Teaching@WFU: A CAT Blog
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- Syllabus Week in the Age of AI: Part I
For teaching centers, the weeks before the start of the fall semester are the most wonderful time of the year. We welcome new faculty into our community of teacher-scholars, and faculty of all ranks begin to reach out as they design their syllabi … Read more - Sharing Teaching Materials from Canvas
If you’re like me, you’ve put a great deal of time and energy into your Canvas course pages. From building the modules and creating assignments to providing feedback, sending announcements, and making updates to the course schedule, a great deal of our teaching is visible … Read more - Get Out of Your Classroom: Some Nontraditional Learning Spaces on Campus!
One of my favorite programs I lead here at the CAT is a New Faculty Learning Community. The group meets throughout the year, but at the beginning of our time together, they develop a list of support and resources they would like … Read more - Focus on Self-Awareness and Empathy for Deep Teaching and Learning
I + E = O When I think about designing courses or curricula, I often start with I + E = O. Seems like a simple equation, right? There are just three variables. “I” are the inputs — the students and the knowledge and experiences … Read more - Will ChatGPT make us better, happier teachers?
When I was six years old, my most prized possession was a “Smarty Bear.” Unlike the better-known Teddy Ruxpin, which read a taped script, Smarty Bear was an animatronic teddy bear that would interact and respond to … Read more