Category: Teaching

Peary-Macmillan Arctic Museum Our next exhibit: Mamaqtuq! It is Delicious!: Traditional Foods of the North is scheduled to open April 2. This will be a fascinating exhibit on the changing ways Inuit have hunted and fed themselves in response to climate change, pollution, colonialism, and other factors. If you’re planning a visit before April, our permanent exhibition on the second floor, At Home in…

How do we act in alignment with what’s most important? Last week, I spoke (online) at a Lunch and Learn session for faculty at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. The talk was called “The Coherent Professor: Finding Productivity and Purpose in a Whole Faculty Life” and synthesized many of the themes you will read…

Tami J. Eggleston, Gabie E. Smith Access full article here. Excerpts below. Much emphasis has been placed on the use of activities at the beginning of a course to provide opportunities for introductions, begin to create a comfortable classroom atmosphere to encourage discussion and learning, or develop a sense of community and group identity. In…

by Emily Pitts Donahoe on Substack Back in July, I wrote about how I planned to handle AI in my classroom this fall, and in September, I shared some of my AI-related materials. If you want full details about what I’m doing, feel free to explore those posts, as well as the “Use of Generative AI” document…

By Pamela Scully Full article available on the Chronicle of Higher Education. Excerpts below. … I started thinking about how the LMS contributes to undergraduate stress last fall, after I noticed heightened student anxiety. I decided to sit down with my two undergraduate classes and ask what was bothering them. Students from a mix of majors…