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TEACHING SPOTLIGHT

Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award

Emily Friedman: GI/TA Teaching Award

Emily's creativity in working with both traditional and new pedagogical and technical approaches is simply impressive. Because much of the work in Emily's literature classroom flows from student participation and discussion, she begins by recording her students' and her own interpretations and analyses in old-fashioned chart format on the blackboard or whiteboard, depending on the classroom she's assigned to. These are usually messy, many-arrowed chart-like affairs that are pretty difficult for a student to recreate in their notes. In order to allow students to focus on the discussion, rather than having to take down every word, at the end of the class period Emily takes a photograph of the board. After class she posts it to a Flickr site. Students access these images in order to recreate the discussion from each class as they are studying for their exams and preparing papers. Emily also utilizes these images to create exam questions and paper topics. The "exchange" this allows for in the classroom is both technologically advanced and delightfully old-fashioned.