Dillard University CTLAT Blog

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

C-SPAN Puts Complete Archive (23 years) on the Web and It’s Free!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/television/16cspan.html

Towards a Global Infrastructure For Sharing Learning Resources

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Towards_a_Global_Infrastructure_For_Sharing_Learning_Resources

The March, 2010 Issue of First Monday is Now Available, Articles About Wikipedia and Open Access Included in this Issue

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/308

OCLC’s “Geek the Library Week” Begins Today

http://geekthelibrary.org/

New Full Text Report: The State of the News Media, 2010 Includes Some Excellent Reference Material

http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2010/

Gale Announces Free Access to Four New Online Resources for National Library Week

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/14/gale-announces-free-access-to-four-new-online-resources-for-national-library-week/

National Library Week in the U.S. is in a little less than a month. Gale has already announced that they will offer free access to four resources that week.

They are:

Career Transitions – A new electronic resource offering a comprehensive guide to career change.
Global Issues in Context – An electronic resource that offers global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance.
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) – A new electronic resource offering authoritative reference content on the environment, energy, economic development and natural resources.
Grzimek’s Animal Life – An interactive, media-rich online resource, with information on more than 4,000 species.

Free access runs through National Library Week, April 11 to April 17, 2010. Library patrons should look for the widget on their library’s homepage, which provides single-click access to these online resources. Librarians can access the widget by visiting www.gale.com/NLW2010 after April 10, 2010. Source: Gale

Review: Why read the 'Great Books' when you can laugh at them?

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/mar/15/review-all-great-books-abridged-theatre-conspiracy/

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Peer Review Guide Final March10[1]

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Peer Review Guide Final March10[1]

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

THE CENTER FOR TEACHING, LEARNING AND ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE (CTLAT)

http://www.ductlat.blogspot.com/

Friday, March 12, 2010 12 noon Rosenwald Room 114

Rubric Development & Use
Everyone’s talking about rubrics! What are they? Are they really that much work? Presenters will answer these questions and provide some short cuts. Participants are encouraged to bring a rubric that they use (or one will be provided) as you develop one through the use of technology.

Friday, March 12, 2010 12 noon Rosenwald Room 114
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Participate in a very interactive session on various methods of assessment in the classroom. Never again miss an assessment moment! Learn about and engage in the implementation and analysis of students in higher education.

IDEA Papers - Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development - Division of Continuing Education @ Kansas State University

IDEA Paper No. 22 - Student Ratings of Teaching: Recommendations for Use, Cashin http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_22.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 24 - Improving Instructors' Speaking Skills, Goulden
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_24.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 25 - Improving Student Writing, Smit
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_25.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 26 - Improving Student Reading, Maleki and Heerman

*This paper is not available for download. Please contact The IDEA Center @: http://www.theideacenter.org/ to request a hard copy.*
IDEA Paper No. 27 - Writing a Syllabus, Altman and Cashin
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_27.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 28 - Periodicals Related to College Teaching, Cashin and Clegg

http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_28.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 30 - Readings to Improve Selected Teaching Methods, Cashin

http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_27.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 31- Answering and Asking Questions, Cashin
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_31.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 32 - Student Ratings of Teaching: The Research Revisited, Cashin
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_32.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 33 - Developing an Effective Faculty Evaluation System, Cashin
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_33.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 34 - Focusing On Active, Meaningful Learning, Stalheim-Smith
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_34.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 36 - Appraising Teaching Effectiveness: Beyond Student Ratings, Hoyt and Pallett
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_36.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 37 - Helping Your Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills, Lynch and Wolcott

http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/IDEA_Paper_37.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 38 - Enhancing Learning-and More! - Through Cooperative Learning, Millis
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/IDEA_Paper_38.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 39 - Establishing Rapport Personal Interaction and Learning, Fleming
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/IDEA_Paper_39.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 40 - Getting Students to Read: Fourteen Tips, Hobson
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_40.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 41 - Student Goal Orientation, Motivation, and Learning, Svinicki
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_41.pdf
*IDEA Paper No. 42 - Integrated Course Design, Fink - For additional information on this topic see Dee Fink's book "Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses" available from Jossey-Bass at www.wiley.com or www.amazon.com*
IDEA Paper No. 43 - The Technology Literate Professoriate: Are We There Yet?, http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_43.pdf Madigan: Online Resources - http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_43OnlineResources.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 44 - The Learning Portfolio: A Powerful Idea for Significant Learning, Zubizarreta
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/IDEA_Paper_44.pdf
IDEA Paper No. 45 - Assessing Your Program-Level Assessment Plan, Hatfield
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/IDEA_Paper_45.pdf

Download IDEA Online Connector Building Block @: http://www.theideacenter.org/content/download-idea-online-connector-building-block

Welcome to the Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology Blog!

The Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology (DUCTLAT) http://www.ductlat.blogspot.com/ is essential in helping faculty effectively manage technology on and off campus. An important aspect of this initiative is achieved by bringing groups of faculty members together to learn the technology necessary to develop electronic resources for their courses and themselves, while planning and beginning the development of shared curricular materials. Cultivating faculty success at all levels reinforces the University's commitment to build premier faculty learning communities. All faculty, deans and academic administrators play a critical role in creating competitive and productive academic units in which expectations for faculty performance are clearly articulated and professional achievements are recognized and rewarded.