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2010

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2009

• Assistant director Derek Bruff's experiences teaching a cryptography course for the first time was described by Therese Huston in her article "Teach as You Learn" in the NEA Advocate's Thriving in Academe series. Huston's article was based on her new book, Teaching What You Don't Know, which also features an interview with Derek.

• Educational technologist Rhett McDaniel was quoted in a USA Today story on Purdue University's new Hotseat tool, a Web application that allows students to contribute to "backchannel" conversations during class via text-messaging, Facebook, and Twitter.

• Assistant director Derek Bruff's book Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments was published in February by Jossey-Bass. Derek was interviewed about the book by Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the National Teaching & Learning Forum.

2008

• Assistant director Derek Bruff and former assistant director Jeff Johnston co-authored an article titled "Case Study on the Pedagogical Impact of Tablet PCs as a Presentation Medium in Engineering Classrooms" in International Journal of Engineering Education, 24(3), 606-615. The other authors were current and former Vanderbilt faculty members Greg Walker, Mark Stremler, and Sean Brophy.

• The Center for Teaching was featured in the December 2008 issue of the Vanderbilt View. The article highlights the center's new, flexible classroom space and the creation of a new position whose purpose is to assist faculty with teaching technologies.

• The Center for Teaching is pleased to announce a new podcast, part of the Center's efforts to cultivate dialogue about university teaching and learning among faculty, students, and staff.
   
  http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/cftpodcast
   
  You can listen to the episodes right from your web browser or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or a similar program.  See the "About" page on the podcast web site for more details.

2007

• Derek Bruff, Assistant Director at the CFT, authored an article titled "Valuing and Evaluating Teaching in the Mathematics Faculty Hiring Process" in the November 2007 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

• Derek Bruff, Assistant Director at the CFT, authored an article titled "Clickers: A Classroom Innovation" in the October 2007 issue of The Advocate, the newsletter of the higher education division of the National Educational Association.

• Derek Bruff, Assitant Director at the CFT, authored a chapter titled "A TA Orientation Plenary Session on University Policies and Resources for Teaching" in Strategies for Teaching Assistant and International Teaching Assistant Development: Beyond Microteaching, edited by Catherine Ross and Jane Dunphy (Jossey-Bass, 2007).

• An interview with Center for Teaching assistant director Jeff Johnston about his first-year writing seminar entitled "The Earth's Oceans in the Global Environment" appeared on the Defying Oceans End website (July, 2007).

• "Center awards teaching certificates," a photo published in the May 14, 2007 edition of the Vanderbilt Register recognizes the first three graduates from the Center for Teaching's Teaching Certificate program.

• "With classroom response systems, new way of learning is only a 'click' away," an article in the April 30, 2007 edition of the Vanderbilt Register featuring Center for Teaching assistant director Derek Bruff and his work with classroom response systems (CRS).

2006

• Graduates of the Center for Teaching's Future Faculty Preparation Program (F2P2) are listed in the May 19, 2006, Vanderbilt Register article "F2P2 Honors 10 Graduates."

• The Center for Teaching's new Teaching Certificate program is profiled in the April 10, 2006, Vanderbilt Register article "Center for Teaching Enhances Certificate Program."

• The Center for Teaching's role in helping Charles Samenow, co-chief resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, develop "Addiction and Society," a first-year writing seminar for undergraduates, is mentioned in the February 27, 2006, Vanderbilt Register article "Double Duty: Chief Resident Teaches First-Year Seminar."

• The Center for Teaching hosted a visit by representatives of the Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning in February 2006. For more information, see the February 27, 2006, Vanderbilt Register article "VU Invited to Join NSF Collaborative Network."

2005

• Patricia Armstrong, Assistant Director of the CFT, and Katherine Stanton, Assistant Director of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University, authored a collection of articles on the theme "Meaningful Assignments" in the Thriving in Academe section of the October 2005 issue of the National Education Association (NEA) Advocate.

• The CFT's work in helping to create a new "learning commons" in the Vanderbilt Central Library was mentioned in the Fall 2005 issue of the Acorn Chronicle, the newsletter of the Vanderbilt Library: "Learning Commons Is Exciting New Development in Libraries," p. 8-9.

• The CFT was highlighted in the Jan. 10, 2005 issue, of Vanderbilt's Daily Register: "Center creates links to disciplines, promotes teaching as a scholarly process."

2004

• Vanderbilt professors applaud the Center for Teaching's work in the Winter 2004 Arts & Science Cornerstone article, "Learning How to Teach" (p. 5).

2003

• The CFT's International Teaching Assistant Program (ITAP) is featured in the Vanderbilt Hustler, Feb. 6, 2003: "Program Attracts International TAs."

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