Susan Van Heuvelen

Susan Van Heuvelen

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I just took ED104. I really liked the short videos from the Harvard educators. I think I'll incorporate this strategy into my writing classes. I'm going to look for some brief video snippets to watch in class and then ask students to summarize highlights/content in a brief paragraph. I also liked the idea of electing a class "observer" who can share the big "take away points" at the end of class with everyone. What a great way to involve students & also make sure that we're sticking to our course objectives! 

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My biggest classroom management issue concerns students who text. I usually have one or two each term who love to text and are fairly oblivious, even to specific, individual requests to "cease and desist". This term I'm going to tell students -- in a humorous way hopefully -- that their participation points for each class are going to include behaving like technological dinosaurs (like their instructor) and NOT texting in class. A texting incident is going to result in a point lost for that class. Then I think I'll e mail the texting student immediately after class about their loss… >>>

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