Adobe is offering a free six week course “Creativity in Today’s Classroom” to explore how you can use the Creative Cloud suite to bring creativity into the classroom and engage your students. Class starts on March 2nd and runs through…
Category: Technology
The classroom sublime—In search of “the magic beyond the MOOCs”
I’m in the middle of reading David E. Nye’s historical treatment of a philosophical and cultural construct as it has evolved over time and place, and it’s got me thinking about online learning and the classroom in a slightly different…
Feb. 5 Tech Talks: A few keywords & issues to run with
Several brave souls trudged through the snow and sleet on Wednesday, Feb. 5, for our inaugural 10-minute Tech Talks event. They were rewarded by three inspiring presentations–Anna Iacovella on using Facebook to extend learning in her Italian classes, Dinny Aletheiani…
MOOCs, SNOCs, DOCCs, and flipped classrooms: Thoughts from the first Yale Online Education Open Forum of 2014
On Monday last week, my colleague Dave Malinowski and I were able to sit in on Yale’s first Online Education Open Forum of the year. The event was live-tweeted by @Yale_Online (scroll down to Jan. 27 tweets), and videos of the presentations, such as those by…
How do you teach language with film?: Next steps from the Brown Bag (& LFLFC workshop)
Update from 2/1/2014: This post was written one week before the Jan. 31 workshop for using the Berkeley Library of Foreign Language Film Clips. The handout for that event can be downloaded here. The questions at the end of this…
CLS on Twitter, 2013 Edition
With all the year-end reflections, New Year’s prognostications, and two-week check-ins on how you’re doing with your resolutions anyway, it seemed like a perfect time and place to think out loud about where the CLS has come on its primary…