Videos and Podcasts @ TILT

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Welcome to the teaching tips podcast page. Below is the collection of podcasts (audio files) of teaching tips developeded by TILT. For the text files of these tips please visit our teaching tips main page http://tilt.colostate.edu/mti/tips/.

"Clickers" aka Classroom Response Systems: An introduction to automated classroom response systems

Academic Integrity: Professor Darrell Fontane shares an article on Academic Integrity in Engineering which is applicable to teaching in most disciplines.

Colorado State University Access Project: Universal Design for Learning : A short introduction to UDL and the CSU ACCESS project website.

Crafting a Teaching Persona: This tip addresses the image an instructor presents to his/her classroom audience.

Creating an Effective Syllabus:: This tip gives an overview of how to create a standard syllabus plus four helpful links to web sites on syllabus designing.

Dealing with Disruptive Classroom Behavior: A short classroom management guide.

Designing Homework:: This tip provides some suggestions for designing homework assignments that will help students to get the most out of your class.

Discriminatory Language: Three Primary Forms: A quick look at the three primary forms of discriminatory language.

Diverse Ways of Learning: This tip describes a Teaching With Technology Workshop presented by award-winning professor David Greene.

Diversity: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: This tip reviews Chapter 5 in Barbara Gross Davis' 1993 Tools for Teaching.

Find What You Love: Stanford Commencement Address: This is a link to an inspiring commencement address given by Steve Jobs at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA June 12, 2005

Good Teaching: The Top Ten Requirements : A short, summary of a widely circulated teaching article written by award winning educator, Richard W. Leblanc.

Listen to Your Heart: Thomas L. Friedman, journalist and author of the award-winning book, The World is Flat, gives a commencement speech at Williams College.

Podcasting in Higher Education: This teaching tip links to a interview with Dr. Daniel Colman, Director and Associate Dean of Stanford University's Continuing Studies program, who discusses the use of podcasting at the college level.

Readings for Teaching in Higher Education: This tip lists a few excellent books on the topic of teaching in higher education.

Recruiting and Retaining the Underrepresented: This tip provides some suggestions on how to assist students from underrepresented groups to obtain scholarships and fellowships.

Service Learning: Connecting the Classroom with the Community: This tip briefly describes service learning and its benefits and links to a comprehensive article on the topic.

Sexist Language: What is it? : A quick look at four main characteristics of sexist language.

Six Tips for Handling Grade Complaints: : A list of suggestions to include in the syllabus and first day class discussion regarding grades and grade complaints.

Speaking of Disabilities: A guide to speaking about people with disabilities.

Stop it! You’re Killing Me! Retooling Your Lecture : This Teaching Tip explores livening up lectures by implementing active instructional methods in the classroom.

Take Charge of Your In-Box : Suggestions for implementing appropriate student/instructor email communication boundaries.

Teach to Where the Puck Will Be: This tip discusses teaching with an eye toward the future.

Teaching Teamwork Skills: This tip on teaching students teamwork skills was contributed by Professor Darrell Fontane of the College of Engineering.

Using PowerPoint to Promote Active Learning: This tip gives suggestions on how to use PowerPoint to engage students more actively

Using Sound in Classroom Projects: This tip summarizes a podcast from the Chronicle of Higher Education about using audio recording in class projects.

Using Student Evaluations to Improve Teaching: This tip will provide some pointers on how to use end-of-the-semester Course Evaluations to improve teaching.

Using Tablet PCs as "Labtops" : This tip summarizes some creative uses of Tablet PCs as they are used by a Colorado State University chemistry professor.

Using Technology Tools Before & After Class—Not During: Brief review of methods to employ technology outside of the classroom rather than inside.

Welcome to the teaching with technology video page. TILT records all the teaching with technology workshops for later viewing. For a schedule of upcoming teaching with technology workshops please visit http://tilt.colostate.edu/mti/tips/.

Avoiding the PowerNap: Strategies for Active Learning with PowerPoint: This seminar describes a series of strategies for engaging students when PowerPoint presentations are needed in the classroom.

Engaging Students and Creating Community: Brian Jones leads this Teaching with Technology workshop in Fall 2007

Ensuring Access to Learning: Strategies for Enhancing Classroom and Web-based Presentations: Craig Spooner and Cath Stager-Kilcommons leads this Teaching with Technology workshop in Fall 2007

How to Create and Use Online Video Content to Benefit Student Learning: Dave Alciatore leads this Teaching with Technology workshop in Fall 2007.

Improving Student Success Through Mastery Learning: Shaun Beaty presents this workshop on Improving Student Success Through Mastery Learning at the spring 2008 Teaching with Technolgy series.

On-Line Technologies and Student Privacy Issues: Pat Burns Leads this teaching with technology panel discussion in Fall 2007

Respecting Diverse Ways of Learning : David Greene leads this Teaching with Technology workshop in Fall 2007.

Strategies for the More-Active Lecture: Sue Deins presents this workshop at the 2008 Professional Development Institute.

Student 2.0: Changing behaviors & demand : James Folkestad presents this workshop at the 2008 Professional Development Institute.

The Potential of Plagiarism Detection Software: Mike Palmquist leads this Teaching with Technology Workshop, Fall 2007

Using ePortfolios to Engage and Assess Students: Mike Palmquist leads this Teaching with Technology workshop in Fall 2007.

TILT has recorded several master teacher initiative workshops. These workshops cover a wide range of quality teaching topics. For a list of upcoming workshops by department please visit the following site at http://tilt.colostate.edu/mti/.

Academic Integrity: Mike Palmquist leads this workshop on Academic Integrity at the GTA Orientation in August 2007.

Academic Spaces: Impact on Behavior: Jim Banning, Professor of Education, leads a Teaching with Technology workshop in Fall 2007.

Active Learning and Cooperative Groups: Session 6 of the Master Teacher Initiative, 2007 Master Teacher Summer Institute.

Alternative Presentations Method: Mark Frasier leads this workshop on Alternative Presentations Method at the GTA Orientation in August 2007.

Case Teaching Workshop : College of Business Faculty Panel at the Master Teacher Initiative workshop with the College of Business in Fall 0225

Cognitive Approaches to Teaching and Learning: How Students Learn: Frank Vattano leads this Master Teacher Initiative with the College of Business, in Spring 2006

Delivering Effective Presentations: Session 5 of the Master Teacher Initiative, 2007 Master Teacher Summer Institute.

Designing Effective Presentations : Session 3 of the Master Teacher Initiative, 2007 Master Teacher Summer Institute.

Developing a Teaching Philosophy - Deborah Valentine: Developing a Teaching Philosophy, Deborah Valentine Date: Sep 18, 2008 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Location: Gibbons 101

Effective Teacher Attributes and Learning Styles: Session 1 of the Master Teacher Initiative, 2007 Master Teacher Summer Institute

Good to Great Workshop: College of Business Faculty Panel at the Master Teacher Initiative with the College of Business in Fall 2005

GTA Panel Discussion : Panel discussion at the GTA Orientation in Fall 2007

International Service-Learning and Sustainable Enterprise: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches and Possibilities: Instructors from various Colorado Universities: CSU, CU, School of Mines, DU, present this workshop at the International Service-Learning and Sustainable Enterprise Conference in Fall 2007.

Meet the Master Teacher Mark Frasier: Meet the Master Teacher Mark Frasier from the Biomedical Sciences Department Mark will talk about his experiences teaching Anatomy and physiology in the CVMBS program at CSU, come see what makes him such an excellent teacher.

Mentoring: Session 8 of the Master Teacher Initiative, 2007 Master Teacher Summer Institute.

Motivating Effective Presentations : Session 4 of the Master Teacher Initiative, 2007 Master Teacher Summer Institute.

Teaching as Coaching: Sonny Lubick, Head Football Coach, CSU Rams and Mick Delaney, Assistant Coach, CSU Rams lead a Master Teacher Initiative workshop in Fall 2007.

Testing and Grading Issues: Session 7 of the Master Teacher Initiative, 2007 Master Teacher Summer Institute

Writing Learning Objectives : Session 2 of the Master Teacher Initiative, 2007 Master Teacher Summer Institute.

TILT has recorded several training sessions during the Graduate Teaching Orientation. Please feel free to view any of the videos presented.

Classroom Behavioral Issues: Anne Hudgens leads this workshop on Classroom Behavioral Issues at the GTA Orientation in August 2007.

Diversity, Disabilities, and Sexual Harassment: Rose Kreston and Dana Hiatt present this workshop at the GTA Orientation in Fall 2007.

E-Portofolio Training: Graduate Teaching Certificate Program: Lisa Langstraat and Shaun Beaty present this workshop on creating an E-Portofolio for the Graduate Teaching Certificate Program

Let's Talk Teaching and Learning: Frank Vattano presents this workshop at the GTA Orientation in Fall 2007.

TILT has recorded several special events held on campus including the climate change series. Please feel free to view any of the videos presented.

Climate Change - Biological and Ecological Effects: Alan Knapp presented Climate Change - The Biological and Ecological Effects at the 2007 at the Climate Change Series in the Fall 2007.

Climate Change Series - Challenges: Policy, Solar Energy, Fuels and Engines: John Grant and Stephen Ogle present this workshop at the Fall 2007 Climate Change Series.

Climate Change Series - Effect of Climate Change: The Human Costs: Kathleen Galvin, Gerald Callahan, and James Pritchett present this workshop at the Fall 2007 Climate Change Series.

Climate Change Series - Reconstructing and Modeling Past and Future Climates: Methods: Gene Kelly and David Randall present this talk at the Changes in Climate series in Fall 2007.

Climate Change Series: The Biological and Ecological Effects of Climate Change: Climate Change series presentation October 9th, 2008

Focus the Nation- National Security, Peak Oil, and Climate Change : Bill Doe for the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands and Kyle Saunders of the Political Science department present this workshop for the 2008 Focus the Nation event

Focus the Nation: Bigfoot Walks! (What Size is Your Carbon Footprint?) : Shane Bondi and Mark Easter present this workshop at the Focus the Nation Global Change event

Focus the Nation: Right Here, Right Now: Local Programs and Policies: Lucinda Smith, John Armstrong, and Lyn Kathlene present at the 2008 Focus the Nation event.

Focus the Nation: Show Me the Money: Economics and Climate Change: James Prichette and Tom Dean present at the 2008 Focus the Nation event.

Focus the Nation: Tiny Molecules that Change the World: The Science of Climate Change: Scott Denning presents this workshop at the 2008 Focus the Nation event.

Focus the Nation: What Government Can Do -Panel Discussion with State Representatives and State Senators: Panel Presentation of State Legislators at the 2008 Focus the Nation event.

Focus the Nation: Why Should I Care? How Climate Change Will Affect Humans: Lori Peek presents this workshop at the 2008 Focus the Nation Event

Plagiarism Discussion: Plagiarism Discussion--Sue Doe September 23, 2008

Reconceptualizing Service Learning in the Context of a Sustainable Campus: Julie Newman, Director of Sustainability, Yale University is the keynote speaker at the Teaching Sustainability through Service-Learning Conference in Fall 2007