Technological Music

Feb. 19, 2013

photo of Nathan Wheeler/ Photo by Marty Caivano At first, it is dark. Then, once my eyes begin to adjust, I notice the movement of tiny lights across the walls and ceiling. Disoriented, I make my way toward a dark enclosure in the center of the room and realize that...

The Digital News Test Kitchen

Feb. 4, 2013

When I was eight years old and testing out career options, I would often stage interviews with imaginary subjects. My tools were simple: a pen, a notebook, and a Fisher-Price camera. Of course, as we all know, the tools of the modern journalist are quite different, and newspapers around the...

Ed Rivers Teaches Podcasting

Jan. 21, 2013

Learn more about the art of podcasting in this podcast that Ed Rivers created.

Using Skype to Talk to the Person Next to You

Jan. 21, 2013

It wasn’t necessarily the poem that made them nervous, but the question that followed: "Can any of you relate to the narrator?" asked instructor Jenna Montazeri after they had finished reading "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams: "Have you ever done something wrong and displayed false remorse?"...

Storytelling in a Digital World

Jan. 7, 2013

The images are sometimes faded and the voiceovers are rarely crisp, but the stories they tell are real. She is the youngest of five sisters. He plays a perfect game of pool. A daughter struggles to care for her schizophrenic mother. A young woman finds solace at a Catholic church...

The Student Perspective

Dec. 4, 2012

The average undergraduate today has been learning in front of a screen and typing away at a keypad since early childhood. "I do remember when we still could choose between turning in a typed paper and a handwritten one," says junior Mifa Kim. Yet, most students have never experienced a...

Nine Theses On Teaching With Technology by Ben Robertson

Nov. 27, 2012

The following theses come out of my experience with a faculty seminar at CU Boulder on the subject of Teaching with Technology sponsored by Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT). I do not claim any sort of comprehensiveness nor exhaustiveness. There are further things to be said...

PhET: Teaching Science with Computer Simulations by Ashley Williams

Nov. 27, 2012

What would you learn if you could turn off the atmosphere? What problems might you solve if you could increase the force of gravity or had the ability to manipulate individual electrons in a circuit? Demonstrations and experiments have long been an important tool in science education, yet real-world limitations...

Distracted by the Digital Age

Nov. 19, 2012

As freshmen at CU, Bryce Eaton and Natalie Rechter expected the usual challenges. Leaving high school for college means navigating an entirely new social atmosphere, succeeding in classes like Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods, and learning to accept (or ignore) the various eccentricities of new roommates. However, there was one...

Learning Through Making by Ashley Williams

Nov. 12, 2012

He was never a good student. Bored in the classroom, he would rarely raise his hand, shuffling reluctantly from class to class, obviously unengaged. When his middle school offered a game design class he enrolled apprehensively, but the prospect of building his own game piqued his interest. By mid-semester he...

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