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Spring 2009 Workshops
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February Classroom Management: Preventing and
Responding to Disruptive Students In and Out of the Classroom
Scott Lewis brings over
fifteen years of experience as a student affairs administrator, faculty
member, and consultant in higher education. He is a frequent keynote
and plenary speaker, nationally recognized for his work on Behavioral
Intervention for students in crisis and distress. He is noted as
well for his work in the area of classroom management and dealing with
disruptive students. He presents regularly throughout the country,
assisting colleges and universities with legal, judicial, and risk
management issues, as well as policy development and
implementation. |
Clicker
Training The
clicker committee has recommended Turning Point's Response Card XR as the
campus standard. We have set up two training sessions so that the faculty
can learn about personal response systems in general and the Turning Point
software in particular. This will be a WebEx presentation
co-sponsored by the Teaching Excellence Center and the Office of
Instructional Technology. |
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March Web 2.0
Technologies Last
semester we brought you Blogging 101, but there are many other free online
tools that can be used for research, networking, and education. This
workshop will preview several of these services, including Twitter,
Flickr, and social bookmarking. |
Galileo
Bonaiuti de' Galilei - the Father of Modern Science
The year 2009 is the 400th
anniversary of Galileo's telescope and the International Astronomical
Union has proclaimed it the International Year of Astronomy. In the
summer of 2007 Dr. Robert Gruebel of the Department of Physics and
Astronomy traveled to the Galileo symposium in Florence, Italy. Dr.
Gruebel will share his experiences with us. We are trying to have a
replica of Galileo's telescope available for viewing after the
presentation. |
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April The Assessment Roadmap
We have grown accustomed to the Exemplary Educational Objectives (EEOs)
but now we have Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) to report on
also. Dr. King will show us tools to make the collection of
assessment data and report writing work smoothly. |
Fall 2008 Workshops
September
Designing Learning Outcomes (Face-to-Face Workshop): Although always of importance, a current focus due to SACS is the inclusion of assessable learning outcomes (i.e. course goals) on course syllabi. Re-examing your course goals and how you might assess them can also help revitalize a course and allow for creative revisions of approach. This workshop will follow the basic principles of Backward Design (as outlined by Wiggins and McTighe, 2005), and it will complement an online tutorial created by Amanda Rudoph and Lauren Scharff. During the workshop, participants will receive addtional information and examples, work on and share for feedback / discussion their efforts at using this approach for one of their courses.
Led by: Amanda Rudolph, Mark Seaman
Dates and Times: Monday, Sep. 22, 9:00 - 10:30 AM; Thursday, Sep 25, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
October
Designing Learning Outcomes (Face-to-Face Workshop): Although always of importance, a current focus due to SACS is the inclusion of assessable learning outcomes (i.e. course goals) on course syllabi. Re-examing your course goals and how you might assess them can also help revitalize a course and allow for creative revisions of approach. This workshop will follow the basic principles of Backward Design (as outlined by Wiggins and McTighe, 2005), and it will complement an online tutorial created by Amanda Rudoph and Lauren Scharff. During the workshop, participants will receive addtional information and examples, work on and share for feedback / discussion their efforts at using this approach for one of their courses.
Led by: Amanda Rudolph, Mark Seaman
Dates and Times: Friday, Oct. 17, noon - 1:30 PM
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
Incorporating Service Learning: Service learning is more than simply requiring students to perform community service / volunteer for a certain number of hours. The Teaching Excellence Center will be working with Student Life and the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs as they help SFA establish support (through community agency connections and mini-grants, etc.) for a focus on service learning. The TEC will offer a series of workshops that will share information about service learning, some concrete examples to illustrate a variety of ways different faculty have incorporated service learning into their classes, and work with you personally to develop service-learning projects that support your course objectives.
Led by: Adam Peck and Michael Preston
Dates and Times: Monday, Oct. 13 9:00 - 10:00 AM; Monday, Oct. 20 noon - 1:00 PM;
Monday Oct. 27 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
November
Blogging 101: Workshop participants will learn about incorporating blogs and blogging into their teaching. We'll look at RSS feeds, exchange ideas on how to use blogs in both the face to face and online classrooms, and learn how to set up our own blog using a Google Blogger account. This will be a hands-on workshop, so that by the time you leave, you will have personally created your own googleblogger account and set up a blog.
Led by: Chay Runnels
Dates and Times: Monday, Nov. 3, 3:00 - 4:00 PM; Thursday, Nov. 6, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Location: InfoLab I computer room, Steen Library first floor
December
Syllabus Writing: Are you sitting down to write those syllabi for the Spring semester? Now would be a great time to get some tips on effective syllabus creation. We will cover what to include, what not to include, and what SACS might like to see. We all need to have course syllabi posted online soon and we will cover the basics of web posting as well.
Led by: Norm Markworth
Dates and Times: Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1:30 PM; Thursday, Dec. 4, 2:00 PM
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
Summer 2008 Workshops
June
Designing Learning Outcomes (Face-to-Face Workshop): Although always of importance, a current focus due to SACS is the inclusion of assessable learning outcomes (i.e. course goals) on course syllabi. Re-examing your course goals and how you might assess them can also help revitalize a course and allow for creative revisions of approach. This workshop will follow the basic principles of Backward Design (as outlined by Wiggins and McTighe, 2005), and it will complement an online tutorial created by Amanda Rudoph and Lauren Scharff. During the workshop, participants will receive addtional information and examples, work on and share for feedback / discussion their efforts at using this approach for one of their courses.
Led by: Amanda Rudolph, Mark Seaman, and Lauren Scharff
Dates and Times: Friday, June 20, 10:30 - 12:00; Monday, June 23, 3:00 - 4:30
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
Blogging 101: Workshop participants will learn about incorporating blogs and blogging into their teaching. We'll look at RSS feeds, exchange ideas on how to use blogs in both the face to face and online classrooms, and learn how to set up our own blog using a Google Blogger account. This will be a hands-on workshop, so that by the time you leave, you will have personally created your own googleblogger account and set up a blog.
Led by: Chay Runnels
Dates and Times: Friday, June 27, 10:30 - 12:00
Location: InfoLab I computer room, Steen Library first floor
July
Designing Learning Outcomes (Face-to-Face Workshop): Although always of importance, a current focus due to SACS is the inclusion of assessable learning outcomes (i.e. course goals) on course syllabi. Re-examing your course goals and how you might assess them can also help revitalize a course and allow for creative revisions of approach. This workshop will follow the basic principles of Backward Design (as outlined by Wiggins and McTighe, 2005), and it will complement an online tutorial created by Amanda Rudoph and Lauren Scharff. During the workshop, participants will receive addtional information and examples, work on and share for feedback / discussion their efforts at using this approach for one of their courses.
Led by: Amanda Rudolph, Mark Seaman, and Lauren Scharff
Dates and Times: Friday, July 18, 10:00 - 11:30; Wednesday, July 23, 3:00 - 4:30
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
January
Using PowerPoint Effectively (Avoiding "Death by PowerPoint"): PowerPoint can be an effective tool to enhance classroom lectures and presentations. However, poor implementation can lose an audience and decrease student engagement. Quick demonstrations and specific pointers will be shared regarding both the visual readability aspects as well as content organization and presentation techniques. Individual consultations for personal feedback on your own PowerPoint displays / presentations can be scheduled.
Led by: Lauren Scharff
Dates and Times: January 25th 1:30 - 3:00, January 29th 3:30 - 5:00
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
February
Fire Up Your Searches: Save time and increase effectiveness when conducting research. This workshop will cover navigating the new library web site and off-campus access to databases. Also included will be fundamentals of search strategy including Boolean operators, nesting, wildcards, and phrase searching. Examples from three major database vendors as well as searching across databases. Other topics by request.
Led by: Kayce Halstead and Bernice Wright
Date and Time: February 12th; 2:30 - 4:00
Location: Steen Library computer room: Infolab 2
Cooperative Learning: Panel presentation: beyond traditional group work - tips to enhance student engagement and learning
Led by: John Moore
Dates and Times: February 22nd 1:00 - 2:30; February 25th 2:00 - 3:30
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
March
Facilitating the Learning Environment for International Students: The number of international students attending SFA at both the undergraduate and graduate level is steadily increasing. Many of these students come from an academic culture that is very different from how we teach at SFA. Come learn about the academic culture these students are coming from and how you can facilitate their learning at SFA.
Led by: Wynter Chauvin, Tom Segady, Neil Armstrong, Sylvia Lin
Dates and Times: Tuesday, March 25th 3:30 - 5:00
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
Advising Transfer Students: Each transfer student is unique, and it is sometimes confusing to understand how their credits were determined and how best to advise them. This workshop will explain the transfer of credit procedure, transcript evaluation, and some tools that will aid when advising transfer students. Discussion time will be devoted to individual questions.
Led by: Carolyn Hardy
Dates and Times: Friday, March 28th 1-2:30 and Monday March 31st, 3-4:30
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
April
Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom: Do you ever wonder why it sometimes seems like we can't teach or they can't learn? This workshop will explore how to apply basic theories of memory and motivation in our classrooms. We will also share specific tools to help guide students to enhance their learning. Based on information and tips from the book of the same name (by Dr. Marilla Svinicki). Panel presentation by members of the faculty book circle.
Led by: Lynda Langham, Matthew McBroom, Brian Beavers, Scott Whitney, Michelle Rozic, Lauren Scharff
Dates and Times: Friday April 11th 12-1:30; Monday April 14th 2-3:30
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
Publishing Hints and Tips: This workshop will bring together several faculty who have been successful in publishing articles and/or books. They will share some of their experiences and pitfalls to avoid.
Led by: John Moore, Archie McDonald, and Ken Collier
Dates and Times: April 18 12-1 pm.
Location: TEC Classroom, Steen Library 220a
Fall 2007 Workshops
September
Fire Up Your Searches: Save time and increase effectiveness when conducting research. Federated searching allows cross-searching of multiple databases using a single query. A variety of data sources including, but not limited to, journal articles, e-book collections, and library catalog holdingsare available from a single portal. Results are collected from the databases and presented in a unified format with minimal duplication using a subject hierarchy known as "clustering." Results can be viewed as small coherent groups and may be sorted, filtered, or furtherrefined. You will get opportunities to try your own searches, so bring topics you want to explore for class or research.
Workshop Leaders : Kayce Halstead and Bernice Wright
Dates / Times: Tuesday, September 18 and Wednesday, September 19; both from 2:30 - 4:00
Location: LINC Classroom in the Steen Library.
October
Using PowerPoint Effectively (Avoiding "Death by PowerPoint"): PowerPoint can be an effective tool to enhance classroom lectures and presentations. However, poor implementation can lose an audience and decrease student engagement. Quick demonstrations and specific pointers will be shared regarding both the visual readability aspects as well as content organization and presentation techniques. Individual consultations for personal feedback on your own PowerPoint displays / presentations can be scheduled.
Led by: Lauren Scharff
Dates and Times: Tuesday, October 9 (3:00 - 4:30); Wednesday, October 10 (3:30 - 5:00)
Location: ED 192
November
Advising as Teaching:
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How can we better define the purpose and desired outcomes of advising?
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How can we help students take responsibility for their decisions and choices?
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How can we move advising beyond schedule planning?
Please join us to explore how academic advising relates to the overall teaching and learning mission of the university. We will discuss how an “advising syllabus” can clarify goals and expectations, promote ongoing dialogue with your advisees, and chart a course for meaningful interaction with students for whom you are both professor and advisor.
Workshop Leaders: Debbie Kiesel and Sherry Wells
Dates / Times: Tuesday, November 6 (2:00 - 3:30), Wednesday, November 7 (3:30 - 5:00), Monday, November 12 (3:30 - 5:00)
Location: TEC Classroom (Second floor Steen Library, NE corner area)
Summer 2007 Workshops
Co-operative Learning Tips and Techniques: Co-operative learning is a powerful technique, especially in small group or laboratory settings. Successful strategies and possible pitfalls will be shared.
Led by: John Moore
Dates and Times: Thursday June 28, 1:30 - 3:00; Thursday July 26, 12:00 - 1:30; Wednesday August 1, 12:00 - 1:30 [Brown bag lunch welcome for the 12-1:30 sessions]
Location: Chemistry Building C211
Using PowerPoint Effectively (Avoiding "Death by PowerPoint"): PowerPoint can be an effective tool to enhance classroom lectures and presentations. However, poor implementation can lose an audience and decrease student engagement. Quick demonstrations and specific pointers will be shared regarding both the visual readability aspects as well as content organization and presentation techniques. Individual consultations for personal feedback on your own PowerPoint displays / presentations can be scheduled.
Led by: Lauren Scharff
Dates and Times: Wednesday June 13, 3:00 - 4:30; Tuesday June 26, 2:00 - 3:30; Wednesday July 18, 2:00 - 3:30; Tuesday July 31, 3:00 - 4:30
Location: June 13: ED 263; June 26: ED 269; July: ED 135
Spring 2007 Workshops
April / May 2007
Incorporating Digital Resources Workshop : Would your students benefit from exposure to images and video of historical, cultural and scientific resources? The Texas Tides project (http://tides.sfasu.edu) offers a bilingual (English/Spanish) digital gateway to rich materials held in libraries, museums, archives, wildlife preserves and more across Texas and Mexico. These materials include photographs, scanned documents, artifacts and video from the field, and are freely available through the project website. Join SFA’s new Digital Projects Division for a workshop that will delve into these online collections and explore ways in which you can weave them into your students’ learning experiences.
Workshop Leaders: Rachel Galant and Priscilla Coulter
Dates / Times: April 25 and 26; 2-3:30
Location: InfoLab I in the Steen Library
Turn-it-in Workshop: Back by popular demand!! The rapid growth of the internet has made cut-and-paste plagiarism a growing problem on college campuses, but tracking down online sources of plagiarism can be difficult and time consuming. SFA subscribes to Turnitin.com, an online plagiarism detection service, which makes this task much easier. In this hands-on workshop, participants will set up their own Turnitin.com accounts and learn the basics of setting up assignments, uploading student papers, and interpreting originality reports. If time permits, we will also discuss procedures for reporting cases of plagiarism to deans. Participants should bring a short MS Word document on a flash drive or disc; include a bit of plagiarized material from an internet source such as Wikipedia.
Workshop Leader: Randi Cox
Date / Time: Tuesday, May 1; 3:00 - 4:00
Location: ED 369 (Elementary Ed Computer Lab)
Civic Learning across the Curriculum: A hands-on workshop focusing on connecting students to the wider community; faculty from several of SFA’s Colleges will facilitate roundtable discussions on: designing classroom assignments, developing and assessing internships, incorporating community/civic learning into core curriculum assessment, and more
Application and examples from across the campus are discussed.
Workshop Leaders: Steve Galatas (Pol. Science), Cathy Henderson (Bus.), Heather Wyatt-Nichol (Pol. Sci.), L'Ann Solmonson (Edu)
Dates / Times: April 30 (cancelled) and May 3; 3:30 - 4:45
Location: Wyatt Room, Steen Library
March / April 2007
Advising Beyond the Basics Workshop: Get ready for the Spring 2007advising season by attending Advisor Toolbox! Debbie Kiesel and Sherry Wells will lead an interactive workshop on resources and answers you can use with your advisees. We'll take a look together at the modeling feature of degree audit and some on-line resources you can recommend to students looking for help with long-range academic planning. We will also discuss ideas for encouraging student responsibility and managing stressful, 'on-demand' and parent-involved advising situations.
Workshop Leaders: Debbie Kiesel and Sherry Wells
Dates / Times: Tuesday March 27th 2:00 - 3:30; Wednesday, April 4, 2:00 - 3:30
Location: Linc Computer Lab, Steen Library on March 27; InfoLab I, Steen Library on April 4
Advanced Advising Workshop: Great academic advisors rely on many resources and skills: good information, timely referrals, consistent procedures, and individual rapport with their students. Are you a great academic advisor? Do you aspire to be one of the best? Come to our workshop about real advising dilemmas and some of the challenges advisors face. We will learn from one another as we discuss solutions and share ideas about effective advising practices.
Workshop Leaders: Debbie Kiesel and Sherry Wells
Dates / Times: Wednesday, March 28th, 2:00 - 3:30
Location: Wyatt Room, Steen Library
February 2007
Turn-it-in Workshop: The rapid growth of the internet has made cut-and-paste plagiarism a growing problem on college campuses, but tracking down online sources of plagiarism can be difficult and time consuming. SFA subscribes to Turnitin.com, an online plagiarism detection service, which makes this task much easier. In this hands-on workshop, participants will set up their own Turnitin.com accounts and learn the basics of setting up assignments, uploading student papers, and interpreting originality reports. If time permits, we will also discuss procedures for reporting cases of plagiarism to deans. Participants should bring a short MS Word document on a flash drive or disc; include a bit of plagiarized material from an internet source such as Wikipedia.
Workshop Leader: Randi Cox
Dates / Times: Monday, Feb. 5th 2:30 - 4:00 and Tuesday, Feb. 6th 2:00 - 3:30; Tuesday, Feb. 20th, 3:30 - 5:00
Location:ED 127 (Psychology Computer Lab) all sessions
Fall 2006 Workshops
November Workshops
Major writing assignments: Improving the final product.
A common concern for faculty who assign major papers is the quality of student writing. When papers contain serious problems, grading can be overwhelming. This workshop offers possibilities for breaking large papers into smaller, manageable steps that typically produce better writing. We will suggest ways to guide students to a final product that meets high academic standards. Strategic use of formal, informal, in-class and out-of-class writing will be introduced, and discussion encouraged.
Workshop Leaders: Mercy Cannon (English and AARC Writing Director), Lauren Scharff (Psychology), and Michelle Harris (Chemistry)
Dates / Times: Thursday, November 9th, 3:00 - 4:30; and Monday, November 13th, 2:30 - 4:00
Location: Wyatt Room, Steen Library
October Workshops
Advising Basics
Get ready for the Fall 2006 advising season by attending Advisor Toolbox! Debbie Kiesel and Sherry Wells will lead an interactive workshop on resources and answers you can use with your advisees. We'll take a look together at the modeling feature of degree audit and some on-line resources you can recommend to students looking for help with long-range academic planning. We will also discuss ideas for encouraging student responsibility and managing stressful, 'on-demand' and parent-involved advising situations.
Workshop Leaders: Debbie Kiesel and Sherry Wells
Dates / Times: Tuesday, October 3, 2:00 - 3:30; Wednesday, October 4, 3:00 - 4:30
Location: Wyatt Room, Steen Library
Advanced Advising
Great academic advisors rely on many resources and skills: good information, timely referrals, consistent procedures, and individual rapport with their students. Are you a great academic advisor? Do you aspire to be one of the best? Come to our workshop about real advising dilemmas and some of the challenges advisors face. We will learn from one another as we discuss solutions and share ideas about effective advising practices.
Workshop Leaders: Debbie Kiesel and Sherry Wells
Dates / Times: Tuesday, October 17, 2:00 - 3:30; Wednesday, October 18, 3:00 - 4:30
Location: Wyatt Room, Steen Library
September Workshops
Communicating in the classroom: Tactics that make a difference.
The workshop is targeted at trouble spots faculty may encounter in classroom communication, chiefly lecture, but also including give-and-take with students and the use of PowerPoint. It will be organized around seven specific techniques that make a difference, and the techniques will be described and demonstrated. Most importantly, participants are strongly encouraged to come prepared with their own questions and difficulties.
Workshop Leader: Doyle Srader, Dept. of Communication.
Dates / Times: Wednesday, September 27, 2:00 - 3:30; Thursday, September 28, 3:30 to 5:00; Friday, September 29, 12:00 to 1:30 P.M.
Location: Wyatt Room, Steen Library
Fundamentals of Using Adobe InDesign
This workshop will cover the basics of using the application Adobe InDesign. The emphasis of the workshop should be on basic newsletter design and some of the neat things that can be done with images, color, text treatment, etc.
** RSVP is required for this workshop. There will be a maximum of 10 people per session.
Workshop Leader: Joseph Alford, Public Affairs
Dates / Times: Thursday, September 21, 2:00 - 3:30; Monday, September 25, 1:00 - 2:30; Tuesday, September 26, 2:00 - 3:30
Location: It will be held in a computer room in the Business Building (BUS 224).
Student Cheating Online and How to Combat It (OIT sponsored)
Workshop leader: John Krutsch, Director of Distance Education, Utah Valley State College
Date / Time: Tuesday, September 21, 3:00 - 4:45
Location: Human Services / Telecomm Building Room 306
Summer 2006
So You Want a Webpage? Basic Design and Creation: Tuesday, July 25th 10:30 - 12:00. Led by Melane McCuller and Lauren Scharff. Meeting Room: OIT Computer Lab.
Participants at this workshop will learn to create a basic web page, using Composer (free application), and how to upload their pages to the university server. We will also discuss and give feedback regarding web page / site organization, design and usability issues.
So You Want a Webpage? Level II : Tuesday, July 25th 1:30 - 3:00. Led by Melane McCuller and Lauren Scharff. Meeting Room: OIT Computer Lab.
Participants at this workshop will work on further development of their web site, in order to maximize functionality and design esthetics. We will expect participants to be able to make a basic page and upload/download files from the university server using ftp.
So You Want a Webpage? Basic Design and Creation: Friday, June 9th 10:30 - 12:00 and Thursday, June 15th 1:30 - 3:00. Led by Melane McCuller and Lauren Scharff. Meeting Room: InfoLab I in the Library.
Participants at this workshop will learn to create a basic web page, using Composer (free application), and how to upload their pages to the university server. We will also discuss and give feedback regarding web page / site organization, design and usability issues.
Incorporating Writing Assignments: Tuesday, June 13th 1:30-3:00, and Wednesday, June 14th 3:00-4:30. Carolyn Davis (EDU), Debbie DuFrene (BUS), Perry Moon (LA), and Mercy Cannon (Library) will lead the workshop. Meeting Room: Classroom M in the SE corner of the AARC.
Description: In this workshop, we will discuss various ways that instructors can integrate writing into their courses. We will suggest short, informal writing assignments (both in-class and out-of-class), which help students to reflect upon and apply the concepts that they learn in the course. We will also talk about assignments that can lead to longer essays and research papers, as well as alternatives to the traditional research paper.
Spring 2006
Advising Workshop: Wednesday, March 8th (Ferguson 380) and Tuesday, March 21st (Wyatt Room in Steen Library). Both are scheduled for 2-3 pm. [RSVP appreciated]
Description:
Get ready for the Spring 2006 advising season by attending Advisor Toolbox! Debbie Kiesel and Sherry Wells will lead an interactive workshop on resources and answers you can use with your advisees. We’ll take a look together at the modeling feature of degree audit and some on-line resources you can recommend to students looking for help with long-range academic planning. We will also discuss ideas for encouraging student responsibility and managing stressful, “on-demand” and parent-involved advising situations.