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Brian Smith retweeted
12 Mar 2021
What do spike fiddles, singing garbage trucks, and Gobi Desert dust storms have in common?
To @oberlincollege instructor Kip Hutchins, they are evidence of the cultural exchange practiced between contiguous nations in Northeast Asia.
#innovativecourses
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Brian Smith retweeted
31 Mar 2021
"It’s important to examine the concept of the traditional ‘nuclear’ family that we see so often portrayed in white America, to better understand the systems of oppression at work."
– @RiceUniversity instructor Virginia Thomas
#innovativecourses
bit.ly/optics-of-kinship
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Brian Smith retweeted
24 Mar 2021
"This planet, this place that we call home, has an extraordinary history prior to the 18th century that is so much more than books have taught us to believe."
@Caltech instructor Sandy Rodriguez shares how she brings color into her virtual classroom:
bit.ly/visual-narrative-amer…
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Brian Smith retweeted
29 Mar 2021
Read this interview with E-P's Dr. Julie Dobrow about her Creating Children's Media course!
29 Mar 2021
"I believe that the best children’s media works on two levels simultaneously: it has to be something that kids are going to respond to, but it also has to be something that their older siblings, or even their parents, would like as well."
bit.ly/childrens-media
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Brian Smith retweeted
29 Mar 2021
Dr. Julie Dobrow from @TuftsUniversity shares how she designed her interdisciplinary course 'Creating Children's Media', in our round-up of the #MostInnovativeCourses of 2020.
@TuftsDaily
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Brian Smith retweeted
29 Mar 2021
"I believe that the best children’s media works on two levels simultaneously: it has to be something that kids are going to respond to, but it also has to be something that their older siblings, or even their parents, would like as well."
bit.ly/childrens-media
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Brian Smith retweeted
12 Mar 2021
How can you make your online class more interactive and engaging for students experiencing #ZoomFatigue?
We have some ideas:
#academicchatter #highered #distancelearning
bit.ly/virtual-class-assignm…
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12 Mar 2021
The latest from @Campuswire's list of the #MostInnovativeCourses in 2020.
@OberlinOES @oberlin_news @oberlincollege @ObieLib
12 Mar 2021
What do spike fiddles, singing garbage trucks, and Gobi Desert dust storms have in common?
To @oberlincollege instructor Kip Hutchins, they are evidence of the cultural exchange practiced between contiguous nations in Northeast Asia.
#innovativecourses
bit.ly/oberlin-music-environ…
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Brian Smith retweeted
2 Mar 2021
In ‘Drawing: Who’s Telling the Story?’, @JohnsHopkins adjunct instructor Tae Hwang examines the historical usage of propaganda, bias in contemporary media, and data (mis)representation across a variety of visual mediums: #innovativecourses
bit.ly/drawing-jhu
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Brian Smith retweeted
22 Feb 2021
In @TuftsUniversity's Cultures of Computing course, instructor Ricky Crano examines the relationship between technological advancement and society in real-time.
#MostInnovativeCourses2020 #innovation #highered
bit.ly/cultures-of-computing
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Join CAT's Learn at Lunch TODAY at 12pm PST to hear about tech instructors can use to communicate with students and strategies to encourage students to communicate with one another outside of class meetings, such as CCLE tools, Slack, and Campuswire. teaching.ucla.edu/event/lear…
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Brian Smith retweeted
22 Feb 2021
"Technology can be used for utopian or dystopian means, and what determines the ends of those means are the context the technology resides within, and the intentions of the person wielding it."
bit.ly/cultures-of-computing
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Brian Smith retweeted
18 Feb 2021
"There’s a sort of glamour associated with keeping a tiger, but also some underlying insinuations about their exoticism."
@Harvard instructor Zoë Eddy discusses @netflix's #TigerKing –– and how the show contributes to Orientalism –– in her new class.
bit.ly/megafauna–among-us
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Brian Smith retweeted
16 Feb 2021
Next: learn how interspecies exchange affects environmental and wildlife policy –– and watch #TigerKing –– in @Harvard instructor Zoë Eddy's new class, Megafauna Among Us.
bit.ly/megafauna–among-us
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Brian Smith retweeted
8 Feb 2021
"When the pandemic began I got a few emails from colleagues which said, 'we ought to do something for the pandemic'. Well I’m no good at making masks, I certainly don’t know how to make a vaccine, but I do know how to teach people how to build businesses."
bit.ly/hacking4recovery
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Brian Smith retweeted
8 Feb 2021
First on our list of the Most Innovative Courses of the 2019/2020 Academic Year: Hacking 4 Recovery, instructed by Professor Steve Blank (@sgblank) at @Stanford University.
bit.ly/hacking4recovery
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Just walked past Mum recording a lesson for her reception class. Look at that set up 😂 #remotelearning
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