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#FergusonSyllabus: 10 Clips to Stimulate Classroom Discussion
“In moments like the reaction to Brown’s death, we need more engagement, not less, and each of us has something to offer.” - David M. Perry Michael Brown’s death and the resulting protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have inspired academics and educators on Twitter to...
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Creating “AHA! Moments” in Dance Classes: A Conversation with Robyn Kotte [LESSON PLAN]
"Acclaim has made a huge difference. Students have come to realize that sometimes they need to review their videos 2 or 3 times before they have that AHA! moment" -- Robyn Kotte Robyn Kotte is the director of dance at Williams Field High School in Gilbert, Arizona....
Applied? Translational? Open? Digital? Public? New models for the humanities – Guest Post by Steven Lubar (Brown University)
This is a guest post by Steven Lubar. Dr. Lubar is a professor of American Studies at Brown, who teaches in the public humanities department. This post originally appeared on his blog, "On Public Humanities," on June 5, 2014. How do the humanities change when we take...
The Possibilities of Online Learning: 5 Great Examples of How to Use Video
Video is changing the landscape of how people learn. The statistics are out: According to an Edudemic article by Katie Lepi, video is four times more compelling than static content alone. As part of learning pedagogy, video doesn’t merely enhance engagement and...
Duke Students Explore Activism and Civic Engagement through Digital Storytelling [VIDEO]
Jennifer Ahern Dodson is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Writing Studies and Director of Outreach and the Thompson Writing Program Director of Language Arts and Media Program at Duke University. Her research focuses on writing-to-learn pedagogies, composing...
10 Strategies to Make Peer Review Meaningful for Students
“A peer review can be a very mysterious process, and certainly a scary one, which is why we need to talk more about how it’s done.”- Wyn Kelley, Lecturer, Literature, MIT One of the most powerful means of encouraging student engagement and learning is through peer...
UD’s Diamond Challenge Teaches High School Students the Foundations of Entrepreneurship
Over the past few years, Acclaim has collaborated with the Horn Program of Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware. Like the program, we share a commitment to helping students leverage their creative strengths through entrepreneurship, and a belief that...
At the University of Delaware, Students Learn Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Founder’s Films
"With Acclaim, I ask students to comment on the videos, sharing their ideas and questions before our class meets. As an instructor, this gives me insight into what ideas from the videos excite our students, what clarifications are required, and how I should direct...
Biology, STEM, and Communication: A University of Kentucky Collaboration
"Within Acclaim, students can review presentations on their own time and easily add comments. The act of writing out their comments, while simultaneously seeing feedback from other peers and instructors, has helped students improve the quality of their constructive...
Making “Seconds Count” with Acclaim at the Nexus School
Michele Slowik is the Assistant Director of and Behavior Analyst at the Nexus School, a private school in Montgomery County, PA for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Their approach applies B.F. Skinner's research in Applied Behavior Analysis. As a small school,...
The Future of Lifelong Learning
This is a guest post by Christina Yu, Marketing Manager at Knewton. This post originally appeared on the Knewton Blog on September 30, 2014. Lifelong learning, the constant acquisition of knowledge and skills, is seeing explosive interest today. As the internet...
Improving Communication Skills w/ Acclaim: A Conversation w/ Janine Rudnick, El Paso Community College
Janine Rudnick is a professor at El Paso Community College, in El Paso, Texas, with a background in Speech Communication. This semester she’ll be using ACCLAIM in her undergraduate Speech Communication (Public Speaking) and English as a Second Language (Grammar and...