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Digital Storytelling and the “Art of the Internship Experience” with Denise Comer (Duke University) [VIDEO]
Denise Comer is an Assistant Professor in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University, and its Director of First Year Writing. This past summer, she developed an online course entitled “Composing the Internship Experience: Digital Rhetoric and Social Media...
Fostering Self-Awareness and Improvement in Music Students: A Conversation with Jim Criswell
Jim Criswell is the Band and Orchestra Director at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School, a large independent school in Alexandria, Virginia. He currently teaches 7th and 8th grade Advanced Band, as well as high school String Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. ACCLAIM first...
How can we “hack knowledge?” A conversation with Aria Chernik (Duke University)
Aria F. Chernik is an open knowledge activist whose work focuses on digital literacy, participatory citizenship and collaborative learning environments, multimedia communication, professional learning design and curricular innovation, and social media and justice. She...
Creating and sustaining online discussion
This is a guest post by Tony J. Reeves. It was originally posted on Tony's blog on June 3, 2014. Tony is the Program Manager in Digital Pedagogy, and a Learning Technologist at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham, the United Kingdom. In the following...
Video Feedback Enhances Student Choreography Practice at MTSU
Marsha Barksy is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Dance Program at Middle Tennessee State University. She holds an MFA in Dance and has been teaching for the past 10 years. This semester she is teaching Dance Appreciation, Choreography I and Modern...
Differentiated Instruction and Adaptive Learning
This is a guest post by Christina Yu, Marketing Manager at Knewton. This post originally appeared on the Knewton Blog on September 22, 2014. Differentiated instruction, the tailoring of educational experiences to meet individual learner needs, is nothing new....
How can blogging improve student writing and thinking skills?
This is a guest post by Tony J. Reeves. It was originally posted on Tony's blog on June 3, 2014. Tony is the Program Manager in Digital Pedagogy, and a Learning Technologist at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham, the United Kingdom. How can blogging...
Edit, Reshoot, or Ignore? What to do About Mistakes in Educational Videos
This is a co-written guest post by Jess Nepom, and Kristen Tracey. Jess is the Academic Project Manager at Knewton, and Kristen is a Content Developer. This post originally appeared on the on the Knewton Blog on September 19, 2012. Choosing between scalability and...
Memory, retention, and understanding: How to expand your mind’s capacity
The following post by Acclaim's Alisa Gross originally appeared on the Knewton Blog on August 5, 2014. Leonardo DaVinci once wrote: “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery over oneself.” In his journals, Leonardo recorded not only his insights in art,...
4 reasons to build an online undergraduate learning community
This is a guest post by Tony J. Reeves. It was originally posted on Tony's blog on May 17, 2013. Tony is the Program Manager in Digital Pedagogy and a Learning Technologist at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, the United Kingdom. Why would you want to...
Online Dating: A Communication Skills Activity
Jenny Warren is a Communication Skills instructor at Collin College in Dallas Texas, teaching the Basic Course, Public Speaking, Honors Methodology, Business and Professional Communication, and Leadership. As part of her Basic Course in Communication Skills, Jenny...
Scoping Out Sociology at the ASA Conference in San Francisco, Aug 15-19, 2014
Last week, I headed out to San Francisco for the yearly American Sociological Association Conference. Over the course of my visit, I had the chance to connect with professors and graduate students from across the country, and attend presentations on teaching, higher...