by aboll1@gsu.edu | Nov 9, 2014 | data visualization, pedagogy
I have a confession to make. I am addicted to Google Earth. Google Earth is a virtual globe, that also serves as a map and geographical information program, which has been around since 2004. By mapping the Earth through collections of satellite imagery, aerial...
by Dylan Ruediger | Nov 3, 2014 | instructional videos, pedagogy, SIF Projects
With a lot of help from Ameer, I am finally reaching the point where I can make videos more or less on my own. As I have been making them, I have been thinking about how educationally useful the experience of making the videos is. The countless decisions about what...
by Robert Bryant | Nov 3, 2014 | digital humanities, pedagogy, SIF Projects
Hey All! I’ve been working like crazy on comprehensive exams this week and thought I would share some of the latest dialogue on Gamification I’ve researched and written. I think it’s a highly relevant topic to a lot of contemporary research that has...
by Dylan Ruediger | Oct 26, 2014 | pedagogy
This afternoon I went to a very interesting talk by Rich Halverson of the University of Wisconsin, which raised two major issues, one about the SIF program in general, and the other about one of my SIF projects, the American History Video project. To keep the post to...
by nryerson1@gsu.edu | Oct 26, 2014 | Atlanta connections, CURVE, digital pedagogy, mapping, pedagogy, SIF Projects
This week I sat in on the two presentations given by Rich Halverson on : Education, Technology, and Society Speaker Series Center for Instructional Innovation. Much of his presentation was analyzing how technology does and can influence the way we educate and the...
by agable1@gsu.edu | Oct 23, 2014 | digital pedagogy, mapping, pedagogy
Timelines can be useful in teaching in a variety of ways. The most obvious is having students create a timeline on a particular topic that can be represented chronologically or progressively. The choices the student makes of what to include on the timeline and what...
