Learning Technologies
Getting Started in Blackboard
By Appointment
This
one-hour individualized session will introduce you to the
Blackboard instructor control panel and give you the “hands-on”
experience needed to get started with your own Blackboard
course, including working with content, discussion forums
and course management. Please contact 442-4467 to
make an appointment.
Blackboard Training for Novices
Monday,
Oct. 19th: 9-10am or Tuesday, Oct. 20: 2:30-3:30pm or Wednesday,
Oct. 21: 4-5:00pm or Thursday, Oct. 22: 5-6:00pm or Friday,
Oct. 23: 1-2pm
These
sessions are for those of you who have not used Blackboard
before. We will just go over the basics. Please bring an
electronic copy of your syllabi and any other key documents
you want to put online, such as your weekly assignments
with instructions. We will help you put these documents
into the Blackboard shells that have already been created
for your courses and show you how to use the simple Communication
functions available in Blackboard. By the end of the workshop,
you will have a functioning Blackboard site to help you
stay in touch with your students.
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Curriculum
and Teaching/Special-Interest Groups for Faculty
Instructional technology/Online Teaching
(Angela
Velez)
Meets 2nd Friday of the month - Library, Room 349. (Next meeting: Nov. 13, 12-1:30pm)
A brown-bag series to discuss and showcase
new tools, approaches, and ideas. Besides faculty, CTL-members
and maybe members from University Computing will participate.
Interdisciplinary learning & teaching
(Dr. Edmund Hansen)
Meets
one Friday per month at the CTL, Library 310 (Next meeting:
Nov. 13, 1-2:30pm)
Faculty
interested in issues of teaching and learning across disciplines
meet to discuss strategies for integrative and interdisciplinary
teaching and scholarship. Reading: R.J. Sternberg, "Interdisciplinary
Problem-Based Learning: An Alternative to Traditional
Majors and Minors." http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-wi08/le-wi08_inter_prob.cfm
Scholarly
Writing
(Dr. Kate Hahn)
The activities
room of the Center for Academic Writing, Library 467,
is reserved for this group every Friday monring, 10am-12noon)
Open to all faculty who wish to have a space to work on their scholarly writing. The group uses the CAW (Library 467) for individual work, group work, and the occasional speaker. The space is reserved for faculty use only during this time. Come to do some work without the distractions of home or office. Come to collaborate. (Come to commiserate!). The group is informal in nature and is still brainstorming about how the time and space can be used to best support faculty in their scholarly writing work. For example, we are exploring having occasional speakers on topics such as resources to help you in your research and writing, use of LiveText, and grant writing. We are also planning to have writing supplies and donuts on hand. Please see the NEIUport Group titled "Scholarly Writing" under the Faculty and Academic Departments heading in NEIUport Groups.
Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) (Dr.
Edmund Hansen)
Meets
one Friday per month at CTL, Library, Room 310 (Next meeting:
Nov. 13 10:30-12noon)
Faculty
identify relevant research and discuss study designs that
would address their questions regarding issues and practices
in their teaching. One option might be to discuss what it takes to engage our undergraduate populations in challenging learning experiences. Participants might take turns in presenting promising teaching & curriculum approaches from own experience or the literature.
Reading: Vanderbilt Ctr. f. Teaching: “Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning” http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/resources/teaching_resources/reflecting/sotl.htm
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