Creative Commons
This work by Steve Greenlaw is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Category Archives: Wikis forTeaching/Learning
Teaching as Modeling Disciplinary Practice
Over the Christmas holidays last winter, as I began to plan for my Spring courses, it struck me that it was a truly fascinating time to study macroeconomics and finance. Yes, I realize this is much like the neurosurgeon remarking … Continue reading
TLT Fellows Projects
I have the privilege this year of participating on our school’s Teaching and Learning Technology Fellows program, a faculty development program for instructors interested in incorporating instructional technology into their teaching. Participants meet weekly for a semester and explore IT … Continue reading
Is it a presentation or a paper? No, it’s a WordPress blog.
I just finished a presentation on teaching with social software at the Developments in Economics Education Conference held at Cambridge University. I actually drafted a paper for this conference, something I hadn’t managed for the last several presentations I had … Continue reading
Thoughts on the International Finance Seminar
The senior seminar I’m teaching this semester (though it has some juniors) has essentially the same digital tool set as the First Year Seminar I taught in the Fall. I’ve been struck by how this term’s students have used the … Continue reading
2007 UMW Faculty Academy
A couple of weeks ago, I previewed the upcoming Faculty Academy. I want to let people know that the conference publicity and Call for Papers is out.
Survey Results from the Macro Course
Several weeks into the semester, I was explaining the function of the wiki to my colleagues in the TIP Seminar after which they raised some sceptical questions: How could I be sure that the macro students were not merely going … Continue reading
Posted in BigWiki, Wikis forTeaching/Learning
Leave a comment
This is not your teacher’s university course
Posted in BigWiki, Wikis forTeaching/Learning
1 Comment
Just in Time Teaching with a Large Wiki
A few weeks ago I mentioned my idea for a very different approach to teaching ECON 304, my intermediate macro course. This is the first week of classes, so I guess I better figure out how this is going to … Continue reading
Second Stab at Collective Learning
Before Class: A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how my students found it difficult to collaborate to develop a single consensus definition of globalization. This week we’ve been trying a second time to develop a class consensus, this … Continue reading
Course Design Process for U2.0?
I had an amazing experience yesterday, a “consultation†with Gardner and his staff of IT Specialists: Jerry, Martha, Andy, Jim and Patrick. Also present was Charlotte Houtchens, one of our reference librarians. The purpose of the consultation was to think … Continue reading