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Reflections on Last Week’s ISSOTL Conference
Oct. 30, 2012—by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director I just returned from the ninth annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)—this year in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I’ve attended every ISSOTL conference, and this was among the best. But of this year’s plenaries, posters, and panels, another part of the conference...
Junior Faculty: Visit Mark Schoenfield’s english class at next week’s teaching visit
Oct. 29, 2012—A Teaching Visit involves a small group of faculty who observe a colleague’s class (on a selected day), followed by an hour of conversation about what was observed, particularly shared teaching challenges. The Center for Teaching has hosted Teaching Visits for many years and they have been among the most productive and helpful events we...
Upcoming Event: How to Wiki
Oct. 29, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Teaching Workshop! How to Wiki Date & Time: Tuesday, November 6 4:10-5:30pm As digital collaboration becomes more commonplace in Vanderbilt courses, you may want to think about adding a wiki to help support your course activities. Wikis are simple Web pages that allow multiple people edit and update documents without having to...
Episode 38 – Student Learning on Display: Pump Up the Volume – Vandy Vinyl
Oct. 26, 2012—In this episode, CFT director, Derek Bruff, talks with Curb Scholars Branden Sanders, Keith Berquist, Daniel Eubanks, Harrison Shapley, and audio engineer, Scott Marquart about their Curb Creative Campus project where they developed a high-quality production studio to record independent projects of Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students. The studio is the centerpiece of a larger...
Meet CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow Adam Wilsman
Oct. 25, 2012—This fall, we’re introducing the CFT’s 2012-13 Graduate Teaching Fellows* individually to highlight their areas of expertise, interests, and specific CFT activities. Adam Wilsman is a Ph.D. student in History. His dissertation, entitled “Our Enemy’s Enemy: Human Rights and the U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, 1977-1992,” is currently in progress. Adam has TA’d a wide...
Meet CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow Katie Headrick Taylor
Oct. 24, 2012—This fall, we’re introducing the CFT’s 2012-13 Graduate Teaching Fellows* individually to highlight their areas of expertise, interests, and specific CFT activities. Katie Headrick Taylor is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Teaching and Learning in Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. For Katie’s dissertation research, she conducted a design experiment for spatial justice with local...
Getting to Know Coursera: Video Discussions
Oct. 23, 2012—By Katie McEwen, Graduate Assistant Last time, we began our discussion of some of the shared features in Coursera — across courses and disciplines — with the favored method of presentation: the video lecture. Today, we’ll take a look at a less common approach, the video discussion. To me, a student and teacher used to small...