As members of the faculty of the same college, the State University of New York at Potsdam, the fifteen contributors to this book have the unique experience of working from the same pool of students in order to explore how to improve teaching, enhance learning, and make the classroom more interesting. Together professors from thirteen different disciplines--art, biology, computer science, education, geology, history, math, modern languages, philosophy, physics, politics, psychology, and sociology--discuss their varied approaches to teaching. They offer ideas and philosophies that have been tried and have been successful and discover that nothing works for all students, but nearly everything works for at least a few. Following a foreword by Galen K. Pletcher and a preface ("Behind the Making of this Book") by Robert L. Badger, this volume contains: (1) There Is No Such Thing as a Dumb Student, But How Can I Help Them Do Better? (Joel Foisy); (2) Service Learning in Sociology: Replacing Hopelessness with Efficacy (Heather Sullivan-Catlin); (3) Shaking the City's Walls: Teaching Politics with Bruce Springsteen (John Massaro); (4) Border Crossing in the North Country: An Academic Story (Liliana Trevizan); (5) Group Projects in Computer Science (Peter S. Brouwer); (6) Combining Art Studio and Art History to Engage Today's Students (Caroline Downing); (7) You Can Teach a Rock New Tricks (Robert L. Badger); (8) Blinded by the Light: A Reflection on the Teaching of Introductory Courses in Philosophy (David Curry); (9) Through the Comfort Zone or Just One More Go at College Teaching (Oscar Sarmiento); (10) From the Traditional Lecture Toward Dialogical Learning: Changing Patterns in the Teaching of History (Ronald Woodbury); (11) Preparing Teachers to Use Technology in the Elementary Mathematics Classroom (Sergei Abramovich); (12) At Home in the Universe (Lawrence P. Brehm); (13) Psi Fi: Learning Psychology Through Active Engagement in Science Fiction (William E. Herman); (14) Putting Action in Theory: A Liberating Experiential Education (Peg Wesselink); and (15) Play to Learn (Walter J. Conley). An index is also included.