Blog Feature Archives: Event Capsules

Event Capsules | April 5, 2017

ACERT Event Capsule – Serious play: Games in the classroom

By ACERT
Topics : Course design, Student Engagement

We often think of play as the opposite of the work that we do in the classroom as teachers or students. However, in this Event Capsule, Leah Potter and Jeff Allred discuss using games to transform their pedagogy.

Event Capsules | November 7, 2016

ACERT Event Capsule – Web scrawlers: Annotating digital objects with students

By ACERT
Topics : Rich media & presentation tools, Technology

What happens to the time-honored tradition of scribbling in the margins when texts migrate from the page to the screen? In this Event Capsule, Jeff Allred and Philip Ewell discuss their use of Skim and hypothes.is to annotate digital documents.

Event Capsules | October 24, 2016

ACERT Event Capsule – Going long: Designing semester-long collaborations in the classroom

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Course design, Online writing and reflection

In this Event Capsule, Lisa Anderson and David Alm discuss their experiences in creating semester-long projects in the classroom. They share their methods, showcase their final products, and share advice on how faculty members can design their own semester-long collaborative projects.

Event Capsules | November 17, 2015

Embedding a librarian in your class

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Course design, Library

Our October 8 Lunchtime Seminar featured three pairs of faculty and librarians who have collaborated on semester-long pedagogical projects. In this event capsule video, you'll hear two of these pairs (Elizabeth Geltman and John Pell; Iris Finkel and Jeff Allred) give a synopsis of what they talked about.

Event Capsules | March 6, 2015