Presentation Technologies

In preparing for a lecture about dueling Nordic poets, CU Boulder Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum was reminded of a modern rap battle. Not one to miss an opportunity to reach his students, Teitelbaum searched for and found a (French) rap battle to play for his Scandinavian Studies class. Such an entertaining...

A white background with black bullet points or musical transitions between colorful slides? CU Boulder Department of Communication Professor Matt Koschmann achieves a delicate balance between both styles of PowerPoint presentations. Students nominated Koschmann for the Fall 2013 ASSETT Outstanding Teaching with Technology Award for his teaching of Communication 4600...

Imagine that as you walk into your freshman year introductory science lecture hall, you hear your professor playing music. Dr. David Brain of the Astrophysics Department at CU Boulder says that before each Astronomy 1000 The Solar System class session, he plays, "Snippets of three songs." Brain says that the...

Josh LePree has a vision for teaching that transcends the classroom: "[I want] to create a seamless environment for class [so that] ... it seems like there's no break between [class and homework]," says LePree. He is a Sociology PhD student at CU Boulder and has been teaching at the...

Vanessa Schatz strongly believes that college coursework should directly prepare students for the work place. Schatz, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication at CU Boulder, recognizes how important it is for students to build transferable skills in college so that they will become competitive job applicants after graduation. Last...

Watch this video of Dr. Deserai Crow reflecting on pedagogy and her use of Google Drive for in-class group work in large Environmental Studies lectures. Teaching and Learning Challenge Beginning in fall semester 2013, I began to teach much larger lectures than I had previously taught. This was in part...

"I wake up in the morning, and I can't wait to come to work," says Dr. Stephen Mojzsis of the Geological Sciences Department at CU Boulder. Mojzsis takes interest in his students and now even collaborates on the research level with some former students from past introductory geology courses. Mojzsis...

Faculty members Giorgio Corda, Dave Rickels, Holly Gayley, Janet Casagrand, Elena Kostoglodova, and Jen Lewon participated in both the Teaching with Technology Faculty Seminar and the Hybrid and Online Course Design Seminars this past 2013-2014 academic year. These faculty presented at the Second Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium at...

Photo Courtesy of Popturf.com at Flickr Creative Commons Students do more than just kick back and watch movies in Dr. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz’s film courses. Acevedo-Muñoz makes sure he both gives thoughtful lectures and offers students the opportunities to work with the best in film technology. Students nominated him for the...

I would like to help my students develop the paradoxical ability to write clear, creative, logical reasoning and evidence simultaneously with powerful emotional writing, while recognizing the interplay of visual images, video, sound, and social media—as these multimodal media influence the persuasive performance of both logical and emotional writing. Obviously...