One of my favorite evolution from the days I was in college, and the first teaching job I had (tutor/teaching assistant for a rating class in Strasbourg, France), is the interactive ways in which we use technology.

I have experimented with several teaching models, some more instructor-based, some more student-based. I think technology can play a role in both, although it sometimes becomes a distraction. For example, I teach my students, in my freshman writing seminar, that a Powerpoint, or equivalent visual presentation, should have clean-looking slides–that the slide should serve as a prop to their presentation, not *be* their presentation. I explain to them that an ideal visual aid is one that illustrates the point you make: if you talk about mapping, for example, a subject we are studying in my current writing seminar, you can show a map, and maybe close-ups of it, followed by a bullet point list highlighting the major point of your map, but avoid citing extensively from a secondary source.

I have collected here a few examples of how I have integrated technology in the classroom, from videos to blogs, from in class presentations to class websites.

 

 

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