The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers a variety of faculty development opportunities including workshops and seminars, grant funding for faculty-initiated projects, and support and development of technological applications that advance teaching and learning goals.
Dr. Susan Sadler is an Associate Professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Denver. This interview was conducted by Alex Karklins and Kathy Keairns of the Center for Teaching and Learning. In this video, Dr. Sadler describes the benefits of using Blackboard as a teaching tool.
I use a video clip in almost every class to help stimulate discussion. I teach about foreign countries that most of my students have never visited so I use this media to help give them a visual and audial sense of what is happening around the world. The students are assigned readings on particular topics and the videos are chosen to complement the readings.
What do DU students think about educational technology use at DU? Dr. Lynn Schofield Clark's Innovations in Mass Communications class created a satirical video about technology use in the classroom.
Thank you for a wonderful event! Nearly 200 DU faculty and staff members registered for this conference and 185 virtual participants from around the world joined in to watch Keynote Speaker Michael Wesch and discuss the future of new media and education. Video archives, video interviews and summaries will be posted soon.
Take advantage of our new self-paced Blackboard Basics Online Course and expanded how-to guides for Blackboard and Course Portfolio.
See also our H1N1 Teaching Support Page
