Summer 2008 Workshops

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        Backward Design

        Advancing Research in Teaching and Learning

        Mashup, Twitter, Tag, and Poke: Demystifying Web 2.0

Backward Design
The Center for Academic Excellence and Student Engagement is offering two summer workshops on Backward Design during the summer of 2008. The workshops are intended for educators interested in enhancing student understanding by designing more effective courses. Using the principles of Backward Design participants will learn how to write quality learner outcomes and develop measurable assessment strategies. In addition, participants will develop one or more interactive  teaching strategies to support their redesigned course.

 Those interested in participating will receive a $1,000 stipend. In order to receive a stipend participants will be required to:

  • meet during scheduled workshop meeting times
  • redesign a course syllabus that will be shared with the campus using Backward Design principles
  • write a one page reflection paper

 If you have additional questions please feel free to call Patricia at ext. 4930.

Schedule

Two workshop sessions will be offered:  
Workshop 1 will meet June 9-13, 2008 in LRC 507
Workshop 2 will meet August 4-8, 2008 in
Participants will meet from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Monday-Friday during both workshops. Afternoons will be spent completing morning activities.

Registration for the June session is closed.

Registration for the August session is closed.

Advancing Research in Teaching and Learning
May 19-21 and June 18, 2008
LRC 107

The Center for Academic Excellence and Student Engagement is offering a scholarship of teaching and learning workshop for Advancing Research in Teaching and Learning. The goal of the workshop is to prepare faculty and academic teaching staff to develop and submit scholarly research in teaching and learning for publication. Upon completion of the workshop, participants will have

  • written a scholarly article/essay/study on teaching and learning that will be submitted to a journal of their choice for publication

                        OR   

  • developed a research proposal addressing teaching and learning that will be conducted during the upcoming academic year, 2008-2009, with submission for publication in the summer of 2009. 

Participants in this workshop will receive a $500 stipend which will be paid upon completion of all of the following:

        1. pre and post online surveys
        2. workshop attendance, May 19-21 and June 18
        3. posting of completed scholarly research to the workshop's online
            forum

Registration for Advancing Research in Teaching and Learning is closed.

Mashup, Twitter, Tag and Poke: Demystifying Web 2.0
June 16, 2008
9:00 a.m.– 3:30 p.m.
LRC 107

Mashup, Twitter, Tag and Poke, the language of Web 2.0 is becoming increasingly popular in higher education. Web 2.0 includes Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, Picture Sharing, and Mashup tools. This one day event includes introductions to and examples of  Delicious, Flickr, Google Docs, and Wikis in higher education in the morning. There will be how-to session in the afternoon.

Registration for Mashup, Twitter, Tag and Poke: Demystifying Web 2.0 is closed.