I am excited to announce that we are starting a special series of blog posts for the Fall 2014 term. During the recent Graduate TA Orientation, we asked our students to pose some questions about active learning and some of their concerns about teaching. They had fantastic questions! Now, our ASU community will be posting responses to these questions, and I am sure we will all gain insights! I invite you to post additional comments below, and help us build a faculty learning community. Our first guest blogger is Michael Angilletta, PhD. He is a SoLS Professor, Senior Sustainability Scholar and the new Director of Undergraduate Programs at the School of Life Sciences in Arizona State University. What do you do when students come up with aggressive opinions that contradict well-accepted values during teaching? ("I don't believe in evolution" or "global warming is a scam") Your worst fear as a teacher of biology will eventually come to pass . A studen...

The final webinar of the summer shared numerous links, resources and insights into topics like flipped classrooms, student engagement, online learning, and assessment. We want to thank our panel of experts, Bina Vanmali, PhD, Peter Van Leusen, PhD, and Irma Sandercock for their thoughtful responses to YOUR questions. It was a great discussion! To view the recording, click here: https://connect.asu.edu/p81yg7edm88/ Below are some of the links that were shared: Faculty Focus: http://www.facultyfocus.com Partnership for 21st Century Skills: http://www.p21.org\ Quality Matters: https://www.qualitymatters.org/ TeachOnline Blog: teachonline.asu.edu SucceedOnline: http://succeedonline.asu.edu Teaching Professor listserv - http://web.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/Tomprof/index.shtml HapYak: http://corp.hapyak.com Academic Integrity: http://libguides.asu.edu/integrity Sign up to record videos: http://onlinestudio.asu.edu/studio-calendar Arina's Teaching Blog: http://qaetools.blo...

Summer is the perfect time for playing games (albeit not outside in Arizona!) We had a great time yesterday with our "Game On!" webinar. David Roman, Technology Integration Specialist from Pinal County School Office, Professional Development Office was with us to talk about the K12 perspective on gaming in the classroom, and how it is impacting higher education. We talked about why gaming is SO engaging to our ASU students and why K12 teachers are using them. Two case studies were discussed, and we shared some quick ideas to get started. Additionally, there were a lot of links shared in the discussions, so be sure to click below to see all the resources. To watch a recording of our webinar, click here To download a PDF of the slides, click here To download a PDF of the handout with information and resources, click here . Chat Room Shared Links: Center for games and Impact at ASU: http://gamesandimpact.org/ Gaming online at ASU: https://housing.asu.edu/content/g...

It's great to see that our Summer Tech Webinars are catching on, and more people are finding it convenient to log in, and get some ideas for their Fall classes! Our Unique Assignments with WebApps webinar was filled with ideas for Digital Storytelling assignments that get students to use 21st Century skills. We talked about technologies like StoryboardThat , RWT Timelines , Unitag QR Codes , Digication ePortfolios and JooMag online magazines.  Check out our WebApp Handout for the links and additional resources! If you would like to review the webinar, click here to watch the WebApp Webinar Video . The slides are in the recording, but if you want to see the slides by themselves, Click Here to see the JooMag magazine that we easily created with a PDF from the slides. It also has interactive links and videos! The summer is half over, but our webinars keep going! July 22- "Game On!" August 5- "Brainstorm Blast!" Our panel will brainstorm solut...

What a great afternoon! It was so good to see all of you in our webinar today. I hope you enjoyed testing some of the technologies like TodaysMeet, Padlet, and PollEverywhere, and I hope you started thinking about adding some polling to your classes in the fall. (or be spontaneous, and try it out in the summer!) Below are some of the links and resources that we discussed: Handout of all resources: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12594701/Handout.pdf Recording of today's session (we missed the first few minutes that we talked about our objectives and definitions of CATs and Formative Assessment): https://connect.asu.edu/p3y551l5sx8/ Slides from today's session: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12594701/0624_Polling%20Slides.pptx Peter van Leusen's article on CATs : http://teachonline.asu.edu/2014/02/gauging-student-understanding-cats-puuuuur-fect/  Contact Kris Knapp for initial TurningPoint training: kris.knapp@asu.edu Don't forget to fill...