruff, cft director i’m excited to share the second episode of our new educational technology podcast, leading lines. when my colleagues and i started brainstorming ideas for a new educational technology podcast, we knew we wanted to include vanderbilt instructors who use technology in innovative ways.  we talk to colleagues regularly who impress...

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cirtl network development opportunities

feb. 5, 2014—the center for the integration of research, teaching, and learning (cirtl) is an nsf center for learning and teaching in higher education. cirtl uses graduate education as the leverage point to develop a national stem faculty committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching practices for diverse student audiences as part of successful professional careers. cirtl...

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episode 41 – from a student’s view: axle writing requirements part ii

jul. 12, 2013—in this second installment of a two-part podcast, our cft student reporter, erin baldwin, hears thoughts from two vanderbilt juniors about the achieving excellence in liberal education core curriculum (more commonly referred to as the axle requirements) that all students in the college of arts and science must fulfill. //www.imrbdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/59/cftpodcast/ep41_axle2.mp3 [mp3, 9 min 17 sec]...

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episode 40 – from a student’s view: axle writing requirements

mar. 21, 2013—in this first installment of a two-part podcast, our cft student reporter, erin baldwin, hears thoughts from a vanderbilt junior about the achieving excellence in liberal education core curriculum (more commonly referred to as the axle requirements) that all students in the college of arts and science must fulfill. //www.imrbdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/59/cftpodcast/ep40_axle1.mp3 [mp3, 6 min 30 sec]...

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episode 39 – student learning on display: vanderbilt theater from 1940s to 1960s

nov. 6, 2012—in this episode, cft director, derek bruff, attends a student poster session where he talks with vanderbilt student sam mallick about how he spent the summer exploring the university’s collection of papers from joseph e. wright‘s tenure as director of the vanderbilt theatre. sam participated in the vanderbilt undergraduate summer research program (vusrp). //www.imrbdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/59/cftpodcast/ep41_axle2.mp3 [mp3,...

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