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  • Teaching With Technology, Fall 2012 Photograph by Nigora AzimovaEach semester, a small group of CU professors who share a passion for experimenting with technology hold regular meetings in the Technology Learning Center, sometimes with a large plate
  • "I don't think it's my job to make students come to class,"聺 says Dr. Ingrid Ulbrich, chemistry instructor at CU Boulder. Nor does she think it important to take attendance, though she cares deeply about her student's success. During the spring and
  • Whether we are standing, walking or running, the force we exert on the ground mediates all our bodily movements. Measuring this force was a considerably difficult process, but now an easier and cheaper system exists through employing a Nintendo Wii
  • "I've been gaming since I was a little kid",聺 brags Trent Begin, a TTA at ASSETT."Well I was playing Flight Simulator",聺 says TTA Casey Zahorik, pausing dramatically as he leans back in his swivel chair, when I was three
  •  鈥淵ou鈥檙e doing it right when you鈥檙e playing,鈥 says Dr. Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin.  This may seem like a strange statement to make in an upper-level class where students use complex technology and challenging archival material to re-imagine
  • What does it mean to live in Boulder? Using video cameras and audio recorders, a group of graduate students in Dr. Jennifer Shannon鈥檚 鈥淩esearch Methods in Cultural Anthropology鈥 class interviewed farmers鈥 market vendors, business leaders, residents
  • If you were to stumble upon Professor John Flynt鈥檚 applied mathematics classroom, you may not notice him at first. Dr. Flynt has rejected the podium and now sits among his students, using a tablet to make notes that are then projected onto a screen
  • by Celine DauverdI first got interested in this topic, [Using Animations in History Courses] because I regularly teach Maymester sessions on core courses such as Early Modern Societies and was looking for ways to make sessions more interactive while
  • by Elena Kostoglodova As a long-time language instructor, I love practical resources. When I first learned how to use VoiceThread, I was very excited about its possibilities in my classroom and for semester-long student projects. For
  • One of (but certainly not the only) interesting aspect of the Fall 2011 Teaching with Technology group was to see the various ways in which faculty approach teaching, the assessment of student learning (that is, the effectiveness of their teaching
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