SyndicateMizzou Video Podcast

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Leslie Perna - Teaching music moves humankind forward

Wed, 17 May 2006 21:25:23 GMT

Perna discusses how teaching others about music is her part of moving humankind forward.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Leslie Perna - Teaching music at Mizzou

Wed, 17 May 2006 21:26:00 GMT

Perna discusses what it means to teach music in a group context at Mizzou.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - A passion for theatre

Tue, 30 May 2006 17:14:59 GMT

Miller talks about theatre, his love for it, and the challenges it presents.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - The instinct of directing

Tue, 30 May 2006 20:12:42 GMT

Miller discusses his philosophy of teaching the disciplines of directing and acting.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - Johnson's path to philosophy

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:02:41 GMT

How reading Plato's dialogues influenced Johnson to become a philosopher.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: David Jonassen - Learning on Campus

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:38:16 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: David Jonassen - Teaching Learning

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:40:08 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bea Gallimore - Taft Research Fellow

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:56:03 GMT

Within the Romance Languages Department, Gallimore has been teaching French composition, French literature and drama, and Francophone studies. During the Winter 2008 semester, Gallimore served as a Taft Visiting Research Fellow in a seminar about racism in French and Francophone literature. “Your research gives you insight for teaching,” she says, as she develops a new course on Afro-Persian writers and a new graduate seminar on testimonial writing.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Yuyan Luo - Courses in cognition development

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:20:57 GMT

In addition to running the Infant Cognition Lab, Luo also teaches cognition development courses at MU, ranging from infancy to toddler psychological and biological knowledge development.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Koller and Karen Weston - More on the Center (Koller)

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:39:45 GMT

Koller offers more history on how the Center came to be, as well as on his teaching philosophy.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Craig Kluever - Teaching at MU

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:23:35 GMT

The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has recently developed an emphasis area in aerospace engineering. Kluever teaches such required courses in the general areas of dynamics (how bodies move and how forces produce certain velocities and accelerations) and controls (how to design a control system to do a particular task), and he teaches such elective courses as Space Flight Mechanics and Aircraft Flight Mechanics (how to design a space mission or determine such performance characteristics as take-off, landing, range, endurance, and stability with an airplane).

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: M. Heather Carver - Teaching theatre at Mizzou

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:56:49 GMT

Heather Carver describes herself as “a performance studies artist/scholar,” someone who investigates an issue through performance—“so we study autobiography, and we do autobiographical performance.” Carver teaches several kinds of creative writing, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, in adaptation and performance of literature for theatre and the screen. She also co-directs the Writing for Performance Program, which helps students adapt different kinds of writing for the stage or screen, including poetry, short stories, autobiography, or ethnography. And Carver serves as creator and artistic director of the Life and Literature Performance series to showcase original and adapted work by MU students for the stage.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Nancy M. West - Teaching at Mizzou

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:30:13 GMT

West teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the English Department on subjects bridging—like her research—the literary with the visual. She offers courses, for example, on British literature, film history, crime films, film adaptation of novels, novel illustration, and photography.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Nancy M. West - West’s teaching philosophy

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:30:33 GMT

The teaching honors awarded to West bear witness to her pedagogical skills, including the Gold Chalk Award (1999, 2005), the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching (2004), and the English Graduate Student Association’s inaugural award for Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member (2005). Reflecting on her teaching, West states: “I really believe in interdisciplinary work—not just to present students with a reference every once in a while to an artistic or scientific movement, but to really see things from _inside_ those disciplines. I think there are very rich connections to be made, and so I try to get students thinking in interdisciplinary ways.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Carmen Chicone - Working with Students

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:14:46 GMT

As a researcher at MU, Chicone spends a large portion of his time working with students. As an instructor involved with both graduate and undergraduate students, Chicone says that he learns a great deal from those he teaches.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bin Wu - What Does an Industrial Engineer Do?

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:41:50 GMT

Bin Wu, Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, has been researching, teaching, and consulting within the field of industrial engineering for twenty years. “When we talk about industrial system design,” he explains, “we are talking about how to put facilities, people, and information systems together so that this system can function for whatever purpose it is designed to fulfill – for example, to manufacture or to supply. Traditionally, when we designed a system, the main efficiency considerations were related to productivity.” About three years ago, however, Wu received a wake-up call: his son’s birth created a sense of urgency to address environmental issues, and specifically energy efficiency. He realized then that when designing and improving systems, particularly industrial systems, “energy has got to be a very important consideration, if not the most important consideration.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bin Wu - Teaching at MU

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:42:56 GMT

Wu teaches a number of classes, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, in the area of industrial systems analysis and design.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Bin Wu - How Wu Came to This Area of Work

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:43:24 GMT

Following years principally involved in research, Wu now spends more time working with both students and the public on energy efficiency and the environment. As he puts it, “I feel very strongly that every one of us needs to do something and behave in responsible ways, individually or collectively, [to] do _something_ about it.” As an educator, Wu gets the message out to his students, who he says are the future: , “It’s really a very fulfilling thing to do. I have been a professor for all of my professional life—doing research, writing books and other publications, and teaching. I can honestly say that what I’m doing now regarding energy efficiency is absolutely the most fulfilling.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: So-Yeon Yoon - Teaching at MU

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:20:25 GMT

Yoon teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Architectural Studies. Her courses tend to focus on emerging technology (including Interior Design, Visual Design, Computer Graphics and Design, Photoshop, 3-D Computer Animation, and Web Graphic Design). Asked how she manages to stay at the cutting edge of technology, Yoon replies that she relies on her students: “Teaching is an essential part of my research, because I can use my students’ help.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Alex Barker - The Museum of Art and Archaeology

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:58:07 GMT

Barker has worked in several kinds of museums—natural history museums and anthropology museums. “No one feels uncomfortable going into a natural history museum without knowing about bird taxonomy or going into an anthropology museum without knowing the latest details about the origins of humans,” he says. “But a lot of people are uncomfortable coming to an art museum if they don’t know a lot about art, and that is not a good thing.” Fortunately, the Museum of Art and Archaeology combines art with classical archaeology, offering a view of the changes of art over a very long period of time. Barker has been trying to make people more comfortable with the idea of coming into the museum and having their own experience with art—engaging authentic objects, whether from antiquity or from more recent periods, on their own terms.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Alex Barker - More than the Object’s Label

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:02:56 GMT

Barker refers to a certain tension between curators, who have all this 'stuff' they want to communicate, and exhibit designers, who want to keep the exhibit as clean and simple as possible. “Ultimately, we want people looking at the art, not at the labels,” he indicates; but the Museum still wants to educate. In that spirit, the museum is experimenting with technology to showcase the art and the significance of art to everyone by creating MP3-based audio tours of the museum that can then be played on any personal audio device, including iPods, notebook computers, and even cell phones. Barker hopes this will allow greater flexibility for visitors, whom he imagines selecting a tour and walking through the galleries at their leisure while looking at the art and listening to the audio information, “instead of looking back and forth between the label and the art.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: SyndicateMizzou - How do research and creative activity intersect with teaching?

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:44:43 GMT

In this segment, faculty members talk about how their research and creative activity contribute to better teaching, as well as the relationship between these two aspects of their work. Frequently, the two endeavors intersect, profitting both. Carmen Chicone remarks, “If you are actively involved in your subject, you’re bound to be a much better teacher.”