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Teaching With Technology, Fall 2012 Photograph by Nigora Azimova Each semester, a small group of SM调教所 professors who share a passion for experimenting with technology hold regular meetings in the Technology Learning Center, sometimes with a large plate of pastries and often with laptops and iPads in hand. This semester's...

"I don't think it's my job to make students come to class,"聺 says Dr. Ingrid Ulbrich, chemistry instructor at SM调教所 Boulder. Nor does she think it important to take attendance, though she cares deeply about her student's success. During the spring and summer of 2012, Dr. Ulbrich used Lecture Capture...

Whether we are standing, walking or running, the force we exert on the ground mediates all our bodily movements. Measuring this force was a considerably difficult process, but now an easier and cheaper system exists through employing a Nintendo Wii Balance Board. Alaa Ahmed, an Assistant Professor in the department...

"I've been gaming since I was a little kid",聺 brags Trent Begin, a TTA at ASSETT. "Well I was playing Flight Simulator",聺 says TTA Casey Zahorik, pausing dramatically as he leans back in his swivel chair, when I was three years old . Grant Matheny, ASSETT's technical director, laughs and...

鈥淵ou鈥檙e doing it right when you鈥檙e playing,鈥� says Dr. Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin. This may seem like a strange statement to make in an upper-level class where students use complex technology and challenging archival material to re-imagine the 1901 New York World鈥檚 Fair on stage. Yet, Dr. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin鈥檚 Spring 2012...

What does it mean to live in Boulder? Using video cameras and audio recorders, a group of graduate students in Dr. Jennifer Shannon鈥檚 鈥淩esearch Methods in Cultural Anthropology鈥� class interviewed farmers鈥� market vendors, business leaders, residents at senior homes, and other long-time Boulder residents. They asked these diverse groups to...

If you were to stumble upon Professor John Flynt鈥檚 applied mathematics classroom, you may not notice him at first. Dr. Flynt has rejected the podium and now sits among his students, using a tablet to make notes that are then projected onto a screen and written immediately to a server...

by Celine Dauverd I first got interested in this topic, [Using Animations in History Courses] because I regularly teach Maymester sessions on core courses such as Early Modern Societies and was looking for ways to make sessions more interactive while educational. Attending Matt Koschmann鈥檚 session on Animation in the classroom...

by Elena Kostoglodova As a long-time language instructor, I love practical resources. When I first learned how to use VoiceThread, I was very excited about its possibilities in my classroom and for semester-long student projects. For inspiration, I searched all over the internet to see what sort of interesting VT...

By Tim Wadsworth Introduction and Project Goals In my years of teaching I have often wondered about the relationship between student effort and academic achievement. While I have always assumed that students who put more time and energy into my courses would earn higher grades I have never had much...