The Centre for Teaching Excellence organized three large events in April, 2010. The Presidents’ Colloquium on Teaching and Learning (PCTL), the Learning and Teaching Workshops (LaT), and the Opportunities and New Directions (OND) conference were held April 26, 27 and 28, 2010, respectively. Continue reading CTE’s Eventful April – Shelley Bacik
Online, Interactive Posters with Glogster — Mark Morton
Glogster is a free online tool for making “interactive posters” or “glogs.” Although Glogster is being marketed primarily to elementary and high school teachers, I think it also has potential as a presentation tool in higher education. I’ve created an example of a glog using PowerPoint slides from a conference presentation that a colleague and I made a few months ago; it’s ugly, because I have no real design skills, but it will hopefully give you a sense of Glogster’s features and potential. You can see my example glog here. Another example, this one by a student, is here. To try Glogster out yourself, just go to glogster.com and set up your free account.
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The Centre for Teaching Excellence welcomes contributions to its blog. If you are a faculty member, staff member, or student at the University of Waterloo (or beyond!) and would like contribute a posting about some aspect of teaching or learning, please contact Mark Morton or Trevor Holmes.
Renewing my Scholarship: Journeys Away — Nicola Simmons
I’m just returning from the Congress of the Humanities and Social Science in Montreal, where (as at last year’s Congress) I bumped into a few Waterloo colleagues there for their own disciplinary conferences. I was there for the Canadian Society for Studies in Higher Education meeting, running a session with a colleague in which papers addressed the changing demographic of post-secondary students in the future based Continue reading Renewing my Scholarship: Journeys Away — Nicola Simmons
Connecting in Large Classes – Veronica Brown
When Mark Morton suggested this blog as a way to introduce myself, I struggled with what to write about. I considered telling you about myself (grew up in London, Ontario, have worked at UW since 1999, my favourite place in the world is my family’s cottage on an island in Georgian Bay, etc.). Then, I thought about telling you more about my teaching career (have taught introductory computer science and math courses, ranging in size from less than 20 to more than 500). To be honest, it all seemed a bit dry. So instead, I wanted to share with you a little bit about being connected to my students. Continue reading Connecting in Large Classes – Veronica Brown
Thomas Edison’s eBook Reader — Mark Morton
I love quirky, old things (and as I become one myself, my affection for them only increases). A case in point is an old article I came across in the February 1911 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine, in which Allan Benson asked Thomas Edison to cast his mind forward a hundred years — in other words, to our “now” — and predict what the future held for humanity. Continue reading Thomas Edison’s eBook Reader — Mark Morton
Video Blogging — Mark Morton
Today, I’m experimenting with video blogs. Click the arrow below to watch.
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The Centre for Teaching Excellence welcomes contributions to its blog. If you are a faculty member, staff member, or student at the University of Waterloo (or beyond!) and would like contribute a posting about some aspect of teaching or learning, please contact Mark Morton or Trevor Holmes.
A Convert to RefWorks – Scott Anderson
Being a part-time student again has given me a renewed appreciation of the myriad demands on students including class, assignments, bureaucratic hurdles, work and trying to have a life. Have I been the guy who has either just skimmed or not done the readings before class? Guilty.
The amount of reading required and articles to keep track of has made me a convert to RefWorks, a web-based bibliography and reference manager. I saw the light after Continue reading A Convert to RefWorks – Scott Anderson