Whole class

Vienna Convention Simulation

Students simulate the Vienna Convention of 1985 to gain a visceral experience of political negotiations.

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Virtual Communications and the 3D Web

In this assignment designed by J.M. Grenier, Students will be able to explain what is meant by a "virtual world" and the 3D web, as well as discuss the potential for the use of these tools and their impact to existing methods of communication on the web.

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Visual Essays and Makeover Parodies

Students in Caroline Light's general education course, Sex and the Citizen, create five-minute visual essays in response to Brenda Weber's, Makeover Nation. In order to do this assignment, students must complete the assigned reading and gain familiarity with iMovie, Prezi, or PowerPoint. These visual essays or makeover parodies are meant to address issues of identity and citizenship central to the course.

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Voting for Molecular Structures

In this activity, students suggest possible structures for a molecule, the vote on which ones are correct, and then demonstrate the structure on the board.

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War Guilt Clause Debate

Each student is assigned to a country and asked to represent that country's views in a simulated debate to represent the War Guilt Clause negotiations at Versailles.

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Watching a Swedish Commercial

In Swedish Aa, Ursula Lindqvist and Suzanne Martin have their students watch a commercial for a major Swedish food chain on YouTube in order to practice helping verbs and adjectives while working on listening comprehension and being exposed to Swedish television.

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Weather Forecasting

The purpose of this assignment is to consolidate knowledge of the weather from class.By making observations and committing to a prediction, it should help you see how weather systems evolve over time. It will also give you a first pass at video making, which will help with the final projects. We ask that you refrain from looking up weather conditions and predictions for the period when you are making observations and predictions. Often local observations will be more accurate than the ones found on website.

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Weekly Original Thoughts

Every week before class, students are encouraged to email the instructor a question and idea related to the current topic.

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Whiteboard Exam Review Session

Students are actively engaged in reviewing for an exam by a PowerPoint of quiz questions that they respond to on individual dry erase board.

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Why Are You Here? - Icebreaker

In his freshman seminar "What is College and What is it For?," Dr. Paul Barreira uses an icebreaker that lets students know that there are no right answers and that students should feel comfortable sharing their experiences.

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Why We Trade

In Syon Bhanot's section of Ec 10, students play a game to understand comparative advantage and the benefits of trade.

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