2009

  • American History Through Baseball is a unique course that uses baseball as a way to examine American history and society.  When taught in person, this class is all about participation and interaction. Almost everyone knows something about
  • Professor Gail Ramsberger, chair of the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) department, realizes that technology is changing the way speech, language and hearing therapy works.Something as simple as video conferencing, because of its
  • Physical documents are coming online through Google Books and digital libraries around the world. The goal behind many of these projects is the idea the shift to digital documentation will lead to a new era: this wide-spread access to important
  • Our very own Mark Gammon, ASSETT DATC,  is featured in a podcast on the EDUCAUSE site, "Social Media in the Classroom - One Size Does Not Fit All." The podcast is a follow up to Mark's presentations at August's COLTT conference. If you're
  • Minori Murata has big plans for her teaching.A Japanese instructor at Boulder for 8 years, Murata has taught the language every year, always with physical materials and following a similar teaching process. In Spring 2009, this changed. It was
  • If you learned a language in high school, odds are you remember snippets, phrases, or mere words of the language you studied.Biblical Hebrew Instructor David Valeta’s goal is to teach a language so that students will remember it for years, using
  • While searching for teaching ideas in the summer of 2006, Farrand RAP Senior Instructor Kayann Short “serendipitously” stumbled upon something that would change the course of her teaching interests: digital storytelling.Digital Storytelling is about
  • “There is often a gap between the pure teaching of mathematics in math classes and students using it in application courses. The place in-between is where students need experiences analyzing and solving real life problems."--Evelyn Puaa, Math
  • By integrating music, movies, still images, web design, and podcasting, English Professor Ed Rivers highlights technology’s power to communicate both content and emotion.  Rivers’ inspiration for his Multimedia Composition course came from
  • “It’d be like if you lectured to someone about skiing and then expected them to be able to ski; it doesn’t work well. They’ve got to practice, they’ve got to fall down, learn how to do things.”–Mike Klymkowsky, Professor, MCDB Mike
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