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Martin's Online Communities Promote Better In-Class Discussions in International Affairs Courses

May 24, 2016

Contributed by albyantoniazzi at Flickr Creative Commons. Dr. Jessica Martin wants to hear what her students think. Martin, CU Boulder Instructor of International Affairs, creates class Tumblr and Facebook pages for her students to build community and discuss current events relating to their courses--whether post-Cold War politics, the September 11...

Gale's RAP Students Shared Visual Literacy Images Via Social Media

June 24, 2015

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...

Storify Curated Social Media Conversations in Albert's Writing Class

June 11, 2015

PWR Instructor Michelle Albert Michelle Albert, a Senior Instructor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric, implemented Storify into her First-Year Writing and Rhetoric Class. Albert hoped that when students tracked the threads of their social media conversations using Storify, they would be able to visualize the developments of their...

Upping Conversational Interactions Through Twitter In Simonson's Communication Course

May 6, 2015

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 Grad Students Teach with Technology

Dec. 10, 2014

Three CU Boulder Grad Students Talk to ASSETT about Teaching with Technology Graduate students at CU Boulder have gone above and beyond to incorporate technology into their teaching. Josh LePree of the Sociology Department uses Twitter and Voicethread to encourage students to share their thoughts about class topics outside of...

Tweeting in Tyler's Crime and Society Courses

Aug. 28, 2014

Tweet for homework? This spring, CU Boulder students nominated Sociology graduate student Amanda Tyler for an ASSETT Outstanding Teaching with Technology Award for her teaching of Sociology 2044, Crime and Society. One student wrote, "We used both Clickers and Twitter to enhance learning and incorporate current events into the curriculum."...

Williams's Students Create Tumblr Pages

Aug. 15, 2014

CU Boulder Ethnic Studies Assistant Professor Bianca Williams encouraged her students to use Tumblr to archive the cultural multimedia that they found in their research. Teaching and Learning Challenge One of the gifts and strengths of teaching Africana Studies and Anthropology courses is the opportunity to have students connect the...

Students Nominated Allison Rowland for an ASSETT Teaching with Technology Award

July 3, 2014

".. the art of speaking and writing well ..." CU Boulder PhD Candidate Allison Rowland has given some thought to teaching effective rhetoric. Students nominated Rowland for an ASSETT Teaching with Technology Award last year for her teaching of an upper division writing class with the topic of the War...

Hearing Students' Voices Through Twitter and Voicethread in Josh LePree's Sociology Courses

June 25, 2014

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...

Jen Lewon Builds Student Community in Distance-Learning Courses

April 25, 2014

Jen Lewon uses social media to build student community in distance-learning course. Teaching and Learning Challenge The Speech Language Pathology Prerequisites (SLPP) program is a distance-learning leveling coursework program in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. Many of the SLPP students live in areas where they cannot access traditional (on-campus) undergraduate...

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