The UW-Teaching Academy will have its 2015 Induction Ceremony on April 30th at 4:30 pm in the Education Wisconsin Idea Room. For this year, 26 new members will be inducted: 10 Fellows and 16 Future …
Month: April 2015
04.24.15 — Ed Hubbard on Top Hat
On April 24th, Ed Hubbard from Educational Psychology shared a learning sciences perspective on using the TopHat student response system to keep students engaged in lectures. We saw a variety of examples and had a chance to make our own! Finally, …
04.17.15 Cathy Middlecamp on Siftr
Cathy Middlecamp from the Nelson Institute shared how she had her students use their smartphones to collectively crowdsource a map of photographs and descriptions of campus wildlife. She told us that story, and we explored Siftr as participants and ran …
03.27.15 Ryan Martinez on Student-Produced Video
Rounding out our March lineup, on Friday, March 27th, Ryan Martinez (one of the course designers who helped teach UW–Madison’s first MOOC) shared how they used student-produced videos to tap into the personal relevance and …
04.10.15 Lane Sunwall on Webquests
On Friday, April 10th to hear Lane Sunwall, from History, shared how he uses Webquests to engage students. He shared both well structured ones that students excelled at, and shared a less structured one that led to an excellent …
Teaching Academy EC Agenda 4/7/2015
R302 Middleton Building from 8:30-10:00 Middleton Building *Approve March 3 minutes. Business: 1) Academy Award recipient vote 2) UW-TEaCH: Jamie 3) Teaching and Learning Symposium Luncheon on may 20, from 11:30-13:00. a. Introducing the UW-TEaCH. b. Giving out the award, facilitated …
Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions You’re Asking the Wrong Question is a very smart (and short) article on crafting questions for Discussion. I suggests that questions meant to prompt interaction among peers should ask questions that result in divergent …