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Categories: Information Literacy, SPIN 2024
May 22, 2024

Digital Literacy Takeaways

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: Building a Classroom Community, Featured, SPIN 2024
May 20, 2024

Quick & Easy Active Engagement Strategies for Any Class

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
May 20, 2024

Re-engaging Students in the Intro STEM Classes

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: Information Literacy, SPIN 2024
May 20, 2024

Abundance and Information Literacy?

Guest Speaker Dave Cormier started the SPIN 2024 program off with a provocation about information literacy in a time of information abundance.

Categories: Featured, Inclusive Pedagogy, SPIN 2024
May 20, 2024

Checking In: A mental health positive tool for student engagement

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
May 20, 2024

Neurodivergent Design

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
May 20, 2024

Programming Assignments without Google

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
May 20, 2024

How do we know what we know? Evaluating AI & other sources of information

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: PSU Specific, SPIN 2024
May 20, 2024

SPIN into Summer

The CoLab put together this short publication for SPIN with information and links to resources that PSU faculty might find helpful when planning for fall classes and next year. Download […]