Episode 024 - Haerin Shin

In this episode, we continue exploring one of the themes of this season of Leading Lines: non-traditional assignments. We talk with Haerin (Helen) Shin, assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, who gives her students a choice for final projects: a traditional research paper or a creative, usually digital, project. Helen describes a few examples of digital projects, talks about how she structures and scaffolds these assignments, and explains why these nontraditional assignments help her students achieve her learning objectives. Links • Haerin Shin’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/haerin-shin • The Velveteen Rabbit: Exploring the Boundary Between the Real and the Unreal, by Jung Min Shin, http://jasmine138.wixsite.com/velveteenrabbit • Seven Yellow Faces: Strangers in a Home Land, by Ellen Q. Wang, http://lnwang95.wixsite.com/seven-yellow-faces • The Future of Identity Theft, by Miguel Moravec, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cu1pKZJSEedzJLeTBhMXZDVlE/view • Flipping the Flipped Classroom: The Beauty of Spontaneous and Instantaneous Close Reading, by Haerin Shin, https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1435 • Students as Producers resources from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/tag/students-as-producers/ • Students as Producers presentation by Derek Bruff, https://prezi.com/1cnevevepyjo/jitt-2017-students-as-producers/