Expanding Depth and Breadth

Theme and Variations: Understanding Musical Style

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Tissue Engineering Articles

In this activity, students choose a recent journal article on tissue engineering and then lead a 30-minute discussion with the class on the chosen article.

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Tug of War: How to Approach Critical Conversations

Learners play a round of tug of war to better understand empathy and communication, two skills essential for healthcare professionals.

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Understanding Diaspora

Benjamin Weber created an activity that spans across the entire class to help students understand the concept of “diaspora” through constant reiteration of concepts from some excerpts given to the class by the instructor. Students learned how to close-read excerpts, write reflections, and create their own ideas about the theme of the class.

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

In this role play, students take on the role of the major players in the drafting and ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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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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Ways of Seeing Art

Students write a response paper on their experience viewing art online versus in the context of a museum.

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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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Wine (or Chocolate) Tasting Experiment

In EMR16, students design their own wine or chocolate-tasting experiment in order to use the principles of experimental design and data analysis.

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World Music YouTube Culture Show

Dr. Michael Heller created this project for a World Music Class for International Students taught at University of Massachusetts, Boston. Students were encouraged to develop traditional academic skills and new media skills in this World Music YouTube Culture Show Project, by incorporating written word, public speaking, and storytelling tools like Zeega, Powerpoint, or Meograph in this project.

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midterm presentation.docx

Writing the Methods Section

In her Expos section, Jerusha Achterberg teaches how to clearly describe the methods that will be used in a subsequent paper. This activity was motivated by the fact that students were having trouble writing the methods section in their final paper proposals.

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