The CTL's Water Cooler is designed to furnish resources that are immediately applicable to teaching and mentoring that are quick and easy to implement, such as short tool kits, instructional technology tutorial/reviews, and book reviews. All of these submissions are from ACA faculty and staff and have been reviewed by the Center's Board before publication.
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This toolkit shows you how to organize a course using the repository process to highlight the quality of student work, motivation, and growth during the course.
Addy et al. (2021) capture a timely and extraordinarily comprehensive resource for unpacking inclusive teaching across different disciplines and institutional contexts.
This toolkit shows how to implement a learner-centered alternative to the standard ‘read and report’ method of assessment.
This toolkit promotes positive time management, reinforces active instructional presence, and fosters consistency of content in communications regularly used in online courses.
A review of Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism.
A review of Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools (2nd Edition).
This toolkit encourages and exemplifies critical thinking experiences for students to transform their minds, behaviors, and relationships.
This toolkit shares strategies that help to ensure that students read and are familiar with syllabus policies and expectations, while promoting student interaction and fostering a sense of learning community.
This toolkit shows how to build and implement a pre-advising program for first-year students.
This toolkit shows how to create a first day of class activity for students that portrays inclusivity and builds trust.
This toolkit shows how to use your syllabus to create a scaffolding tool for your students to learn project and self-management skills.
This toolkit shares how to implement a quick classroom activity to foster social engagement/community building and students’ understanding of salient syllabus information.
This toolkit examines how to use service learning projects to better engage students.
This toolkit examines how to use Facebook to help students think beyond the subject matter and make connections to current events.
This toolkit examines Cubing, an instructional strategy that can help to differentiate instruction and challenge students to think about a topic more critically.
Review of Pear Deck, a tool that can add engagement to existing Google Slide/ PowerPoint presentations by allowing students to respond real time to questions asked during a presentation.
This toolkit will provide creative game-based learning tools for the educator to connect with and educate students in a less traditional approach.
A review of Marco Polo, a video messaging app its creators describe as a “video walkie talkie,” used to create short video messages for small groups.
