First-year Seminar Leaders Boot Camp
Tweet Since last Wednesday night, the Explorations and Perspectives leaders have been in intensive training to get ready to teach their seminars for incoming first-year students. Check out some of the photos from our kick-off dinner.
Welcome Back, Explorations and Perspectives Leaders!
Tweet It’s an exciting day at the ExCollege…the upperclass students who are teaching Explorations and Perspectives seminars for first-year students start their training tonight with a kick-off dinner and inspiration from Steve Cohen, lecturer in the Education Department. Then they’ll go through intensive training for teaching and advising through next Tuesday, and next Wednesday, the [...]
Back from Houston!
Tweet A post from Ali Mehlsak: So a few weeks ago Cindy mentioned that I was headed to Rice University in Houston for a conference. I promised a blog entry, and finally, here it is! What to say first about my trip…Well, I left a clear, crisp forty-degree Boston morning for the muggy eighty-degree afternoon [...]
What happened?
Tweet I haven’t blogged all week! What’s happening? Well it’s been a little crazy around the ExCollege. Let’s see…we are finalizing the Explorations and Perspectives seminars for the fall (see below for a list), getting all of the application information together to make final selections for fall visiting lecturer courses (on our website by May [...]
Why you should team up with a friend and teach Perspectives
Tweet As I mentioned earlier, some of our previous Perspectives Leaders have been sharing their thoughts on the program and why you should look into it. Molly and Elana On Teaching Perspectives
Deadline, Schmeadline
Tweet If you’ve known the ExCollege for a while, you might realize that we never met a deadline we didn’t want to extend in some way. We like pushing the envelope and giving folks every opportunity to take advantage of what we have to offer. So it is in that vein that we are now [...]
Flipping Out
Tweet Since I don’t have enough disposable income to buy all the newest toys for myself, I’m always excited when I can buy new stuff for the ExCollege. Usually Howard gets to buy the fun filmmaking equipment, but I beat him to it this time. I just ordered 4 Flip MinoHD video cameras to use [...]
Teaching and Learning
Tweet Lots going on at the ExCollege right now. One big thing is the upcoming deadline for teams of rising juniors or seniors to teach an Explorations or Perspectives seminar. Apps are due next Wednesday, March 16th. Folks who have taught in the past are gathering Friday to make a video about what the experience [...]