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The Mindful PhD: How It Works, III
Oct. 31, 2013—by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director A man riding a horse approaches a man standing by the side of the road. The bystander asks where the rider is going, and the rider responds, “‘I don’t know. Ask the horse’” (Tan, 2012, p. 104). Chade-Meng Tan tells this story to illustrate the notion of emotional regulation,...
Self-Authoring Community Activism:
Women & Gender Studies Students as Producers
Oct. 30, 2013—by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director The CFT’s theme this year, “Students as Producers,” has given me the opportunity to talk with some talented and thoughtful colleagues across campus. On October 24, I brought together three of them to have a conversation on teaching about “Producing, Performing, & Creating Learning across the Humanities: Models of...
Save the Date: A Celebration of Learning on April 21, 2014
Oct. 30, 2013—The final event in the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s “Students as Producers” theme year will be a Celebration of Learning on April 21, 2014, in Alumni Hall. The event, held from 3 to 6 p.m. on the last day of spring classes, will feature students and the products of their learning experiences in courses at...
Class Time Reconsidered: Making the Most of 150 Minutes a Week
Oct. 29, 2013—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director. Cross-posted from Derek’s blog, Agile Learning. I spent last Friday in sunny Denver, Colorado, catching up with my grad school colleague Nick Galatos and giving a talk on, well, the flipped classroom for the University of Denver mathematics department. I hesitate to use the term “flipped classroom” because I had...
Upcoming Teaching Workshop: Developing a Syllabus on November 4th
Oct. 28, 2013—From Idea to Artifact: Developing a Syllabus Date: Monday, November 4th Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Location: Center for Teaching Facilitator: Jessica Riviere Audience: Graduate and Professional Students and Post-docs This workshop is aimed at graduate students who have an idea for a class, and want to expand that idea into a sample syllabus. Participants...
Beyond the Five-Page Paper: Representing Student Learning Visually
Oct. 28, 2013—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director Recently, CFT assistant director Nancy Chick and I led a workshop titled “Beyond the Five-Page Paper: Representing Student Learning Visually,” part of the CFT’s “Students as Producers” theme year. We don’t dismiss the importance of essays as formative and evaluative activities for students, but we do want to encourage instructors...
THATCamp Vanderbilt: Explore the Digital Humanities November 1-2
Oct. 25, 2013—The second annual THATCamp Vanderbilt will occur next Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2, at the Vanderbilt Curb Center. Co-presented by the Center for Second Language Studies, the Curb Center, the Warren Center’s Digital Humanities Seminar, and the CFT, the event is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is requested. THATCamp stands for...