Tag archives for Group or Team Work
Lessons in Mentorship: Students and Academic Professionals
It’s easy to get caught up in the frantic pace of the semester, but it’s important to remember that our usual advice can be totally fresh for students. In my…
Lesson Plan Template for Scaffolding Student Learning
As an educator at the University of North Georgia (UNG), I spend my time with preservice teachers, preparing them for K-12 classrooms. The information that I share with my preservice teachers can…
Finding the Classroom: Conceptualizing Reality in Higher Education
“Publics are asked to accommodate to an objectified ‘reality,’ marked off and demarcated in cost-benefit terms. It is reified, and ‘given’; we are all being required to sublimate our private…
The EASE Project: Bridging the Gap between the Classroom and Academic Support Services
Anyone who has ever made an honest effort at writing in college knows that the process can be tough. It involves plenty of reading, researching, critical thinking, writing, rewriting, editing…
The Benefits of Faculty Writing Groups
Grab your “to do” list. Whether it’s mental, handwritten, or online, the list probably includes grading papers, preparing lessons for the week, and attending committee meetings (among other things). Have…
Gender: An Unrecognized Part of Life
For many people, the words “Gender Studies” conjures images of women burning their bras and/or oppressing others under the guise of liberation. If not outright terror and images of pitchforks,…
Belongings Once Were
Belongings Once Were: An exhibit at the Roy C. Moore Art Gallery, Gainesville Campus, September 22 - October 16, with a Reception on Thursday, October 16, at 2:00 By Deborah…
Group or Team Work Tools
Robin Fowler at the University of Michigan (Engineering) has been using Google docs/draw to monitor group process. The students meet remotely and their design work takes place in the doc/draw. She can…