Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow Spotlight: Jinah Kim
Oct. 11, 2010—Each month, the CFT Newsletter highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Jinah Kim from the Department of History of Art talks about her teaching philosophy and interests. I strongly believe in active learning. By active learning, I mean that students participate actively and critically in the formation of their own...
10/13 Workshop: Tools for Creating a Back Channel in Your Classroom
Oct. 6, 2010—Time & Date: 12:15 – 12:45 p.m., Wednesday, October 13 Location: Online Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel, Educational Technologist, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff “What did he just say?” “Where in the reading was that?” “This seems related to what she mentioned last week.” Back channels has always existed but, up until...
10/12 Workshop: Wireless in the Classroom: Strategies for Leveraging Student Laptops and Smart Phones
Oct. 5, 2010—Time & Date: 4:10 – 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 12 Facilitator: Derek Bruff, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff Panelists: Ken Debelak, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Betsy Kennedy, Nursing; and Jamie Pope, Nutrition Most Vanderbilt students own either a laptop or an Internet-enabled smart phone. Instructors who wish to...
10/11 Workshop: Writing a Teaching Statement
Oct. 4, 2010—Time & Date: 4:10—5:30 p.m., Monday, October 11 Facilitator: Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT Audience: Graduate and Professional Students and Post-docs When entering the job market, you need to be prepared to articulate your teaching values and methods for search committees, especially those that will not be able to observe you teaching. The goal of a...
Call for Proposals – NSF Cyberlearning Grant – Due January 17, 2011
Oct. 1, 2010—The National Science Foundation is requesting proposals for its “Cyberlearning: Transforming Education” grants. From the call for proposals: Through the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, NSF seeks to integrate advances in technology with advances in what is known about how people learn to better understand how people learn with technology and how technology can be used...
10/7 Workshop: Digital Storytelling: An Ancient Art Finds a New Age
Sep. 30, 2010—Time & Date: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m., Thursday, October 7 Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel, Educational Technologist, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff Panelists: Jay Clayton, English; Matt Hall, Information Technology Services; and Jonathan Rattner, Film Studies Digital Storytelling in higher education emerged in the late nineties when UC Berkeley, collaborating with a...
Tools for Grading – Sample Rubrics and Spreadsheets
Sep. 29, 2010—Below you’ll find the sample rubrics and Excel spreadsheets used in today’s Virtual Brownbag session, “Tools for Grading: Rubrics and Spreadsheets.” Example Rubric #1 – Research Paper – Winona State Example Rubric #2 – Opinion Paper – Derek Bruff Example Rubric #3 – Critical Thinking – Northeastern Illinois Sample Gradebook – Empty Sample Gradebook –...
CFT Co-sponsors International Lens Film Series Event
Sep. 29, 2010—Entre les Murs (The Class): Connection and Conflict in the Classroom (Part of Vanderbilt’s International Lens Film Series) Time & Date: 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 5 Location: Sarratt Cinema Facilitator: Derek Bruff, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty; Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Students; Post-docs; and Staff The 2008 French film Entre les Murs (The Class) presents...
How Novice Programmers Learn to Code: A Teaching-as-Research Project
Sep. 28, 2010—This is a guest post by Jonathan Wellons, graduate student in computer science and participant in our Teaching-as-Research Fellows program in 2009. Thanks to Jonathan for sharing his experiences in the program. We welcome contributions to the CFT blog by others in the Vanderbilt teaching community! Most computer scientists either remember how frustrating their first...
The Value of Silence in Class Discussions
Sep. 27, 2010—Mary M. Reda’s essay, “What’s the Problem with Quiet Students? Anyone? Anyone?” in the Chronicle of Higher Education a couple of weeks ago offers a revealing look at the reasons some students choose not to participate in class discussions. Reda engaged in a yearlong investigation of the quiet students in her composition courses, asking her...