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reacting to the past

Using Reacting to the Past Online with Amy O’Keefe

We spoke with Assistant Professor of History Amy O’Keefe about her use of Reacting to the Past, an active learning pedagogy of role-playing games designed for higher education.  In this video, O’Keefe gives an overview of the games she’s implemented in her courses, technology tools she’s used in an online class environment and student feedback […]

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Simulation Lab goes Virtual for the Dietetic Internship Program

Last month, the director of Meredith’s Dietetic Internship program, Cathie Ostrowski, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., FAND, presented at the Nutrition Health and Human Performance virtual monthly meeting on the program’s addition of a virtual adaption of the simulation lab to its curriculum. In this video, Ostrowski gives an overview of the lab’s use of video, Google

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Digital Storytelling Project Spotlight – “Women Warriors” and their Callings

For the Fall 2018 semester, Associate Professor of English, Kelly Roberts, Ph.D,  connected the summer reading book, Callings, by David Isay, with a digital storytelling project in her English 111 Principles of Writing course. Instructional Design Specialist Paul Keys, M.Ed, helped Roberts’s students use WeVideo, a cloud-based video editor, to complete their projects. We caught

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Stories Worth Telling: Bringing Documentary Filmmaking into the College Classroom

By Paul Keys, M.Ed., Instructional Designer & Kris Macomber, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology Colleges and universities are charged with preparing students to meet the new challenges and demands they will regularly face throughout their lives. In keeping with this charge, we see the ability to communicate effectively in our audio-visual, multimedia world as an

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