Topic

Presenters

How are you getting students to do online assignments and how are you grading or counting them

Elisabeth Morlino
Cathy Poon

Reflections on a year of transition to the new faculty senate

Micki Cohen,
Roy Robson,
Vandana Miller

How does one objectively and fairly assess teaching load, and scholarly pursuits across the disciplines

Marc Campolo,
Elia Eschenazi,
Bill Law

Does implementing learner-centered teaching inflate grades?

Andrew Peterson,
Pam Kearney

Should we have a document of expectations or faculty development plan for associate or full professors?

Joan Tarloff,
Russ DiGate

So Blackboard bought Angel, what does that mean for USP?

Rod Murray,
John Connors

Discussions of findings of the faculty workload committee

Voki Pophristic,
Laurie Sherwen,
Shawn Curtin

Topic

Presenters

Engaging students with dry (e.g. theoretical, grammar) material

Paula Kramer, Christine Flanagan

Creative ways to assess the effectiveness of courses for formative feedback

Laura Pontigga,
Bernie Brunner,
Alison Mostrom

The impact of the world's economic situation on teaching and learning at USP

Joe Trainor,
Russ DiGate

The present and future challenges to the university infrastructure, including technology infrastructure, and its impact on teaching and learning

John Connors,
John Masciantonio

Impacts/opportunities/threats on a possible merger or offering educational programs at other sites

Charles Myers,
Sara Gallagher,
Russ DiGate

Using and evaluating writing effectively in all courses

Deirdre Pettipiece, Justin Everett

Exploring reasons why students do not take responsibility for themselves and for their learning: Causes and what we can do about it

Gerard Hoefling,
Laura Mandos

Topic

Presenters

Faculty governances issues in a time of change

John Porter,
Mickie Cohen

What has worked with service-learning

Christine Flanagan,
Joe Ruane, Liz Gable, Melanie Oates

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,
Karen Mitchell

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, Roger Ideishi and
Anne Marie Flanagan

“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,
Deirdre Pettipiece

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,
Alison Mostrom,
Grace Earl,
Cynthia McClellan

Using humor in your teaching

Jacquie Smith, Babis, Murray Zanger,
Andrew Peterson

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,
Steve Rodriquez

Using Outlook more productively

Cathy Poon,
John Porter

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,
Paul Furtaw

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,
Jeanette McVeigh

Self Correcting Examinations

Stephen Moelter

Topic

Presenters

Making the first day of class a meaningful, learning experience

Andrew Peterson, Christine Flanagan, Kevin Wolbach

Status report and update on the General Education Outcomes

Margaret Kasschau, Peter Miller,
Cathy Poon

POD Casting in education

Jacqui Smith

Using films as a teaching tool

Bill Reinsmith,
Claudia Parvanta

Mentoring from graduate student to colleague

Annette Iglarsh,
Mickey Cohen

A student and faculty panel discussing what makes a good learning experience

TBA

How are we addressing cheating and plagiarism?

Barbara Little,
BJ Cunningham,
Justin Everett

What have we learned about respect and civility for USP

TBA

General education update

Members of the General Edu. Implementation Committee including Lois Peck,
Roy Robson

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
Reynold Verret

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,
Sue Wainwright,
Phil Gehrman,
Margie Roos

Case discussions on authorship and publications

Mickey Cohen,
Annette Iglarsh

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
Kathleen Swenson-Miller from Jefferson University

General Education Implementation issues

Lois Peck,
Roy Robson,
Alan Sims,
Roger Ideishi

Current IT policy issues impacting us all

Pat Lepore,
Mignon Adams

Topic

Presenters

What does it mean to be supportive of our students?

Joe Canaday,
Roger Ideishi

What is quality education? How can it be measured

Kevin Wolbach,
Glenn Rosenthal, Elena Umland

General ed: vehicle for well education USP graduates

Reynold Verret,
Paula Kramer & members of the core curriculum comm

What are reasonable expectations for prompt and constructive feedback?

Cathy Poon,
Anne Marie Fanagan, Students

What should the mission of USP be?

Lisa Lawson,
Barbara Byrne,
Ed Birnbaum

What are characteristics of quality relationship with students?

JoAnne Opperman, Roy Robson

Managing a transition in leadership

Andrew Peterson, Steve Moelter,
Russell DiGate

Establishing a university-wide plagiarism policy

Justin Everett,
Mignon Adams

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,
Lois Peck
Elena Umland

Surviving as a faculty member

Micki Cohen,
Annette Iglarsh

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,
Madhu Mahalingam

What does Middle States want us to do with learning outcomes?

Peter Miller

A generic template for learning outcomes

Margaret Kasschau, Lois Peck

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,
Barbara Little

Cantasia - The easiest way to create videos of computer on-screen activities

Jeanette McVeigh

Competency and Proficiency Exams in Writing and Computers

Roy Schriftman,
Bob Manbeck

Topic

Presenters

Who are the current college students

Aminta Breaux

Surviving as a faculty member

Micki Cohen,
Annette Iglarsh

Beginning a dialogue on respect. Who to Ask?

Elena Umland,
Ken Liebowitz

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, Cindy Sanoski,
Cathy Poon

Turning the classroom on its side: Learning through action

Mac Turner,
Janie Choate-note each one will do their presentation only once

Progress in Assessment at the University

Eric Boyce

An update on the Core Curriculum Review

Peter Hoffer,
Paula Kramer

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,
Shanaz Tejani-Butt

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,
John Moore,
Aminta Breaux

Top 10 Tips for Assessing Student Writing

Christine Flanagan

Integrating two discipline's content within separate courses

Alison Mostrom, Barbara Reilly,
Kevin Wolbach

Creating dynamic and useful videos

Bill Horton,
Susan Santalucia

Who should teach courses at USP and how core distribution requirements are met?

Eric Boyce,
Greg Manco,
Joe Ruane

Developing a code of ethics at USP

Amy Kimchuk, Elena Umland,
Kevin Wolbach, and a USP student

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,
Susan Martin,
Fred Schaefer

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,
Cindy Sanoski,
Greg Manco

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,
Phyllis Blumberg

Instructional possibilities for the new multi-media work station

Jacqui Smith

A 1st year experience as a way to improve student success

Melanie Rago,
John Moore

Promoting on line information literacy within majors

Mignon Adams,
Lili Velez,
Leslie Bowman

Using digital and scanned images in teaching

Roger Ideishi,
Joan Tarloff

Assessing English competency with non-native English speakers: TOFEL exam. et.al.

Miriam Diaz-Gilbert

Using Peer and Student Evaluations

Peter Miller,
Sarah Spinler

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,
Gayle Garrison,
Sue Wainwright,
Dan Hussar

Distance learning demonstration

Pam Kearney,
John Connors

Stopping Plagiarism before it happens

Mignon Adams,
MIke Dockray, Charlotte Gale

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,
Kim Tieger,
Roy Robson

Teaching using Evidence Based Practice

Roger Ideishi,
Pam Kearney

Using a Virtual Personal Network (how to work from home)

George Downs,
Pat Lapore

Ninety years in the world of work in America

Pat Peterson

Topic

Presenters

Fostering Critical Thinking

Rod Wigent,
Fran Mayville,
Roger Ideishi

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,
Amy Kimchuck

Supplemental Instruction (SI) Student Mentorship

Phyllis Blumberg, Gail Webster,
Frank Heilman

Handling Difficult Situations in Lab

Joe LaPrade,
Kevin Wolbach,
Phyllis Blumberg

Using on-line Testing

Andrew Peterson

Fostering Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Peter Miller

Being a Successful graduate student instructor

Joe LaPrade,
Kevin Wolbach, Phyllis Blumberg

How are on-line courses different from live courses

Lili Velez

Using Outcomes Assessment Problem Solving

Eric Boyce,
Phyllis Blumberg

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,
Jean Scholtz

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:
Hands-on Session #2 Using the Quizzing tool . In this session attendees will learn how to set up and use the quiz tool. It is recommended that participants in this session have access to ANGEL to participate Jeff Swain, Instructional Designer/Angel specialist at Penn Sate University

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
An Open session to explore an issue further or answer any remaining questions from the day Jeff Swain, Instructional Designer/Angel specialist at Penn Sate University

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
Steve Stratoti

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.
RH 101

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,
Paula Kramer

How you assess your students will impact how and what they learn

Phyllis Blumberg

Getting your courses off to a good start

Melanie Oates,
Kim Robson,
Kevin Wolbach

What does the new general education curriculum mean for your teaching and for your students?

Roger Ideishi,
Lois Peck, Lia Vas,
Co-sponsored by Academic Advising

Introduction to ANGEL
This is for anyone who has not taken a general Angel Workshop before. It is essential that you RSVP to angelhelp@usip.edu so that you can be logged into the ANGEL system in advance

Cynthia McClellan,
Eva Agbada

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,
Eva Agbada

Using assessment data to improve course or programs
While all faculty are welcome, this season is particularly intended for chairs and program directors who will be developing and using assessment reports

Faculty member from DOPPA,and
William Law

Learning about a variety of active learning techniques that you can use in a large class

Phyllis Blumberg

General ANGEL tarining - open to anyone, but you must register in advance so that you can be registered onto ANGEL

Cynthia McClellan,
Eva Agbada

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,
Eva Agbada

Why students need to protect themselves on the intranet - such as with "My Space"

Aminta Breaux,
Joe Canady

How to present a poster at USP or at a professional conference for people who have never presented a poster

Jeanette McVeigh,
Phyllis Blumberg

Cleaning tips and tricks for daily maintenance of your computer including outlook and home share

Long Le,
Joe Muscella

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 http://www.dynamicmedical.com. A study from the Annals of Family Medicine also looked at the product.
http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/3/6/507.

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,
Jason Porter, Catherine Purzycki, Kevin Wolbach,
Eva Agbada,
Leslie Ann Bowman

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,
Laura Pontiggia

Peer teaching across the curriculum

Carol Maritz and
Lora Packel

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

We will feature posters of:

Leahy Award nominees
Bright Idea Award nominees
Educational posters presented elsewhere and electronic resource fair

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,
Lois Peck

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:
We will feature posters of:
Leahy Award for Learning Innovation nominees
Bright Idea Award Nominees
Teaching Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
Teaching Ethics