SPIN 2024
- Categories: Information Literacy, SPIN 2024
Following an activity on digital literacy — and, specifically, research in a time of information abundance — SPIN participants were invited to create creative “takeaways” about important lessons or themes […]
- Categories: Information Literacy, SPIN 2024
Guest Speaker Dave Cormier started the SPIN 2024 program off with a provocation about information literacy in a time of information abundance.
- Categories: SPIN 2024
On May 14th, the CoLab hosted a new faculty development program, Spring Pedagogy Institute (SPIN), for the first time. During the morning of the inaugural event (offered in collaboration with the faculty […]
- Categories: Building a Classroom Community, Featured, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Aimee Pascale Many active engagement strategies are evidence-based to support retention, learning, and the student experience. Learn about a few quick, easy to implement active engagement strategies conducive to […]
- Categories: Building a Classroom Community, Featured, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Brad Moser During the Spring 2023 semester, I trialed a 7-week student-designed, measurement-based project to reengage my students in introductory physics. This was a big success! I’ve extended this […]
- Categories: Featured, Inclusive Pedagogy, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Jessie Chapman Checking in is a classroom engagement tool I have carried over from my work in professional and educational theatre settings. It effectively uses the first five minutes […]
- Categories: Featured, Inclusive Pedagogy, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Nic Helms How might we design our courses with neurodivergent students in mind? This presentation will focus on Canvas and syllabus course construction, and will build on the ungrading […]
- Categories: Featured, Instructional Design, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Nat Tuck Typically programming assignments are given as homework and students are allowed to use arbitrary online resources as long as they don’t directly plagiarize. This semester I tried […]
- Categories: Information Literacy, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Alison Mitchell I will share an assignment and module I experimented with in my Fall 2023 semester Social Work Research Methods course. I decided to tackle the generative AI, […]
- Categories: Featured, Instructional Design, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Jason Charrette This presentation will discuss the why and how of using role-playing simulations as the principal mode of classroom instruction. Using examples from courses taught at PSU, it […]