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Heidi Wright

NEA - Higher Education Best Practices - Teaching & Learning - 0 views

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  • Getting Students to Do the Readings Few things are more frustrating to a college teacher than to begin a discussion of the readings assigned during a previous class and discover that a significant number of students haven’t done the readings. This issue’s Thriving in Academe offers encouraging news: There are classroom strategies for ensuring that students keep up with class readings—and students actually welcome them
  • Getting Students to Do the Readings
  • Helping Students Embrace Deep Learning The concept that one size fits all doesn’t have much of a place in education since we’ve begun to understand better how brains work and people learn.
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  • Teaching Context--A Map for Course Design The classes we teach don’t exist in a vacuum, argues the author of this issue’s Thriving in Academe, so it makes sense to pay attention to the world around you as you plan your semester’s work. You can create a better
  • Mentoring: Functions, Roles, and Interactions The world of academe can be a bewildering place for new faculty members. When it is, they often look to their senior colleagues for help. This time-honored practice—mentoring—has both formal and informal aspects, and, when done right, benefits both mentors and their protégés. This issue’s Thriving in Academe looks at the rewards and requirements for both parties.
  • Rethinking Expectations About Assignments It's frustrating for professors when students haven't done their out-of-class assignment. Too often, the students just don't take their homework seriously. But there's hope for frustrated professors, this issue's Thriving in Academe authors claim. Make sure your students know why the assignment is important and try to connect it to their lives.
  • Clickers in the classroom?
  • We're used to engaging students in the real world, now it's time to engage them in social online spaces like Facebook and Twitter
  • environment for learning when you consider institutional and departmental characteristics in making plans.
  • Even more important is to share control of the course with your students.
  • Heidi Wright on 19 Feb 14
     
    There are over a dozen articles to access on the home web page which pertain to teaching in higher education. Check out the topics and then read one of the articles. The article titled, Helping students embrace deeper learning" is interesting.
Robert Ferguson

Docear - 1 views

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  • Robert Ferguson on 02 Mar 14
     
    Details from website. Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management and possesses three features that you will not find anywhere else, namely a) A unique approach for organizing literature, focusing on your annotations instead of documents b) A unique approach for drafting and writing your assignments, papers, books, thesis, etc. c) A research paper recommender systems that recommends papers that are entirely free, instantly to download, and tailored to your information needs Due to these three unique features, Docear will fundamentally change your way of organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature.
Heidi Wright

Home | MIT Video - 0 views

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  • Hacking Arts: Little Sun Comes to MIT Today's spotlight video A venture in social entrepreneurship, Little Sun was created by the recipient of the 2014 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT and internationally renowned artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer ...
  • Heidi Wright on 17 Feb 14
     
    The MIT Video website aggregates and curates video produced by the Institute's offices, laboratories, centers and administration. This includes feature and editorial videos, event recordings, academic content and more. I learned about this site from my Living Book report by Curtis Bonk. Excellent resource for finding videos on a variety of topics.
vicwilburn

How to Cite Tweets in an Academic Paper - 0 views

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  • vicwilburn on 03 Mar 14
     
    MLA, APA new guidelines
Elizabeth Wyble

Help for New Professors | Advice (and humour) for early career academics… - 0 views

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  • Elizabeth Wyble on 10 Mar 14
     
    Good advice for tricky situations teaching.
Dawn Miller

Rubric Library - 1 views

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      Dawn Miller on 19 Jan 14
       
      library of rubrics - all PDF so hard to modify...
  • Peer Evaluation of Teamwork
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      Dawn Miller on 19 Jan 14
       
      peer teamwork rubric
  • Scoring Guide for Writing (June 2002)
    • Dawn Miller
      Dawn Miller on 19 Jan 14
       
      general writing rubric
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  • Scoring Guide for Critical Thinking
    • Dawn Miller
      Dawn Miller on 19 Jan 14
       
      interesting critical thinking rubric - may use items in other rubrics
  • CSB Oral Presentation Rubric  Oral Presentation Rubric
    • Dawn Miller
      Dawn Miller on 19 Jan 14
       
      both good oral rubrics - detailed with many sections to give good feedback of distinct components of presentation
Amber Boyd

How Do My Students Think: Diagnosing Student Thinking - 0 views

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  • Amber Boyd on 23 Feb 14
     
    Teachers and researchers generally refer to preinstructional knowledge as preconceptions. Pre-assessment of student academic skills and student knowledge may not accurately reflect actual pupil skill and knowledge.
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