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teaching innovations at vanderbilt: danielle picard, mary anne caton and wikipedia editing
dec. 15, 2019—by faith rovenolt, cft undergraduate intern we’ve all been told—or been the one telling people—to not use wikipedia as a source. there’s a variety of reasons, of course, with the main one being the credibility of the information. wikipedia is aware of this and has made a series of changes aimed at rectifying this. their...
is your gradebook ready for the end of the semester?
dec. 10, 2019—the end of the semester is coming up quickly! is your brightspace gradebook set up correctly? while you are certainly not required to use the brightspace grades tool to track your students’ grades, it can be a big help. especially if you are using brightspace to collect assignments or giving quizzes and exams. tips for...
celebration of learning 2020: an exhibition of students as producers
dec. 6, 2019—on february 13, 2020, the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 will hold a celebration of learning, an exhibition of students as producers. the event will feature students from all over campus sharing what they have learned, created, designed, and discovered, providing the vanderbilt community with a picture of deep learning across the colleges and schools. we are inviting faculty...
leading lines podcast featuring ian bogost
dec. 5, 2019—bogost is the ivan allen college distinguished chair in media studies and professor of interactive computing at the george institute of technology. he’s an author of multiple books, an award-winning game designer, and a contributing writer at the atlantic. ian studies games by making games and is an incredibly deep thinker about an impressively broad...
teaching writing workshop series: scaffolding writing across the semester
dec. 4, 2019—over the course of the academic year, the writing studio leads a series of faculty workshops focused on different aspects of teaching writing. workshops provide participants with current research, strategies for best practices, and a forum for discussing how these approaches might be adapted to teaching writing in their disciplines. the teaching writing workshop series...
teaching innovations at vanderbilt: mckanders and refugee policy podcasts
dec. 2, 2019—by faith rovenolt, cft undergraduate intern in the spring of last year, three students from professor karla mckanders’s law 7620: refugee law and policy course contributed podcasts to the life of the law blog new voices series. this amazing opportunity for students came about from a final project for the course. the course focuses on the...
biological sciences seminar: improving student learning through understanding reasoning and problem-solving practices
nov. 26, 2019—join the biological sciences department on monday, december 2, 3:30-5:15, to consider different teaching practices as part of their ongoing seminar series. undergraduate learning assistants will present posters on questions such as, “which clicker questions promote the most discussion?” during tea time from 3:30-4:10, followed by professor jenny knight’s seminar. professor knight writes, “classroom practices...