Yusuf has been with us here at Bothell for about eight years and in that time he was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award. He was a founder of one of the Bothell Learning Communities and ran some wonderful brown bag reflective teaching sessions. Yusuf also runs the Tech4good program. …
Lisa Lane has just retired from teaching history after 34 years! Wow! Lisa has worked with faculty from all over the world through her professional development roles at Mira Costa Community College in California. This archive of some of that work goes back to 2010 and her writing in teaching…
Our Fireside Guests – Dave Cormier Dave is a learning specialist with the Office of Open Learning and you can learn more about his work here. He has a book coming out in January of 2024 titled, Learning in a Time of Abundance. Lorie Stolarchuk Lorie is a learning specialist…
Our little learning community here has been meeting monthly for six years. Six years! We have been under the spell of our first leader Jane VanGalen for all these years! The rest of our community includes the following wonderful people: Becca Price, Sarita Shukla, Mark Chen, Gavin Doyle, Susan McNabb,…
I’ve been avoiding exams for a number of years, ever since my research began to involve concept inventories, the development of which explores how well students understand the questions we compose (e.g., papers here beginning ~ 2013). I started to interview students to assess their understanding of test questions, and…
On March 30th, my birthday, I presented at the Washington State Canvas Conference. It was the second time I had presented at the event on my birthday. How weird is that? Spending my birthday with the great people in the world of education. #2017wacc pic.twitter.com/LJVpQ3r0nV — Todd Conaway (@Todd_Conaway) March…
Our Fireside Guests – Shelly Rodrigo Possible founder of the CyberSalon, certainly one of the founders, Shelly is the Director of the Writing Program at University of Arizona. She has been giving presentations around teaching, learning and technology for years. Alisa Cooper Alisa is a faculty of 27 years at…
Faculty member Becca Price joins host Bonni Stachowiak once again as a guest on the podcast Teaching in Higher Ed. This episode is called “How to develop ourselves and others through classroom observations,” and Price discusses how much instructors can learn from watching each other teach. Her expertise in this topic grew from…
A common approach to grading is to use a rubric. They provide clarity to students about grading criteria, may reduce student anxiety around grading, provide transparency around grading, and possibly reduce friction between students and faculty about scores. And yet, rubrics have their own challenges in teaching. They follow a…
Little rituals help me start class. I’m always nervous to start, and the rituals ground me until my nerves calm. I walk into the classroom with a smile, and say “Hi folks! How’s everyone doing?” I turn on the projector, and I open the websites we’ll need for class. I…
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