Gardner Campbell talks about engaging learners. Quotes Learning is an enormously powerful and eventful kind of experience. —Gardner Campbell Recognize that great ideas of all kinds come from all kinds of people at all stages of their knowledge. —Gardner Campbell There are some great ideas that are forever closed off to an expert because he or she is simply too conditioned by prior learning. —Gardner Campbell Resources Seymour A. Papert’s books APGAR for class meetings by Gardner Campbell Derek Bruff reflects on Gardner Campbell’s APGAR test for class meetings Book: Smart Mobs* by Howard Rheingold Video: Mr. Hand from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” Song: Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill PHPBB Discussion Forum Book: Where Good Ideas Come From* by Steven Johnson Hacking the Academy Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

On this episode, Dr. Mike Cross is an undercover professor.   Guest: Mike Cross Professor at Northern Essex Community College Read more in a Chronicle article about Mike Resources EasyBib Bacon Board Gamers Game: Escape Room Game: Rattlesnake Game: Loopin’ Louie Game: Loopin’ Chewie Book: My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student* by Rebekah Nathan Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Today’s guest, Dr. McClain Watson, at University of Texas at Dallas, advocates for the importance of our students being able to: “ convince people in the professional world that they 1) know what they’re doing, 2) can be trusted, and 3) are interesting to be around?” On today’s episode: Professional Online Portfolios. Guest: McClain Watson Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Business Communication Programs Organizations, Strategy and International Management Bio: http://jindal.utdallas.edu/faculty/john-watson Resources Episode 101: Public sphere pedagogy with Thia Wolf Going public with our learning What are POPs? A Domain of One’s Own on UMW site University of Wisconsin – Stout rubric for assessment e-portfolios Sample portfolios http://danyalahmed93.wix.com/portfolio http://andreacastanedae.wix.com/andycastaneda http://olasaleh.weebly.com/ http://nathanblumenthal.weebly.com/ http://luzechanove.wix.com/misitio http://thomasjmckee.com/ http://guohaoyue1990.wix.com/howardguomusic http://edq130030.wix.com/elainequayle http://adrianhovelman.wix.com/pop2 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

On this week’s episode, Dave and I discuss disability accommodations and other listener questions. 1) Disability accommodations Dyslexia simulator Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism* 2) Online scenario manager resource Geogebra.org Geogebra – Spreadsheet View 3) Preparation for getting doctorate degree Julie Wilson’s bio www.Lynda.com www.Zotero.org 4) “Small” approaches to reclaiming teaching as a focus TIHE 092: Small Teaching (James Lang) www.doodle.com The Lean Startup* by Eric Ries Leading Change* by John Kotter Six ways to improve your department’s teaching climate Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

On this week’s episode, Sean Michael Morris and I discuss Critical Instructional Design. Guest: Sean Michael Morris Sean is a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience especially in networked learning, MOOCs, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. He’s been working in digital teaching and learning for 15 years. His work as a pioneer in the field of Critical Digital Pedagogy is founded in the philosophy of Paulo Freire, and finds contemporary analogues in the work of Howard Rheingold, Cathy N. Davidson, Dave Cormier, and Jesse Stommel. He is committed to engaging audiences in critical inspection of digital technologies, and to turning a social justice lens upon education. More Course: Critical Instructional Design Critical Instructional Design course from Digital Pedagogy Lab Quotes [Instructional Design] makes very mechanical the non-mechanical nature of teaching. Certain processes are put into place where the spontaneity is taken out of teaching. The relationship is taken out of teaching. The care and nurture of the student is taken out of teaching. —Sean Michael Morris A lot of critical instructional design is questioning. It’s a matter of stepping back and observing and saying, “What are the assumptions of the LMS? What are the assumptions that I make and have been given to make about online learning? And how can I switch that up?” —Sean Michael Morris I think there is a direct correlation between the amount of restrictions we place on students and their lack of interest in what we’re doing. —Sean Michael Morris The more restrictions we place on learning, the less students have the ability to to explore it themselves. —Sean Michael Morris Resources Article: Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Learning Management TIHE episode about the “8 Recond Rule” Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

On today’s episode, Dr. Carl Moore and I have a dialog about proactive inclusivity. Guest: Dr. Carl Moore Dr. Moore is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Research Academy for Integrated Learning (RAIL) at University of DC. Prior to his current role he served as an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Education as well as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at Temple University. More Quotes There are stages in which a person can honestly, truly feel [colorblind], but I do think that there is something to be said about honoring and respecting differences. —Carl Moore I have a strong sense of ethnic identity, but also a strong sense of identity of the mainstream majority, [as] an American. —Carl Moore Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

On this week’s episode, Dr. Thia Wolf shares about public sphere pedagogy. Guest: Thia Wolf Thia is a Professor of English and Director of the First-Year Experience Program at California State University, Chico, where she has worked since 1989. Prior to her appointment in the FYE program, she coordinated a variety of writing programs, including the first-year composition program and the writing across the disciplines program.  Since 2006, she has been collaborating with faculty in several disciplines to embed public dimensions in first-year classes. Her publications have focused on collaborative learning and on public sphere pedagogy. More Quotes Students need to have an experience when they come to college that … gives them a sense that education is for the rest of their lives, it’s to help them do things in the world. —Thia Wolf I noticed that the curriculum of first year students looks a lot like the curriculum in high school … I would say that it sends the “Not ready for prime time” message. —Thia Wolf When [students] go public with their work, they have to stand by it, and really remarkable things happen. —Thia Wolf We don’t give students opportunities to experience and reflect on how the curriculum is part of them and how they are affecting it. —Thia Wolf Resources First-Year Experience Program at Chico State Book in Common Program Courses that take students’ transitioning processes into account Public sphere events where students and their course work are “center stage” Chico Great Debate Meet the faculty Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Eight faculty share their failure stories on this special #100th episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. CV of Failures Johannes Haushofer’s CV of Failures HBR article about Johannes Haushofer Quotes At the time, I felt like I had to know everything in order to be a good teacher, so instead of admitting that I didn’t know the answer to the student’s question, I dismissed it. —Cameron Hunt-McNabb I think I understand way better now what kinds of issues my students think are important. —Doug McKee I strongly identified with that strain of perfectionism that insists that unless every student in every class feels like every moment was a rich and profound learning experience, then I have failed. —Jeff Hittenberger Guest Stories 1) Katie Linder Didn’t allow discomfort in the classroom and rushed too quickly through it. Check out the Research in Action Podcast 2) Jeff Hittenberger Felt like he had failed at the end of each semester. 3.) Angela Jenks Didn’t know how much the class textbooks cost. 4.) Josh Eyler Gave quizzes just to test that students read. Read the conversation in Storify for Twitter 5.) Michelle Miller Didn’t take care of a problem before it escalated. 6.) James Lang Was not clear enough in assignment criteria. 7.) Cameron Hunt-McNabb Thought she had to know everything to be good teacher. 7.) Maha Bali Laughed at student’s suffering … almost. 8.) Doug McKee Didn’t understand what issues his students thought were important. TIHE episode 045: Calibrating our teaching (Aaron Daniel Annas) Recommendations Books: Janine Utell: Dear Committee Members* by Julie Schumacher José Bowen: Teaching Naked* by José Bowen Sean Micael Morris: Savvy* by Ingrid Law Cameron Hunt McNabb: Tina Fey’s advice to “Say yes” in her memoir, Bossy Pants* Amy Collier: Quotes Anne Lamott: “These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced,” from her book Grace (Eventually)* Tools: Doug McKee: Piazza* Aaron Daniel Annas: Amazon Echo* Teaching inspiration: Rebecca Campbell: Be kind to students. Don’t make assumptions. Linda Nielsen: Cultivate your courage by trying out things you’re afraid of. Lee Skallerup Bessette: Be hopeful. Be optimistic. And give your students the benefit of the doubt right from the start. Doug McKee: Try poster sessions with students. Peter Newbury: Get yourself into a learning community. Get on Twitter. Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Dr. Angela Jenks shares about her experiences encouraging accountability in her students on today’s episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Guest: Angela Jenks Angela is a medical anthropologist and Lecturer, PSOE (Tenure-Track Teaching Faculty) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, where she also directs the M.A. in Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies program. Quotes It’s not necessarily a kindness to not fulfill the requirements of the class. —Angela Jenks One of the challenges is holding standards while not turning the classroom into an adversarial situation. —Angela Jenks One of the things I focus on increasingly is very clear policies. —Angela Jenks I didn’t want the syllabus to turn into something that reads like a Terms of Service. —Angela Jenks Mentioned in Episode Race Gender Science syllabus (inspired by Tona Hagen’s “Extreme Makeover” of her History syllabus) In Praise of Slowness* by Carl Honore Podcast episodes on kindness: Episode 057: Teaching with Twitter (Jesse Stommel) Episode 052: Respect in the Classroom (Kevin Gannon) Episode 019: Small Teaching (James Lang)  Podcast episode on Attitude: Episode 062: Mindset (Rebecca Campbell) Recommendations Bonni recommends: Allowing students to “show up.” Consider this quote from Anne Lamott (who was mentioned on Episode 070 with Amy Collier): I had a session over the phone with my therapist today. I have these secret pangs of shame about being single, like I wasn’t good enough to get a husband. Rita reminded me of something I’d told her once, about the five rules of the world as arrived at by this Catholic priest named Tom Weston. The first rule, he says, is that you must not have anything wrong with you or anything different. The second one is that if you do have something wrong with you, you must get over it as soon as possible. The third rule is that if you can’t get over it, you must pretend that you have. The fourth rule is that if you can’t even pretend that you have, you shouldn’t show up. You should stay home, because it’s hard for everyone else to have you around. And the fifth rule is that if you are going to insist on showing up, you should at least have the decency to feel ashamed. So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed. —Anne Lamott

Stephen Brookfield shares about his book, The Skillful Teacher, on today’s episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. Quotes I think I internalized early in my career that my job was to talk, to profess. And that if I wasn’t talking, then I really wasn’t earning my money. I still feel that, and I fight against it constantly. —Stephen Brookfield Skillful teaching is whatever helps students learn. —Stephen Brookfield College students of any age should be treated as adults. —Stephen Brookfield Teachers need a constant awareness of how students are experiencing their learning and perceiving teachers’ actions. —Stephen Brookfield Resources The Skillful Teacher* Episode 15 with Stephen Brookfield: How to get students to participate in discussion.