‘About the CFT’
Meet Our Advisory Board
Mar. 1, 2010—The CFT’s Advisory Board will be here at the CFT tomorrow for its spring meeting. Our current advisory board was formed in 2007 with thirteen or so faculty, staff, and students who join the board for one-to-three-year terms. The board assists the CFT in the following ways: Guide long-term strategic planning for the CFT and...
Recent Conference Talks by Derek Bruff on Teaching with Clickers
Jan. 22, 2010—CFT assistant director Derek Bruff recently gave a few conference presentations on teaching with classroom response systems (“clickers”). At the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, January 13-15, Derek co-facilitated a minicourse on teaching math with clickers with Adam Lucas of St. Mary’s College of California. He also organized a contributed paper session on...
Rhett McDaniel Quoted in USA Today Story on Backchannel
Jan. 19, 2010—Educational technologist Rhett McDaniel was quoted in a USA Today story on Purdue University’s new Hotseat tool, a Web application that allows students to contribute to “backchannel” conversations during class via text-messaging, Facebook, and Twitter.
Derek Bruff Quoted in Article on Teaching What You Don’t Know
Jan. 19, 2010—Assistant director Derek Bruff’s experiences teaching a cryptography course for the first time was described by Therese Huston in her article “Teach as You Learn” in the NEA Advocate‘s Thriving in Academe series. Huston’s article was based on her new book, Teaching What You Don’t Know, which also features an interview with Derek.