Applied/Concrete

Minute Physics Videos

Emily Russell designed this for Physics 95: Topics in Current Research aimed towards junior and senior concentrators in Physics. Students were encouraged to develop their skills in explaining complicated physics topics in layman’s terms through a short video presentation. This project incorporates public speaking skills and video technology like Final Cut Pro.

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.

midterm presentation.docx

Interactional Scene Acting

In Soc 43: Social Interaction, students design and act out interactional scenes to help them understand the concepts learned that week. Generally the students are divided into pairs or groups of three for these acting "games," which vary from week to week.

Tossing Clementines

In order to get students to participate in lecture, Pardis Sabeti throws clementines to anyone who answers a question correctly or incorrectly.

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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.

instructions.docx

guidelines.docx

Humanitarian Funding Simulation

For one activity used in SW24: Global Health Challenges, students participate in a simulation of groups proposing grants to a funding agency to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

Adopt a Country

In Societies of the World 24, Global Health Challenges: Complexity of Evidence-based Policy, students "adopt" a country to follow and research for the semester.

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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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handout.pdf

Econ in the News

In Trisha Shrum's section of Ec 10, students are asked to find current news articles relating to the theoretical concepts learned in class.

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Unobtrusive Experiments

In Joshua Greene's course, "Social Psychology," students design and run their own original "unobtrusive experiments" as the final project for the class. Students read and conduct background research to get ideas, write a proposal and refine it with the help of the TF, carry out the research, give a presentation on the research, and write up the results.

syllabus.pdf

slides.pdf

Political Experiments

In EMR 13, "Analyzing Politics," students participate in various type of experiments that appear in the class textbook to give a sense of strategic interactions among students.

instructions.pdf

voting instructions.pdf

Students Explaining Math Problems

Alexander Isakov, a graduate student in physics, has his students explain in class how to do crucial steps of math problems for Math 21a.

Live String Quartet Performances

In Anne Shreffler's freshman seminar on Beethoven's String Quartets, students in the class perform excerpts from the music being studied in practically every class.

syllabus.doc

Stravinski Chord Compositions

In gen ed course "First Nights," students invent their own chords and rhythms based on Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" in order to to better describe the way in which the piece was composed by experiencing that composition themselves.

Exploring Correlation Data on Popular Websites

Professor Nathan Kaplan uses popular websites and online data to generate discussion about the topic of correlation in his math gen ed, "Fat Chance." According to Kaplan, the purpose of the activity is to show students that correlations are everywhere, even in movie rentals, library cards, etc., and part of the era of big data is that companies will know lots of things about people even if they don't tell them.

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Applied/Concrete

Minute Physics Videos

World Music YouTube Culture Show

Interactional Scene Acting

In Soc 43: Social Interaction, students design and act out interactional scenes to help them understand the concepts learned that week. Generally the students are divided into pairs or groups of three for these acting "games," which vary from week to week.

Tossing Clementines

In order to get students to participate in lecture, Pardis Sabeti throws clementines to anyone who answers a question correctly or incorrectly.

Visual Essays and Makeover Parodies

Humanitarian Funding Simulation

For one activity used in SW24: Global Health Challenges, students participate in a simulation of groups proposing grants to a funding agency to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

Adopt a Country

In Societies of the World 24, Global Health Challenges: Complexity of Evidence-based Policy, students "adopt" a country to follow and research for the semester.

Why We Trade

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

Econ in the News

In Trisha Shrum's section of Ec 10, students are asked to find current news articles relating to the theoretical concepts learned in class.

Unobtrusive Experiments

Political Experiments

In EMR 13, "Analyzing Politics," students participate in various type of experiments that appear in the class textbook to give a sense of strategic interactions among students.

Students Explaining Math Problems

Alexander Isakov, a graduate student in physics, has his students explain in class how to do crucial steps of math problems for Math 21a.

Live String Quartet Performances

In Anne Shreffler's freshman seminar on Beethoven's String Quartets, students in the class perform excerpts from the music being studied in practically every class.

Stravinski Chord Compositions

In gen ed course "First Nights," students invent their own chords and rhythms based on Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" in order to to better describe the way in which the piece was composed by experiencing that composition themselves.

Exploring Correlation Data on Popular Websites

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