January Workshop 2005
January 18
8:30-9:00
Coffee and Conversation - Atwood and Miller Center
9:00-10:30
Teaching Large Lecture Classes - Mississippi Room
This session focuses on creating interactive learning environments in lecture classroom as well as on classroom management.
Panelists: Tracy Ore, Sociology, Patricia Hauslein, Biology, Glenn Davis, English
The Role of Jewish Studies in Fine Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences Curricula - Oak Room
Panelists in this session will discuss the design of robust Jewish Studies curriculum across the disciplines.
Panelists: Joseph Edelheit, Jewish Studies and Philosophy, Robert Inkster, English
Fixed Term and Adjunct Faculty Colloquium - Granite Room
Fixed Term and Adjunct Faculty are invited to gather for conversation, networking, and an opportunity to explore shared interests, concerns, and needs.
Facilitator: Frankie Condon, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Grade Book and E-mail Merge Demo - MC-207
Learn how to use Excel spreadsheets to record and compute grades, track attendance, and send individualized e-mail status reports to students.
Presenter: Karen Wenz, LRTS
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Part 1 - MC-218
Dreamweaver MX 2004 is a Web editing software program. This workshop is a basic introduction to the program. It focuses on creating a new page, inserting and formatting text, inserting an image, adding links, previewing and uploading the page.
Presenters: Rich Josephson, LRTS, Doris Bolliger, LRTS, Plamen Miltenoff, LRTS
10:30-11:00
Coffee and Conversation - Atwood and Miller Center
11:00-12:30
Designing First Year Experience - Mississippi Room
Panelists will meet with interested faculty to discuss the design and teaching of FYE courses.
Panelists: Mark Nook, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Raymond Philippot, Tom Heck, and others TBA
Diversity Education Consortium - Oak Room
Participants may discuss the mission and vision of the Diversity Education Consortium, current diversity education programs and initiatives, and explore collectively the intersections of multiple forms of oppression. This is an organizational meeting for interested faculty, staff, and administrators.
Facilitators: Convener: Frankie Condon, CETL
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Part 2 and 3 - MC-218
This workshop is a continuation of the Dreamweaver Part 1 workshop. This workshop will cover adding links and tables to your web pages.
Presenters: Rich Josephson, LRTS, Doris Bolliger, LRTS, Plamen Miltenoff, LRTS
Microsoft Access Database Software Demo - MC-207
Learn how this versatile relational database can be used to record, store and track all sorts of data from mailing lists to complex records with relationships to data in other tables. Examples will be provided to give participants ideas about how to manage data efficiently and effectively.
Presenter: Karen Wenz, LRTS
12:30-2:00
Bring a Colleague to Lunch - Valhalla
2:00-3:30
Anti-Racist Pedagogies - Mississippi Room
Panelists will discuss definitions of race and racism and anti-racist pedagogies. Working from current critical theories of race and racism, the panelists will engage with participants in an exploration of the importance of anti-racism and principles and best practices associated with anti-racist pedagogies.
Panelists: Michael Davis, Teacher Development, Tamrat Tademe, Human Relations, Flora Steck-Calderon, Ethnic Studies
Teaching Honors - Oak Room
Panelists will meet with interested faculty to discuss the design and teaching of Honors courses. They will discuss the similarities and differences between teaching Honors and General Education courses as well as reasonable expections for Honros students.
Panelists: David Boyer and Honors Faculty
The American Democracy Project - Granite Room
Faculty interested in the American Democracy Project will meet to discuss spring programs for ADP, and the integration of everyday politics into courses across the disciplines.
Facilitator: Rex Veeder, Academic Affairs
Microsoft Visio Charting and Diagramming Software Demo - MC-207
Learn about the diagramming capabilities of this versatile software application to create flow charts, graphs, marketing diagrams, organization charts, and much, much more.
Presenter: Karen Wenz, LRTS
Desire2Learn Quickstart - MC-218
Receive an overview of D2L features. You will get information about additional training sessions and how to request a D2L course. You will set preferences, learn basic terminology, explore My Home, Course Home, and Edit Course pages, and upload a file we created during the session.
Presenters: Tom Hergert, LRTS, Rich Josephson, LRTS
January 19
8:30-9:00
Coffee and Conversation - Atwood and Miller Center
9:00-10:30
Service Learning and Community Action Research - Mississippi Room
Panelists in this session will discuss princeples, best practices, and learning outcomes for courses that include a service learning component. Panelists will also discuss community action research and teaching students using the scholarship of integration and application.
Panelists: Eveilly Freeman with Rona Karasik, Community Studies, Isolde Mueller, Foreign Languages, and Matthew Spring, English
Engaging Democracy Across the Curriculum - Oak Room
Faculty from across the disciplines are invited to join the facilitators and members of the Democratic Citizenship faculty in a discussion about creating, sustaining, and teaching for a responsive and responsible democracy.
Facilitators: Michele Kukoleca-Hammes, Political Science, Jacob Wagner, Community Studies with Democratic Citizenship faculty
Dialogue on Teaching Gender Across the Curriculum - Granite Room
This interactive session will provide faculty with an opportunity to discuss both feminist pedagogies and course design with particular attention to the construction of gendered subjectivities.
Panelists: Women’s Studies and Affiliated Faculty
Desire2Learn Quickstart Workshop - MC-207
Receive an overview of D2L features. You will get information about additional training sessions and how to request a D2L course. You will set preferences, learn basic terminology, explore My Home, Course Home and Edit Course pages, and upload a file we create during the session.
Presenters: Steve Malikowski, LRTS, Karen Thoms, LRTS, Tome Hergert, LRTS
Status of Wireless Computing at SCSU Workshop - MC-218
This workshop will look at the status, coverage, user hardware costs, and features of wireless computing on the SCSU campus.
Presenters: Plamen Miltenoff, LRTS, Tony Sorteberg, LRTS
10:30-11:00
Coffee and Conversation - Atwood and Miller Center
11:00-12:30
Teaching to Learn - Mississippi Room
Faculty and student panelists will discuss student engagement in the creation and sustainability of an intellectual community. Panelists will discuss what students can contribute through teaching to the University community and how students teaching in the community supports and promotes both community wellness and student learning.
Panelists: Beth Berila, Women’s Studies and Frankie Condon, CETL
“There’s this student in my office…” Ways to Manage and Refer Students in Distress - Oak Room
Faculty are frequently approached by students with concerns that can seem overwhelming to both the professor and the student. These can include difficulties adjusting to college life, depression and loss of energy or motivation, intense worry and anxiety, difficulties in family life, relationship problems, changes in self-confidence and performance, and questions about direction and identity. This talk will address how to respond to and find resources for students who show up in your office in distress.
Panelists: Jayne Lokken and Steve Jenkins, Counseling Center
Desire to Learn: Active Learning and Engaged Pedagogy in the Virtual Classroom - Granite Room
This session will provide faculty with an opportunity to explore active learning pedagogies and instructional technologies.
Panelists: Judy Kilborn, English, Steve Malikowski, Technology Services, Doris Bolliger, Technology Services
LR&TS Online Databases Workshop - MC-218
See what’s new at the library that can help you and your students. There are a variety of New Library Databases to explore. You will also learn who to contact for new database selection and other library services.
Presenters: Pamela Salela, LRTS, Robin Ewing, LRTS
Audience/Classroom Electronic Response Systems - MC-207
Some of your colleagues are using electronic response systems to elicit immediate feedback in the classroom with inexpensive handheld remotes. The presenters will demonstrate a system now in use at SCSU and discuss their utility, the rationale, and their possible future here.
Presenters: Tracy Ore, Sociology, Matt Julius, Biology, Tom Hergert, LRTS
12:30-2:00
Stone Soup En Masse - Valhalla
2:00-3:30
Using Course Evaluations to Assess Student Learning Outcomes - Mississippi Room
This focused session will provide participants with models of course evaluation that can be used to assess student learning and to revise syllabi and course materials using student course evaluations.
Panelists: Phil Keith, English and Others
Designing Racial Issues Courses - Oak Room
Racial Issues Colloquium members will meet with interested faculty to work through the criteria for Racial Issues course designation and to work on the design of Racial Issues across the disciplines.
Panelists: Jeanne Lacourt, Ethnic Studies, Luke Tripp, Community Studies, Rob Galler, Mark Jaede, Kyoko Kishimoto, Jeanne Lacourt, Luke Tripp, Margaret Villanueva
Desire2Learn Quickstart Workshop - MC-207
Receive an overview of D2L features. You will get information about additional training sessions and how to request a D2L course. You will set preferences, learn basic terminology, explore My Home, Course Home and Edit Course pages, and upload a file we create during the session.
Presenters: Karen Thoms, LRTS, Steve Malikowski, LRTS, Tom Hergert, LRTS
Copyright and Fair Use Workshop - MC-218
Use of copyrighted materials in instruction and research can be challenging. Find out the myths, urban legends and then the truth! It is vital for faculty to know and understand such terms as fair use, educational, not for profit, spontaneity, and use of proportions of a variety of formats so that we can make informed decisions about copyright issues.
Presenters: Susan Motin, LRTS
January 19
All Day Workshop - Lady Slipper Room
Embedding Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes in Regularly Scheduled Assignments
This workshop will be led by Dr. Larry Kelley. Dr. Kelley has been actively involved in educational assessment for 20 years. Since fall 2002, he has conducted over 50 professional development workshops on course embedded assessment at institutions around the continental United States and in Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
