Archive | Assignments & exams

Tool Talk | March 11, 2019

Voicethread Upgraded: Now with Automatic Captions

By ACERT and Shiao-Chuan Kung
Topics : Assignments & exams, Discussion, Hunter Resources, Learning outside the classroom, Mobile apps and devices, Rich media & presentation tools, Student Engagement

If you have been using VoiceThread for mini-lectures or assignments, I bring good news! This presentation and discussion tool has been upgraded. From now on, all new audio and video content created on VoiceThread will have captions automatically generated a few minutes after the recording is uploaded.

Tool Talk | March 1, 2019

PlayPosit: A Remedy for the Passive Viewing of Videos

By ACERT and Shiao-Chuan Kung
Topics : Assignments & exams, Asynchronous teaching, Rich media & presentation tools, Student Engagement, Technology

How do you guide students through videos that you assign as part of their coursework? How do you help them focus on areas that an expert eye like yours would notice, but novice viewers might not? Interactive video tools such as PlayPosit and Edpuzzle might help. They can help you turn video-watching into an active learning experience for your students.

What We’re Reading | January 12, 2017

Hillary Clinton and beyond

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Online writing and reflection, Student Engagement

Professor Wendy Hayden's (English) rhetoric course, Hillary Clinton and Beyond, explored rhetoric in the context of the recent election. The course experimented with a crowdsourced syllabus in which Wendy chose the readings for the first four classes of the semester and then turned the syllabus over to the students. By the end of the semester, her course uncovered answers to some of the guiding questions about Clinton and the power of rhetoric.

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.

News and Announcements | May 23, 2016

Digital Pedagogy Prizes

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, ePortfolios, Online writing and reflection, Rich media & presentation tools

This semester, ACERT organized two new prizes to call attention to some of the innovative and exciting work happening at Hunter in the area of digital pedagogy: a Faculty Assignment Prize and a Student Digital Writing Prize. Here, we would like to share with you a small sample of the winning projects.

What We’re Reading | April 19, 2016

Make It Stick

By ACERT, Mark Bobrow, Stephanie Margolin and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Assess student work, Assignments & exams, Course design

Members of the ACERT community share their responses to "Make It Stick." This book challenges conventional thinking about student learning, with a particular focus on how inefficient and unproductive strategies and practices are often reinforced by educators.

OLC Innovate: Innovations in blended and online learning

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Course design, Hybrid classes, Learning management systems, Online classes, Rich media & presentation tools

Thursday
Apr 21, 2016
10:00 am - 3:30 pm
ICIT conference room

OLC Innovate: Innovations in blended and online learning

Presenter(s): Online Learning Consortium and MERLOT

ACERT will be streaming sessions from the OLC Innovate Conference on April 20 - 22. Join us for sessions on a variety of topics (see daily event pages for schedule). [Details...]

Day of DigPed: Keynote on “Web writing and data visualization in liberal arts pedagogy”

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Data visualization, Online writing and reflection

Tuesday
May 3, 2016
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Chanin (B126 HW)

Day of DigPed: Keynote on "Web writing and data visualization in liberal arts pedagogy"

Presenter(s): Jack Dougherty (Professor of Educational Studies, Trinity College)

Lecture: “Web Writing and Data Visualization in Liberal Arts Pedagogy." [Details...]

Day of DigPed: Creating open access digital books

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Mapping, Online writing and reflection, Rich media & presentation tools

Tuesday
May 3, 2016
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
1203 HE

Day of DigPed: Creating open access digital books

Presenter(s): Jack Dougherty (Professor of Educational Studies, Trinity College)

A workshop led by Jack Dougherty on the process of collaborating with undergraduate students to create On The Line (http://OnTheLine.trincoll.edu), an open-access digital history book with interactive maps and oral history videos. [Details...]

Day of DigPed: Awards Ceremony for Digital Pedagogy and Digital Writing Prizes

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

Tuesday
May 3, 2016
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1203 HE

Day of DigPed: Awards Ceremony for Digital Pedagogy and Digital Writing Prizes

Presenter(s):

Ceremony to honor winners of two new prizes: the Digital Pedagogy Prize for the faculty members who create the best assignments that use digital pedagogy principles, and the Digital Writing Prize, for the students who submit the best examples of digital writing. [Details...]