Don’t Assume Too Much: Teaching the ‘Digital Natives’

by Baynard Bailey In Academic Computing Services, we supervise a number of students that are truly experts in multimedia production in a variety of forms. They continually wow us with their outstanding project work. The students create remarkable multimedia in a variety of forms (video, web sites, sound projects etc.). Based on these wonderful projects, it [...] [...]

The 2011 Teaching with Technology Forum

by Steve Taylor On April 7, Academic Computing Services (ACS) hosted its 9th annual Teaching with Technology Forum. The forum features a keynote address, given this year by Prof. Lisa Paravisini, on the topic “Teaching with Blogs: Going from the Source to Cyberspace.” Twelve faculty members and two Computing & Information Services members presented posters and made [...] [...]

10 Tips to get the most out of your class blog

by Baynard Bailey Last week was jam-packed as I provided workshops for seven different Vassar classes, introducing multimedia technologies for different projects. Five of those classes’ projects were using WordPress. It made me think— Some of these class blogs will flourish and some will wither and die. Why? What makes the difference? Here [...] [...]

Student Writing for a Global Audience

by Steve Taylor It may be humbling for instructors to realize that they don’t necessarily inspire the highest quality of writing from their students. Of course, students are motivated by grades to submit good writing to their teachers, but many have found that the prospect of students having their papers read by their peers can be [...] [...]