The second principle of magic. . .things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.                                                   Sir James Frazer

 

 Internet Course  - ED 701 - Foundations of Educational Philosophy

New Course Index - ED 784

New Internet Course  - ED 790 Brain-based education

 

General Introduction

Greetings and welcome to the homepage of Leslie Owen Wilson, Ed. D.  This site was initiated with a start-up grant from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and has been established for the explicit purpose of increasing the uses of technology resources as these relate to teaching and learning.  This particular site includes a wide variety of materials dealing with education and educational reform. Also, it includes materials that pertain to areas of curriculum development, creativity, theories of learning, and educational psychology.  While this site was designed specifically to support courses I teach, materials can be used readily by others' students, practicing educators, academics, parents, and general browsers interested in educational topics.  The site includes a number of strands, plus there are numerous links to related materials within the site, and to other Internet sites with similar or extended materials.  Original materials appear as those copyrighted to Leslie Owen Wilson.  If you would like to use original material, I will be happy to grant you access under these conditions. 

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Materials herein are related to the current my courses:   

Here is the array of courses that I teach on a regular basis.

• Education 381: Educational Psychology
• Education 701: Philosophical Foundations of Education - (an e-course offered through CPS Continuing Education Network
• Education 703: Newer views of learning 
• Education 721: Fundamentals of Curriculum
• Education 783: The Reflective Teacher
• Education 784: The Creative Teacher
• Education 726: Models of Teaching and Learning  (an e-course offered through CPS Continuing Education Network)

Special topic courses, ones offered periodically

• Education 790: Brain-based Education (offered through CPS Continuing Education Network Fall '07)
• Education 790: Beyond Bloom New taxonomies for learning

Leslie's Course Offerings for Fall 2007

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Links to Areas of Concentration

Information in this site specifically pertains to the following areas: 

• Curriculum development - Original topical material related to: Curriculum definitions and terms; curriculum planning and development; hints for writing usable curriculum; general information and suggestions about curricular issues: and numerous sample lesson plans which use eight different models of teaching and learning.

*New -- PowerPoint explaining Integrated Curriculum

• Creativity - Topical materials in the following areas: Definitions; books; creative problem solving techniques; teaching and working creatively; inspirational material; information on fostering creativity, and much more. 
• Models of teaching and learning - A graduate level e-course on teaching models and their uses in the instructional process  -- a course stressing the development of an online learning community. While much of the course content is open to outside browsers, certain segments, forms, and details are closed and secured for enrolled students use only and to UWSP browsers. The course uses D2L for online management.
• Newer views of learning - Many diverse topics related to: How students learn and think; effective teaching strategies; learning and its relationship to personality theory; brain-based learning and metacognition; plus information on newer views of intelligence. especially Multiple Intelligence Theory.

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Faculty Development Program:

ICOP (Intercampus Communities of Practice)

The Intercampus Community of Practice (ICoP) grant targets support for the uses of newer technologies, especially as these technologies have the potential to increase the quality of interpersonal communications and understandings between, but not limited to, faculty-to-student, and/or student-to-student interactions.  

This initiative was conceived as a pilot program running for one year and is funded by the Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC) of University of Wisconsin Systems. The grant activities bring together faculty members and campus LTDC personnel from six UW campuses Eau Claire, Green Bay, La Crosse, Stevens Point, Superior, and Whitewater. Activities focus on understanding and learning more about the intersections between the learning differences and needs of Millennial students, Backward Course Design, and new forms of communication technology like blogs, wikis, D2L, podcasting, and virtual office hours. Twenty seven faculty members have devised proposals whereby they will develop, or revise courses to add newer forms of communication through technology.

FACETS (Faculty Alliance for Creating and Expanding Teaching Strategies)

This was a multi-year program which concluded in June of 2006. It was faculty development initiative supported by a Congressional Award from Congressman Dave Obey which concentrated on teaching excellence at the university level. It is a partnership with faculty from UW-Marathon Center. The FACETS team was multidisciplinary and included myself and partners Susan Gingrasso, Marty Loy, and Craig Wendorf. The program effected faculty from UW-Marathon Center, and UW-Stevens Point. There is a journal online, Views from the bridge, in which participants discuss changes they made in their teaching.