Episodes
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Skim, Dive, Surface
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Digital texts and materials have been increasingly used in college classes. In this episode Jenae Cohn joins us to explore some of the affordances of digital texts and discuss strategies for effectively engaging with digital material. Jenae is the Director of Academic Technology at California State University Sacramento and the author of Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading, which has been recently released by West Virginia University Press.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Student Workload
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
College students throughout the country have reported substantial increases in their workload during the 2020-21 academic year. Few faculty members, though, intentionally increased student workloads during this challenging year. In this episode, Dr. Betsy Barre joins us to explore some reasons for student perceptions of increased workload.
Betsy is the Executive Director of the Center for Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University. In 2017 she won with Justin Esarey, the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education’s Innovation Award for their Course Workload Estimator.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Social Annotation
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Do you struggle to get students to complete readings or to deeply discuss readings in an online environment? In this episode, Margaret Schmuhl joins us to discuss how a social annotation tool can engage students in conversations with the text and with each other about the text. Maggie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Oswego. Maggie has also been working with us as the facilitator for our second cohort of faculty in the ACUE program here at Oswego.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Active Learning: 6 Feet of Separation
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
During the fall 2020 semester, many faculty will be working in a classroom environment in which they will be in a classroom using a video conferencing tool to work simultaneously with a mix of remote students online and masked and physically distanced face-to-face students. There are significant challenges in using active learning techniques in this environment. In this episode, Dr. Derek Bruff joins us to explore some active learning strategies that may work under these very unusual circumstances.
Derek is the Director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a Principal Senior Lecturer in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics. He is the author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments, as well as his most recent book on Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching. Derek is also a host of the Leading Lines podcast.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Pedagogies of Care: Digital Reading
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
This week we continue a series of interviews with participants in the Pedagogies of Care project. In this episode, Dr. Jenae Cohn joins us to discuss concerns about, and the affordances that are associated with, reading in a digital environment. Jenae is an Academic Technology Specialist at Stanford University and the author of Skim, Dive, Surface: Strategies for Digital Reading in the College Classroom, which will be released by West Virginia University Press as part of the superb series edited by James Lang.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Learning Networks
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Students in many classes work in isolation to create written assignments that are shared only with their professor. Unless they’ve kept a copy of this work, it disappears once their course ends. In this episode, Gardner Campbell joins us to discuss how student motivation, engagement, and learning might change if students instead become active contributors to public knowledge sharing networks. Gardner is an Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Gardner has long been a leader in the use of open pedagogy projects.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Nov 14, 2018
Open pedagogy
Wednesday Nov 14, 2018
Wednesday Nov 14, 2018
Imagine an academy that values a public knowledge commons and supports and recognizes the academic labor required to develop, maintain, build and evolve that commons. Imagine your students actively contributing to that commons. In this episode, Robin DeRosa joins us to discuss open pedagogy, free textbooks, and the building of such a commons.
Robin is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Plymouth State University, an editor of Hybrid Pedagogy, and co-founder of the Open Pedagogy Notebook.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday May 30, 2018
Writing Better Writing Assignments
Wednesday May 30, 2018
Wednesday May 30, 2018
Complaints about student writing are embedded in faculty conversations across disciplines. What if the issues with student writing, though, are not their fault, but ours instead? In this episode, Allison Rank and Heather Pool join us to share suggestions about writing better writing prompts that provide student with explicit expectations.
Allison Rank is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Oswego and Dr. Heather Pool is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Denison University.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.