Social Pedagogies: Language Teaching with Google Earth and Wikis

May 16, 2013 — by Andrew Greer, 2013 Teaching Certificate Recipient and 2012-13 SoTL Scholar Many of us have memories of foreign language classes with seemingly never-ending repetitions of semi-useful phrases. I remember learning German for years, only to be surprised by my lack...... KEEP READING »

Tags: celebration of teaching, Digital Humanities, Educational Technology, foreign language teaching, Social Pedagogies
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SoTL Spotlight: Public Performances of Learning

March 29, 2013 — by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director Nancy is the author of a variety of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) articles and book chapters, as well as co-editor of two books on signature pedagogies and co-editor of Teaching & Learning Inquiry, the...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Social Pedagogies, SoTL, SoTL Spotlight
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Professors tweak their pedagogical style with blogs

December 6, 2012 — Vanderbilt faculty are increasing incorporating online wiring in their teaching. A recent article by Joan Brasher highlights the work of Assistant Professor of English Humberto Garcia and his course blog The Romantic Period: Romanticism and Apocalypse and Allison Schachter, Assistant...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Course Blogs, Educational Technology, Social Pedagogies, Teaching Writing
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Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking

August 29, 2012 — by Derek Bruff, CFT Director I have a new guest post over on the CIRTL Network website describing my use of social bookmarking tools like Delicious and Diigo in my math courses. The post is titled “Leveraging Student Interests through...... KEEP READING »

Tags: CIRTL, Educational Technology, Social Pedagogies, STEM
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Are poster sessions or blogs part of your course? If so, we’d like to hear from you!

April 2, 2012 — The Center for Teaching is interested in hearing from Vanderbilt faculty and staff who are: - Using end-of-course poster sessions in which students share the results of their individual or team projects. For instance, senior lecturer Steve Baskauf uses a poster session...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Course Blogs, Educational Technology, Social Pedagogies
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Social Pedagogies: An opportunity for authentic learning?

February 18, 2012 — This is a post written by Graduate Teaching Fellow, Megan McMurtry. One way to motivate student engagement with course material is to make use of social pedagogies.  Social Pedagogies are “design approaches for teaching and learning that engage students with...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Social Pedagogies
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VMAT an example of Classroom-learned skills solving real-world problems

December 8, 2011 — This week the Vanderbilt Mobile Application Team (VMAT) was profiled in Campus Technology. VMAT develops iPhone- and Android-compatible apps for the Vanderbilt campus, teaches dozens of students how to program mobile apps – which has become a lucrative business for many,...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Educational Technology, Social Pedagogies, Teaching Outside
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Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences

November 7, 2011 — CFT Acting Director Derek Bruff authored an essay titled “A Social Network Can be a Learning Network” that appears in this week’s special issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education on online learning. In the essay, Derek uses the notion...... KEEP READING »

Tags: About the CFT, Educational Technology, Social Pedagogies
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Inquiry-Based Biology Labs Give Students a Taste of Research

May 31, 2011 — by CFT Assistant Director Derek Bruff David Salisbury, one of the writers for Vanderbilt’s Research News, recently blogged about the inquiry-based biological sciences lab course designed and taught by senior lecturer Steve Baskauf. The course is an alternative to the...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Course Design, Social Pedagogies, STEM
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Teaching Science by Reacting to the Past

April 19, 2011 — by CFT Assistant Director Derek Bruff Last month CFT graduate teaching fellow Lily Claiborne and I attended the AAC&U / Project Kaleidoscope conference “Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices.” (STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.) Most participants were...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Conferences, Games in Teaching, Social Pedagogies, STEM
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