Forget the book, bring in the Flash: A universal tool for math students

March 5, 2010

In field of research where numbers, equations, and charts usually appear on paper, applied mathematics professor Dr. John Flynt likes his math a little more visually interactive. To help construct his vision, Flynt recruited eight students to work in labs developing online visual Flash applications. As part of his program...

Mike鈥檚 Anatomy: A Custom App Study Guide for IPHY 3415 (Human Anatomy Lab)

March 4, 2010

Managing and keeping track of hundreds of note cards can be a challenge for any student. What if note cards were available on your mobile device? Keeping this concept in mind, Mike Pascoe, a Doctoral Candidate studying Integrative Physiology at University of Colorado, 羞羞视频, is one of the first from...

CU Educational Videos on YouTube

Feb. 17, 2010

YouTube is notorious for being the Internet鈥檚 biggest site for bizarre, creative, heartfelt, and hilarious videos. People from all over the world upload their personal videos for the entertainment of others. Everyone from professional video production studios and television networks to average people use YouTube to share their videos with...

Teletherapy: Medicine is Going Global

Sept. 17, 2009

Professor Gail Ramsberger, chair of the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) department, realizes that technology is changing the way speech, language and hearing therapy works. Something as simple as video conferencing, because of its affordability and relatively low cost, is creating a treatment option that never existed before: teletherapy...

Innovative Practices for Learning Biblical Hebrew

July 31, 2009

If you learned a language in high school, odds are you remember snippets, phrases, or mere words of the language you studied. Biblical Hebrew Instructor David Valeta鈥檚 goal is to teach a language so that students will remember it for years, using what is called Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). This...

Digital Storytelling: Media In Your Own Voice

July 15, 2009

While searching for teaching ideas in the summer of 2006, Farrand RAP Senior Instructor Kayann Short 鈥渟erendipitously鈥 stumbled upon something that would change the course of her teaching interests: digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling is about the story first and foremost: a first-person narrative focusing on a meaningful personal experience. Unlike...

CUTeach-Math: Using Tech to Train Math Teachers

July 9, 2009

鈥淭here is often a gap between the pure teaching of mathematics in math classes and students using it in application courses. The place in-between is where students need experiences analyzing and solving real life problems." --Evelyn Puaa, Math Instructor Preparing her students to operate effectively in this gap is paramount...

Ed Rivers: Integrating Technology, Multimedia, and English

June 22, 2009

By integrating music, movies, still images, web design, and podcasting, English Professor Ed Rivers highlights technology鈥檚 power to communicate both content and emotion. Rivers鈥 inspiration for his Multimedia Composition course came from student projects. An increasing number of students wanted to use technologies such as music, video, and still photography...

MCDB Professor Mike Klymkowsky Branches Out

June 12, 2009

鈥淚t鈥檇 be like if you lectured to someone about skiing and then expected them to be able to ski; it doesn鈥檛 work well. They鈥檝e got to practice, they鈥檝e got to fall down, learn how to do things.鈥 鈥揗ike Klymkowsky, CU Professor, MCDB Mike Klymkowsky knows that experience and practice are...

Project Bamboo: Advancing Arts & Humanities Through Technology

Feb. 11, 2009

Since October 2008, Lori Emerson (English), Steve Bailey (A&H DATC), Yem Fong (Libraries), and Heather Wicht (Libraries) have participated in workshops organized by Project Bamboo. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by Principal Investigators Janet Broughton (Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, University of...

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