Using Online Discussion Posts for Meaningful Learning
Alisa Ballard Lin shares her tactics for using online discussion posts to construct meaningful, asynchronous learning experiences.
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May 25, 2021
Designing Two Digital Assignments in REEES: Wikipedia Editing and Film Subtitling
Ania Aizman promotes two digital creative assignments designed to engage undergraduate students with the "public humanities."
April 20, 2021
Interview with Lawrence Feinberg
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.
March 10, 2021
The Russianist on TV: The History of Instructional Television and the Future of Online Education
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.
September 14, 2020
Interview with Barry Scherr
Ainsley Morse of Dartmouth sits down with Barry Scherr, professor emeritus at Dartmouth and discusses his career as a Russianist.
May 28, 2020
AATSEEL 2020 Keynote Address: Alexander Zholkovsky
Alexander Zholkovsky: Linguistics and Poetics and Some Other Smoldering Issues of Literary Analysis: An (Auto)Heuristic Study
February 17, 2020
Building Ukraine Alive – Suggestions for Hands-on Learning at the Undergraduate Level
Natalie Kononenko shares her experience developing Ukraine Alive (http://ukrainealive.ualberta.ca), a digital humanities project that connects undergraduate students with elementary schools.
October 24, 2019
Russian and Food Studies
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.
August 23, 2019
Spicing up the Classroom: Food in the Russian and Eurasian Studies Curriculum
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.
March 28, 2019
Can You Be Nonbinary in Russian?
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.
October 25, 2018