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This activity helps students read texts, analyze them, and present the information into a diagram. Goals: Enable students to closely and quickly analyze texts. Introduction/Background: Students were given texts to read in class. Each of the texts was of a...

Students were asked to produce a multimedia and historical analysis of the archives of Saudi Aramco World. It aimed to bring historical and secondary sources alive by putting students directly in contact with primary, archival sources and asking them to...

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...

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...

In Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology 180, students present scientific papers in groups throughout the semester. At the beginning of the term, the teaching fellows (TFs) provide a handout on good student presentations. See attachment below . Then the TFs...

Students submit response papers immediately prior to attending class with the goal of increased preparedness for discussion. Goal: Prime students for discussion in junior tutorial so their minds are fresh. Introduction/Background: Robert Turley assigned...

In Systems Biology 201, in an effort to prevent paper regurgitation, students were pre-assigned to present "chalk talks" of the reading at each session. SB 201 is a graduate-level discussion seminar, and every class meeting began with a 12-15 minute...

In CB51: Making the Middle Ages, the teaching staff, consisting of Professor Dan Smail and TFs Rowan Dorin, Zoe Silverman, Joey McMullen, and Rena Lauer, used an online annotation tool to have students tag images and descriptions of hell and create a "tag...

In CB51: Making the Middle Ages, the teaching staff, consisting of Professor Dan Smail and TFs Rowan Dorin, Zoe Silverman, Joey McMullen, and Rena Lauer, introduced the course with a class blog, which continued to be used throughout the course for...

In this activity, students examine posters to identify different viewpoints on the Affordable Care Act. The instructor shows the class a variety of posters used by individuals protesting the Affordable Care Act. The students examine each of these posters...