‘Visual Thinking’
Belmont University’s January Teaching Center Symposium
Dec. 30, 2010—Our colleagues down the street at Belmont University are hosting their 5th Annual January Teaching Center Symposium on Monday, January 10th, just before classes start for Vanderbilt. The theme of the event is “Creativity and Invention in Teaching.” The Belmont Teaching Center director, Merrie King, has extended an invitation to interested Vanderbilt faculty and graduate...
10/21 Workshop: Tell Your Story Now…Digitally!
Oct. 14, 2010—Time & Date: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m., Thursday, October 21 Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel, Educational Technologist, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and...
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...
Visual Presentations and Classroom Response Systems
Sep. 1, 2010—Last week, CFT assistant director Derek Bruff was invited to give a presentation to DigitalVU, a group of web developers and other technology folks at Vanderbilt. They asked Derek to talk about technologies useful for engaging students in a classroom or audience members at a presentation. He talked about some tools for enhancing the visual...
Using Visual Thinking in the Classroom
Aug. 20, 2010—As part of training for the CFT’s new Teaching Affiliates and Graduate Teaching Fellows, CFT assistant director Derek Bruff facilitated a workshop on using visual thinking in the classroom. Topics included enhancing one’s presentations with visuals and using visual thinking techniques as part of in-class activities. The visuals from Derek’s presentation can be seen below....
Engaging Students with Images Using VisualsSpeak
May. 17, 2010—[This is a guest post by Kate O’Doherty, graduate student in psychology & human development and 2010-2011 CFT Teaching Affiliate. We welcome contributions to the CFT blog by others in the Vanderbilt teaching community!] I consider myself pretty familiar with the typical classroom tools. PowerPoint? I’ve got it down-even those custom animations. Video? Sure, I...
New CFT Guide on Integrating Visual Thinking in Your Teaching
May. 6, 2010—Leveraging resources collected for a March 2010 workshop on visual thinking, the CFT has put together a guide on integrating visual thinking tools in your teaching. The guide describes ways to use images as metaphors and as stories, resources on digital storytelling and visual literacy, uses of schematic diagrams like timelines and concept maps, tools...
Expanded CFT Teaching Guide on Lecturing – Basics, Visuals, Interaction
Apr. 30, 2010—Leveraging resources collected for a spring 2010 workshop on engaging students in large lecture courses, the CFT has expanded its teaching guide on lecturing to include advice on the “basics” of effective learning, suggestions for PowerPoint slides and other visual elements of lectures, and strategies for fostering student engagement and interaction during lectures. Here’s an...
Ideas for Integrating Visual Thinking in One’s Teaching by Recent Workshop Participants
Mar. 22, 2010—Last week the CFT held a workshop titled “Show and Tell: Ideas for Integrating Visual Thinking in Your Teaching.” At the end the workshop, participants were asked to identify visual tools discussed in the workshop they wanted to try out in their teaching. Participants shared their ideas in words and pictures. Below you’ll find a...
Highlights from This Week’s Workshop on Visual Thinking
Mar. 19, 2010—On Wednesday of this week, the CFT held a workshop titled “Show and Tell: Ideas for Integrating Visual Thinking in Your Teaching.” During the workshop, graphic facilitator Peter Durand of Alphachimp Studio captured the presentation and discussion on a virtual white board. See his very visual notes below to learn about some of the ideas...