Harvard mathematics professor, Oliver Knill, has developed a website called Mathematics in Movies that shows movie clips that include math discussions. There are no restrictions on the movie or scene type or the type of mathematics being discussed.
This blog accompanies the October 1 Afternoon Talk/Presentation/Discussion/Workshop at the University of British Columbia, and will serve as our Untalk Media and Discussion Holder.
Choose one or two documents to quickly engage students, focus classroom activity, and spark conversations. Pick from one of five modes - Discussion Topic, Spotlight, Zoom/Crop, Compare and Contrast, or White out/Black out - to frame documents and guide students as they analyze, focus on specific content, examine document details, and form hypotheses.
"Welcome to Piazza-a place where students can come together to ask, answer, and explore under the guidance of their instructor. It'll save you time, and your students will love using it. It's also free, and easy to get started."
Talking about plagiarism is as easy as apple pie. And thanks to the recent controversy surrounding an article published in Cooks Source magazine, we now have a great way to start the classroom discussion.
Welcome to MediaCommons Press, an in-development feature of MediaCommons, promoting the digital publication of texts ranging from article- to monograph-length.
Our most recent project is an open review of the essays proposed for the collection Learning Through Digital Media. We are also currently hosting a discussion of chapter 6 from Thomas Streeter's book, The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet.
If you found this page it's probably because attended one of my face-to-face Augmented Reality workshops. Listed below is a collection of materials that were discussed during the session - if you have any questions please feel free to get in touch!
The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. Read, discuss, and share ideas about teaching writing today.
People who want to improve their communication skills may one day have an unusual helper: software programs that analyze the tone, turn-taking behavior and other qualities of a conversation. The programs would then tell the speakers whether they tend to i