Originally published on: December 2, 2008 “There is little that can be measured with any degree of certainty.” (Fryschman, 2008) A few months ago I …
Issue 6
Getting Students Excited About Your Course: A Tip From The Best University Teachers
Originally published on: November 13, 2007 What makes teachers “good”? Don’t we all dream to be the type of teacher for whom students continually pack …
Learning Objects: The Return of the “Visual” to Active Learning?
Originally published on: November 14, 2006 In a recent issue of New Chalk Talk (Volume 6, Issue 2), I relied upon John Berger’s pioneering work Ways …
Learning Technologies: Passport to the Land of Significant Learning
Originally published on: November 22, 2005 The preceding newsletter suggested that electronic portfolios constitute a key element in modern liberal education since they enable us …
Smart Classrooms, Classroom Action Research and Electronic Portfolios: The Articulation of a Modern Liberal Education
Originally published on: March 8, 2005 In a recent issue of Liberal Education, Rick Vaz places information technology at the core of modern liberal education …
Smart Classes in Smart Classrooms (2) Effective Use of Classrooms with Student Computers
Originally published on: April 13, 2004 In a truly “smart” classroom, the instructor has a data display, and every student has a computer with Internet …