I found out a couple of weeks ago (just before my trips to Houston and Ireland) that the director at my teaching center, Allison Pingree, is leaving us later this summer for a nice position at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Allison’s been the center’s director for 13 years, and she’s looking [...]
I’m heading out today to Miami to the Engaged STEM Learning Conference (#STEM11 on Twitter) hosted by the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) and Project Kaleidoscope. This is my first AAC&U conference, and I’m looking forward to meeting faculty and staff interested in supporting learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). I’m [...]
I’m glad to announce that I’m now hosting the Tomorrow’s Professor Blog, a blog that mirrors the content of the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List. For more than a decade, the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List has provided “desktop faculty development, one hundred times a year.” The mailing list features essays and articles on a variety aspects [...]
I’ve been meaning for a while to return to experimenting with Anthologize, a WordPress plug-in that allows one to turn blog posts into electronic books. Anthologize was prototyped in a single week this summer during the One Week | One Tool project hosted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. [...]
I’ll be heading to St. Louis in November for the POD Network 2010 conference. I’m contributing to two concurrent sessions there. Details below. If you’re in POD or interested in educational development, I hope to see you there! Revolution or Evolution? Social Technologies and Pedagogical Change Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University Dwayne Harapnuik, Abilene Christian University [...]
As part of the CFT’s Celebration of Teaching two weeks ago, we put together a slideshow highlighting aspects of the year in teaching and the work of the CFT and our collaborators. The slideshow is now available online via Slideshare. Enjo…
I’ve been blogging about clickers and classroom response systems since 2008. When I started, my main site (this one here) was a traditional HTML site, so I started my WordPress-powered blog in a subdirectory of this site, http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs. That’s worked great, but lately I’ve been wanting to blog about topics that aren’t strictly related to [...]
Welcome to my home page. I’m Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). I’m also acting director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Mathematics. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of Vanderbilt University.
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