FIG Colleagues -- Barb and I are looking forward to our collective conversation tomorrow afternoon. We'd like to make sure that questions/comments about "The Balance of Power," as well as chapters 3 and 4 in Weimer are all up for discussion tomorrow.
Also, here's a link to a short POV article in The Chronicle on active learning you might find interesting. Carnes suggests that "pedagogies that feature teamwork and problem solving" can create learning environments that set students' minds on fire, (which is a goal to which many of us aspire, and a rather fabulous image/metaphor to contemplate). He focuses in particular on the recent use of games to foster student engagement, and argues that academic games may help the "ideas, texts, and historical moments on which academic discourse depends become a part of [students'] lives" in ways that stand and deliver traditional lecturing mode may not.
Thanks, as well, to Eric for clarifying that you do not need not to have a gmail address to have a Google account. If you don't have (and don't want) a gmail address, you can still garner access to the Google suite of tools, including the blogger tool we're using here in Scholar, by just creating a Google account.
So, if you'd like to be able to post and comment on the blog, you can use the new and improved instructions posted in the Resource folder, and I can invite you via your VT email address.
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