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Thursday, February 4, 2010

The Teaching Professor Conference - May 21-23, 2010 ♦ Hyatt Regency Cambridge ♦ Cambridge, MA


The Teaching Professor Conference - May 21-23, 2010 ♦
Hyatt Regency Cambridge ♦ Cambridge, MA


If you’ve been waiting for the right year to attend The Teaching Professor Conference …This is it!

The content … outstanding
The venue … exciting
The value … unprecedented

As the premiere event for those who are passionate about the art and scholarship of teaching, The Teaching Professor Conference is on everyone’s short list of professional development opportunities. If you’ve been planning to come (or come back), but haven’t until now, be advised … this is the year.

The 2010 conference is shaping up to be a special one. We’ve brought back top-rated presenters from years past, and added important new voices, as well … all of them ready to share the latest ideas and insights on effective pedagogy.



In a full slate of presentations and workshops, you’ll examine cutting-edge research, discuss critical issues, and look in-depth at topics including:

Active learning
The Scholarship of teaching
Effective engagement strategies
Instructional technology
Critical thinking
Collaborative learning
And more!

http://www.teachingprofessor.com/conference/schedule

We’re delighted to bring The Teaching Professor Conference to Cambridge, Massachusetts … the city perhaps most emblematic of academic excellence in America. Steeped in tradition, humming with energy and innovation, Cambridge truly feels like home to those of us with a passion for education.


And speaking of Cambridge … you could hardly find a more delightful place to be on a sunny weekend in May. Indulge yourself in a stroll along the banks of the Charles River … saunter past ivied halls … take a jaunt over to Boston to shop and sightsee a little (or a lot) … soak up the sights and sounds of a New England spring. With our luxurious headquarters hotel, the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, as your base, it’s sure to be a memorable experience.

Now in its seventh year, The Teaching Professor Conference continues to deliver a remarkable combination of top-quality content and real value. In today’s economy, that’s more important than ever.



You can get full pricing details here; be sure to note the opportunities to save by registering early … and by bringing a group!


For those who love teaching, there’s no better event than The Teaching Professor Conference. And there’s no better year to attend than 2010 … the content, the venue and the value are truly exceptional.


Please join us in Cambridge this May … we’re eager to welcome you to the 7th Teaching Professor Conference!


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Upcoming Teaching and Learning Conferences February/March 2010

General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities

Network for Academic Renewal Conference

February 18-20, 2010 Seattle, Washington


About the Conference
Colleges and universities are making tough decisions about budget cuts, hiring freezes, and reduction or elimination of programs. General education and assessment initiatives, in particular, can be vulnerable to cuts or to inattention as college and university leaders work to preserve enrollments, meet shortfalls, and maintain basic operations. Yet issues that existed long before the current economic crisis remain—fragmentation and incoherence, a lack of “ownership” of general education among many faculty members, and a desire among students to “get it out of the way.” What also remains is the need, through general education, to prepare all graduates with essential knowledge and skills, including global knowledge, scientific and quantitative literacy, intercultural skills, and ethical competencies.


The good news is that out of earlier periods of challenge and change, campus leaders have coalesced around more contemporary goals for student learning and new and creative curricula and pedagogy. They have also embarked upon meaningful assessment that was keyed to these new designs and utilized to strengthen learning.

As we now face another period of intense scrutiny and challenge, robust designs and persuasive information about the impact and value of general education are especially needed. This conference asks, what can institutions do to support and improve general education and assessment in the face of epic budget cuts? How can leaders continue to value general education and assessment, and express this value, as they make tough choices? How can institutions avoid, either explicitly or inadvertently, sacrificing important progress made in strengthening general education and assessment over the last decade? Most importantly, how can strong general education and assessment initiatives help institutions attract new students, better align scarce resources with vision and mission, and otherwise contribute to educational excellence and overall institutional vitality?

General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities invites fresh thinking and new approaches to help faculty, staff, and administrators maintain momentum in general education and assessment during tough times, and reaffirms a commitment to engaged liberal education as the guiding principle for campus action. The conference will draw on AAC&U’s long-standing projects and publications on general education reform including work to bring diversity, global, and civic learning into general education and models for advancing scientific and quantitative literacy through real-world curricula and problem-based pedagogies.

Conference themes include:
vision, goals, and designs of general education; faculty engagement and collaboration, including with student affairs; assessment and alignment; and maintaining momentum, related to navigating change politically, structurally, and in a time of restricted resources.

Special Features of the 2010 Conference
Realizing that campuses have scarce resources for professional development and travel to meetings, AAC&U is including several special features in the 2010 conference:

general education designs that address global learning themes (e.g., sustainability and global citizenship) to promote integrative learning;

in partnership with AAC&U’s Shared Futures initiative and Project Kaleidoscope, sessions on scientific and quantitative literacy and science and global learning;

workshops on navigating transition points—from goals to design, and from design to implementation and assessment;

hands-on practice using rubrics to assess student work;

"problem-solving” roundtable discussions based on participant needs; and

a “local issues forum” highlighting regional trends, political issues, and other topics influencing general education and assessment.

Sponsors
Please contact the Development Office at (202) 884-7421 (202) 884-7421 or e-mail Development@aacu.org for information about sponsorship opportunities for this conference.



9th Annual TBLC Meeting - New Orleans, LA

Team Based Learning Collaborative

March 3rd-5th 2010



The 2010 TBL Conference will be historic! Join us as we continue to celebrate the expansion of the TBL Collaborative to include all postsecondary disciplines and an invigorated focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning in TBL.

Now in its ninth year, the Team Based Learning Meeting is a two day event focusing on best practices and recent innovations for Team-Based Learning classrooms.

This year's conference continues the tradition of providing both a Fundamentals track and an Innovations track.


Fundamentals Track

If you are just getting started, the Fundamentals track will get you grounded in the basics and set you up for success. Fundamentals workshops are scheduled sequentially, so you need not choose between them, and they will include:
•Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Questions


•Writing Effective Application Assignments


•Designing Effective Peer-Evaluations


•Facilitating Effectively in the TBL Classroom

Innovations Track
If you are familiar with TBL, the Innovations track will extend your thinking about TBL in many different directions.
This year our Innovations workshops will include:

The Solution-Problem-Solution Sequence: Integrating Courses in Computer Programming and Communication


•From Lost in a "Pit" to Connected by the Team


•Developing Research Questions and Designing Studies for Your TBLC Activities


•Wow, that was a great workshop – but I am not sure how to get started with my course?
 
 
Pre-Conference Workshops

This year we are pleased to offer two pre-conference workshops to address the needs of both those new to Team-Based Learning as well as those who are looking for more advanced training.

"Train the Trainer - Advanced Course Outline"

"TBL - 101"




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FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence


FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.


More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

Get new resources delivered to you several times a week: sign up for the FREE RSS.

Federal agencies, if you're looking to involve teachers in developing teaching resources, see our lessons learned.

FREE was conceived in 1997 by a federal working group in response to a memo from the President. The site was launched a year later. It was redesigned and relaunched for the first time in November 2006.

The 2006 redesign was made possible by many, including Jerry Alexandratos, Rob Barthle, Sally Budd, Rob Duckwall, Andrew Miller, Simone Miranda Olson, Cory Lebson, Jennifer Reeves, Chhavi Sharma, Keith Stubbs, Joe Wang, David Zwack, and teachers who reviewed the site.

FREE is maintained by Peter Kickbush and Kirk Winters, Office of Communications and Outreach, with support from the Development Services Team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Education.

Please send any comments or questions to us at FREE@ed.gov
FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by contributing federal agencies.

Contributing Federal Agencies
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Central Intelligence Agency
Consumer Product Safety Commission 
Department of Agriculture
Department of Army 
Department of Commerce
Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice 
Department of Labor 
Department of Navy
Department of State
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Department of Veterans Affairs
Environmental Protection Agency 
Federal Aviation Administration 
Federal Bureau of Investigation 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal Judicial Center
Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Interior
Food and Drug Administration
General Services Administration 
Government Printing Office
Holocaust Memorial Museum
House of Representatives
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Internal Revenue Service
Library of Congress
Multiple Agencies
National Academy of Sciences
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Archives and Records Administration
National Constitution Center
National Endowment for the Arts 
National Endowment for the Humanities 
National Gallery of Art
National Institute of Standards and Technology 
National Institutes of Health 
National Library of Medicine
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Park Service
National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places
National Science Foundation
National Security Agency
Office of Naval Research
Peace Corps 
Securities and Exchange Commission
Small Business Administration
Smithsonian Institution
The Federal Reserve
The White House 
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Courts 
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Global Change Research Program 
U.S. Institute of Peace
U.S. Mint, Treasury
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Libraries Leveraging Facebook And Twitter

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
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Innovative Educators Complimentary Webinar: Free Tips, Tricks, and Technology Tools for Teachers


Now available On-Demand. Register and you will receive a link to the on-demand training on the confirmation page. http://www.innovativeeducators.org/retention_p/768.htm

Overview
As our world becomes more wired, crowd sourcing and individual contributions begin to add to the
collective community resources, and the software and hardware increase in power and presence. Increasingly, the tools we can use are freely available for download or use online. In this engaging hands-on workshop, we'll examine just a few of the most useful, clever, cool, and basic thing you ought to know about when using computers in education. From basic keyboard shortcuts, to useful little utilities, to jaw dropping resources, we'll run the gamut. You may have seen some of these, and you may not want others, but we guarantee you'll take away something of use.

Objectives
Participants will start with some basics - keyboard shortcuts and file management tips that only take a second to master, but are useful forever. Sure you know how to copy and paste, but how do you view your files, or rename everything at once, or duplicate with a drag? Then we move on to using a browser.

Tools to be discussed
  • Open Office
  • Google Docs
  • Google Apps
  • Google forms
  • Flickr
  • Wikipedia + Wikimedia resources
  • Skype
  • GIMP
  • Audacity
  • Windows Movie Maker
  • My DropBox
  • Prezi
  • CoMapping (or Cayra or bubbl.us)
  • wordle
  • flickr -ransomizer, color associator,
  • jingdi
  • elluminate vrooms
  • irfanview
Who should attend?
  • Faculty (full and part-time) at 2 and 4-year, public and private institutions
  • Anyone interested in learning useful tools, resources and tricks for using computers in education
Who is the speaker?
D.I. von Briesen has been teaching for over 15 years, and teaching technology for over 10. He specializes in evangelizing technology in education, with a focus on distance education, virtual worlds, and open platforms. He holds a faculty position with Central Piedmont Community College in the Information Technology Division with related roles in the Center for Sustainability - and is the creator of the EcoBox - a self-contained, off-the-grid living workshop and environmental lab made out of a shipping container. He owns and maintains 33 domains, and numerous related websites. D.I. lives in Charlotte with his wife of 19 years and their five children.

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DU Office of Academic Affairs Webinar: "Reaching and Retaining Students - Advising Students on Academic Probation"

Thursday, February 4, 1:00pm
Distance Learning Center - WWA Library 2nd Floor

This session will share examples of effective strategies for enabling students to take ownership of their situation and will provide tools to help advisors more effectively serve the students. Arrive 10 minutes before the webinar begins.

Carla Morelon-Quainoo, PhD
Director of Institutional Effectiveness/Advising
National Director, Global Issues Honors Consortium
Phone: 504-816-4788
Fax: 504-816-4614
cmorelon@dillard.edu
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DU CTLAT Workshop: “Active, Cooperative and Collaborative Learning”


Friday, February 5th, 2010



Sign up to receive a personal copy of the book, "Collaborative Learning Techniques". You must commit to attend to receive a copy of the book. To sign up for this workshop, please send an email to Barbara Albert at: balbert@dillard.edu



Location: Kearny West



Time: 12:00 p.m.



Facilitators: Drs. Phyllis W. Dawkins and Ramona Jean-Perkins


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DU CTLAT Workshop: “Mentoring for Scholarship, Knowing Your Faculty Handbook, and the Promotion and Tenure Process”


Thursday, February 4th

Location: DUICEF 207

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Facilitators: Drs. Dorothy Smith, Ramona Jean-Perkins, Eartha Johnson, Ruby Broadway and Lana Chambliss

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TLT Group Free Thursdays Workshops, Feb. 4 & 11, 2010 - "Creating Productive Surveys with Flashlight Online 2.0"


Thursdays, February 4 and 11, 5:00 - 6:00 pm ET

Presenters: Steve Ehrmann and Bonnie Mullinix, TLT Group
Hands-on introduction to Flashlight Online 2.0. Designed primarily for instructors, and support staff who will be training local faculty, but all users should find this helpful. Sessions will be archived for those who cannot participate live in one or both events.

Goal: Hands-on introduction to Flashlight Online 2.0



Designed primarily for instructors, and support staff who will be training local faculty, but all users should find this helpful.


Two-part series on February 4 and 11, 2010 from 5-6 pm ET/2-3 am PT; sessions will be archived for those who cannot participate live in one or both events.


Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group


These sessions are free. Admission is limited to people with Flashlight Online accounts.

You can get an account for free if your institution has a Comprehensive or Network subscription,

if you have the single account that Alliance subscribing institutions receive, or if you are an Individual TLT Group Member who has purchased a Flashlight Online authoring account.

Contact Bonnie Mullinix if you need to set up a Flashlight Online account.

There will be optional 'homework' before the first session, between the two sessions, and (even more optional) after session 2. We'll provide suggestions for improving any work you send us.

Required prior to Session I: Get your account if you haven't yet, register for the workshop, and log into the system at least once. (We can give you access to Flashlight ONline 2.0 materials for this workshop, but only after you have logged into Flashlight Online 2.0 at least once).

Session I- Simple Survey: February 4, 12 PM ET (sessions will be archived for later viewing). How to use Flashlight Online 2.0 to design simple, productive surveys, rubrics, and other online forms.

Optional Homework before Session B: Develop your own simple survey and store it in the workshop folder, so that workshop leaders and participants can see it.

Session II- Matrix Survey: February 11, 12 PM ET. Starting with the survey you've already developed, we'll show you how to turn it into a matrix survey. Matrix surveys allow you to a) easily analyze subgroups of respondents, b) alter the wording for each group of respondents, or each individual respondent, and c) direct certain questions only to selected subgroups of respondents. Matrix surveys have hundreds of uses, from workshop and class evaluations to disciplinary research in fields from education to health care.

Optional Homework after Session B: create a matrix survey that you're considering for actual use. Submit it to us, and we'll give you suggestions for how it might be improved.
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