Active Learning

Lisa Dilling is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies Program. She plans to use NB along with Padlet in order to improve engagement and active learning opportunities in a medium sized enrollment class. Dilling completed the Fall 2015 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. Teaching and Learning Challenge The problem...

Sabahat Adil, an Assistant Professor of Arabic in Asian Languages and Civilizations, plans to implement Timeline JS into her Islamic Culture and the Iberian Peninsula Course. Adil hopes for students to use Timeline JS to be in charge of their own learning and to create their own foundation of knowledge...

David Brown, PhD, is the Department Chair in the Department for Political Science and a research associate at the Institute for Behavioral Science at CU Boulder. Gale completed the Fall 2015 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. He implemented the use of Padlet in his Political Science class in order to...

Kendra Gale, PhD, is an instructor in the Communication and Society Residential Academic Program at CU Boulder. Gale completed the Fall 2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. She introduced a social media page into her class as a mechanism for sharing and discussing interesting images in the media. Teaching and...

Does new media correlate with technological progress? That's what students investigate in Assistant Professor of English Lori Emerson's Introduction to Media Studies course. To understand the extent to which technological media has progressed over the past century, Emerson asks her students to handle old computers, typewriters, record players, etc. at...

ASSETT student staff investigated the uses of the ASSETT 3D printer that is available to CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences courses for demonstration purposes. What could you with the 3D printer? First, get ideas. Consider how you could use the ASSETT 3D printer to support students' learning. Some...

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...

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,...

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...

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...