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Journey into Online Course Development

As part of my efforts to make science fiction scholarship more accessible, I have begun the journey into online course development and created a mini-course called “Dune 101” based on …

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WomenTech Global Conference 2022 Takeaways

The WomenTech Global Conference 2022 (#WTGC2022) was a breath of fresh air mid-year, as it has been for the past couple of years. Although I am only able to attend sessions …

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Education and Teaching

Demystifying Academic Publishing

Academic publishing can feel like a labyrinthine game where you are unsure of the rules and complexities around aspects such as editorial and peer review, contracts, access options, and more. …

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Education and Teaching

Flatland: The Movie in Science Fiction Class

The 2007 animated short film Flatland: The Movie featuring the voices of Martin Sheen and Kristen Bell appears to be a popular teaching tool in math classes because it includes angles …

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Shakespeare through Digital Humanities Textual Analysis

I wanted to briefly introduce students to Digital Humanities in an introductory-level Shakespeare course I was helping teach, partly because they might not hear about it otherwise and partly because …

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Education and Teaching

Ethnography Activity for The Left Hand of Darkness

One of the main issues in Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) is ethnography and its limitations. The main character Genly Ai is an ambassador …

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Education and Teaching

Shakespeare in a Mug Teaching Activity

For my first time helping to teach an introductory-level Shakespeare course, I found a good icebreaker activity from Stefanie Jochman on the Teaching Shakespeare Folger Education blog. It’s called Shakespeare …

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Education and Teaching

Embedding Employability into University Courses

Teaching Week session on “Embedding Employability in Our Classes” University of Canterbury June 9, 2016 This session was an enlightening experience, with four employers invited to share what they were …

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Education and Teaching

Innovative Pedagogies by Professor Peggy Ertmer

Increasing Teachers’ Capacity for Innovative Learning Pedagogies By Professor Peggy A. Ertmer, Learning Design and Technology (Purdue University Professor Peggy A. Ertmer gave a prestige lecture on April 27, 2016, …

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Thriving as an Academic seminar

“Thriving as an Academic” Seminar By Professor William H. Starbuck (Visiting Erskine Fellow) and Emeritus Professor Bob Hamilton Admittedly, I was skeptical about how much value I could obtain from …

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