“There’s nothing wrong with being interesting instead of dull.” Larry Braskamp, Loyola University.

“There’s nothing wrong with being interesting instead of dull.”

Larry Braskamp, Loyola University

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.

Plutarch

A.Evil

B.The best thing since sliced bread

C.Too hard to use

D.A crutch for students

E.A crutch for faculty/instructors

F.All of the above

G.None of the above

As an instructional tool, PowerPoint is

“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”

Walker Percy

An easy way to invite plagiarism is

• Ask “What would you do?” • Ask “What is ___________?”• Ask “Evaluate __________?”• Ask “Why would you choose ________?”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”

Robert Frost

In classrooms where I teach, the biggest problem I have is

A. The temperature is never right.

B. I have to stand in one place to use the technology.

C.There is no technology.

D.There’s too much technology.

E. There isn’t a blackboard.

F. Seating flexibility.

G.Ambient noise.

H.Nowhere for students to plug in laptops for power.

I. Other

“All that’s different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.”

Albert Einstein

In classrooms where I teach, what I like best is

A. The windows.

B. The technology.

C. The flexibility: where I can stand, where the students can sit, etc.

D. The classy décor.

E. The institutional white paint scheme. It goes with everything!

“In the end, we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Value of Peer-Reviewed Teaching is

A. None

B. Limited for the faculty

C. Invaluable

D. Looks good in reports

"With new technologies we've tended to do the same things more efficiently, when what we need is to do different things more effectively."

Christopher Dede, ProfessorHarvard School of Education

The number of PowerPoint slides created worldwide in one (1) year isA. 3,000

B. 50,000

C. 30 million

D. 100 million

E. Too many

F. Not enough

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

When I want to learn something, I prefer

A. Reading about it.

B. Listening/talking about it.

C. Trying it out.

D. Watching a video about it.

To learn, I must dance with my subject... fly it, ride it, spin it upside down, write a poem about it, sing about it... shake my fist at it, think about it, draw it, animate it, eat it, see it through a microscope and a telescope, make love with it... experiment with it, fly over it and under it, see it in different lights, textures, fabrics... taste it in different flavors, understand it in different contexts... cry about it, despair of it, take joy in it, try it in another country... pour it on my pancakes.

Michael Medwid, 1991

Writing assignments can be

T F A public service announcementT F An essayT F A diaryT F Creating a bulletin boardT F Postings to a discussion forumT F Creating a game about the topicT F Interviewing experts in the fieldT F A letter to a family member or friend

Can an hour and fifteen minute face-to-face discussion be replicated online in the same amount of time?

“And believe me, if you took two years of college Spanish, five years after you are out of school ‘¿Como está usted?’ and ‘muy bien’ about all you're gonna remember.”

Father Guido Sarucci, 5 Minute University

What’s different about a face-to-face discussion and an online discussion?