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"I don't think it's my job to make students come to class," says Dr. Ingrid Ulbrich, chemistry instructor at CU Boulder. Nor does she think it important to take attendance, though she cares deeply about her student's success. During the spring and summer of 2012, Dr. Ulbrich used Lecture Capture...

Whether we are standing, walking or running, the force we exert on the ground mediates all our bodily movements. Measuring this force was a considerably difficult process, but now an easier and cheaper system exists through employing a Nintendo Wii Balance Board. Alaa Ahmed, an Assistant Professor in the department...

"I've been gaming since I was a little kid", brags Trent Begin, a TTA at ASSETT. "Well I was playing Flight Simulator", says TTA Casey Zahorik, pausing dramatically as he leans back in his swivel chair, when I was three years old . Grant Matheny, ASSETT's technical director, laughs and...

“You’re doing it right when you’re playing,” says Dr. Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin. This may seem like a strange statement to make in an upper-level class where students use complex technology and challenging archival material to re-imagine the 1901 New York World’s Fair on stage. Yet, Dr. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin’s Spring 2012...

What does it mean to live in Boulder? Using video cameras and audio recorders, a group of graduate students in Dr. Jennifer Shannon’s “Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology” class interviewed farmers’ market vendors, business leaders, residents at senior homes, and other long-time Boulder residents. They asked these diverse groups to...

If you were to stumble upon Professor John Flynt’s applied mathematics classroom, you may not notice him at first. Dr. Flynt has rejected the podium and now sits among his students, using a tablet to make notes that are then projected onto a screen and written immediately to a server...

by Celine Dauverd I first got interested in this topic, [Using Animations in History Courses] because I regularly teach Maymester sessions on core courses such as Early Modern Societies and was looking for ways to make sessions more interactive while educational. Attending Matt Koschmann’s session on Animation in the classroom...

by Elena Kostoglodova As a long-time language instructor, I love practical resources. When I first learned how to use VoiceThread, I was very excited about its possibilities in my classroom and for semester-long student projects. For inspiration, I searched all over the internet to see what sort of interesting VT...

By Tim Wadsworth Introduction and Project Goals In my years of teaching I have often wondered about the relationship between student effort and academic achievement. While I have always assumed that students who put more time and energy into my courses would earn higher grades I have never had much...

One of (but certainly not the only) interesting aspect of the Fall 2011 Teaching with Technology group was to see the various ways in which faculty approach teaching, the assessment of student learning (that is, the effectiveness of their teaching), and their various concerns and aspirations. Even though (I thought)...