Lunch and Learn: Using Videos in Your Course
On Friday, April 21, the Center for Educational Resources (CER) hosted the fourth and final Lunch and Learn—Faculty Conversations on Teaching—for the 2016-1017 academic year. Jane Greco, Associate...
View ArticleLunch and Learn: Creating and Implementing Authentic Assignments
On Tuesday, October 15, the Center for Educational Resources (CER) hosted the first Lunch and Learn—Faculty Conversations on Teaching—for the 201-2018 academic year. Sanchita Balachandran, Associate...
View ArticleQuick Tips: Tweeting to Learn
Today it seems that everyone is tweeting, from politicians to celebrities to regular folks. And yes, even academics are tweeting. For high profile users, Twitter allows users to quickly get out a...
View ArticleLunch and Learn: Community-based Learning
On Wednesday, December 12, the Center for Educational Resources (CER) hosted the second Lunch and Learn for the 2018-2019 academic year. Shawntay Stocks, Assistant Director of Engaged Scholarship,...
View ArticleExhibiting the Avant Garde: Rare Primary Sources as Pedagogy
[Guest post by Molly Warnock, Assistant Professor, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University] The library is often called the lab of the humanities. In my experience, the Johns Hopkins Sheridan...
View ArticleTeaching a Multi-Disciplinary Course
On Wednesday, October 16, the Center for Educational Resources (CER) hosted the first Lunch and Learn for the 2019-2020 academic year. Steve Marra, Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering,...
View ArticleEnhancing Classroom Communication Through Slack
A few months ago, I posted about Slack, and some ideas for how it could be used in the classroom. In the article, I mentioned that JHU Professor Jennifer Bernstein regularly uses Slack to communicate...
View ArticleThe Hazards of Teaching for the First Time
This post was submitted by Atousa Saberi, a graduate student in the Johns Hopkins Teaching Academy who reflected on her first-time teaching experience. I would like to share my learning experience as a...
View ArticleTeaching Cinema with Omeka
Since the death of the DVD player, several challenges have emerged for media-based courses: How can we give students access to a wide range of audiovisual, image, and text sources located on multiple...
View ArticleQuick Tips: Guest Speakers in the Classroom
Inviting a guest speaker to your classroom can be a powerful and memorable experience for your students. Unique perspectives and expertise shared by an outside professional can be very motivating for...
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