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Our very own Mark Gammon, ASSETT DATC, is featured in a podcast on the EDUCAUSE site, "Social Media in the Classroom - One Size Does Not Fit All." The podcast is a follow up to Mark's presentations at August's COLTT conference. If you're interested in learning more about social media,...

Minori Murata has big plans for her teaching. A Japanese instructor at CU Boulder for 8 years, Murata has taught the language every year, always with physical materials and following a similar teaching process. In Spring 2009, this changed. It was then that she began to incorporate technology into the...

If you learned a language in high school, odds are you remember snippets, phrases, or mere words of the language you studied. Biblical Hebrew Instructor David Valeta’s goal is to teach a language so that students will remember it for years, using what is called Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). This...

While searching for teaching ideas in the summer of 2006, Farrand RAP Senior Instructor Kayann Short “serendipitously” stumbled upon something that would change the course of her teaching interests: digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling is about the story first and foremost: a first-person narrative focusing on a meaningful personal experience. Unlike...

“There is often a gap between the pure teaching of mathematics in math classes and students using it in application courses. The place in-between is where students need experiences analyzing and solving real life problems." --Evelyn Puaa, Math Instructor Preparing her students to operate effectively in this gap is paramount...

By integrating music, movies, still images, web design, and podcasting, English Professor Ed Rivers highlights technology’s power to communicate both content and emotion. Rivers’ inspiration for his Multimedia Composition course came from student projects. An increasing number of students wanted to use technologies such as music, video, and still photography...

“It’d be like if you lectured to someone about skiing and then expected them to be able to ski; it doesn’t work well. They’ve got to practice, they’ve got to fall down, learn how to do things.” –Mike Klymkowsky, CU Professor, MCDB Mike Klymkowsky knows that experience and practice are...

Mark Knowles knows that the ALTEC program is a critical component in teaching and learning for students and faculty in the foreign languages. As Director, Mark supports ALTEC’s mission to broaden and deepen the study of foreign languages by developing, curating, and promoting access to state-of-the-art multimedia. The program prepares...

If you teach a foreign language class and have considered incorporating technologies to support learning, then Edwige Simon is someone you should know about. She is the director of the Foreign Language Technology Program. Available to graduate students, faculty and instructors, the FLTP works to teach technical skills that can...

As Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences website, Noah Larsen has a creative hand in how we read news about the college. Noah works to design, develop and maintain the technology A&S uses to reach the faculty and staff, students and alumni, and the wider community. Prior to...