The podcast version of the CTE Teaching Tip document called “Group Decision Making” is now available, and you can listen to it via the player at the bottom of this blog posting. If you’d like to access all the Teaching Tips podcasts completed to date, click here. Better yet, you can subscribe to our Teaching Tips Podcasts in iTunes.
To read the original Teaching Tips document, with all of its references and additional resources, go to our Teaching Tips repository.
The podcast version of the CTE Teaching Tip document called “Effective Communication: Barriers and Strategies” is now available. You can listen to it via the player at the bottom of this blog posting or by clicking here. If you want to subscribe to CTE’s Teaching Tips feed in iTunes, click here. To read the original Teaching Tip document, with all of its references and additional resources, click here.
CTE has been intimately involved with the move from UW-ACE to Waterloo LEARN. Several of us from the Centre were on the LMS selection committee and many have been key players in designing and executing Continue reading LEARNing something new
As I mentioned in a previous post, CTE has over a hundred “Teaching Tip” documents. I’m exploring the possibility of turning them into podcasts, and making them available on iTunes. One of the ways to create a podcast is via a WordPress plug-in called “Powerpress,” which is what I’m testing out in this posting. I’ve started by turning the Tip Sheet called “Teamwork Skills: Being an Effective Group Member” into a podcast, and I’ve uploaded it here in iTunes. More will follow!
We all recognize the potential value of a well-constructed rubric. Stevens and Levi in their book “Introduction to Rubrics” summarize these in their six key reasons for constructing and using rubrics:
[With her permission, we have reprinted below a posting by Aimée Morrison (Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo) that originally appeared on the Hook & Eye blog.]
Grading is personal. And I’m starting to recognize that, for my students, no matter how I frame my response to their papers (“This paper argues” rather than “You believe”, for example) they take it personally: the grades hurt their feelings, they feel personally slighted. Continue reading Grading: It is personal, actually! — Aimée Morrison
I’m proud to work at a teaching centre that strives not only to serve instructors at our own university, but is also happy to share its resources and expertise with staff and instructors from other institutions. A case in point is the meeting that CTE’s Director — Donna Ellis — and I had on November 22 with a delegation from King Saud University. Continue reading Reflecting On Our Work — Mark Morton