Category Archives: Design

A Wealth of Digital Images

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Ines

We’ve recently had fun expanding our Media Resources page. There are new links to image collections, organized by Agriculture and Natural Resources, Art, History, Science, and General Collections. There are more video links, too. Read about copyright and fair use, … Continue reading →

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Getting Students into Gear

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Henrietta Marcella Paz-Amor

For my first post to the CTL blog, I wanted to share some resources with the larger UVM community as a follow-up to my Sound (Teaching) Bite this week that offered a few strategies and tools for educators to help … Continue reading →

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New York Times article touts most effective study techniques

Posted on September 11, 2010 by jadickin

A recent New York Times article on effective study techniques also points the way toward good course design that supports learning and retention of material and concepts. For me, the real “takeaway lesson” of this article was that diversity of … Continue reading →

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“Sentences are smarter than the grunts of bullet points.”  —Edward Tufte

Posted on October 4, 2006 by CTL

We were talking today, again, about that recurrent concern over the reliance on PowerPoint for presenting complex concepts or sharing knowledge. I recently read Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence and the second edition of his powerful PowerPoint essay is quoted in … Continue reading →

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CSS Resources Galore

Posted on June 12, 2006 by Justin Henry

I came across this page of links this morning to numerous CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) resources across the web that could be incredibly helpful to anyone making a web page or blog theme/template or working on content within WebCT. http://veerle.duoh.com/index.php/blog/links/ … Continue reading →

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An interactive color theory game

Posted on April 26, 2006 by Justin Henry

John sent me this great interactive game for learning colors. COLOR box : a color theory game looks kind of like tetris, but instead of focusing on shapes, the object of the game is to use the additive color system … Continue reading →

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