Digital Devices

My inquiry will address the following three areas: (1) Nonscientists often describe science as not being creative, probably because their book and assignments don’t given them a chance to be very creative. I am trying to create at least a few assignments where students can use imagination and creativity, and...

How can I teach undergraduate chemistry students to build pictures in their minds, and consider what might happen if something changes about that system? By giving them an example system that they can watch and manipulate. And how can I get my 600 students to explore such systems with guidance...

What does it mean to live in Boulder? Using video cameras and audio recorders, a group of graduate students in Dr. Jennifer Shannon’s “Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology” class interviewed farmers’ market vendors, business leaders, residents at senior homes, and other long-time Boulder residents. They asked these diverse groups to...

WHAT CAN THIRTY-FIVE EARNEST COLLEGE STUDENTS with a video camera, a set of white board markers and deep concerns about the environment accomplish in one semester? What if these students are imbued with a sense of purpose…a drive to affect change? Theater and Dance professor Dr. Beth Osnes and Environmental...

Many professors at CU are motivated to find new and creative ways to teach. Among them is Matt Koschmann, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, who has plans to use Whiteboard Animate as a creative way to orient students to his future courses. If you are not familiar...

One step into the biology classroom of senior EBIO instructor Stephanie Mayer and you will find posters of magnified cells and plants lining the white walls. Taken by students with digital cameras attached to microscopes, Mayer says the process of capturing an image with only a small LCD instructor as...

Since October 2008, Lori Emerson (English), Steve Bailey (A&H DATC), Yem Fong (Libraries), and Heather Wicht (Libraries) have participated in workshops organized by Project Bamboo. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by Principal Investigators Janet Broughton (Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, University of...