Visual Copyright: Five Best Practices for Teaching with Images
The photographer Ansel Adams famously quipped that "nothing is worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." For many instructors who have excellent content expertise, the knowledge of legal rules governing use of visual images and film may well be quite fuzzy. In addition to a lack of overall understanding regarding the legal aspects of using someone else’s work, there is also a common perception that it is both difficult and expensive to get permission to use copyrighted material. Hopefully, the following five topics can help bring issues of visual copyright into focus so that we can all make full and safe use of images in instruction. more
Book Review- Introduction to rubrics: An assessment tool to save grading time, convey effective feedback, and promote student learning.
Stevens, D. D., & Levi, A. (2005). Introduction to rubrics: An assessment tool to save grading time, convey effective feedback, and promote student learning. Sterling, VA: Stylus Pub. Price $17.95 | 112 pages.
In their two-part Introduction to rubrics: An assessment tool to save grading time, convey effective feedback, and promote student learning, Dannelle Stevens and Antonia Levi provide academics in higher education with a concise how-to manual for the construction of rubrics, describing step-by-step design and offering examples from actual classroom settings for various disciplines throughout. more
Writing Center Partnership with the CFE
The Writing Center is available to students, faculty and staff at Carolina. It assists the Center for Faculty Excellence in helping faculty and TAs develop and enhance writing in their courses and student assignments. Collaborating on programs such as the Future Faculty Fellowship Program and Annual Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation for graduate students, Writing Center staff provide detailed instruction about how to develop and evaluate effective writing assignments that foster student learning and allow instructors to be more efficient with the assignment review process. more
