Podcast appearances and mentions of derek bruff

Derek Bruff shares about curation, collections, and collaboration and the insights he's gained from UVA's Teaching Hub on episode 543 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We're working with a ton of curators who have some expertise in an aspect of teaching and learning. -Derek Bruff The more diverse voices we have in it, the more powerful the teaching hub will be. -Derek Bruff Teaching is an ongoing creative process. -Derek Bruff Resources Past POD Innovation Award Winners Raindrop.io Strengths Finder: Input Strength RSS Feeds and Aggregators Google AI tells people to put glue on their pizza Stop Talking About Gaps in Education: Talk About Harm, by Betina Love (h/t Josh Eyler on LinkedIn) Considerations for Creating Instructional Videos, by Tom Pantazes Derek Bruff's Collections The First Day of Class, by Derek Bruff Templated Canvas Courses, by Melissa Ellegood Todoist Journey Group Hero Themes Word Press Plugin Inoreader - Build your own news feed A Pedagogy of Kindness, Cate Denial Hollyland Microphones Malley Farms Jams

Dave Stachowiak and Bonni reflect on generous lessons from you on episode 500 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I am filled with gratitude today for all of the ways in which people have shared how this community has helped you to laugh boldly, cry openly, show up, think deeply, think again, be humble, connect generously, and amplify voices. -Bonni Stachowiak Let's do 500 more! -Bonni Stachowiak Resources Laugh boldly: Alan Levine discusses his appreciation for satire and celebrated Episode 399, when Bonni read a McSweeney's column (with permission from McSweeney's and the author). Bonni also shares a clip from Episode 138 with Mike Caulfield, in which they both reflected on a This American Life story about the tooth fairy Cry openly: Dave introduced a clip of our daughter years ago on Coaching for Leaders Episode 310 with Tina Payne Bryson about how hard crying is when you're three… Bonni considers how hard crying is when you're much older than three and remembers Episode 165: Teaching Lessons from Course Evaluations. Bonni hopes for yet-another interview with Karen Costa… this time, about a chapter Karen wrote for a book about trauma informed teaching Show Up: Bonni plays a clip from Episode 141 with Clint Smith where he read a poem from Counting Descent. Think deeply: Derek Bruff (host of the Intentionally Teaching Podcast) describes how Episode 89 with Betsy Barre about course evaluations got him thinking Think again: Maha Bali reflects on how Mia Zamora articulated another interpretation of their research collaborations on Episode 475 Be humble: Rob Eaton shares about mistakes and vulnerability regarding Episode 470 and Bonni reminisces about Episode 100 and her first conversation with Ken Bain on Episode 36 Connect generously: James M. Lang (with many times he has been interviewed on Teaching in Higher Ed) reflects on his own learning Amplify voices: Karen Caldwell shares about Episode 432

The Mt. SAC podcast will be taking a break along with you with new episodes coming your way mid January. We hope you've enjoyed this year's library of episodes and encourage you to catch up on the ones you may have missed! Mt. SAC has experienced some milestones this year like becoming the first AGZA Green Zone Certified Community College which you can learn more about in Episode 186 or learn more about AI in our two part deep dive with Derek Bruff, phD. in Episode 182 & Episode 183. From all of us at the Mt. SAC Podcast, we wish you a wonderful holiday season!  

If you enjoyed our previous episode featuring Dr. Derek Bruff's Keynote on Teaching and Learning In the Age of Generative A.I captured at Fall Flex Day 2023, then today's episode we have more on this topic for you. Listen in as Dr. Bruff does an even deeper dive in his follow-up discussion also taken from the 2023 Fall Flex Day. Enjoy.   Resources: https://inworld.ai https://beta.character.ai https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/ Presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/chkue44f9tkma7qwuej5a/Teaching-and-Learning-in-the-Age-of-Generative-AI-Mt-SAC.pptx?rlkey=8ymeuinnnujq5mzsqszpipry7&dl=0 Run time: 36:00 min To find the full transcript for this episode, click HERE

If you missed Fall Flex Day 2023 or just want a recap of the amazing presentation on A.I from Derek Bruff, PhD, then this is your chance to relisten and learn ways in which to leverage A.I in the classroom, along with some tools beyond ChatGPT, as well as the barriers they might pose. Enjoy.   Resources: https://inworld.ai https://beta.character.ai https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/   Presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/chkue44f9tkma7qwuej5a/Teaching-and-Learning-in-the-Age-of-Generative-AI-Mt-SAC.pptx?rlkey=8ymeuinnnujq5mzsqszpipry7&dl=0 Run time: 33:52 min To find the full transcript for this episode, click HERE

Derek Bruff shares about assignment makeovers in the AI age on episode 481 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Quotes from the episode The technologies at play in higher education changed dramatically in a very short amount of time, and that required us to kind of rethink what we were doing as teachers. -Derek Bruff For my course, I felt like it is fine to teach them to write using the AI tools as long as I can help them learn to use the tools well. -Derek Bruff Resources Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Reading Response Edition, by Derek Bruff Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Essay Edition, by Derek Bruff Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Infographics Edition, by Derek Bruff Humberto Garcia Making Over Assignments in Light of New Generative AI Tools, by Derek Bruff What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain Cheating Lessons, by James Lang Episode 19 with James Lang: Cheating Lessons Mike Caulfield's SIFT framework 4 Steps to Help You Plan for ChatGPT in Your Classroom, by Flower Darby for The Chronicle of Higher Education Elicit The Homework Apocalypse, by Ethan Mollick

Is it time that your teaching center started its own podcast? That's the question that brought four POD Network colleagues together in a breakout session at PODFest 2022 to talk about teaching center podcasts. What goals might a teaching center podcast have? How would you know if you were meeting those goals? And how would your center go about planning and producing a podcast? This episode features a lively conversation between two teaching center podcast producers, Derek Bruff of the University of Mississippi and Tom Pantazes of West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and two colleagues interested in starting new podcasts, Karen Skibba of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jasmine Parent of McGill University. They discuss podcasting as an educational development tool as well as practical strategies for starting and sustaining a teaching center podcast. ODLI on Air, https://open.spotify.com/show/7dlveEuHbzzJ9BfgotUyq8 Leading Lines, https://leadinglinespod.com/ Intentional Teaching, https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/ Teaching in Higher Education, https://teachinginhighered.com/episodes/ Two Profs in a Pod, https://twoprofsinapod.blogspot.com/ 

In this episode of Centering Centers, guest host Derek Bruff talks with Jessica Riddell, professor of early modern literature and the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Bishop's University in Quebec, Canada. Jessica is also the executive director of the Maple League of Universities, which is not, in fact, a group of Canadian super-heroes, but rather a consortium of four small universities that have banded together to support quality undergraduate education. Jessica shares her journey into the field of educational development, how collaboration across institutions can support the missions of those institutions, what she's learning in her new position on the board of directors of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and how she manages to get so much stuff done in her week. https://www.jessicariddell.com/ Transcript

“I want my people to look like the experts they are, because I want them to be treated as colleagues, even though we are a service organization.” In this episode of Centering Centers, guest host Derek Bruff talks with Shawn Miller, director of Learning Innovation at Duke University. Shawn's unit combines faculty development, instructional technology, online program management, and more. Shawn shares how Duke Learning Innovation came to be and how the unit continues to integrate these different functions, and he provides strategic advice for centers for teaching and learning who are navigating the academic technology landscape. Resources Mentioned in the Episode: https://learninginnovation.duke.edu/ Transcript

Welcome Derek Bruff to the podcast! Derek is active in our Family Gamers Community and also hosts his own podcast, First Player Token. The post 317 – Derek Bruff, First Player Token Podcast appeared first on The Family Gamers.

In this interview with Derek Bruff, Remi talks about how annotation works in partnership with reading as a knowledge construction activity. With physical books, digital reading, and even on social media, people add notes to texts to wrestle with what they read and reach new audiences.  Let's explore how instructors can harness the power of annotation in formal educational contexts.

Runner Up in the Undergraduate Category of the 2022 Excellence in Podcasting CompetitionMiami, Florida is at the epicenter of many discussions about rising sea levels caused by climate change, but we rarely get to hear from the individuals displaced by it. In this short episode, Emily Irigoyen paints a vivid picture of a city inundated by floods and the state's continued denial of the grim reality faced by thousands of citizens.“Using very short pull quotes is very much a thing that could work well in print but in podcasting, which privileges the human voice, it doesn't work quite as well.” - Jad Abumrad on the limitations of using short interview clips in podcasting“One of the big debates you have in a story meeting is, ‘is this a topic or a story?' and this particular piece is very much a topic [that] has story-shaped elements…There's an opportunity here to go a little bit deeper into any one of the chapter-lets to let me see and feel and hear and taste and smell the experiences being described rather than to keep hopping around.”- Jad Abumrad on how to turn a topic into a storyVandyVox was created by Derek Bruff and is managed by Jad Abumrad. The fifth season is hosted by Abhinav Krishnan and produced in collaboration with Vanderbilt Student Communications and the Center for Excellence in Teaching.

Winner in the Undergraduate Category of the 2022 Excellence in Podcasting CompetitionOver the last few years, the fossil fuel divestment movement has taken the country by storm, and at Vanderbilt activists made their big debut by interrupting Chancellor Diermeier's speech at Founders Walk in 2021. In this episode Abhinav (and a special guest) listen to College Voices' reporting about this movement and discuss how students can create similar audio stories.“The music knows something. I think it's always interesting to ask, what does the music know that the listener doesn't know yet? ‘Cause the music is the thing that can exist outside of the time of the story. It knows the past, it knows the present, it knows the future…I would say use it thoughtfully, use it as a knowing entity, use it as a punctuational entity.” - Jad Abumrad about using music in podcastsHow long did it take for you to produce this episode?“This episode took dozens of hours of research, interviews, scripting, and production to complete. A lot of this work, however, also laid the groundwork for the second and third part of this divestment series”What was your thought process behind the audio design for this episode?“The biggest priority in creating this piece was to report accurately and ethically the scope and challenges of this movement. This topic, though, is not one that may naturally interest students, so we decided to create an introduction that tries to catch the audience's attention. Listen closely and you'll hear that we've used a lot of sound directly from the protests we attended!”What advice would you have for students that are interested in producing something similar?“A lot of podcasts just clip voiceovers together with some interview audio and music - this might serve your purpose but you can be a lot more creative with this medium! Try layering multiple clips over one another to create interesting effects that truly immerse the listener in your story.Also, podcasting doesn't need a fancy microphone or advanced editing software - you can and should get started with your phone, a headset, and Garageband! That's still how I make my episodes!”VandyVox was created by Derek Bruff and is managed by Jad Abumrad. The fifth season is hosted by Abhinav Krishnan and produced in collaboration with Vanderbilt Student Communications and the Center for Excellence in Teaching.

Derek Bruff shares some highlights from the Leading Lines podcast episodes on episode 434 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I am not done podcasting. -Derek Bruff Resources International Podcasting Day Leading Lines podcast Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Leading Lines Podcast, by Derek Bruff Mike Wesch's ANTH101 Leading Lines Episode 11: Kathryn Tomasek Leading Lines Episode 54: Mike Caulfield Mike Caulfield's SIFT (the four moves) Loom Leading Lines Episode 62: Chris Gilliard Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 170 with Cathy O'Neil: Author of Weapons of Math Destruction Leading Lines Episode 90: Betsey Barre and Karen Costa Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”

A special message from VandyVox's founder, Derek Bruff about the future of VandyVox!

In this special audio note from Leading Lines producer and host Derek Bruff, Derek shares that the podcast will be winding down after a few more episodes. Thanks to all our Leading Lines producers and guests we've had over the years for making this podcast something special. And thanks to all you for listening. Some of Derek's favorite episodes: https://twitter.com/derekbruff/status/1557013656185245699

We're taking a break this week, but Jared was recently on another really excellent podcast - the First Player Token! It's a great short-form podcast about board games to play with family and friends, hosted by Derek Bruff. Jared was on the most recent episode all about Takenoko, which we share a sample today, but you can check out the full episode HERE: https://derekbruff.org/blogs/firstplayertoken/episode-27-takenoko/ The First Player Token podcast is also on all major podcasting platforms. You can follow Derek Bruff on twitter as well: https://twitter.com/firstplayrtoken

In this episode, Leading Lines' own Stacey Margarita Johnson and Derek Bruff discuss student-produced podcasts. Stacey and Derek share their own experiences with podcast assignments and, by searching through the Leading Lines rich archives, also bring in voices from past episodes so we can hear their stories as well. LINKS • The downside of Spotify exclusivity: https://twitter.com/trufelman/status/1487450647561744384 • NPR College Podcast Challenge https://www.npr.org/2021/12/01/1060141108/nprs-college-podcast-challenge-is-back-with-a-5-000-prize • Vanderbilt Podcasting Competition https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2022/01/21/excellence-in-podcasting-competition-underway-students-invited-to-submit-by-april-1/ • VandyVox http://vandyvox.com/ • According to Pew Research, of Americans age 12 and over in 2021, 41% had listened to a podcast in the past month. Previous episodes referenced in this episode: • Episode 27 Gilbert Gonzales https://leadinglinespod.com/episodes/episode-027-gilbert-gonzales/ • Episode 37 John Sloop https://leadinglinespod.com/episodes/episode-37john-sloop/ • Episode 56: Sophie Bjork-James https://leadinglinespod.com/uncategorized/episode-56sophie-bjork-james/ Read more about Stacey's podcasting assignment in this blog post: https://staceymargarita.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/my-podcast-my-students-interviews-and-public-scholarship/ Read more about Derek's podcasting assignment in this blog post: https://derekbruff.org/?p=3558

Welcome to Episode 77 of the Think UDL podcast: Intentional Tech Solutions with Derek Bruff. Derek Bruff is the Assistant Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University and Interim Director of Digital Commons as well as a Principal Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. He is also the host and producer of the educational technology podcast Leading Lines. Derek has recently written the book Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching. My colleagues and I at Appalachian State who are “faculty Champions,” faculty who help our peers with tech and teaching problems, have been reading his book together and discussing it asynchronously, so I am eager to talk with Derek today and get the answers to my questions! I am excited to talk shop with him about his book and how his principles relate to the UDL guidelines. And I thank you for joining me and Derek today for our conversation on UDL and Intentional Tech!

In September 2021, Derek Bruff had the opportunity to visit the Farminary at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey. The Farminary is a working farm on the seminary campus that's integrated in the seminary curriculum. This fall, for instance, a half dozen courses met regularly at the Farminary, combining work on the farm with theological education. In this episode, Derek talks with Nathan Stucky, director of the Farminary Project, and Emma Lietz Bilecky, Farminary Fellow at the seminary. They have a conversation about the origin of the Farminary, the kinds of experiential and embodied learning that happens there, and the challenges and opportunities that come with teaching in rhythm with nature. Links • The Farminary Project, https://www.ptsem.edu/academics/departments/farminary • Episode 47: Kimberly Rogers, https://leadinglinespod.com/uncategorized/episode-47kimberly-rogers/ • Episode 48: Max Seidman, https://leadinglinespod.com/episodes/episode-48max-seidman/ • Episode 93: Holly Tucker, Shaul Kelner, and Cait Kirby, https://leadinglinespod.com/episodes/episode-93holly-tucker-shaul-kelner-and-cait-kirby/

Welcome to the 100th episode of Leading Lines! For this momentous occasion, Derek Bruff reached out to Zoe LeBlanc, a Vanderbilt doctoral student who was interviewed way back during the first season (Episode 8) to see if she would come back on the podcast to talk about her career since that interview in 2016. Since finishing at Vanderbilt, Zoe has been a digital humanities developer at the Scholars Lab at the University of Virginia and a postdoctoral associate and Weld Fellow at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. This fall, she has started an assistant professor position in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Derek Bruff sits down with her, virtually, to catch up and talk about that career. Links • Zoe LeBlanc's website, https://zoeleblanc.com/ • @Zoe_LeBlanc on Twitter, https://twitter.com/Zoe_LeBlanc

This is Episode 2 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Derek Bruff, assistant provost and executive director of the Center for Teaching, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Here is a link to his blog on Jigsaws that we reference in this episode. Here is a transcript of the podcast.

058 - Dr. Derek Bruff shares active learning strategies you can use in socially distanced in-person classrooms, online courses, and hybrid learning experiences.  Get the show notes: https://barbihoneycutt.com/LB58

During the fall 2020 semester, many faculty will be working in a classroom environment in which they will be in a classroom using a video conferencing tool to work simultaneously with a mix of remote students online and masked and physically distanced face-to-face students. There are significant challenges in using active learning techniques in this environment. In this episode, Dr. Derek Bruff joins us to explore some active learning strategies that may work under these very unusual circumstances. Derek is the Director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a Principal Senior Lecturer in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics. He is the author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments, as well as his most recent book on Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching. Derek is also a host of the Leading Lines podcast. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.  

Rodolfo Rego is a senior instructor in the department of earth and environment at Florida International University. You may remember Rodolfo from Episode 59 of Leading Lines, about a year ago, when he shared some of his approaches for teaching earth and environmental science courses online. His courses are ones that one might think are entirely bound by place— his courses often feature field trips or mineral labs. But he makes them work, and work well, as fully online courses, leveraging the fact that his students aren’t all in the same place at the same time to help them learn about the Earth and the environment. Rodolfo spoke with Derek Bruff in early June and was asked about the so-called pivot to online teaching this spring and how it affected him. He also talks about his plans for the fall, with all its uncertainties, and he shared his advice for faculty new to online teaching. For all those faculty who are new to teaching online and worried about making their fall courses work well, you’ll find Rodolfo’s advice both practical and reassuring. Links • Multimedia resources from Rodolfo’s courses, https://case.fiu.edu/earth-environment/resources/multimedia-resources/index.html • Leading Lines Ep. 59 f. Rodolfo Rego, http://leadinglinespod.com/episodes/episode-59rodolfo-rego/ • Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms, Derek Bruff, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2020/06/active-learning-in-hybrid-and-socially-distanced-classrooms/ • Structures for Flex Classrooms: Pros, Cons, and Pedagogical Choices, Cynthia Brame, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2020/06/structures-for-flex-classrooms-pros-cons-and-pedagogical-choices/

Like most other colleges in the country, Vanderbilt is moving to remote teaching and learning through the end of the spring semester. Stacey reached out to two teaching experts currently helping faculty teach online at their respective institutions. Jennifer Townes and Joshua Eyler weigh in on how faculty who do not normally teach online can use technology to teach from a distance and what instructors should keep in mind as they conduct class for the next weeks. Jennifer is Associate Dean of Professional Development at Southwest TN Community College, and Joshua is Director of Faculty Development at the University of Mississippi. Links • Joshua's faculty page: https://news.olemiss.edu/um-hires-new-faculty-development-director/ • Jennifer' faculty page: http://www.southwest.tn.edu/faculty-support/meet-the-staff.htm Some resources from Vanderbilt University • Resources for Just-in-Time Online Teaching by Derek Bruff https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/resources-for-just-in-time-online-teaching/ • Dealing with the Unexpected: Teaching When You or Your Students Can’t Make it to Class by Stacey Margarita Johnson and Rhett McDaniel https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/dealing-with-the-unexpected/ • Putting some of your course content online in a hurry? We have resources for you! By Stacey Margarita Johnson https://www.vanderbilt.edu/brightspace/2020/03/06/putting-some-of-your-course-content-online-in-a-hurry-we-have-resources-for-you/ • Asynchronous Teaching Tools on Brightspace https://www.vanderbilt.edu/brightspace/2020/03/13/asynchronous-teaching-tools-on-brightspace/ • Communicating with your students about the move to online classes by Joe Bandy https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2020/03/communicating-with-your-students-about-the-move-to-online-classes/ • Accessibility and Remote Teaching https://www.vanderbilt.edu/brightspace/2020/03/12/accessibility-and-remote-teaching/ • Vanderbilt Libraries remote teaching, learning, and research support page https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/remote-teaching.php Resources from around the web • How to make your online pivot less brutal by Kevin Gannon https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Make-Your-Online-Pivot/248239 • Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start by Michelle D. Miller https://www.chronicle.com/article/Going-Online-in-a-Hurry-What/248207?cid=cp275 • This Google Doc Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption by Jenae Cohn and Beth Seltzer https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ccsudB2vwZ_GJYoKlFzGbtnmftGcXwCIwxzf-jkkoCU/preview#heading=h.bsm2vj54ofq4

In past episodes, we’ve interviewed other members of the Leading Lines podcast producer team: John Sloop, Melissa Mallon, former producer Ole Molvig, and Derek Bruff. We continue that trend in this episode with an interview with Cliff Anderson, associate university librarian for research and digital initiatives here at Vanderbilt and another Leading Lines producer. Cliff has been teaching a new course called “The Beauty and Joy of Computing” for a few semesters now. It’s an introduction to computer science and computational thinking aimed at students who aren’t majoring in computer science. This semester, another Leading Lines producer, Gayathri Narasimham, research assistant professor in electrical engineering and computer science, has started teaching it. Gayathri thought it would be interesting to interview Cliff about his experiences designing and teaching the course. We are excited to present their conversation here on Leading Lines. In the course, Cliff and Gayathri use NetsBlox as their programming language. It’s a blocks-based language, like Scratch or Snap, designed to teach computing concepts visually without having to work through lines of code. Here, Cliff discusses the pros and cons of this approach to teaching computer science, and he shares a little about his interdisciplinary background as a scholar of religion turned librarian turned technologist. Links • Clifford Anderson’s website, https://www.cliffordanderson.net/ • CS1000 website, https://github.com/CliffordAnderson/CS1000 • XQuery for Humanists by Clifford Anderson and Joseph Wicentowski, https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623498290/xquery-for-humanists/ • The Beauty and Joy of Computing, UC-Berkeley, https://bjc.berkeley.edu/ • Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, by Claire L. Evans, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545427/broad-band-by-claire-l-evans/ • NetsBlox, https://netsblox.org/ • Leading Lines Ep. 72: Mark Sample, http://leadinglinespod.com/uncategorized/episode-72mark-sample/ • Leading Lines Ep. 68: Ian Bogost, http://leadinglinespod.com/episodes/episode-68ian-bogost/ • Leading Lines Ep. 28: Ákos Lédeczi, http://leadinglinespod.com/episodes/episode-028-akos-ledeczi/

In this episode, Mark Sample, associate professor and chair of digital studies at Davidson College talks with Derek Bruff. Sample was the keynote speaker at Vanderbilt’s Learning at Play: a one-day symposium on games for learning and social change. Sample didn’t have a chance to sit down for a Leading Lines interview while he was on campus in November. But he and Derek Bruff got to catch up via Zoom earlier this month, and we are very excited to share that conversation with the Leading Lines audience. He talks about teaching digital studies, designing counterfactual games, and learning through play. As you’ll hear in the interview, Mark Sample is an incredibly thoughtful educator, and we are glad to have him here on the podcast. Links • Mark Sample’s faculty page, https://www.davidson.edu/people/mark-sample • Mark Sample’s website and blog, https://www.samplereality.com/ • @samplereality on Twitter, https://twitter.com/samplereality • Ring™ Log, https://fugitivetexts.net/ring/ • Mark Sample’s Twitter bot, https://twitter.com/i/lists/93507157 • Twine, https://twinery.org/ • Learning at Play, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/play/ • Learning at Play recaps by Derek Bruff, https://derekbruff.org/?s=%23LearningatPlay

In this episode, you’ll hear from Jay Todd and Bart Everson from Xavier University of Louisiana, Tenisha Baca and Beth Eyres from Glendale Community College in Arizona, and our own Derek Bruff from Vanderbilt University, talk about their respective podcasts on teaching and learning. Jay and Bart are two of the producers of Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else, a production of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development at Xavier. Beth and Tenisha are the hosts of Two Profs in a Pod from the Center for Teaching, Learning and Engagement at Glendale. The panelists talk about the origins of their podcasts and the structure and missions of their podcasts, and they name a few of their favorite episodes. Links • Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else, https://cat.xula.edu/food/podcast/ • Two Profs in a Pod, https://twoprofsinapod.blogspot.com/ • Tea for Teaching, http://teaforteaching.com/ • Teaching in Higher Education, https://teachinginhighered.com/episodes/ • The New Professor, https://thenewprofessor.com/ • Life101, http://life101.audio/

Welcome to Season 3 of One-Time Pod, a podcast on the history of cryptography produced by students in Derek Bruff's first-year writing seminar at Vanderbilt University. Each episode considers a different code or cipher, how it works, and why it's interesting.

Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan both work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where they not only teach hundreds of students a year, but also support their fellow UNC educators in a variety of ways. Viji is a teaching associate professor in the department of psychology and neuroscience and special projects assistant to the senior associate dean of undergraduate education. Kelly is a STEM teaching professor in the department of biology and associate dean of the Office of Instructional Innovation. Their work inspiring and equipping educators extends far beyond UNC, however. You may have seem them in the Chronicle of Higher Education or the New York Times or the Atlantic, or heard them on the Teaching in Higher Education podcast with Bonni Stachowiak. Viji and Kelly have a way of talking about inclusive teaching strategies that helps faculty in all disciplines make meaningful changes in their teaching. Leading Lines host and producer, Derek Bruff, was lucky enough to steal a little bit of their time at the POD conference to ask them about the intersection of inclusive teaching and educational technology. Links • Viji Sathy’s website, https://sites.google.com/view/vijisathy/ • @vijisathy on Twitter, https://twitter.com/vijisathy • Kelly Hogan’s faculty page, https://bio.unc.edu/faculty-profile/hogan/ • @DrMrsKellyHogan on Twitter, https://twitter.com/DrMrsKellyHogan • Sathy & Hogan’s Chronicle of Higher Education guide to inclusive teaching, https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190719_inclusive_teaching • The POD Network, https://podnetwork.org/

In this episode, Leading Lines producer Melissa Mallon interviews our podcast host, Derek Bruff, about his new book entitled Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching. Melissa spends time talking with Derek about his seven principles that inform and inspire instructors interested in incorporating educational technologies into their teaching. He also shares with Melissa his writing process and gives some insights on how busy academics can fit writing into their lives. Links: • Derek Bruff’s blog on teaching and technology, https://derekbruff.org/ • @derekbruff on Twitter, https://twitter.com/derekbruff • Derek’s new book, Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching, available on Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/Derek-Bruff/e/B001KPCGT2%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Derek Bruff discusses his book, Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching.

In this episode we talk with Chris Gilliard, Professor of English at Macomb Community College. His scholarship concentrates on privacy, institutional tech policy, digital redlining, and the re-inventions of discriminatory practices through data mining and algorithmic decision-making, especially as these apply to college students. Chris talks with Derek Bruff about some of the problems and concerns about educational technologies that may not be immediately visible to others. Links: • Chris’ website - http://hypervisible.com • Follow Chris on Twitter at - https://twitter.com/hypervisible • November, 2018 CBC Radio interview with Chris “Bad Algorithms are Making Racist Decisions” - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/412-1.4887497/bad-algorithms-are-making-racist-decisions-1.4887504

Some faculty try to use each new educational technology tool they find. Others are reluctant to try any new tools. In this episode, Dr. Derek Bruff joins us to examine how to productively choose educational technology that will support and enhance student learning. Derek is the director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a principal senior lecturer at Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics. He's the author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments. His new book Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching will be available from West Virginia University Press in November 2019. Derek is also a host of the Leading Lines podcast. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.  

In this episode, we first hear a short, speculative fiction audio story by Vanderbilt undergraduate Sarah Saxton Strassberg called “Hagar Rising” that explores the future of gene editing. Sarah Saxton created this piece for a course on the politics of reproductive health taught by Vanderbilt anthropology professor Sophie Bjork-James. After Sarah’s audio piece, Derek Bruff talks with Sophie about the course and her podcast assignment. “Hagar Rising” originally aired as an episode of another Vanderbilt podcast, VandyVox, which features the best student-produced audio from around campus. The podcast also has student audio exploring names and identities at a Hispanic-serving nonprofit in Nashville, a narrative produced for a women’s and gender studies course called “Women Who Kill,” and an excerpt from a graduate student-produced podcast taking a critical look at video games, among other student work from around campus. To find these episodes, search for VandyVox in your favorite podcast app, or head to VandyVox.com. If you visit the website, you’ll also find some behind-the-scenes information about the assignments that led to these student podcasts, which should be of particular interest to the Leading Lines audio. Links • VandyVox, http://vandyvox.com/ • Sophie Bjork-James’ faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/anthropology/bio/sophie-bjork-james • “Sarah Saxton Strassberg: From Summer Camp to Student Author,” https://vanderbilthustler.com/life/sarah-strassberg-from-summer-camp-to-student-author.html

This episode features an audio peice called “The Panizzardi Telegram” produced by Vanderbilt undergraduate Charlie Overton. Charlie was a student in podcast host Derek Bruff’s first-year writing seminar last fall, a course on cryptography. The course is a busy one, with mathematics and codebreaking, history and current events, and, as of recent offerings, a podcast assignment. Derek asks his students to explore the history of codes and ciphers for a class podcast called One-Time Pod. Charlie’s contribution on the Panizzardi telegram deftly combines historical storytelling and technical explanations. It also communicates an enduring understanding about cryptography: If you don’t know how a message has been encrypted, it’s really easy to make up a decryption method that makes the message say what you want it to say. For more student-produced pieces on the history of cryptography, check out Derek’s class podcast, One-Time Pod. And for those interested in using audio assignments in their teaching, see Derek’s podcast assignment and rubric for ideas.

This episode of VandyVox features a short audio story by Vanderbilt undergraduate Sarah Saxton Strassberg called “Hagar Rising.” Sarah Saxton was a student in a fall 2018 anthropology course taught by Sophie Bjork-James on the politics of reproductive health in the United States. The final assignment in Sophie’s course asked students to research a contemporary reproductive health issue and produce a piece of video or audio that explores that issue. Sarah Saxton chose to look at gene editing, an emerging set of biotechnologies that have the potential to allow parents to pick and choose physical features of their children. Sarah Saxton used what she learned about gene editing and its potential effects on society to write and produce a piece of science fiction in audio form exploring the dangers of taking gene editing too far. For those interested in using audio assignments in their teaching, what follows is a little background on the assignment that led to “Hagar Rising”… Sophie Bjork-James, Sarah Saxton's professor, was a participant in the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s Course Design Institute in 2016. The theme of that institute was “Students as Producers,” with a focus on assignments and activities that engage students not only as consumers of information, but also as producers of knowledge. Sophie’s multimedia assignment leveraged some of the strategies discussed at the institute, including asking students for project proposals and storyboards to provide opportunities for feedback as they develop their projects. Sophie also asked students to submit a producer’s statement along with each project, one that included a literature review, a reflection on what the student learned through the project, and a discussion of the process used to create the final product. Producer’s statements like these are useful for evaluating student work on non-traditional assignments like podcasts. Sophie told VandyVox host Derek Bruff that the assignment turned out very well in her politics of reproductive health course, and she’s planning on making podcasts a regular part of the first-year writing seminars she teaches in the future.

Welcome to Season 2 of One-Time Pod, a podcast on the history of cryptography produced by students in Derek Bruff's first-year writing seminar at Vanderbilt University. Each episode considers a different code or cipher, how it works, and why it's interesting.

In the game Monarch, players compete to the be the heir to the throne. The game is cleverly designed and has amazing art, but what makes it different is that all the characters are women. The dying monarch is the queen, and players are princesses striving to show their wisdom and strength. Monarch upends some traditional stereotypes, and it does so quite intentionally. The game's designer is Mary Flanagan, and when Leading Lines looked her up, we learned that she’s a professor at Dartmouth College, where she runs a game design and research lab called Tiltfactor. Flanagan and her team design games for social change, like Monarch, and they investigate their effects on players’ beliefs and behaviors. In this episode we talk with Max Seidman, senior game designer at Tiltfactor. Seidman gives us a tour of the Tiltfactor lab and discusses more about Tiltfactor’s research into games and social change. Links • Max Seidman on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-seidman-8a017144/ • Tiltfactor, https://tiltfactor.org/ • Pox, https://tiltfactor.org/game/pox/ • Awkward Moment, https://tiltfactor.org/game/awkward-moment/ • Buffalo, https://tiltfactor.org/game/buffalo/ • Monarch, https://resonym.com/game/monarch/ • RePlay Health, http://www.replayhealth.com/ • “Playing Below the Poverty Line,” https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/6176/5906 • Derek Bruff’s Agile Learning blog article “Teaching Board Games #2: The Big Picture,” http://derekbruff.org/?p=3349

For this episode, Derek Bruff talks with Bahiyyah Muhammad, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Howard University. She teaches courses as part of the national Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, courses in which half of her students are Howard students, and the other half are incarcerated individuals. Most Inside-Out courses take place at prisons, but for logistical reasons that was challenging for Bahiyyah. She turned to a set of technologies to facilitate distance learning, and to turn the course into a learning community. Links • Bahiyyah Muhammad’s faculty page, http://sociologycriminology.coas.howard.edu/faculty-and-staff_bmuhammad.html • @DrBMuhammad1 on Twitter, https://twitter.com/drbmuhammad1 • @drmuhammad_experience on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/drmuhammad_experience/ • “Does the Apple Fall Far from Prison?,” Bahiyyah Muhammad at TEDxHowardU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUR2kdevY9s • The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, http://www.insideoutcenter.org/

In this episode, Derek Bruff talks with Bryan Dewsbury, assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Rhode Island. He’s incredibly passionate about student success, and he uses technology in ways that are fully supportive of his pedagogical goals. His approach to teaching introductory biology isn’t the typical one, and we are glad to have him share his story here on the podcast. Links • Bryan Dewsbury’s faculty page, https://web.uri.edu/bio/bryan-dewsbury/ • @BMDewsbury on Twitter, https://twitter.com/BMDewsbury • “The Whole Classroom: Inclusive Teaching in the Classroom,” Bryan Dewsbury at the STEM Summit 5.0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfn8pX0we2I • Bryan Dewsbury’s profile in the Chronicle of Higher Education, https://www.chronicle.com/article/Freshmen-Are-Souls-That/243559 • Bryan Dewsbury on Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 215, https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/teaching-as-an-act-of-social-justice-and-equity/

In our last episode, we talked with astronomy professor Cornelia Lang about how she uses an active learning classroom in her “Big Ideas” course at the University of Iowa. In this episode, we continue talking about active learning classrooms and the roles that technologies play in supporting student learning in these spaces. At the 2017 POD Network conference in Montreal, Derek Bruff interviewed D. Christopher Brooks, director of research at EDUCAUSE, the higher education technology association. For more on Christopher Brooks and his work, visit the links below. • D. Christopher Brooks’ EDUCAUSE page, https://members.educause.edu/d-christopher-brooks • @DCBPhDV2 on Twitter, https://twitter.com/DCBPhDV2 • “A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom,” co-authored by D. Christopher Brooks, https://sty.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=441414 • Active learning classrooms at the University of Minnesota, https://cei.umn.edu/support-services/tutorials/active-learning-classrooms • SCALE-UP active learning classrooms at North Carolina State, http://scaleup.ncsu.edu/ • TEAL active learning classrooms at MIT, http://web.mit.edu/edtech/casestudies/teal.html • Derek Bruff’s photos of learning spaces, https://www.flickr.com/photos/derekbruff/sets/72157630533336504/

One-Time Pod explores the history of cryptography through episodes produced by students in Derek Bruff's first-year writing seminar at Vanderbilt University. Each episode considers a different code or cipher, how it works, and why it's interesting. For more on Dr. Bruff's first-year seminar on cryptography, visit the course homepage: derekbruff.org/blogs/fywscrypto/. Intro music: "To Be Decided," Mystery Mammal, CC-BY

In this episode, we continue exploring one of the themes of this season of Leading Lines: non-traditional assignments. We talk with Haerin (Helen) Shin, assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, who gives her students a choice for final projects: a traditional research paper or a creative, usually digital, project. Helen describes a few examples of digital projects, talks about how she structures and scaffolds these assignments, and explains why these nontraditional assignments help her students achieve her learning objectives. Links • Haerin Shin’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/haerin-shin • The Velveteen Rabbit: Exploring the Boundary Between the Real and the Unreal, by Jung Min Shin, http://jasmine138.wixsite.com/velveteenrabbit • Seven Yellow Faces: Strangers in a Home Land, by Ellen Q. Wang, http://lnwang95.wixsite.com/seven-yellow-faces • The Future of Identity Theft, by Miguel Moravec, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cu1pKZJSEedzJLeTBhMXZDVlE/view • Flipping the Flipped Classroom: The Beauty of Spontaneous and Instantaneous Close Reading, by Haerin Shin, https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1435 • Students as Producers resources from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/tag/students-as-producers/ • Students as Producers presentation by Derek Bruff, https://prezi.com/1cnevevepyjo/jitt-2017-students-as-producers/

In this episode, we interview Eric Schmalz, Citizen History Community Manager at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Eric works with the museum’s History Unfolded project. That project aims to investigate what Americans knew about the Holocaust as it was happening during World War II, and how Americans reacted to news of the Holocaust. The museum calls History Unfolded a “citizen history” project, in the style of crowd-sourced citizen science projects like Galaxy Zoo or FoldIt. Regular people are invited to find newspaper articles from the 30s and 40s, either online or at our local libraries, ones that reference the Holocaust, and contribute them to an online database. So far, the project has collected over 8,000 articles! Eric Schmalz was on Vanderbilt’s campus for the Cultural Heritage at Scale symposium, organized by Vanderbilt and the Council on Library and Information Sciences. He was interviewed by Gayathri Narasimham, associate director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning. There’s a really interesting education angle here, since History Unfolded works with high school teachers and college professors to involve students in the project. Gayathri talks explores that educational angle with Eric in the interview. Links • History Unfolded, https://newspapers.ushmm.org/ • Above the Fold, the History Unfolded blog, https://newspapers.ushmm.org/blog/ • @Eric_USHMM on Twitter, http://twitter.com/eric_ushmm • Cultural Heritage at Scale symposium, http://heritage-at-scale.info/ • Derek Bruff’s 2013 blog post on citizen history and MOOCs, http://derekbruff.org/?p=2579

In this bonus episode, the Leading Lines team sits down for a roundtable discussion about the Leading Lines podcast and what we’ve learned putting the podcast together. We talk about the origin of the podcast, what we mean by “educational technology,” how we’ve used podcasts in our teaching, and a couple of other podcasts we’ve launched since starting Leading Lines. And we have a lot of fun with our standard interview question about analog educational technology. The conversation was facilitated by the newest member of the Leading Lines team, Melissa Mallon, Director of Peabody Library and Director of Liaison and Instruction Services at the Vanderbilt University Library. Around the table were the rest of the Leading Lines team: Derek Bruff, Stacey Johnson, and Rhett McDaniel from the Center for Teaching; Cliff Anderson from the University Library; Gayathri Narasimham and Ole Molvig from the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning; and John Sloop, Associate Provost for Digital Learning. Season 3 of Leading Lines will launch this August. In the meantime, check out Stacey Johnson’s new podcast, We Teach Languages, https://weteachlang.com/, and the new podcast from Gayathri Narasimham and John Sloop, Tenx9 Nashville, https://tenx9nashville.com/podcast/.

Being a dad is job number one for me. We work hard to learn and excel in our workplace / vocation but what about our primary roles. Part of our passion for fatherhood must be derived from God’s call on our life to serve Him by loving and leading our kids well. The other part of that passion is sheer delight. Derek’s dad always delighted in Derek and that’s a valuable lesson Derek employs in his own family. He just enjoys his kids. God has given him that loving desire to enjoy them. What It Means: For Derek specifically, as a single dad, he is naturally involved in things that his married dad of daughter friends may not be. Girls’s clothes, girl’s hair, and even girl’s adolescent products. Married dads and joint custody dads of daughters would do well not to default all the “girl” stuff to mom but to intentionally be involved. Creating balance is a challenge for anyone and everyone in every circumstance. Balancing career and kids can be a conflict. For Derek, key words are focus and preparation. In the office: be prepared, focus, and work hard. In parenting: be prepared to focus and work hard. An additional key to being a great dad is discovery. Find things you can do with them that they enjoy doing with you. Giving your best at work and left overs at home isn’t a Christ-centered option. Intentionality is the opposite of accidental. It doesn’t come naturally. If you want to be an intentional parent…you have to make the effort to be intentional. What We Do Next: Let values dictate priorities. In terms of family, that may mean missing a career opportunity to protect time with kids and fulfill responsibilities at home. Idea: Have a just for fun party. Plan it with your kids start to finish and let them host a gathering just for fun. If it’s not a party, do something outside of the obligatory that’s just extra effort. Married dads, lead out in these. Don’t let all the fun, creative, activities in the family be mom’s job. At one point, you pursued your wife. Pursue your kids. You are called to lead in your home. That isn’t limited to just the big leadership decisions. Even daily schedules, activities, and ideas can benefit from your intentional leadership. Create blessings. Derek does lunchbox notes with words and drawings. Just extra blessings for the kids to enjoy. Those blessings create life-long deposits in the love-banks of your kids. Make milestones matter in your home. Turning 13 or 16 or 18 are important. Be a dad who celebrates big decisions like salvation and baptism. Consider the values and characteristics you want to be present in your kids when they are older and leave home. Write down this vision. These are the legacy you desire to leave and the intentional deposits you must make along the way. Plan, calendar, and strategize for these specific investments.

In this episode, we speak with Katy Börner, professor of information science at Indiana University-Bloomington. Dr. Börner is the curator of a traveling exhibit called Places and Spaces: Mapping Science. The exhibit, now in its twelfth year, features print and interactive visualizations capturing science and how science is done. Vanderbilt is hosting the exhibit this spring. Leading Lines host Derek Bruff interviewed Dr. Börner while she was on campus. Links • Katy Börner’s faculty page, http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/ • Places and Spaces: Mapping Science, http://scimaps.org/home.html • Places and Spaces Vanderbilt exhibition, http://vanderbi.lt/izlte • Student data visualization competition, http://vanderbi.lt/fl99v • Information Visualization MOOC, http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu/index.html • Hans Rosling’s 2006 TED Talk, http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen • Hans Rosling’s 2009 TED Talk, https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state

This episode features an interview with Tim Foster, a graduate student in Vanderbilt’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Tim is an active member of the digital humanities community at Vanderbilt, and he has worked at the Center for Teaching, the Center for Second Language Studies, and the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning. Last fall, Tim was on a panel at Vanderbilt that focused on teaching with Wikipedia, where he shared a class project in which he worked with his students to write for the Portuguese language version of Wikipedia. Derek Bruff spoke with Tim about this project, as well as a few of Tim’s other experiments in educational technology. Links: • Tim Foster’s graduate student page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/spanish-portuguese/people/bios/?who=76 • @peregrinotim on Twitter, https://twitter.com/peregrinotim • Nashville’s entry in Portuguese Wikipedia, https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_(Tennessee) • Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Education Program, https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program • Wiki Education Foundation, https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/

In this episode, we feature an interview with Cassandra Horii, Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach at the California Institute for Technology. Leading Lines host Derek Bruff talked with Cassandra about a couple of the edtech projects her center is supporting at Caltech. Both projects involve making student learning visible in interesting ways. Cassandra also shared her “edtech manifesto,” a set of principles for helping instructors make thoughtful use of technology. Links: • Cassandra Horii’s staff page: https://www.teachlearn.caltech.edu/about/cassandrahorii • @cvhorii on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cvhorii • Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach: https://www.teachlearn.caltech.edu/ • SKIES, a collaborative learning platform developed at Caltech: https://www.skieslearn.com/ • The POD Network: http://podnetwork.org/

Derek Bruff gives his unique take on the flipped classroom… what to have the students do before they enter the classroom and what to do once they get there. PODCAST NOTES Guest: Dr. Derek Bruff On Twitter His blog Ph.D., Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 2003 Director, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University, November 2011 to present Bruff, […]