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| 2004 Spring Issue | Key Article: University of the Sciences own Website on Learning-Centered Teaching |
| 2004 Winter Issue | Key Article: Varied, upcoming educational events |
| 2003 Spring Issue | Key Article: Learning-Centered Teaching: Where we are and where are we going? |
| 2003 Fall Issue | Key Article: Our progress toward a culture of learning-centered |
| 2003 Winter Issue | Key Article: Assessment Drives the Learning |
| 2002 Fall Issue | Key Article: Leanring-centered teaching: Progress and Planning |
| 2002 Spring Issue | Key Article: Creating a Culture of Student-Centered Learning |
| 2002 Winter Issue | Key Article: Evolution of Teaching and Learning- Centered Activities |
| 2001 Spring Issue | Key Article: Innovation Implementation: Prototype and Adaptation |
| 2001 Fall Issue | Key Article: Mentoring as a Metaphor for Teaching |
| 2001 Winter Issue | Key Article: A New Taxonomy of Higher Learning |
| 2000 Fall Issue | Key Article: A Model for Integration of Content Concepts and Context Within Separate Courses: Making Explicit the Connections Among Disciplines |
| 2000 Spring Issue | Key Article: Promoting innovations through an understanding of the change process |
| 1999 Fall Issue | Key Article: How can we promote greater leanring? |
Teaching Matters is published by the Teaching and Learning Center of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Information, inquiries and comments are welcome and should be directed to:
Phyllis Blumberg, Ph.D., Director
The Teaching and Learning Center, Griffith 110
University of the Sciences
Topic |
Presenters |
| How are you getting students to do online assignments and how are you grading or counting them |
Elisabeth
Morlino |
Reflections on a year of transition to the new faculty senate |
Micki
Cohen, |
| How does one objectively and fairly assess teaching load, and scholarly pursuits across the disciplines |
Marc
Campolo, |
| Does
implementing learner-centered teaching inflate grades? |
Andrew
Peterson, |
Should we have a document of expectations or faculty development plan for associate or full professors? |
Joan
Tarloff, |
So Blackboard bought Angel, what does that mean for University of the Sciences? |
Rod
Murray, |
Discussions of findings of the faculty workload committee |
Voki
Pophristic, |
Topic |
Presenters |
Engaging students with dry (e.g. theoretical, grammar) material |
Paula
Kramer, |
Creative ways to assess the effectiveness of courses for formative feedback |
Laura
Pontigga, |
The impact of the world's economic situation on teaching and learning at USP |
Joe
Trainor, |
The present and future challenges to the university infrastructure, including technology infrastructure, and its impact on teaching and learning |
John
Connors, |
Impacts/opportunities/threats on a possible merger or offering educational programs at other sites |
Charles
Myers, |
Using and evaluating writing effectively in all courses |
Deirdre
Pettipiece, |
Exploring reasons why students do not take responsibility for themselves and for their learning: Causes and what we can do about it |
Gerard
Hoefling, |
Topic |
Presenters |
Faculty governances issues in a time of change |
John
Porter, |
What has worked with service-learning |
Christine
Flanagan, |
Conflicts in our students between evolution and their beliefs |
Justin Everett, et al |
IRB issues as they relate to Scholarship of Teaching and Learning classroom based research |
Micky
Cohen, |
How the election will influence higher education and the new Higher Education Authorization Act |
Mary Kate McGinty, And Others |
Quickie ideas for breaking up the routine in your classes |
Catherine
Bentzley, |
“This too shall pass. – The over-utilization of avoidance as an academic and personal coping style” |
Paul Furtaw |
Topic |
Presenters |
Prescription pad for success |
Kevin Wolbach |
Preventing Plagiarism |
Justin
Everett, |
Quickie technology techniques:Scivee - science video on web 2.0 Real time typing of notes on computer allows student input. Turning point, Angel Tips |
Jacquie
Smith, |
Using humor in your teaching |
Jacquie
Smith, Babis, Murray Zanger, |
Introducing the Mayes College of Health Care Business |
Bill Aston |
Portrait
of a student as a young wolf- How to motivate undergraduates
Discipline control in the classroom |
Darby Lewes and her four legged assistant |
Working win-win with Marketing and Development - fundraising, media, and promotions |
Rod Miller |
Will an honors program have and impact on your teaching |
Roy Robson |
Using scientific evidence to improve your teaching |
Bernie
Brunner, |
Using Outlook more productively |
Cathy
Poon, |
Topic |
Presenters |
How strategic marketing communications or the media and faculty can interact in a win-win way |
Brian Kirschner |
How to deal with students who have alcohol or other substance abuse problems |
Aminta
Breaux, |
Moving forward in a time of transition |
Roy Robson |
Using writing to promote disciplinary cognition and development in classes beyond composition |
Deidre Pettipiece |
Maximizing Teaching Through Advising |
Gerald Hoefling |
All you need to know about citations including the connection between citation writing and valid sources, technologies and citation writing |
Leslie
Bowman, |
Self Correcting Examinations |
Stephen Moelter |
Topic |
Presenters |
Making the first day of class a meaningful, learning experience |
Andrew
Peterson, |
Status report and update on the General Education Outcomes |
Margaret
Kasschau, |
POD Casting in education |
Jacqui Smith |
Using films as a teaching tool |
Bill
Reinsmith, |
Mentoring from graduate student to colleague |
Annette
Iglarsh, |
A student and faculty panel discussing what makes a good learning experience |
TBA |
How are we addressing cheating and plagiarism? |
Barbara
Little, |
What have we learned about respect and civility for USP |
TBA |
General education update |
Members
of the General Edu. Implementation Committee including Lois
Peck, |
Topic |
Presenters |
Discussion on the Chronicle of Higher Education review article on the end of multiple choice tests due to pda's |
Karen
Tietze, others |
Disseminating your educational programs to larger academic audiences |
Paula Kramer and other OT faculty |
Getting your students to do good reflections or reflective journals |
Carol
Maritz, |
Case discussions on authorship and publications |
Mickey
Cohen, |
How to use wireless PDA devices on campus |
Kevin Wolbach |
Is the service learning I am asking my students to do worthy of publications? |
Ruth
Schemm |
General Education Implementation issues |
Lois
Peck, |
Current IT policy issues impacting us all |
Pat
Lepore, |
Topic |
Presenters |
What does it mean to be supportive of our students? |
Joe
Canaday, |
What is quality education? How can it be measured |
Kevin
Wolbach, |
General ed: vehicle for well education USP graduates |
Reynold
Verret, |
What are reasonable expectations for prompt and constructive feedback? |
Cathy
Poon, |
What should the mission of USP be? |
Lisa
Lawson, |
What are characteristics of quality relationship with students? |
JoAnne
Opperman, |
Managing a transition in leadership |
Andrew
Peterson, |
Establishing a university-wide plagiarism policy |
Justin
Everett, |
Discussion of recent data from the NSSE and student satisfaction surveys |
Peter Miller |
Topic |
Presenters |
Who are the current college students? |
Aminta Breaux |
Using immediate feedback test scoring sheets |
Pam Kearney |
Beginning a dialogue on respect |
Ken
Liebowitz, |
Surviving as a faculty member |
Micki
Cohen, |
Making the faculty data base useful for all |
Karen Mitchell |
FERPA issues for faculty, including posting grades |
Alan Sims |
The most recent student satisfaction data |
Peter Miller |
What we can learn from liberal arts colleges and what they can learn from us |
Paul Halpern |
Topic |
Presenters |
Group problem solving sessions in recitation |
Fred
Schaefer, |
What does Middle States want us to do with learning outcomes? |
Peter Miller |
A generic template for learning outcomes |
Margaret
Kasschau, |
Making Theory Interactive |
Paula Kramer |
Improving your students' information skills |
Leslie Bowman |
Advances in our General Education Curriculum |
Reynold Verret, General Education Steering Committee |
Progress report on changes to student discipline, student judiciary review |
Tim
Rupe, |
Cantasia - The easiest way to create videos of computer on-screen activities |
Jeanette McVeigh |
Competency and Proficiency Exams in Writing and Computers |
Roy
Schriftman, |
Topic |
Presenters |
Who are the current college students |
Aminta Breaux |
Surviving as a faculty member |
Micki
Cohen, |
Beginning a dialogue on respect. Who to Ask? |
Elena
Umland, |
Using immediate feedback testing forms |
Pam Kearney |
Making the faculty data base work for all of us |
Karen Mitchell |
FERPA issues for faculty, including posting grades |
Alan Sims |
The most recent student satisfaction data |
Peter Miller |
What we can learn from liberal arts colleges and what they can learn from us |
Paul Halpern |
Topic |
Presenters |
A science course model without lectures and exams |
Alison Mostrom |
Promoting deep learning |
Barbara Millis |
Implementing Learner Teaching |
MaryEllen Weimer |
Integrating a large multi-component course |
Michael
Cawley, |
Turning the classroom on its side: Learning through action |
Mac
Turner, |
Progress in Assessment at the University |
Eric Boyce |
An update on the Core Curriculum Review |
Peter
Hoffer, |
Practical implications of the Psychology of Learning |
Marilla Svinicki |
What can Blackboard do for you? |
Tarlok Aurora, Jeanette McVeigh, Cathy Poon |
Helping our students to acquire information literacy |
Leslie Bowman, Grace Earl |
Learning centered teaching in large classes |
Andrew
Peterson, Liza Takiya, |
Topic |
Presenters |
What do we agree upon regarding Learning Centered Teaching? |
Phyllis Blumberg, Justin Everett |
Enhancing Students' Ability to self-evaluate |
Ellen Flannery-Schroeder |
Group problem solving sessions in recitation |
Fred Schaefer, Madhu ahalingam |
Using cooperative learning, peer modeling |
Miriam Diaz-Gilbert |
Handheld devices for educational purposes |
Jacqui Smith |
Revising courses to foster student learning |
|
Learning centered teaching will not work with my teaching because... A question and answer session with the participants providing the questions and the Faculty Learning Community on Learning Centered Teaching responding |
|
Transitioning from student centeredness to patient-centered care |
Michele Mulhall |
Making your student evaluations work for you |
Micki Cohen |
Innovations with Learning Leahy Award Winner Concept mapping |
Peter Miller |
Topic |
Presenters |
First Year Experience Course |
Melanie
Rago, |
Top 10 Tips for Assessing Student Writing |
Christine Flanagan |
Integrating two discipline's content within separate courses |
Alison
Mostrom, Barbara Reilly, |
Creating dynamic and useful videos |
Bill
Horton, |
Who should teach courses at USP and how core distribution requirements are met? |
Eric
Boyce, |
Developing a code of ethics at USP |
Amy
Kimchuk, Elena Umland, |
An on-line course on search strategies and professional writing |
Mignon Adams, Leslie Bowman, Jeanette McVeigh |
Dealing with the increasing bimodal distribution of student performance |
Becky
Finley, |
Integrating knowledge learned in prerequisite courses in professional courses |
Shanaz Tejani-Butt |
Topic |
Presenters |
De-scamming the scammers in professional settings |
Grace Earl |
Core Curriculum: Its History at USP and current issues |
Paula Kramer, et. al |
Student Centered Exam preparation: a new way to answer the same old question, "Are you giving us a review for the exam?" |
Anne Marie Flanagan |
Student-centered learning and living: Plans for USP |
Catherine Bentzley, Aminta Breaux |
Working effectively with the Student Discipline Committee |
Eleana
Umland, |
What are the philosophical implications of a culture of student-centered teaching |
Andrew Peterson, Glenn Rosenthal, Peter Miller |
Peer review of teaching: Can it improve educational quality for our students |
Ray Orzechowski, et. al |
Making student orientation a win-win for students and faculty |
Len Farber |
Topic |
Presenters |
Instructional uses of the new videoconferencing equipment |
Jacqui Smith, colleagues at another site through CAPE |
Using Concept Mapping as a content integrating technique |
Shanaz
Tejani-Butt, |
Instructional possibilities for the new multi-media work station |
Jacqui Smith |
A 1st year experience as a way to improve student success |
Melanie
Rago, |
Promoting on line information literacy within majors |
Mignon
Adams, |
Using digital and scanned images in teaching |
Roger
Ideishi, |
Assessing English competency with non-native English speakers: TOFEL exam. et.al. |
Miriam Diaz-Gilbert |
Using Peer and Student Evaluations |
Peter
Miller, |
What happens when technology fails, beyond the obvious |
John Connors, Jeanette McVeigh, Andrew Peterson, John Porter |
Topic |
Presenters |
Helping students to succeed and showing we care |
Amy
Kimchuk, Diane Morel, |
Distance learning demonstration |
Pam
Kearney, |
Stopping Plagiarism before it happens |
Mignon
Adams, |
Differences between a college and a university: Is USP really a university? |
Bob Boughner, Aminta Breaux, Glenn Rosenthal |
Using museums in your teaching: History of alternative medicine |
Ruth
Schemm, Jennifer Connor, |
Teaching using Evidence Based Practice |
Roger
Ideishi, |
Using a Virtual Personal Network (how to work from home) |
George
Downs, |
Ninety years in the world of work in America |
Pat Peterson |
Topic |
Presenters |
Fostering Critical Thinking |
Rod
Wigent, |
Being a Successful Graduate Student Instructor Making pre-lab lecture a learning experience |
Phyllis Blumberg, Kevin Wolbach |
How classes change when technology is used |
Sue
Barker, |
Supplemental Instruction (SI) Student Mentorship |
Phyllis
Blumberg, Gail Webster, |
Handling Difficult Situations in Lab |
Joe
LaPrade, |
Using on-line Testing |
Andrew Peterson |
Fostering Critical Thinking and Problem Solving |
Peter Miller |
Being a Successful graduate student instructor |
Joe
LaPrade, |
How are on-line courses different from live courses |
Lili Velez |
Using Outcomes Assessment Problem Solving |
Eric
Boyce, |
Topic |
Presenters |
| Uploading images onto Angel and other sites. | Jamie Hayden |
| Making a poster for professional meetings. | Fred Schaefer |
| Online teaching - asynchronous to synchronous; boring is not an option. | Dan Benau |
| FERPA: - An overview,updates and your questions. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended, (FERPA) is turning 36. This session will provide brief overview of the regulations that implement. FERPA which is the major federal law governing the privacy of student information. Since this legislation is dynamic, emphasis will be placed on the regulatory changes made effective. A significant amount of time will be devoted to participants' questions, and group discussion will be encouraged. | Alan Sims |
| Panel discussion Making Successful Transitions from high school to college professional student to practitioner. | Steve Sheaffer,
Roger Ideishi, Sue Wainwright, Kevin Wolbach |
| Reducing Stress: A hands on workshop | Karin Richards |
| CPR training Part 1, Participants need to register in advance with Mary Rafferty and need to commit to both sessions. Participants will receive a certificate if they successfully complete the course | Karin Richards |
| Develop your own or ask students to develop case studies using commonly known famous people | Jenny Pitonyak |
| On line seminar. Blended learning - live session | Ike Shibley,
Penn State - Berks |
| Metacognition Made Easy: Reflection in the Form of a Final Exam. | Anne Marie Flanagan |
| CPR training
Part 2, Participants need to register in advance with Mary Rafferty
and need to commit to both sessions. Participants will receive
a certificate if they successfully complete the course |
Karin Richards |
| Online Seminar - Blended Learning - recorded session | Ike Shibley,
Penn State-Berks |
Topic |
Presenters |
| Panel discussion on how and why mentoring is important to faculty member's success | Mignon
Adams, Charles Gibley, Paula Kramer, Suzanne Murphy |
| Writing a successful submission for an education conference | Phyllis Blumberg, Carol Maritz |
| Organizing your courses to foster more learning | Phyllis Blumberg |
| How can you decide what you want to improve in your teaching | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Walking the walk about students' taking responsibility for their own learning | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Using wikis effectively in courses | Cristina Hanganu-Bresch |
| How to use Goggle Apps: A hands-on demonstration | Rod Murray |
| Finding the literature you need for your evidence-based teaching or scholarship of teaching and learning | Jeanette McVeigh |
| Importing, exporting and storing data and information on Angel. | Madhu Mahalingam |
| Why requiring self-assessment improved student performance and learning. How to use it effectively | Carl Walasek, Roger Ideishi |
| Using refworks, a bibliographic database, in your scholarly activities | Jeanette McVeigh |
| Teaching students to become information literate and not just assuming that they are information literate | Leslie Bowman, John Porter |
| Online
seminar Supplement Classroom Learning with Screen Capture Software |
Dave Yearwood,
University of North Dakota |
Topic |
Presenters |
| Finding a balance in your job including time for yourself and scholarship | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Basic course design: Objectives and syllabi | Phyllis Blumberg |
| How do we teach these millennial's? Who are our students? How do they learn and what support do we offer them? | Phyllis
Blumberg, Gerald Hoefling, Roxanne Evans |
| Introduction to teaching and assessing so students will learn more | Phyllis Blumberg |
| A new way to organize and integrate a course using organizing schemes (Bring an existing course syllabus, if you have one). | Phyllis Blumberg |
Topic |
Presenters |
| Introduction to Angel | Jeff Swain |
| How to meet when you or your students are not on campus. Using webinar and videoconferencing technology | Danny Benau |
| Grade book function on Angel | Jeff Swain |
| Advanced functions on Angel | Jeff Swain |
| AV classroom support, using computer as whiteboard, etc. | Bill
Horton Cliff Greer |
| What is new and what is currently available in academic technology at USP | Rod Murray |
Topic |
Presenters |
| General education: What it means here and how to get a course approved for it. (Bring syllabi for courses you want to get General Education approval if you have them) | Roger
Ideishi: Fred Schaefer Phyllis Blumberg |
Topic |
Presenters |
| Teaching students to have more responsibility for learning | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Creating good multiple choice questions and how to understand the results (Bring some questions you developed, if you have them) |
Jean
Scholtz; Linda Robinson |
| The impact of the world's economic situation on teaching and learning at USP. |
Russ DiGate, Joe Trainor |
|
Melanie Oates |
Smart boards and whiteboards: How to use the smart board and how to use the whiteboard without a marker |
Clifford Greer, Alison Mostrom |
Knowing and using the full technology capacity of the STC 145 (how to use more than one piece of equipment at once) |
Bill Horton |
Using the statistics you get with the Scantron answer sheets to be a better evaluator |
Linda Robinson |
How can I use evidence to support how I am teaching: Part 1: Where to find evidence of good teaching practices in higher education or discipline-specific literature and what data bases to consult |
Phyllis Blumberg, Jeanette McVeigh |
What data from my courses is evidence to support my claims that I am a good teacher |
Phyllis Blumberg |
FERPA at 35 - An overview and update on January 2009 regulatory changes: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended, (FERPA) is turning 35. This session will provide brief overview of the regulations that implement. FERPA which is the major federal law governing the privacy of student information. Since this legislation is dynamic, emphasis will be placed on the regulatory changes made effective in January 2009. A significant amount of time will be devoted to participants' questions, and group discussion will be encouraged |
Alan Sims |
Demo sessions of the new features and changes in ANGEL |
Eva Agbada |
Anecdote to Data: Conducting research about Teaching and Learning: Getting Started Doing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Using portfolios for holistic (comprehensive or whole person for many skills) assessments |
Deirdre Pettipiece, Justin Everett |
How can I show I am a good or excellent teacher? Issues and Introducing a Tool |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Responsibility - This is Your Class, Not Mind: Encouraging Student to Take Responsibility for Learning |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Did I write good multiple choice questions? How to write good questions and how to interpret the computer generated statistics |
Linda
Robinson, |
The Devil's in the Details of Angel - Morning Plenary: ANGEL Overview Jeff Swain, Instructional Designer/Angel specialist at Penn Sate University |
Jeff Swain |
Hands-on Session #1 How to set up and Use the gradebook. In this session attendees will learn how to set up and use the gradebook. It is recommended that participants have access to ANGEL to participate Jeff Swain, Instructional Designer/Angel specialist at Penn Sate University |
Jeff Swain |
Afternoon
Session Outline: |
Jeff Swain |
Hands-on Session #3 The Advanced Features of ANGEL - Maximizing Performance. In this session attendees will learn how to set up and use some of the intermediate and advanced features of ANGEL It is recommeded that participants have access to ANGEL to participate Jeff Swain, Instructional Designer/Angel specialist at Penn Sate University |
Jeff Swain |
Open
Session General Questions about ANGEL |
Jeff Swain |
Being more productive in your scholarship and writing of scholarship |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Overcoming myths that you cannot use learning-centered teaching with courses that are lower level, have large enrollment or have unmotivated, immature students |
Phyllis Blumberg |
How we get our students to take more responsibility for their own learning |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Using a new way to classify your objectives: A revision and improvement of Bloom's Taxonomy |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Creating self-assessments, and online assignments on Angel |
Cathy Poon |
Using games in your classroom, laboratory and online |
Shawn Boyle |
Advisor Toolbox Workshops |
Kelly
Duffy and |
Helping you complete the gen ed template and get your course approved for gen ed and further discussion of some of the skills categories |
The
Faculty Council Curriculum Committee. |
Introduction
to teaching so students will learn more |
Phyllis Blumberg |
A Primer on how and why USP employees should be political activists including a panel discussion briefing on accreditation, accessibility/financial aid, and professional practice changes |
|
Criteria for promotion and tenure |
Paul
Halpern, |
How you assess your students will impact how and what they learn |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Getting
your courses off to a good start |
Melanie
Oates, |
What does the new general education curriculum mean for your teaching and for your students? |
Roger
Ideishi, |
Introduction
to ANGEL |
Cynthia
McClellan, |
Dinner and a workshop on Teaching at USP for all newer adjunct faculty |
|
My
Advisees and E-Advising functionality for WebAdvisor All advisors must attend 1 of these workshops The trainers try to assign test logins and students to those attending training, so it is essential that you RSVP to Kelly Duffy a day or two in advance. My advisees
will allow advisors to view information for their assigned
advisees. They will have the ability to view advisee transcripts,
Degree Audit program evaluations, schedules and certain test
scores. E-Advising will allow advisors and advisees to create
an educational plan for the student. Both students and their
advisors will have the ability to add courses to a plan. If
a student adds a course, it must be approved by an advisor
to become part of the student's educational plan. Any course
added by an advisor will automatically become part of the
educational plan for the student. Graduate, first-year and
second-year students will only have the ability to register
for courses on their educational plan. The feature will be
available for all other students, but will be used as a tool;
the registration process will not change for this population.
E-Advising is the necessary piece that will allow Graduate,
first-year and second year students to register via the WEB.
|
Kelly Duffy and others |
Using specific features on ANGEL Storing
documents, announcement and grade book features and the chat
function - open to anyone, but you must register in advance
so that you can be registered onto ANGEL. It is essential
that you RSVP to angelhelp@usip.edu. so that you can
be logged into the ANGEL system in advance |
Cynthia
McClellan, |
Using
assessment data to improve course or programs |
Faculty
member from DOPPA,and |
1. If you plan to come to any of the sessions focusing on ANGEL, please let us know in advance. Cynthia and Eva will register your name on the ANGEL system. Then you can log on to ANGEL during the session and interact with the system and not just be an observer. Just a reminder, USP's contract with Blackboard expires June 30, 2007. The course management system that we will be using exclusively beginning in July is ANGEL. Currently both systems are operating so you can start to practice with ANGEL.
If you are planning to teach either a summer or fall course on ANGEL, when you register, pelase indicate:
the course
title,
course number, and
course section number (or if you are working on a master course
that will include multiple sections)
Please
feel free to bring a course file that can be used to practice uploading
materials into your ANGEL course shell..
Please note: All who plan to teach in the summer are strongly advised
to attend whichever sessions is appropriate in order to ensure that
you are prepared well in advance of its start.
2.
If you have never given a poster at a scholarly conference, or are
new to developing posters, you might be interested in attending
the session on developing posters.
There will be two opportunities to present a poster at USP during
the Spring, 2007.
The first is the research scholarly day on April 19 and the deadline for the abstracts is April 9, 2007. We are encouraging people to present all kinds of scholarship
The second one is hosted by the Teaching and Learning Center and will focus on teaching practices that work at USP. This poster session will take place on Friday, May 11. The call for submission of abstracts will be posted very soon.
3. These workshops are open to all faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students and staff for whom these skills are appropriate. Please share this announcement with staff or students who are not on this distribution list.
4. ANGEL training will also be held in May and June 2007.
|
Phyllis Blumberg |
General ANGEL tarining - open to anyone, but you must register in advance so that you can be registered onto ANGEL |
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Using specific features on ANGEL: A closer look at adding documents, communication features, and the grade book. Open to anyone, but you must register in advance so that you can be registered onto ANGEL. This session will be repeated in the afternoon |
Cynthia
McClellan, |
Why students need to protect themselves on the intranet - such as with "My Space" |
Aminta
Breaux, |
How to present a poster at USP or at a professional conference for people who have never presented a poster |
Jeanette
McVeigh, |
Cleaning tips and tricks for daily maintenance of your computer including outlook and home share |
Long
Le, |
| Focus on technology
Dynamed, an evidence based medical decision making data base In response to clinical faculty requesting an electronic data base on evidence based decision making, electronic services within the library have asked this vendor to demonstrate what they can do. They want feedback on their product and are willing to make reasonable changes to accommodate our needs.
Dynamed "is a clinical reference tool created by a physician for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care ....updated daily...monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review database directly." The product is described at www.dynamicmedical.com. A study from the Annals of Family Medicine also looked at the product. www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/3/6/507.
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Review of online depositories of educational materials available for free |
Jo-Ann Gonzalez-Major. |
The ANGEL Object Repository enables storage, tagging, searching, sharing, reuse, and management of learning objects (tutorials, presentations, multimedia teaching units, web resources, exams, etc.). The ability to easily reuse learning objects across courses, sections, departments and schools reduces the investment of effort and time of recreating the material for new courses and additional sections Each instructor has a personal LOR that comes with their ANGEL account, and JoAnn Gonzalez-Major has created two additional repositories containing topic specific tutorial, multimedia drill and practice exercises, virtual labs, videos, and photos that are available for adoption.
This workshop will demonstrate how to copy and/or link resources from the repository into your courses and how to add new content to your personal repository. |
|
Developing objectives and outcomes for your course |
Peter Miller |
| How to get your course approved for the new general education skills component. The new General Education curriculum will be implemented in the Fall 2007. All instructors or course coordinators who will be teaching first year courses during 2006-2007 are strongly encouraged to attend one of these workshops so that they will know what they need to do to get their courses approved for the next academic year. Workshops will be presented by the members of the General Education Task force. |
General Education Task force |
| Are you redesigning your courses? Come to this session to talk to others or use this time in the workshop to work on your courses away from distractions. Laptops without web connections will be provided to help you work on your course redesign. |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Are you redesigning your courses? Would you like some consultative help? Sign up for 30 minutes of 1:1 consultative time |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Moving your insights on how you are teaching to scholarship, presentations and publications |
Phyllis Blumberg |
| How is your teaching going? Consultative and renewal session for faculty who have started in the last 2 years |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Here is a solution for distance synchronous learning: using Webinar software which is available at USP. Location - in your office - we will be running this demonstration using Webinar, but you must sign up for in advance to be registered |
Danny Benau...In your office |
Preparing a dossier for Promotion & Tenure |
Joan Tarloff |
How to develop and implement a travel educational experience for our students |
John Connors and Bruce Rosenthal |
Two Formative Assessments To Improve Students' Thinking & Writing Skills |
Alison Mostrom |
SMILE: An information literacy innovation implemented in general education course |
Alison
Mostrom, |
Discussion on educating our students on sustainable futures. What USP faculty and students can do to help save the planet |
Glenn Beamer and Kevin Wolbach |
Primary Trait Analysis: A course assessment tool to measure knowledge gain |
Salar
Alsardary, |
Peer teaching across the curriculum |
Carol
Maritz and |
Web 2.0 and Podcasting Implications for Healthcare Education |
Rod Murray |
Finding evidence of good teaching practices in higher education or in my discipline |
Jeanette McVeigh |
Refworks to catalogue all your resources and create accurate bibliographies |
Jeanette McVeigh |
Introduction to Google Apps for Education |
Rod Murray |
Mindfulness based stress reduction |
Melanie Oates |
Group problem solving in an introductory course recitations to promote learning |
Madhu Mahalingam, Fred Schaefer, Elisabeth Morlino |
Poster session and electronic fair of innovative learning or assessment practices |
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will feature posters of: |
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Demonstration on how to use the Sympodium as a teaching tool |
Mike Bruist |
Demonstration on Teaching Using Second Life within a course |
Melanie Oates |
A team from Apple will discuss with us what it would take to become part of iTunes |
Jacquie Smith |
Using qualitative methods to assess student learning |
Sue Wainwright |
Advancing learning content in the sciences: A vision for developing rich Scientific literacy |
Phyllis
Blumberg, |
Getting started and doing scholarship on your teaching |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Promotion and Tenure dossier preparation |
Joan Tarloff |
Teaching so students will learn more of your discipline |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Poster
Session: |
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How to prepare your dossier for promotion and tenure |
Joan Tarloff |
Giving constructive feedback to students |
Carol Maritz |
Introduction
to ANGEL. This is for anyone who has not taken |
Cynthia McClellan, Eva Agbada |
Understanding how students learn. |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Using
specific features on ANGEL. Storing documents, |
Cynthia McClellan, Eva Agbada |
Using
Conceptual Diagrams/Maps to Promote Deep Meaningful |
Alison Mostrom |
Poster
Session STC Atrium |
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| Behavioral Modeling by Faculty Leads to Increased Student Achievement | Robin
Zappin, and Carol Maritz |
| Everyday I Have the Blues: Promoting Learning in Psychology through Music | R. (Mac) Turner |
| What Student Reflective Writing Reveals about Student Learning and Teaching Effectiveness That Traditional Student Course Evaluations Do Not | Miriam Diaz-Gilbert |
| Fostering learning centered practices | Phyllis Blumberg and Joann Gonzalez-Major |
| An Analysis of Using Multiple Active Learning Techniques over Several Years in Introductory Physics |
Bernie Brunner |
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Poster Session and Informal Reception honoring faculty who submitted a nomination for a Leahy Award for Learning Innovation for faculty who use learning centered practices in their teaching, and faculty who presented educational posters at higher education conferences. |
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| What USP as a campus and what individual faculty can do to prevent/minimize cheating on exams and plagiarism. |
Kevin Wolbach,
Elizabeth Morlino and Phyllis Blumberg |
| How to proctor to minimize cheating and identify those who do cheat | Kevin Wolbach, Elizabeth Morlino and Phyllis Blumberg |
Plenary workshop open to the entire faculty: "Integrating Teamwork into the University Classroom." This workshop will consider how you can use teamwork in both large and small classes, how to remediate dysfunctional groups and how to evaluate group performance. |
Barbara Oakley |
Faculty consultation on teams |
Barbara Oakley |
Individual or small group consultations |
Barbara Oakley |
We will
feature posters of: |
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Informal
poster session
What I am proud of or excited about in my teaching
A sharing and learning tribute to Charlie Gibley
Workshop:
Capitalizing on the unique aspects of science teaching: collaboration
and communication |
Drs. Ike Shibley, Tami Mysliwiec and Maureen Dunbar from Berks- Lehigh Valley College of Penn State University |
ALL FACULTY, STAFF AND
ADMINISTRATORS ARE INVITED
REGISTRATION FORM
Please send your registrations to the Teaching and Learning Center,
Box #68, or e-mail m.raffer@usip.edu
Name of Registrant (please print) ____________________________________________________
Department: __________________________________________ Box #: ________________
e-mail: ______________________________________
Workshops Luncheon and Poster Session Consensus Conference
Workshops
| Developing concept maps for use in curricular planning or course assignments | Peter
Miller, Lois Peck |
| Grading essay exams efficiently (bring papers from your students to work on) | Christine Flanagan |
| Just in time teaching with technology | Bernie Brunner |
| Transforming your teaching into scholarship of teaching and learning | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Making reflection a valuable learning experience for students | Barbara Hogan |
| Making labs a meaningful learning experience for the students | Cathy Poon |
| Are you going up for promotion or tenure: Some tips to get started | Paul Halpern, Murray Zanger |
| Developing assignments to prevent plagiarism | Mignon Adams |
| Innovative course assessment tools | Phyllis
Blumberg, Sue Wainwright |
| Examples of integrated within Service-Learning courses | Lori Pompa from Temple |
| Streamlining
your grade book with Excel Getting started Part 1 |
Amy Kimchuk |
How to incorporate meaningful assessment methods into the classroom |
Eric Boyce |
Why and how to do student peer assessments |
Peter Miller |
Using active learning techniques in classes of any size |
Phyllis Blumberg |
How to engage students in reflection to increase learning |
Barbara Hogan |
Getting grants to assist with Service-Learning |
Jamie
Birges, PA. Campus Compact |
How to evaluate students on professional skills |
Annette Iglarsh |
Increasing our abilities to work with our diverse student population |
Miriam Diaz-Gilbert |
Using Competency-based assessments |
Lois
Peck, |
Intellectual
Heritage: |
Anne
Marie Flanagan, |
Teaching without textbooks |
Amy Kimchuk, Anthony Monteiro |
Assessing the learning in Service-learning |
Roger Ideishi |
Are our faculty good advisers? |
Catherine Bentzley, Robert Morgan |
Teaching strategies for immature students |
Lois Peck |
How can we implement what was learned from the workshop by Dr. Fink on designing courses to increase student learning? |
Phyllis Blumberg |
What do learning style inventories tell us about our students? |
Lisa
Davis, |
Is the early grade reporting system working? |
Suzanne Trump |
How do non-Western cultures impact on our teaching and learning at USP? |
Shanaz Tejani-Butt, Linda Stanley |
How can we encourage greater professionalism among our students? |
Joan Anderson, Suzanne Murphy |
Will all these interdisciplinary efforts lead to real changes? |
Liza
Takiya, |
Assessing the Impact of Technology and Learning |
Keynote Speaker, Kyle Peck, Penn State |
| Smart Board Demonstration | Jacquie
Smith, Bill Horton |
| Setting Up an Excel Grade Book Demonstration | Amy Kimchuk |
| Implementing the Assessment of Technology at University of the Sciences Discussion | Eric Boyce, Phyllis Blumberg, and others |
| Creating a Faculty Home Page on the Web Hands-on Workshop | Amy Christopher |
| Using New Graphical Equipment in the LRC Demonstration | Jacquie Smith and Friends |
| Sharing Experiences in Distance Education | Jennifer Connors , OT Faculty, et.al. |
| Using the Graphic Calculator | Amy Kimchuk |
| ERes or Course Home Page? Discussion | Amy Christopher and Nicole Duncan-Kinard |
| Palm Pilot | sales rep (tentative) |
| Impact of the Administrative Upgrade on Teaching—Discussion | Pat Lepore, et.al. |
| Using ERes Workshop—Nicole Duncan-Kinard | Nicole Duncan-Kinard, Amy Christopher |
| Using Front Page to Create a Course Web Page | Amy Christopher |