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Queer Teaching, Queer Thriving Learning Community

The Center for Teaching and the K.C. Potter Center for LGBTQI Life are proud to continue our Queer Teaching, Queer Thriving learning community in 2021-2022 with a conversation and workshop hosted by Stephanie Mahnke, Vanderbilt’s new Director of the KCPC and LGBTQI Life. Building upon our Fall conversations about LGBTQI+ well-being and Queer Pedagogy, this…

Posted by on March 21, 2022 in Events, Inclusive Teaching, Learning Communities, News, queer pedagogy

Online and Hybrid Teaching Working Group

by Stacey M. Johnson In this series of three meetings via Zoom, our group will explore experiential teaching online through the lens of telecollaboration, online community engagement, and online course design. Join us for one, two or all three of these conversations in which we will explore resources and challenges associated with experiential online and…

Posted by on March 17, 2022 in Course Design, Events, online teaching, Resource, working groups

Preparing Syllabi for Your First Faculty Job

This working group will support graduates students and postdocs who will be new faculty in the Fall of 2022 and expected to teach their own classes. Starting a new faculty position is stressful and demanding; the CFT hopes to ease this transition by helping graduating doctoral students and postdocs create their needed syllabi in advance…

Posted by on March 15, 2022 in Events, Faculty, Resource, syllabus, working groups,

Podcasting Essentials: What you need to know to launch your own podcast

by Rhett McDaniel Have you ever listened to a podcast and been inspired to make one of your own? You can! Producing academic podcasts around your course topics is a great way to help your students learn. In addition, your podcast would be accessible to the nearly 118 million podcast listeners all over the world….

Posted by on March 4, 2022 in Digital Commons, digital media, Events, News, Podcasting, Resource, workshop

CSET Mini-Conference Improving Science Communication: The Promise of Science and Humanities Collaborations – March 18

The Communication of Science and Technology program announces a mini-conference to foster science/humanities collaborations around teaching. See the mini-conference schedule and description of talks by Radiolab founder Jad Abumrad and Communication Professor Leah Ceccarelli, who originated the idea of the “scientist citizen.” CSET Mini-Conference Improving Science Communication: The Promise of Science and Humanities Collaborations Student…

Posted by on March 3, 2022 in Digital Humanities, Events, News, STEM, STEM teaching

Join a CFT Learning Community!

Learning Assistant Instructors  Learning assistants, or LAs, are undergraduates who serve as peer educators in courses that they have previously taken. Supported by training in pedagogy, they extend the reach of faculty members implementing active learning components in a course and help provide personalized experiences that increase students’ sense of belonging. In this learning community,…

Posted by on February 22, 2022 in Events, hybrid teaching, learning assistant program, Learning Communities, News, online teaching, Resource

Excellence in (Student) Podcasting Submissions Now Open

The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities is sponsoring the second annual Excellence in Podcasting Competition, in collaboration with the Office of Immersion Resources and the Center for Teaching. We had really fantastic student submissions last year, and you can listen to the winning submissions on our podcast VandyVox. If you know of students who…

Posted by on February 16, 2022 in Center for Humanities, Digital Humanities, Events, News, Podcast, Podcasting, VandyVox

Reaching Students through Open Pedagogy and Digital Media

In this workshop, participants will be invited to consider how they might pursue a more open pedagogy through the creation and sharing of digital media. Andy Wesolek, director of digital scholarship and scholarly communications at the Vanderbilt Libraries, will explore the practice of open pedagogy and the benefits it can bring to faculty and to…

Posted by on January 24, 2022 in Digital Commons, digital media, Digital Pedagogy, Events, News, Resource, Teaching Workshops, workshop

From the Executive Director

  As I write this, snow is falling in Nashville, and I’m reminded of all the challenges our local community has faced over the last two years, from tornadoes and storms to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The teaching community at Vanderbilt has had to adapt again and again over the last two years, and I…

Posted by on January 18, 2022 in About the CFT, CFT Programs, CFT Services, CFT staff, Events, News, Resource

Teach Coding? Learn About a tool for integrating enhanced Jupyter Notebooks into Your Teaching

As part of a Course Improvement Grant project, associate professor of biomedical engineering Will Grissom been using Pathbird, a tool that runs enhanced Jupyter notebooks (in Python, Julia, or R). It allows students to navigate to their site with no additional setup, and the instructor can interleave autograders, multiple choice questions, and short answer questions with…

Posted by on December 6, 2021 in Commentary, computer science, Events, Resource, STEM teaching, Zoom

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