Ed-Tech list,
I am looking for people at UM who are using innovative assignments in their classes. Most assignments tend to be written work. The second most common tend to be oral presentations. I am looking for other types of student assignements/projects, particularly those that use new media such as web logs, wikis, recordings/podcasts, videos, web sites, or other similar materials.
For example, Blythe Nobleman, a Podcasting Teaching Fellow in 2006, had her students create podcasts in her “Writing about Science and Technology” class. The final podcast of the year, produced by the students, can be heard at http://www.as.miami.edu/english/wiki/images/f/fc/Final_podcast.mp3. Currently, in the same course, her students are working on “visual rhetoric” and creating videos. One draft, by a student who had never used animation software before, is posted on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cx9ApVus1g.
We would like to set up some Lunch and Learn activities for the Spring where people who are creating these types of learning activities can share their experiences with their colleagues across the campus. If you are using innovative student assignments using new media, please let me know, OK? If you know of anyone else doing this, either ask them to get in touch with me or let me know and I will get to them.
There are so many exciting activities that UM is doing with our students, I look forward to providing this opportunity to help promote and share these with other faculty members.
Bill Vilberg
Assoc. Dir. of Instructional Advancement
