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Posts categorized as Explore are designed to educate faculty and students on the benefits of technologies which may not have been previously considered in the Emerson teaching and learning experience.

  • October 13, 2021
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Building an Escape Room With Google Forms

  • Digital Humanities
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The adventure continues! Back in August, I wrote a post comparing course design to Dungeons & Dragons and promised to share some tools and ideas for gamified activities you can try yourself. This is the first: an escape-the-room/choose-your-own-adventure-style puzzle you can create using Google Forms. […]

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  • October 12, 2021October 13, 2021
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Thinking About “Productive Failure” in Your Teaching

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Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery, hmm… but weakness, folly, failure also. Yes: failure, most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is.  Jedi Master Yoda   In early October of 2021, I finally got around to visiting Martha’s Vineyard so I could see […]

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  • August 10, 2021August 10, 2021
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How to Run Your Course Like a Game of Dungeons & Dragons

  • Digital Humanities
A gameboard on which a group of small adventurer figures confronts a large red troll figure.

What does Dungeons & Dragons have in common with course design? More than you’d think. Role-playing games like D&D involve a group of distractible adventurers telling a story together with the help of a “game moderator” (GM) who establishes the world, gives the party their […]

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  • June 20, 2020
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Two Perspectives: A Faculty and a Student Discuss Their Experience Using Video

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Emerson ASL faculty have been using video to teach for years. In Fall 2019, I interviewed Wendy Whiting about her use of video in her teaching, and then interviewed one of her students, Adam Engel, on his experience taking her course. The two conversations have […]

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  • May 31, 2018February 11, 2021
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Identify Online Tools for Teaching and Learning

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Online educational tools provide engaging environments for students with various needs. However, exploring new tools can be time-consuming for students without any advice on how to select the appropriate learning tools. It is better for instructors to provide the resources as much as they can […]

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  • October 31, 2017
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Reading and Remixing: Teaching the Self-Generating Poem

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One iteration of Montfort's "Taroko Gorge"

One memorable afternoon in my Digital Literature class from a couple of years ago, I introduced my students to Nick Montfort’s digital poem “Taroko Gorge.” The students watched, enchanted, as the poem’s text cascaded down the forest green page. The gentle pacing created by the […]

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  • October 11, 2017
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Faculty Spotlight: Jon Honea

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In this first of a series of interviews with Emerson faculty, we talk with Jon Honea about how he uses technology to enhance his teaching… What courses do you teach? Ecology and Conservation, Science and Politics of Water, Energy, and Sustainability, Science in Translation: Environmental […]

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  • August 10, 2017February 9, 2021
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Teaching Video Composition: The 30-Second Ad

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As hard as this may be to believe, the traditional written essay isn’t always the most engaging assignment for students. I’d also venture to say that after spending the better part of a semester grading written essays, even instructors tend to wish for a change […]

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  • February 10, 2015February 11, 2021
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Fall 2014 Faculty Showcase Series

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In November and December of 2014, we invited Emerson faculty with exemplary use of technology in their instruction to share their methods and impact with other members of the community. Presenter Department Topic Paul Mihailidis Marketing Communication Socrative, Storify Ruth Grossman Communication Sciences & Disorders […]

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  • September 18, 2014February 11, 2021
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File naming standards: eliminate future headaches

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There are a lot of reasons that file naming standards should be your best friends. They are rad, responsible, and reliable. Just like the three R’s of old. But most importantly – you will not run into problems opening your files on another computer, uploading […]

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Video Spotlight: Creating Accessible Videos


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What We’re Reading

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  • Panopto
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  • Zoom

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