1.6K
Downloads
28
Episodes
What defines a great professor? "Playing in the Sandbox: Conversations in Pedagogy" is a podcast series that answers this question with one word: play. Most will agree that the best professors and instructors of higher education are those who promote (and exemplify) passion, curiosity, exploration, experimentation, and the willingness to fail and try again. In other words, as this podcast argues, the best professors are those who meaningfully and thoughtfully play.
Episodes
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
In this episode, Trinity's The Collaborative hosts Dr. Katherine Troyer (Assistant Director) and Dr. Lauren Malone (Academic Technologist) argue that depending on what metaphor you use to understand your syllabus can affect everything from how you treat the document, to what you include (or don't include), to how students engage with the syllabus.
We provide several metaphors--such as a contract, a roadmap, game instructions, and a YouTube walkthrough--that you can adopt when thinking about your syllabus; we also offer some more problematic metaphors to avoid (like the Ten Commandments or a cheat sheet to an A). We then explore how, depending on your chosen metaphor, both your syllabus content and form will evolve. And finally, we explore the importance of accessibility and how digitizing your syllabus can lead to transformative results.
This episode is perfect for anyone hoping to reframe how they think about the syllabus as they work to create a document that is truly meaningful, accessible, and one students will actually read!
Comments (0)
To leave or reply to comments, please download free Podbean or
No Comments
To leave or reply to comments,
please download free Podbean App.