Instructional Video: Keep it . .. Moving

13 March 2017

Consider this: the length of time between edits in video/film has decreased dramatically in the last 100 years. In the 1930’s, the average shot lasted 10-12 seconds. In 1990 it…

Countdown on the old movie screen. Number 5 superimposed over words

Tracking Student Progress to Assist Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning

6 March 2017

Many faculty are interested in both tracking student progress and also helping students learn to track their work themselves. Most learning management systems (LMS) have a feature that allows students and…

screenshot of Moodle interface to track student activity completion. shows rows of students and columns of activities

proposal accepted for dh2017!

27 February 2017

I’m thrilled to say that Andrew Wilson, Sarah Calhoun, and I had our poster proposal accepted for dh2017 in Montreal! We’re experimenting with augmented reality for representing complex temporalities in…

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Moodle Recipes: Small Group Discussions

16 January 2017

We’ve started a new series of posts called Moodle Recipes that will focus on pedagogically effective ways to make use of Moodle in a face-to-face classroom setting. All Moodle Recipes will…

Skills are (part of) “The New Canon”?

9 January 2017

In the Chronicle of Higher Ed* article “If Skills Are The New Canon, Are Colleges Teaching Them,” Dan Barrett suggests that after 20ish years of wrestling with a move away…

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Reflections on #budsc16

7 November 2016

On October 26-28, I attended the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference with my colleagues Janet Russell and Sarah Calhoun. It was my first time attending that event, and I was struck…

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Assessment Analysis

4 November 2016

Effective Instruction begins by determining your desired learning outcomes and then designing effective and varied assessments. There are countless ways to assess students–methods that are both traditional and non-traditional. I…

Hello! What’s New in AT Social Media

24 October 2016

Welcome! If you’ve been following this blog, you may notice things look a little different. We’ve updated to a brighter, friendlier theme with some features that help this site serve…

Recap of Diana Sinton’s talk on Student Learning and Spatial Reasoning

24 October 2016

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