Giorgio Corda

Congratulations, Giorgio Corda!

April 24, 2017

Each year ASSETT recognizes a faculty member with exceptional teaching qualities with an Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award. This year’s award winner, Giorgio Corda, was nominated by his peers for excelling in classroom instruction with technology. ASSETT recognized Giorgio, an Instructor in French and Italian, as this year’s winner...

Hybrid French Language Course Development

Aug. 10, 2015

CU Boulder French language Graduate Part Time Instructors (GPTIs) taught hybrid French language courses this past spring thanks to ASSETT -funded training. The combination of online and in-classroom teaching methods can benefit undergraduate students who are enrolled in foreign language courses. The Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities and...

GoAnimate4school: Corda's Students Practice Speaking Italian After Class

June 5, 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...

Alina Van Nelson's French Students Upload Presentations to VoiceThread

March 17, 2015

French Instructor Alina Van Nelson completed the Fall 2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology seminar. Van Nelson implemented a new assessment approach to give students more opportunities to show what they learned. She created a Google Site for her class to upload written work . She also asked her students to...

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...

Students Nominate Michela Ardizzoni for ASSETT Teaching with Technology Award

July 16, 2014

"Seeing is believing, and Professoressa Ardizzoni is able to express this succinctly through the use of documentaries and visual aids." Students nominated Dr. Michela Ardizzoni for a Fall 2013 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Award for her teaching of Italian 4990: Multiculturalism in Italy. A student also wrote in Ardizzoni's nomination...

Michela Ardizzoni Encourages Students to Create Websites Instead of Research Papers

June 10, 2014

Dr. Michela Ardizzoni of the Department of French and Italian encouraged her students to create websites to share information with local schools. See her padlet of her students' work here . Teaching and Learning Challenge In the Spring of 2014, I taught a new course on documentary and social change...

Faculty Learn from Teaching with Technology Seminar

May 20, 2014

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...

French Again!: Review French at your own pace

Sept. 8, 2010

Learning French can require a lot of time and effort. For many students, proceeding to a higher level requires build on the knowledge that they have already acquired. Juliette Bourdier, a doctoral candidate at CU Boulder and Carmen Grace, a faculty member of French and Italian Department at CU, hope...