{"id":2374,"date":"2013-10-09T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/?p=15499"},"modified":"2013-10-09T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:00:50","slug":"upcoming-teaching-worshop-%e2%80%93-beyond-the-five-page-paper-representing-student-learning-visually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/2013\/10\/upcoming-teaching-worshop-%e2%80%93-beyond-the-five-page-paper-representing-student-learning-visually\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Teaching Worshop \u2013 Beyond the Five-Page Paper: Representing Student Learning Visually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date: Wednesday, October 16th<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 3:10 \u2013 4:30<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Location: Center for Teaching<br \/>\nFacilitators: Derek Bruff and Nancy Chick<br \/>\nAudience: Faculty, Students (Undergraduate and Graduate), and Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Visuals\" src=\"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/Visuals-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/>There\u2019s no rule that says students must express what they\u2019ve learned in a college course in the form of a paper, five pages long or otherwise.\u00a0 Sometimes a more visual assignment, one that combines both words and images to literally make their thinking visible, can give an instructor a better sense of what students have learned\u2014and can motivate students to engage more deeply with the course material.<\/p>\n<p>In this workshop, we\u2019ll consider several examples of visual assignments used in courses across the disciplines, including concept maps, posters, presentations, and infographics; discuss learning principles that support the use of such assignments; share strategies for grading visual assignments; and help participants brainstorm visual assignments that not only work well within their specific teaching contexts but also authentically reflect disciplinary ways of demonstrating understanding.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing wrong with a good five-page paper, but adding other, more visual tools to our instructional toolboxes can invigorate both our teaching and our students\u2019 learning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/register\/home.php?event=100313\">REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wednesday, October 16th Time: 3:10 \u2013 4:30 Location: Center for Teaching Facilitators: Derek Bruff and Nancy Chick Audience: Faculty, Students (Undergraduate and Graduate), and Staff There\u2019s no rule that says students must express what they\u2019ve learned in a college&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}