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Sept 14
Webinar
Noon-1pm
Peck Hall 106
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Teaching without Walls: Life Beyond the Lecture
Host: Barbara Draude
Michelle Pacansky-Brock (Director of Online & Hybrid Support, CSU), nationally recognized for her innovations in online teaching, pulls back the curtain on the classroom of the future, exploring a semester-long teaching experiment in which a class of art history students engaged in a technology-rich, web-enhanced, inclusive learning environment.
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Discussion Questions |
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Sept 15
First Tuesdays
11:40 - 1:00
Peck Hall 106
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Adventures in Pedagogy
Michelle Bobbitt (Mgmt & Mktg) and Mary Phillips (Accounting), presenters
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Michelle Bobbitt attended the Teaching Professor Conference last spring in Washington D.C., one of the largest teach/learn conferences in the country. Mary Phillips attended the Southern Regional Faculty Development Conference in Louisville, KY. Both will share insights on teaching, news about trends picked up at these SoTL meetings.
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Teaching Professor Conference |
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Sept 18
SHOWCASE!
1:00 - 4:00
Faculty Senate Rm
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Teaching Democracy: Integrating Themes of Social Responsibility into the Curriculum
Dr. Susan Griffin
Teacher, poet, essayist, playwright, Susan Griffin is known world wide for her insightful creative and academic work on the shaping of democracy as influenced by the personal & public histories of this country's social groups. For this workshop, she'll discuss how to integrate themes of democracy and civic responsibility into a range of curricula.
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See her website at http://www.susangriffin.com/
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Sept 22
NEW- eLearning Series
11:40-1:00
Peck Hall 106
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Effective Powerpoint Presentation with New Media
Ping Zheng, Electronic Media Comm
For this new eLearning Series, Ping Zheng (Electronic Media Dept) will demonstrate best practices for powerpoint presentations and demonstrate how easily you can incorporate new media -- screen capture, video & audio files-- for optimum instructional impact.
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Presentation via Powerpoint ;
Powerpoint Tips |
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October 5
Webinar
Noon-1:00
Peck Hall 106
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Clickers & Peer Instruction--A powerful way to improve student engagement and learning (but only if you do it right)
Host: Brenda Kerr
Douglas Duncan shares his strategies and proven experiences in effectively using clickers in the classroom. Duncan has been using clickers at the University of Colorado, where over 17,000 clickers are in use. He’ll share data gathered during the past few years that has yielded a number of effective pedagogical strategies in their implementation and deployment. Strategies that led to successful use, and mistakes that led to failure, have been found to be very repeatable; these will be discussed.
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Seminar Description
7 Things You Should Know About Clickers
Tips for Successful Clicker Use |
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October 6
First Tuesdays
11:40-12:40
Peck Hall 106
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Service Learning
Ron Kates, English
Ron Kates shares his his experiences with setting up and implementing service learning projects and discusses their increasing importance in today's curriculums. Time permitting, Ron will lead group through a brainstorming session that focuses on identifying service learning opportunities and desired outcomes for one's courses.
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October 15
New- eLearning Series
11:40-1:00
Faculty Senate Chambers JUB 100
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Teaching Hybrid Courses
Barbara Draude & Karen Ward
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This popular workshop is ideal for teachers who are thinking of converting a traditional course into a hybrid format. Tips on course design and management, engaging online students, leading discussions and assessing performance. |
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Hybrid workshop presentation
Questions & Tips for Hybrid Course Design
More teaching resources
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October 28
SHAREFAIR!
10-Noon & 1-3
Cantrell Hall, Tom Jackson Bldg
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SHARING INNOVATIVE TEACHING PRACTICES
Attend this all day instructional exhibit that showcases innovative learning technologies and pedagogies of MTSU faculty. This year, new exhibits have been added to provide information on the Academy for Teaching Excellence, demonstrations of instructional Web 2.0 tools, and help with D2L course management system. Ceremony to announce recipient of 2010 Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, & Technology starts at 2pm.
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November 10
First Tuesdays
11:40 - 1:00
Faculty Senate Chambers JUB 100
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Strategies for Teaching in the Brain-Compatible Classroom
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Nancy Boone, Music
Teachers will learn how to engage in brain compatible teaching and learning strategies and will experience unique strategies to help them improve student retention and application of skills and comprehension. Motivation & assessment also are covered.
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November 9
Webinar
Noon - 1:00
Faculty Senate Chambers JUB 100
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Using Electronic Portfolios to Support Teaching
Barbara Draude, host.
The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate how course portfolios are an effective tool in documenting teaching practices to support reflective technique and invite peer review. The use of an electronic course portfolio as a flexible tool to support scholarship of teaching will be highlighted. Additionally, challenges and benefits of developing electronic course portfolios will be presented, as well as suggestions to facilitate the development process.
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See seminar description here.
Educause ePortfolio Resources
Eseminar from Adobe Acrobat on eportfolios |
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November 11
New- eLearning Series
11:40 - 1:00
Faculty Senate Chambers JUB 100
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Collaborative Instructional Tools
Brenda Kerr & Amy Macy, presenters
Details to come |
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November 16
Teaching Excellence
2:30 - 3:50
Faculty Senate Chambers JUB 100
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The Academy for Teaching Excellence
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Mary Phillips, Accounting
Michelle Bobbitt, Management and Marketing
Tim Graeff, Director
Mentoring with a SoTl Twist. Tim Graeff explains the (pilot) expansion of the highly regarded mentoring program to include a discipline specific development of a teaching strategy or pedagogical tool that can be tested in class and ultimately published in the mentees' discipline. |
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Academy of Teaching Excellence Presentation |
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