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PowerPoint and bullet points, a deadly combination
We’ve all been through this nightmare – sitting in a dark room, staring at a screen filled with clip art and an endless army of bullet points while the presenter reads the slides aloud, as you struggle...
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Teaching is one of the most challenging jobs in the world. There, I said it! In no other profession can one have such a profound effect on the minds of young (and not-s0-young!) people. Teachers wear...
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Sister blog!
Our “Instructional Technology at Macomb” blog is relatively new to the blogosphere (don’t you love made-up tech words like blogosphere?!). We’re still settling into the neighborhood, but we’re already...
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Wake your students!
How many of us have suffered through classes that follow this pattern? Go to class, listen to lecture, stare at PowerPoint slides – go home and (sort-of) read the book – return to class and take...
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Cheating is easy!
We are all educators here, which, by rule means none of us have EVER cheated in a class… right? Suuure. Well, as long as there are students, exams, papers and homework assignments, there will be...
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Mid-Course: Check Your Progress
Our Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) can be very helpful in providing feedback. However, these surveys are only administered at the end of the semester, much too late to assist the current...
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