Limed Posts

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May 15, 2023

Bite-Sized Learning to Support Young Professionals

by Matt Wittstein

Jon Chesky, Senior Project Manager at L.F. Jennings, Inc., teaches within their Developing Young Professionals program. Faced with the challenge of engaging adult learners in a short-form workshop session, Jon asks our panel for ideas of how to be efficient…

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April 17, 2023

Demonstrating Knowledge Using Oral Assessments

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 8 Mark Burnham wants to help his students get more practice and feel psychologically more prepared for their oral graduation examinations in Emerson and Henry College’s biology program. He is already planning to…

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March 20, 2023

Gamifying Multimedia Writing

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 7 Dr. Travis Maynard found a game called “Silicon Valley Startups” at a Goodwill store and turned it into the basis for introducing his professional writing and rhetoric students to the skills and…

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February 20, 2023

Course Construction: Bridging the Academy

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 6 Dr. Katherine Fox is a medical anthropologist from Southern Oregon University. As her university is adopting a new general education requirement, she is working on developing a new course that centers creativity…

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January 16, 2023

Opportunities to Make Group Work Authentic

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 5 Derek O’Leary from Virginia Commonwealth University teaches advertising, a field known to require collaboration and cooperation with diverse teams, often remotely. David Buck, Gianna Smurro, and our producer Dhvani Toprani consider how…

Two light-skinned young people are shown from behind as they sit at a table at the back of a classroom. They look behind themselves, to something beyond the visible image. In front of them, toward the front of the classroom, many other young people of varying gender and skin tone sit at rows of tables and face the front of the classroom. A medium-skinned woman stands at the front of the classroom, gesturing out toward the rows of young people. Behind her is a projected image that is not discernable from this distance. The same image is projected in multiple locations on every wall of the classroom.
December 19, 2022

PowerPointers: Making the Most of Slide Decks

by Matt Wittstein and Dhvani Toprani

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 4 Dr. Sarah Morrison-Smith is a new faculty member at Hamilton College, where the institutional culture leans away from PowerPoint in the classroom. Our panel of Jill McSweeney, Scott Spurlock, and Christina Wyatt…

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November 21, 2022

Place-Based Learning Along the Duwamish

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 3 Dr. Ben Machado, from South Seattle College, recently received a grant to incorporate place-based learning into his introductory biology classroom. Panelists Kelsey Bitting, Scott Morrison, and Dani Toma-Harrold provide ideas and insight…

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October 17, 2022

Rethinking Student Engagement, Post-COVID

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 2 Dr. Chris Trimby from the University of Delaware wants to rethink how to engage his physiology students as we emerge from COVID. Panelists Derek Bruff, Ellery Ewell, and Jen Uno discuss how…

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September 6, 2022

Limed: Teaching with a Twist Trailer

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist is a podcast that plays with pedagogy. Each episode features the voices and ideas of diverse faculty, staff, and students who workshop our guest’s real challenges and opportunities for their classrooms. The show is produced in…