Blog - Year - 2012

Mike Klymkowsky is a professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at CU and Co-Director of CU Boulder’s Science Teacher Preparation and Certification Program (CU Teach). During his Teaching with Technology presentation, he discussed the current problems facing education and the new tools available to overcome at least some of...

During the Teaching with Technology seminar series, Tim Wadsworth, an Associate Professor in CU’s department of Sociology, analyzed the effectiveness of his online courses in his presentation. The biggest challenge Dr. Wadsworth encountered was to get students engaged, especially during the summer, so he needed to find a solution to...

When you hear someone say they are dancer, immediately an image of a person performing on a stage in front of an audience appears in your head. Generally, our view of dance as an art form tends to exist within a narrow scope that is bounded within the diameters of...

David Schaal, the Lead Multimedia Instructor in Boulder’s Technology, Arts, & Media Program (T.A.M.), discussed the digital platforms he employed in his classes over the past several years to improve accountability and student participation in his Teaching with Technology presentation. Through testing various mediums to present class information, Instructor Schaal...

The intersection of technology and research come together in Personal Learning Environments (PLEs), a customized learning experience and process based on an individual’s needs. Alison Hicks, the Romance Languages Research and Instruction Librarian, discussed this innovative teaching tool during her presentation in the Teaching with Technology seminar. Personal learning environments...

Digital technology is influencing every subject within academia in numerous ways, but it is also pushing society to reinvent the art of poetry. Lori Emerson, an Assistant Professor in CU’s English Department, discussed in her Teaching with Technology presentation how technology is influencing poetry and how she presents this unique...

Associate Professor Carol McGranahan of CU’s Anthropology department discussed her experience with social media in her teaching when she presented during the Teaching with Technology seminar series. In her presentation, Dr. McGranahan assessed the impact that the use of Twitter and blogs in her classroom had on student learning. Through...

Assistant Professor Matt Koschmann is pragmatic about technology. In a presentation at the Teaching with Technology seminar, Dr. Koschmann argued that technology should never be the means to an end, but rather it should be one step in solving the entire problem. Pushing the other professors to reassess their teaching,...

Funding for Daoist studies is minimal compared to the money scholars of Buddhism receive, Terry Kleeman, an Associate Professor of Chinese in the department of Asian Languages & Civilizations, highlighted in his Teaching with Technology presentation. According to Dr. Kleeman, Buddhism is the rich kid on the Eastern Asian religion...

I recently ordered, with glee, Sifteo cubes in the hopes that I might be able to use them either in the classes I teach or perhaps add them to the Archeological Media Lab which, while largely invested in studying outdated computer hardware and software, is also broadly concerned with the...