Digital scavenger hunts for building class community
Scavenger hunts are a great way to get your students working together for a common goal. This is a wonderful way for them to bond as a class or to gel as a group project team. These types of hunts can be used for assessment as well but I want to focus mainly on...
Create Interactive Games, Presentations, Images and So Much More with H5P
H5P is a free, online content creation application. You can use it to create interactive content quickly and easily. No coding or web skill is required. Here’s what you can create: Images: Agamotto: layer images and create a timeline for those images to...
Creating Interactive and Thought-provoking Discussions
We all want our students to participate in class discussions in an engaging way and in a way that encourages curiosity about the topic. But we also know this rarely happens. Most discussions are really just question and answer sessions where the instructor asks the...
How a Break at Work Benefits Family
I’m not sure what comes to your mind when you hear “break time,” but the word harbors a treasure of memories for me. My father was—still is, actually—a brick mason, and my summers spent with him on construction sites bore a very distinct and welcome rhythm: at 10 am,...
What I Learned from “Make it Stick”
Much of our understanding about how we learn is flawed. The typical advice given to students is single-minded, focused repetition, reflecting the belief that if we expose ourselves to something enough, we can burn it into memory. This is called “massed practice” by...
A Question for Roediger
Okay. So, we’re about three months away from the day that Henry Roediger will descend onto the College of Charleston campus and deliver an inspiring speech on helping students learn. I can’t wait. I’m also anticipating his response to some questions his book has...Teaching With Video: In-class Viewing
Full-length videos and video clips can be very useful in teaching. However, it is important to consider ahead of time what you hope your students will learn from the videos. You will also need to plan out how you will help the students learn, and how you will know...
Episode 3 – Watching Films Critically with Mari Crabtree
As teachers, we are constantly looking for teaching methods that are socially relevant and pedagogically meaningful. This two-pronged goal to be cool and educational doesn’t always present itself easily. The ever-cool and ever-educational Socrates, however, may offer...
Are You Truly Listening?
We may not want to admit it, but most of us are terrible listeners. We’re distracted, mentally overburdened, and typically fail to practice perspective-taking. Too often, we interact with people on auto-pilot, without giving them much thought. In the busy worlds we...Stay In The Loop!
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