Using Online Discussion Posts for Meaningful Learning
Alisa Ballard Lin shares her tactics for using online discussion posts to construct meaningful, asynchronous learning experiences.
Alisa Ballard Lin shares her tactics for using online discussion posts to construct meaningful, asynchronous learning experiences.
Ania Aizman promotes two digital creative assignments designed to engage undergraduate students with the "public humanities."
Benjamin Musachio of Princeton sits down with Lawrence Feinberg, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina and discusses his career as a Slavic linguist.
The introduction of online education might feel unprecedented, but a look back at the history of a similarly new technology—instructional television in the 1950s—is revealing, but also highlights key differences.
Ainsley Morse of Dartmouth sits down with Barry Scherr, professor emeritus at Dartmouth and discusses his career as a Russianist.
Alexander Zholkovsky: Linguistics and Poetics and Some Other Smoldering Issues of Literary Analysis: An (Auto)Heuristic Study
Natalie Kononenko shares her experience developing Ukraine Alive (http://ukrainealive.ualberta.ca), a digital humanities project that connects undergraduate students with elementary schools.
As Angela Brintlinger reminds us, food and foodways offers new opportunities for asking why, for exploring what influences and shapes Russian culture, including everything from religious practices, philosophies of life, literature, art and music to weather conditions, development and infrastructure issues, and social relations.
Naomi Caffee and Collen Lucey share explore the topic of food, a perennial student favorite. After slaving away all semester on case endings and the nuances of verbal aspect, students are usually thrilled to enter the world of pirozhki, borscht, samovars, sukhariki, and sweets from the Red October chocolate factory. Food, together with the customs of hospitality and togetherness that characterize Russian and Eurasian cultures, presents language learners with a topic that feeds the body and soul as well as the mind.
It’s a question Cecil Leigh Wilson gets least once every time ze teaches introductory Russian, or talks about Russian in hir community of nonbinary English-speakers, or discloses this part of hir identity to a Russian-speaker.