Improving the writing skills of our students across their four years is a cross-campus shared responsibility. Fortunately, both faculty and students have an enlightened resource – a common campus handbook – to help foster a shared vocabulary, writing strategies, and documentation expertise. The most recent update of this blazingly necessary resource offers faculty the chance to […]
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TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: Music in the Classroom
Faculty who have considered using music in the classroom can find a good deal of information on that subject in the book Music and Learning by Chris Brewer (1995), according to Jose Velazco, library. In this article, Brewer describes simple ways music can be used to positively affect learning in the classroom. Readers can visit […]
TLC Tip of the Week: CaptureSpace
CaptureSpace is the simplest way to turn a presentation into a video to share with students. Faculty can use this tool to capture video as part of a flipped classroom or use screencast videos to provide feedback to students. Also, CaptureSpace makes it easy to record audio as part of podcast lectures for online, hybrid, […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week
Many faculty look for ways to get students to read assignment requirements more carefully and take opportunities to revise seriously. This article from Faculty Focus provides four straightforward strategies for getting college students to use annotation of their own work to show differences among drafts, links to assignment requirements, promote a growth mindset (practice can make perfect, […]
TLC from the TLC: Video on Autism Spectrum Disorder
The number of students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is growing across the nation, according to Melanie Gangle, accessible education services. At the University, there have also been growing numbers of students diagnosed with ASD. The diagnosis of ASD includes the previously-known category of Asperger Syndrome, also known as high-functioning autism spectrum. To learn more […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Making Group Work Work
As the term unfolds, many professors will be asking students to work productively in groups. While there’s lots of evidence to support collaborative learning, both in terms of knowledge gained and essential work skills honed, many professors are also faced with groups that don’t gel or fall under the dominion of one hyper-achiever, and the occasional […]
Light on the First Day
The Teaching and Learning Collaborative (TLC) is committed to providing all faculty members weekly resources to support excellent teaching on campus. Members of the TLC represent many different units on campus: SARC, internationalization, technology, and educational theory. Resources published in upbeat are meant to be read in the amount of time it take you to […]
This Week From the Teaching and Learning Collaborative
As one area of focus in the University’s strategic plan, international integration serves to not only “recruit students from across the United States and around the globe to study, learn, and experience how the world is becoming more interdependent,” but also “infuse our entire community with a sense of multi-cultural opportunities and instruction” by integrating […]
TLC Tip Of The Week: Grow Your PLN in 2016
This week, the Teaching and Learning Collaborative offers faculty a #uptechtip on creating a personal learning network, or PLN, using online tools such as Twitter (it’s not just for kids!). Treat yourself to a coffee break and head on over to the TLC blog using this link for a short and fun article with ideas […]