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ES2018 – Creative use of technology to assess students

Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This session was on technologies that could help with student assessment.

The session started with a discussion of what is assessment. We tend to think of it as a method of assigning scores/grades (summative assessment), but the discussion showed we really mean a lot more than that. In…

ES 2018 – New Canvas gradebook & quizzes

Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This post is a summary of two sessions on new features in Canvas, the new gradebook and new quizzes. Both of these are in pilot phase right now, available under the Feature Options tab in Settings. They’ve been tested, but not at scale, so there may be bugs.

New gradebook

The new…

ES 2018 – Lightning talks – Active Learning

Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This session was a series of lightning talks on Active Learning. There were 7 presenters. Titles below are my quick reinterpretation, not the listed talk titles (lightning talks = no time to type everything, I just wanted to be sure I got the names right!)

  Yulia Sevryugina: Strategies…

ES 2018 – keynote: Helping Students Learn In An Age Of Digital Distraction

Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This year’s keynote address was “Helping Students Learn In An Age Of Digital Distraction” by Katie Linder. You can watch the presentation on the Enriching Scholarship website. Here is my summary of what I thought the important points were, and a little of my own commentary.

Dr Linder…

Enriching Scholarship 2017 Lightning and Thunder Talks

This year’s enriching Scholarship saw a new format of presentation: lighting and thunder talks. First each presenter gave a lighting talk about their topic. After everyone did their presentations, we settled in around some tables for small group discussion of their topic. Below I give the synopsis of their lightning talk, followed by any notes that came out of the table discussions I attended…

Enriching Scholarship 2017 keynote

When watching the keynote address at Enriching Scholarship, there are generally three questions that I ponder: What is this person trying to say; How can I apply what s/he is saying to the astronomy classroom; and is what I’m hearing him/her say the same thing that everyone else is picking up on? So, here is my annual attempt to summarize the important points. If you got something else out of it,…

Enriching Scholarship 2015 – Tech & Trends

The University of Michigan’s annual conference on teaching, learning, and technology, Enriching Scholarship, took place, May 4 – 8, 2015. On Thursday, I attended the Interdisciplinary Communities of Practice: Tech Tools, Trends, Ethos session hosted by the Tech & Trends for Communicators group.

They began with a brief history of the group, and who the members are. Many of them mentioned the…

Teach Feast 2014: Canvas

On Nov 21, the Friday before Thanksgiving, the Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TeachTech) hosted a one day series of workshops. These are my notes on the sessions I attended. The University is planning to go to a vendor supplied LMS soon. Canvas is the planned replacement, and several classes were/are piloting it in fall and winter terms. It is part of the package for joining UNIZEN.…