by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert CTTL Mid-semester is a good time to take to take a few quiet moments to reflect on how your courses are going and to set some intentions for the second half of the term. At this point, you’ve probably figured out that many of your intentions to be more interesting,… Continue reading Mid-Semester Reflection
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What’s On Our Minds Lately: The Instructional Design Team
by Sandy Gambill, CTTL Instructional Designer Vine Link: http://vine.co/ If you have an iPhone or iPad, you must download an video app called Vine, but be warned, it’s addictive. Vine, which was recently purchased by Twitter, lets you record and share 6-second video clips. You can pause in recording simply by touching your screen. What… Continue reading What’s On Our Minds Lately: The Instructional Design Team
Remembering Dr. Cheryl Cavallo
by Debra Rudder Lohe, PhD, CTTL Director On Sunday, I received the news that Dr. Cheryl Cavallo – faculty emerita in the Program for Physical Therapy here at SLU – had lost her long, difficult battle with cancer. This news is sad for all who had the great pleasure of knowing Cheryl, and for us here… Continue reading Remembering Dr. Cheryl Cavallo
Engaging All Learners: Faculty Conversations Podcast Series
In keeping with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, this is the first in series of conversations with faculty on how they engage all learners in their classroom. In this podcast, Julie Wolter, Associate Professor in the Program in Health Sciences, talks with Sandy Gambill, about an introductory Honors Course she taught last fall… Continue reading Engaging All Learners: Faculty Conversations Podcast Series
What’s Globally-Engaged Online and Blended Learning?
by Michaella Thornton, Assistant Director for Instructional Design On Tuesday, February 26 from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Busch Student Center, Room 256, Saint Louis University faculty, staff, and students are cordially invited to explore and identify existing globally-centered organizations, resources, teaching practices, and learning experiences available at SLU. Participants will have an opportunity to consider… Continue reading What’s Globally-Engaged Online and Blended Learning?
Getting Started in Designing Accessible Course Materials Workshop
Facilitators: Dr. Karen Myers and Michaella Thornton Wednesday, February 13, 2013 from 1-3 pm Busch Student Center, Room 253B “Students with disabilities are in danger of being either excluded from the new media revolution or accommodated as after-thoughts of pedagogies that fail to anticipate their needs,” writes Sean Zdenek, Associate Professor of Technical Communication and… Continue reading Getting Started in Designing Accessible Course Materials Workshop
Teaching for the First Time: 15 Tips
by Erin Solomon, Divya Subramaniam, and Dipti Subramaniam from the CTTL It’s the beginning of a new semester, and in honor of the 15th anniversary of the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL), we, the CTTL Graduate Assistants, would like to present 15 tips for anyone who may be teaching for the first time. While… Continue reading Teaching for the First Time: 15 Tips
First Impressions: A Reflection on our Snap Judgments of our Students
by Katie Beres, Instructional Liaison, CTTL As your students file in on the first day of class, what assumptions do you make about them? At the recent Winter Institute, the keynote speaker, Dr. Nina Ha, helped to bring to light the assumptions we make about others and consequently our students. Through her keynote address, (Re) Discovering… Continue reading First Impressions: A Reflection on our Snap Judgments of our Students
CTTL Announces the Publication of A Guide for Beginning Teachers
The Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning (CTTL) is pleased to announce the publication of A Guide for Beginning Teachers, an e-book from Drs. James H. Korn, Mary Stephen, and Jason Sikorski. Both Korn and Stephen both have a rich history with the SLU and with the Center, and it is our pleasure to… Continue reading CTTL Announces the Publication of A Guide for Beginning Teachers
Renewing Praxis & Pedagogy: Upcoming CTTL Events
by Michaella Thornton, Assistant Director for Instructional Design We talk a lot about renewal in the Center, largely because faculty development creates a unique opportunity for all of us to discover what works in higher ed, what we hope to improve or accomplish when working with students, and how to feel re-engaged and re-energized… Continue reading Renewing Praxis & Pedagogy: Upcoming CTTL Events
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