A presentation titled A Teaching and Learning Model—Authoring Beyond the Words won the "NMC People's Choice Award" at the New Media Consortium (NMC) annual meeting in Portland, Oregon in June as part of NMC's Idea Lab presentations.... Read more about FAS ATG & Library staff win People's Choice Award at New Media Consortium

In African and African American Studies 174: The African City, students engaged with historic and present-day cities in Africa by examining architecture, city planning, spatial framing, popular culture, and art markets.

The course website was intended to:

• Provide students with a venue to continue lecture and section discussions after leaving the classroom
• Allow students to create a multimedia response project instead of (or as a complement to) traditional written responses and papers
• Include a multimedia repository of videos and maps that enhances...

Students in this Culture and Belief class were asked to interpret class discussions and readings in an artistic way. This included song, dance performance, poem, sculpture, painting, or even a short story. Artifacts were uploaded into an online portfolio that could be shared outside of the classroom and that was accessible to students after they left the class.

The final assignment of United States in the World 35 was a three-minute “elevator pitch” of students' ideas to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. These pitches were captured on video to develop students’ skills in making a concise verbal argument, developing a presentation, and using their creativity.