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Recently, ASSETT recognized teachers that displayed excellence in Teaching with Technology. Students were given the opportunity to nominate teachers whom they believe integrate and use technology in creative ways to enhance the classroom. Krystal McMillen of the English department said that when she was informed she had received the award,...

A student in the back of the lecture hall leans forward in her seat. A shy freshman raises his hand for the first time. Heads nod. Eyes brighten. The pace of note taking quickens. As a teacher, these small indications that students are engaged can be exhilarating, and no one...

I would like to teach my visual art students how to use digital storytelling in order to 1) learn how to use narrative as a form of persuasion 2) how language is not “fixed” but always interacting with other media—sound and visuals 3) to have them discover a more powerful...

I came to TWT with a two-fold objective: a) to learn how to teach with technology for creative, embodied, human-centered subjects such as Performance and Directing and b) to devise a syllabus for an Interdisciplinary Creativity course. My idea is to incorporate technology in creative-type classes by allowing the students...

Image of Fiber Tracts from Heisler's PowerPoint slides https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/aboutUs/index.php “A lot of students come in thinking that anatomy is all about memorization,” says CU Professor Ruth Heisler as she clicks through a series of animated slides that illustrate the structure of the brain with gradually increasing detail. “But it doesn’t...

"It was tucked into the last page of the second to the last diary," says Patrick Mulcrone, CU's newly hired Digital Imaging Technologist. For weeks, he and his student employees had been painstakingly scanning and digitizing hundreds of diary entries written by the American general William Carey Brown, dating back...

A college dormitory might not be the first place you would expect to find a large-scale model of the solar system, but inside CU's Andrews Residential Hall, planets orbit slowly around a bright orange sun. Built by Engineering Honors students during the 2011 – 2012 academic year, "The Grand Orrery"...

Just as a recap: I am teaching my visual art students how to use digital storytelling in order to 1) learn how to use narrative as a form of persuasion 2) how language is not “fixed” but always interacting with other media—sound and visuals 3) to have them discover a...

Ever since the first symbols were scratched into Sumerian clay, writing has been a coveted skill. Until recently, this meant teaching students how to produce coherent handwritten essays for an audience that was hungry for information and patient enough to read a lengthy article in order to acquire it. Of...

photo of Nathan Wheeler/ Photo by Marty Caivano At first, it is dark. Then, once my eyes begin to adjust, I notice the movement of tiny lights across the walls and ceiling. Disoriented, I make my way toward a dark enclosure in the center of the room and realize that...