CNDLS Graduate Associate Kelsey Brannan shares an update on the Wikipedia Project at Georgetown.
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From /Sandbox to Translation: An Overview of Transnational Scholarship at Georgetown University
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Engaging Diversity Through Art and Performance: The Doyle Film and Culture Series
In Spring 2012, the Doyle Engaging Difference Program presented a series of four critically acclaimed, diversity-focused films as part of the Doyle Film and Culture Series. The movies, which included both narrative and documentary films, tackled a wide range of issues related to intercultural engagement and the diversity of the human experience.
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JUHAN Updates
Mindy McWilliams, Assistant Director for Assessment at CNDLS, presented last week at the Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN) Student Leadership Conference at Fairfield University.
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Student Learning Summit Recap
CNDLS Graduate Associate Leslie Cochrane shares a summary of the recent event “A Student Learning Summit: Toward an Integrated Georgetown Undergraduate Experience.”
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The Bottlenecks and Thresholds Initiative at TLISI
Graduate Associate Susannah Nadler shares this recap of the Bottlenecks and Thresholds (BTI) initiative, one of the three CNDLS projects that participated in TLISI two weeks ago.
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Teaching for Critical Thinking
The CNDLS community recently came together to discuss Stephen D. Brookfield’s book, Teaching for Critical Thinking.
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Georgetown Course Tops Wikipedia Project Leaderboard
Congratulations to the students in Diane Apostolos-Cappadona’s Art and Ethics course! They are currently #1 on the Wikipedia Project leaderboard, which tracks contributions that students in participating courses have made to Wikipedia.
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Best Practices for Using Laptops in the Classroom
The question of whether to allow students to use laptops in the classroom can be controversial. In a post on the Chronicle’s ProfHacker blog, Mark Sample (professor at George Mason University and occasional CNDLS collaborator) shares some thoughts on this issue.
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Presenting Pegasus at ELI
Earlier this month, four of us attended ELI 2012 in Austin, Texas. During our session entitled Social Media ePortfolios, we unveiled Pegasus, a tool we are currently developing here at CNDLS. Matthias framed our presentation by pointing out the power that learning spaces have in shaping the sorts of interactions that happen inside them. While his [...]
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See you in Austin!
Anna, Matthias, Marie, and Justin are presenting at next week’s Educause Learning Initiative Annual Meeting! If you’re attending, catch them at the “Social Media ePortfolios” session on Tuesday morning, where the’ll present CNDLS’ strategy for building adaptive, reflective learning environments. They’ll also run a “sneak peak” demo of our latest project, Pegasus.