Category Archives: Teaching and Learning

First Year Advising Curriculum?

Posted on August 3, 2007 by sgreenla

I’ve been ‘working’ on a project this summer. Great concept: but not enough follow through. As a last ditch attempt to make some progress, I thought I’d appeal to the Brian Lamb–Alan Levine school of inspiration and ask for help … Continue reading →

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More on Student Metacognition and Motivation

Posted on August 2, 2007 by sgreenla

My latest favorite blogger is Lanny Arvan. (Thanks Martha!) Aside from being a fallen economist turned instructional technologist, he’s a fascinating and deep blogger. One of his (relatively) recent posts struck a chord as it related to my interest in … Continue reading →

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Want a Second Opinion in Your Course Lectures?

Posted on August 1, 2007 by sgreenla

Some time ago I blogged about self-directed college learning using the BBC’s In Our Time podcast series. Brian Lamb reports that you can go a step further with Openculture: Stanford Courses Available as Free Podcasts. How cool is that? At … Continue reading →

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New Media Final Projects Session: A Comment

Posted on August 1, 2007 by sgreenla

Jeff recently blogged on the final project in Gardner’s New Media course. Gardner’s discussion is here. Talk about taking it to another level–wow! I’m sorry I missed it. Jeff talked about the energy generated by this project, both for the … Continue reading →

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Is Technological Proficiency a Skill, or Something Bigger?

Posted on July 30, 2007 by sgreenla

This summer I’ve been involved in our school’s efforts to revise our general education requirements. In the course of our discussions we raised the question of what constitutes technological proficiency appropriate to a liberal education in the early 21st century. … Continue reading →

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Response to Gardner

Posted on July 20, 2007 by sgreenla

It’s taken me a week or so to reflect on Gardner’s post. As I suspected, like a fine wine the post improved with age—or at least my understanding of it did. Mike Caulfield started the thread: [O]ne of the paradoxes … Continue reading →

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Our 2007 ELI Presentation (finally!)

Posted on July 13, 2007 by sgreenla

I know this is kid stuff for many of you, but I’ve never done it before, which is part of the reason I’ve managed to procrastinate for so long. Here at long last are the audio and the powerpoint (below) … Continue reading →

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First Take on Ronco

Posted on June 25, 2007 by sgreenla

I just discovered Patrick’s post on the ronco project, which follows two posts from Martha and Jeff on the topic. I’m not sure why I missed Patrick’s when it came out, but I have a couple comments. One thing that … Continue reading →

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What does it mean to make a course “sticky”?

Posted on June 23, 2007 by sgreenla

This is the second post inspired by my reading of Malcolm Gladstone’s The Tipping Point. According to Gladstone, The stickiness factor says there are specific ways of making a contagious message sticky; there are relatively simple changes in the presentation … Continue reading →

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Honesty in Academia

Posted on June 18, 2007 by sgreenla

I have been working on an idea with Gardner and Jeff regarding the First Year Seminars we will each be teaching next fall. The topics of the seminars range from ‘Banned and Dangerous Art” to “When Americans Came Marching Home: … Continue reading →

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