Making Summer Work - 1 views
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Alex Alderman on 10 Apr 17Professors share their tips making summer break plans for productivity and peace of mind.
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Summertime and the Learning is Easy - 0 views
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Might be some interesting questions for advisees or majors (or colleagues or yourself) in this podcast. What did you reflect on this summer? In between courses, can you see how they relate?
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything - 0 views
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It seems like everyone I talk to has well more than 3 months' worth of "summer projects." We talk about our overstuffed schedules. We even complain about depth vs. breadth and "coverage" in our courses and majors. Maybe the summer's not a bad time to consider a little productive surrender.
Digital Literacy - Then and Now - 0 views
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Terrific podcast interview with Bryan Alexander, looking largely at digital literacies and students as creators. Bryan will give a workshop on digital storytelling at Kenyon this summer; contact Joe Murphy for details.
Giving a great presentation: some tips and advice - 0 views
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Bryan Alexander has an excellent, extensive list of terrific tips for public speaking. I particularly like the way he breaks down the stages of preparation and giving a talk. Might be a useful tip sheet for students - or as we enter summer conference season!
What the best college teachers do - Podcast with Ken Bain - 1 views
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We're having a series of book club meetings (and a book club blog) on Ken Bain's book this summer. This interview is particularly interesting for the way Bain expands on his thinking since the book was published.
ILiADS- the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship - 0 views
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In the summer of 2015, from July 26 to August 2, a partnership of 23 liberal arts institutions will host ILiADS, the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship, at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. ILiADS offers participants two ways to engage the community of liberal arts practitioners and pedagogues: a team- and project-based approach and a more traditional conference structure.
Why Teachers Are So Tired - 0 views
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Are you getting enough rest this summer? Are there decisions and worries you can deal with now so they don't wear you out next fall?
Strategies to help improve the quality and quantity of summer writing - 0 views
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"instead of dog-paddling toward your writing goals, take the time to master the mechanics of the process. Getting intimately familiar with your writing process can make writing not only more efficient but also more enjoyable."
As Summer Sets In, a Chance to Regard the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Student Evaluations - 0 views
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An overview of course evaluations, from the sadly ignorant to the painfully accurate, with some consideration on how to improve student responses and make better use of them.
What Worked, What Didn't: Course Reflection for the End of the Semester - 0 views
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It may be a little late for this, but tomorrow it will be even later. Take a relaxed summer moment to jot down some reflections for your future self.
Strategies for dealing with feeling isolated in academe - 0 views
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Some tips about managing feelings of isolation--even more important now that classes have ended. If you are interested in connecting with other faculty this summer, the CIP is hosting a Summer Writing Group as well as book clubs and workshops.
For these colleges, online is still new - 0 views
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News article about an online calculus class to be offered this summer by Macalester and St. Olaf.
Social Innovation and Civic Engagement: Toward a Shared Future? - 0 views
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Lots of good thoughts in this issue of AAC&U's _Diversity & Democracy_ about different ways students can work in and with off-campus communities.
A Moodle 2 version of the Moodle Tool Guide - 1 views
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This chart provides an interesting way of thinking about the tools included in Moodle - for each tool it briefly describes what it is, how hard it is to set up, and whether you can transfer information, assess performance, communicate, or co-create in it. We will be upgrading to Moodle 2 this summer.
Textbook Arbitrage - 0 views
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An episode of the Planet Money podcast relating to textbook costs and the second-hand market. Every summer, there's a surplus of textbooks, and every fall, there's a spike in demand. That's an opportunity for someone with a storage locker to make money. Getting your textbook orders in early helps fix that flaw in the market...
Heat Making You Lethargic? Research Shows It Can Slow Your Brain, Too - 1 views
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Not making the progress you wanted on your summer projects? Blame the weather. (Or better still, account for it.)
Community Days of Learning: Building Capacity for Challenging Conversations - 0 views
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Bryn Mawr hosts an annual "Community Day of Learning", with programming determined in a highly democratic manner across all areas of the college, to discuss issues of equity and inclusion.
Should Teachers Know the Basic Science of How Children Learn? - 0 views
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Useful framework for identifying "empirical generalizations", "theoretical statements", and "epistemic assumptions" when we look at the literature on learning, and thinking about how they might be more or less applicable to our work.
Seven Teacher-Tested Ways to Find Renewal During Distance Learning - 1 views
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How are you recharging? If the summer lets you recharge differently, how can you bring some of that forward with you?
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