Comics add interest to communicating with students

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I recently attended a conference session entitled: “Dennis the Menace and Spiderman Challenge Socrates.” The discussion talked about how to deliver content, announcements, lessons that use graphic comic strips to add interest to the words. I must say, I was intrigued with how interesting it was, and how easy it was to create, with the… Read more »

TILT – Exemplary Online Instruction, Experiences to Improve Teaching

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Exemplary Online Instruction and the Rubric for Online Instruction are helping CSU Chico faculty redesign and evaluate courses to be effective and exemplary models for others. This TILT Symposium features faculty who have already been recognized for their exemplary work. They will show courses and talk about the process of nominating their course and applying… Read more »

Spotlight on Faculty: Vista Community for Criminal Justice Students & Faculty

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by Lori Beth Way At CSU, Chico, Criminal Justice faculty and student majors are all members of the Vista CJ Community. The main purpose of the community is to foster communication between faculty and students. Specifically, there is a great deal of resource information that students can find on the community site. Majors can find… Read more »

Lecture Capture with Wimba – CSU Chico

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ONLINE WEBCAST When: December 8, 2008 12:00 pm PST Where: Online Register to Attend: Wimba Registration For years, instructors at CSU, Chico have taught classes that met to face-to-face but simultaneously had students logged in remotely via Wimba Classroom. These remote students were able to see the face-to-face teacher via video and a student assistant… Read more »

Better Learning With Sites and Sound

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Even as many instructors embrace digital tools in the classroom, some are pushing the technology envelope with more complex tools for teaching or interacting with students. New research suggests the promise of such approaches. Read this article (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/03/audio) for the complete story, from Inside Higher Ed, issue of Dec. 3rd. Read the study that prompted… Read more »