Reduce first day jitters for yourself by visiting your assigned classroom in the next couple of weeks. Log into the instructor station, practice projecting on the screen, put on and test the microphone, adjust volume if you plan to show video clips, check the lighting and furniture arrangements in the space, practice circulating around the… Read more »
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Extra! Extra! Read All about It! Science in the Classroom from the ScIU blog!
Because science is often written about for a skilled adult audience that is well-versed with a particular scientific subject, it can be challenging to make scientific literature accessible to our undergraduates. Often, it seems that doing so will mean hours of scouring the literature, more hard work to boil down complex points, and, despite an… Read more »
Teaching after a Campus Tragedy
This past week, we all heard about the attack on students at Ohio State University. Whether or not we had friends or colleagues at OSU, an event like that makes us wonder how we would deal with such a situation on our own campus. Tragedies, whether local or national, can distract from the day-to-day work… Read more »