‘top hat’
upcoming workshop: teaching with top hat
aug. 10, 2021—date: thursday, august 12th time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm location: zoom facilitator: rhett mcdaniel, cft assistant director guest faculty: jesse blocher, associate professor of the practice of data science and finance in this session you’ll hear about top hat, vanderbilt’s student polling application. top hat allows you to ask multiple question types, receive responses, and generate discussions with real-time feedback...
upcoming workshop: teaching with top hat: interactive textbooks
jan. 13, 2021—come explore some advanced features of top hat and learn about how you can host your e-textbook on top hat. during this session, natalie sela from top hat will show you how you can author your own e-textbook for your course and also make it available to others using top hat’s content marketplace. facilitator: natalie sela date: thursday, january...
upcoming workshop: teaching with top hat: synchronous & asynchronous strategies
jan. 12, 2021—the folks at top hat have identified specific strategies to build community and engage students in online and hybrid courses. erin vaianisi from top hat will share ideas about how best to incorporate top hat into your class, demonstrate the platform’s newest features, and answer your questions. if you are simply interested in learning more about top...
take advantage of our last top hat virtual office hour before classes start!
aug. 15, 2019—interested in learning more about the new and advanced features of top hat? are you using top hat but have some questions regarding your specific use case? get help and answers about top hat during our virtual open office hour session. during these open sessions, you set the agenda! quintin peirce from top hat will...
get help and answers to you top hat questions during our virtual office hours
aug. 14, 2019—interested in learning more about the new and advanced features of top hat? are you using top hat but have some questions regarding your specific use case? get help and answers about top hat during one of our virtual open office hour sessions. during these open sessions, you set the agenda! quintin peirce from top...
top hat week is here!
jan. 28, 2019—by derek bruff, cft director it’s top hat week at vanderbilt! what does that mean? well, we’re encouraging everyone teaching a class at vanderbilt this week to try top hat, vanderbilt’s in-class polling system. you can use top hat to pose a multiple-choice or free-response question to your students and have them respond using their...
top hat week begins jan. 28th!
jan. 13, 2019—are you interested in new ways to engage your students during class? top hat is vanderbilt’s classroom response system, available for free to all faculty, staff, and students. using top hat, instructors can pose polling questions and ask all their students to respond using their phones or laptops. top hat quickly collects and visualizes student...
from the director
jan. 9, 2019—happy new year! we have a busy semester planned at the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分, with lots of opportunities for the vanderbilt teaching community to reflect on their teaching, to connect with colleagues, and to be inspired. here are just a few highlights… on february 4th, the cft will hold a celebration of learning, an exhibition...
vanderbilt’s ed tech podcast kicks-off fourth season
aug. 19, 2018—in this episode, we hear from bryan dewsbury, assistant professor of biological sciences at the university of rhode island. he’s incredibly passionate about student success, and he uses technology in ways that are fully supportive of his pedagogical goals. his approach to teaching introductory biology isn’t the typical one, and we are glad to have...
your top hat questions answered!
nov. 5, 2017—now that you’ve had an opportunity to use top hat in your class, you may have additional questions to which you’d like to get an answer. in this session, kara dingboom, the vanderbilt enterprise account manager, will field questions from the group, share some best practices that will help making your use of top hat...