CITS Instructional Development is pleased to announce the Teaching and Learning Technologies Brown Bag Seminars for the Spring 2009 semester.
The Teaching and Learning Technologies Brown Bag Seminars will highlight new technologies, provide a comfortable forum for exchange of ideas and Q&A sessions, and will showcase the recipients of the 2008 Provost's Best Practices Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology.
Presenter: Cristina Mehrtens, Assistant Professor of History
Recorded:
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
12:00pm -12:50 pm
Dion 109
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How can a course site enhance the traditional f2f classroom and extend that classroom conversation to build students’ historical skills? This talk focuses on the practices involved in the planning, delivery, and results of moving from f2f to different modes of online teaching. It explores the process of reviewing one’s teaching and developing technological visual tools aimed at improving students’ participation and achievement of historical skills in a blended environment. It illustrates how different assignments and interactive activities can be applied to a broad range of world history classes and explores the development of an effective course site design and how different assignments generate different qualitative interactions. Finding balance between the technological and personal aspects involved in delivering the courses exemplifies how technology can be a welcome collaborator in the wider goal of promoting historical understanding among our students.
Facilitating Student Language Acquisition and Use with Web 2.0Tools: Promises and Possibilities
Presenter: Christina Biron, Professor of Foreign Literature and Languages
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
12:00pm -12:50 pm
Dion 109
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This presentation highlights the ways in which varied Web 2.0 tools can be integrated and used to improve the learning experience of beginning Spanish students. The session also includes students’ feedback on their Web 2.0 work as well as discussion on how these tools have since been used by departmental faculty to develop additional French and Spanish courses at other stages of language learning.
Assessing Change in Research Comprehension
and Critical Thinking Using Empirical Journal Articles
Presenter: Trina Kershaw, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Thursday, April 16, 2009
12:00pm -12:50 pm
Dion 109
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Professor Trina Kershaw, recipient of the 2008 Provost’s Best Practice Award in Assessment in a Blended or Fully Online Course will discuss how she utilizes the learning management system, myCourses, to promote critical thinking in her PSY 308: Cognitive Processes courses by having students analyze empirical journal articles. Assessments of change in reading comprehension skill will be discussed, and suggestions will be made on how to incorporate empirical research readings into large classes.
