by Alisa Gross | Jun 9, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, EdTech, Teaching
Jillian Harris is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. In 2009, Jillian was asked to develop Modern Dance technique standards that could be applied in formal assessments of students’ performance. Prior to this...
by Alisa Gross | Jun 2, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, Teaching
On the first day of Fundamentals of Public Speaking at Austin Community College and at the University of Texas, Maegan Stephens’ students vote on their syllabus. “This is not my class, it is our class; therefore, this should not be my syllabus, it should be ours,”...
by Alisa Gross | May 27, 2014 | EdTech, Social Media, Teaching
More and more professors are finding that Facebook inspires more enthusiasm and interaction than LMSes as a forum for online discussion and class collaboration. Blackboard is difficult to use, and the process of incentivizing students to engage in discussion...
by Alisa Gross | May 19, 2014 | Teaching
This is a guest post by Stacy Rosenberg, Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University If you have been tempted to look down at your phone in the middle of a presentation – no matter how relevant the content – you suffer from The Swipe Effect. The Swipe...
by Alisa Gross | May 12, 2014 | Acclaim Posts
Chuck Sacco teaches an experiential entrepreneurship class called Launch It! at Drexel that allows him to work with students entrepreneurs to create and launch their own ventures with the help of up to $2,000 in seed funding. After co-founding PhindMe, a mobile...
