Mornings in May: Dice Your Discipline - How Breaking Your "Full Course" into Bite-sized Chunks Can Make You a Better Teacher/Chef!

As content experts, instructors tend to function as master chefs, with the ability to serve up a "full course" meal while understanding all of the intricacies and interplays of the ingredients.  But students may struggle to understand the big picture and how all of the ingredients work together. Breaking up your course into bite-sized chunks can make your discipline more easily ingestible and palatable to students.

This session will explore how instructors might begin to "dice their discipline' to aid in teaching and learning.  We will look at examples of dicing and discuss how these concepts can be generalized.  We will also share some tools for presenting bit-sized chunks in video (Powtoons), audio (Audacity), and graphic (easel.ly) formats.
 
Participants are encouraged to bring with them to this session their laptop and a topic from one of their courses that they feel students struggle with or need to hear often to learn, or one that they just want to refresh or present differently.  Participants will spend a portion of the time beginning to dice their own topic.