Category Archives: Teaching and Learning

Even More Fishing

Posted on March 8, 2007 by sgreenla

More thoughts on the proper role of technology staff in supporting the teaching of faculty and the appropriate sharing of their respective responsibilities. In particular, this post is a response to Gardner’s comment and Laura’s more recent post. Gardner observes … Continue reading →

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Response to Fishing vs. Teaching to Fish

Posted on March 5, 2007 by sgreenla

Laura at Geeky Mom raises some important issues as we move away from a traditional model of teaching to one involving more technology: To what extent should IT support staff do tasks for instructors as opposed to teaching them how … Continue reading →

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Teaching 2.0

Posted on March 4, 2007 by sgreenla

Judith Boettcher has an article in the latest issue of Innovate which provides the best guidance I’ve seen to date on how to design a course for University 2.0. The article draws from research on how people learn to develop … Continue reading →

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My Bad

Posted on February 12, 2007 by sgreenla

I’m supervising a number of independent studies this semester. In fact, I lost track of how many students talked to me at the end of last semester about my supervising their research. At the end of the “add period”, I … Continue reading →

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A Purer Version of Just-in-Time Teaching

Posted on February 10, 2007 by sgreenla

Yesterday I set my alarm a little early to have enough time first thing in the morning to collect and sort the questions for Chapter 6. This was the first chapter that was beyond introductory material, so I wanted to … Continue reading →

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More Than Eye Candy?

Posted on February 8, 2007 by sgreenla

I’m a visual learner. Alan made a post today that really caught my eye. I’ve been aware of this technology since some years ago when a friend referred me to the visual thesaurus. Since then I thought this was really … Continue reading →

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Textbooks 2.0: A new model for the publishing industry?

Posted on February 7, 2007 by sgreenla

An interesting article in a recent Wall Street Journal reminded me of some thoughts I’ve had about possible directions for texts in U2.0. The article made some observations about how certain traditional products were based on making customers purchase things … Continue reading →

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Be Careful What You Ask For

Posted on February 7, 2007 by sgreenla

The dynamics of my macroeconomics course are quite different than in past years. I’ve alluded to this in previous posts. For one thing, I’m reading the text just slightly ahead of the students. I’m doing it that way to try … Continue reading →

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Stray thoughts

Posted on February 7, 2007 by sgreenla

What does it mean when students read and even comment on faculty blogs? Doesn’t that show a different, even higher level of engagement when students essentially participate in a faculty discussion?

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Vetting the Product

Posted on February 1, 2007 by sgreenla

Last week I observed that in my U2.0 teaching I haven’t been doing enough quality control. I’ve been changing the process of teaching/learning in my classes, but haven’t been vetting the product enough. I’ve been working to improve that recently. … Continue reading →

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