As mentioned in our previous post, the Interact at the Center blog is having a semester-long series of posts dedicated to this year’s Common Reading Experience. This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, is this year’s BGSU common “Read.”Ā One of the main goals […]
Continue Reading August 20th, 2009
There are several adjustments that first-year BGSU students must make. Many new students will learn how to manage new responsibilities, make new friends, meet new expectations, and negotiate a number of other new experiences. One of the ways that BGSU works with new students and the adjustments to college life is through the Common Reading […]
Continue Reading August 3rd, 2009
Below is an excerpt from the article about a college student’s inquiry into Wikipedia and journalism in the digital age. What he found out might surprise some of you or even cause a reconsideration of using Wikipedia in the classroom. Read the full article here. Here are some highlights (quoted here, not “lifted”) š Irish […]
Continue Reading May 13th, 2009
Ā A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the importance of using recall to learn new concepts and ideas.Ā According to the article, two psychology journals just published papers showing that the strategy of recall works. According to the author David Glenn, recall is when students put down the text or notes that […]
Continue Reading 1 comment May 11th, 2009
David Albrecht, associate professor of Accounting and Management Information Systems, presented last week on “Why All Professors Should Blog.”Ā He provided examples and led discussion about:Ā Why you should blog,Ā What you should blog about, andĀ How to get started.Ā AĀ blog postĀ he wrote a few months ago nicely summarizes his main arguments.Ā Now it’s your turn… […]
Continue Reading 1 comment April 13th, 2009
This presentation, āDisruptive Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilitiesā by Grainne Conole was delivered at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008, in London, England.Ā In this video, Conole discusses how Web 2.0 has changing our learning and teaching paradigms.Ā She discusses how we need to develop new models to understand the relationship between pedagogy and technology. In […]
Continue Reading March 11th, 2009
This past weekend our Interact at the Center blog (originally started on Blogger) just passed 10,000 visitors. Our blog started out in 2006 and less than three years later we are proud to say that our “blogging” has been successful. We make efforts to publish interesting and helpful postings and we appreciate everyone who has […]
Continue Reading March 8th, 2009
Itās no secret that people learn in different ways. The key to success in teaching is realizing that people learn differently and finding ways to incorporate different learning styles into our classes.Ā Recently, we held a workshop titled Pragmatic Practices for Teaching Assistants, Learning Styles that addressed how to assess learning styles and how to […]
Continue Reading February 26th, 2009
Inside Higher Edās article āAssessing Assessmentā launches its discussion by stating that assessment and accountability movements are āalive and well,ā and that colleges who think they can ignore them are āmisguided.ā In an effort to provide an overview or guide of assessment practices, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes and the Alliance for New Leadership […]
Continue Reading February 19th, 2009
A recent string of ideas came across the Lilly Conference on College Teaching listserv recently. Here is a sampling of some ideas you can try in your large lecture class to remember studentsā names: From L. Dee Fink (author of a great book – Creating Significant Learning Experiences): …(L)earning names is extremely helpful but challenging […]
Continue Reading January 20th, 2009
