Blog - Year - 2015

Italian Instructor Giorgio Corda Presents at the ASSETT 2015 Teaching Symposium Giorgio Corda, CU Boulder Italian Language Instructor, enrolled in the CU ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar in Fall 2014. With the support of the ASSETT Seminar, Corda made a plan to incorporate GoAnimate4school virtual conversation activities into several Italian...

Lonni Pearce, PhD is the Associate Director for First Year Writing at the Program for Writing and Rhetoric. Pearce implemented Prezi as a tool for students to visualize how their writing progresses. Listen to description of project (MP3) Teaching and Learning Challenge Information Travels: Students Mapping Research in a First‐Year...

Scott Spanbauer in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department implemented Groupboard Virtual Whiteboard to connect with long distance students. Teaching and Learning Challenge My language teaching techniques are based are the communicative process--­­how human beings negotiate interpersonal communication through speaking, listening, reading and writing, and through this negotiation process,...

Theatre and Dance Associate Professor Chip Persons implemented DocuSign to support Bachelor of Fine Arts students' development of professional portfolios. Teaching and Learning Challenge Pedagogical Problem or Opportunity I teach in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Performance in the Department of Theatre & Dance. This is a conservatory­-style...

German Language Instructor Berit Jany's students use VoiceThread to fulfill, "I can..." requirements for German Language class. Jany developed her ideas through ASSETT's Spring 2015 Teaching with Technology Seminar. Teaching and Learning Challenge In the German language classroom, we are concerned about our students’ progress in developing all four language...

CU Boulder Women and Gender Studies students tell women's stories with equipment purchased through ASSETT Development Awards. Associate Professor Celeste Montoya's Spring 2015 senior colloquium class created the Feminists of the Front Range project. Montoya's students recorded interviews with self-identified feminists in the Boulder area. Montoya said that students, ".....

The Department of Communication and Media Studies's Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies Peter Simonson attended ASSETT's Teaching with Technology Seminar this past spring. Simonson designed an eight week conversation module across an online “civic commons” through D2L and a Wordpress site. He encouraged student engagement with Twitter conversations about the...

CU Boulder Department of English Instructor Jason Gladstone enrolled in ASSETT's Spring 2015 Teaching with Technology Seminar to learn how to better support his students' engagement with texts in their Contemporary Environmental Literature and Media course. Gladstone created a Digital Commons space in Wordpress for his students to explicate various...

At the Third Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium in April, ASSETT staff awarded the 2015 Teaching with Technology Award. ASSETT recognizes Kim as an exceptional educator with a demonstrated commitment to improving the undergraduate student experience. ASSETT Teaching with Technology Consultant Jacie Moriyama spoke about how he has effectively...

Jim Groom Presents at the 2015 ASSETT Teaching with Tech Symposium "Digital Agency in the 21st Century," was the theme at the Third Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium in April. The Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and Adjunct Professor at the University of Mary Washington,...