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  • August 10, 2021February 2, 2023
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How to Run Your Course Like a Game of Dungeons & Dragons

  • Digital Humanities
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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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  • June 19, 2020
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Case Study: Asking Students to Make Video Presentations

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In the fall of 2019, I interviewed Mike McGuirk who teaches in the Marketing Communication Department about his use of video in his assignment prompts. Mike asked his Social Media and VOC Analytics students to make two video presentations. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for […]

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  • October 7, 2019February 17, 2021
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How to Help Students Become Digital Storytellers

  • Learning Sciences
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We Emersonians know that you don’t need to be a grizzled rogue with a lute to be a storyteller. Nor do you need to read or listen passively as stories are told. It is now possible for anyone⁠—including students⁠—to engage in creative, academic, and journalistic […]

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  • April 12, 2019
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“Pedagogy” in Higher Education

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Everyone seems to have a hill they will die on. A (sometimes) irrational fixation on something that will cause eye-rolling and heavy sighing among others when one starts to sound off and draw out the artillery to defend such hill. For me, that hill is […]

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  • May 31, 2018March 28, 2023
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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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  • November 17, 2017March 28, 2023
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Incorporate Video Feedback in Teaching

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In traditional educational contexts, providing meaningful feedback to students can enhance their learning and improve their learning performance. In online teaching contexts or in response to assignments submitted for formal assessment, providing written feedback is considered to be the most commonly used format. Research shows […]

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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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  • 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, 2017February 9, 2021
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Reaching all types of learners with UDL

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You may have heard the term UDL buzzing around lately in your education circles. It stands for Universal Design for Learning and is a guiding tenet for us here in ITG. The term Universal Design originated in the world of architecture. It emphasizes designing to […]

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Video Spotlight: Creating Accessible Videos


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