CELT Spring 2008 Programming
Event Descriptions
Teaching and Learning Sessions
Teaching and Learning Technology Workshops
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- Click Courses.
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- your name
- your department
- your position (instructor, faculty, P&S staff, or teaching or graduate assistantship)
- name of the event
- date of the event
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Teaching and Learning Sessions
These sessions, designed to support and enhance teaching effectiveness and student learning, are open to all university instructors unless otherwise indicated. If location is not listed below, register to receive location information.
Developing Service-Learning Partnerships with Community Agencies
Jennifer Garrett, Coordinator of Leadership & Service & Teresa Downing-Matibag, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Join community agency leaders to explore service-learning across the curriculum opportunities in Ames. This session will provide opportunities for you to partner with community leaders in the development of service-learning projects for your students. Possible areas of interest include poverty, youth and families, the environment, health and wellness, diversity, and more. We will also address ways that faculty can use service-learning to enhance their scholarship.
12:10 – 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 30
2030 Morrill Hall
Getting Students to Read
Many faculty find that students are not doing, or are superficially doing, their assigned reading. This brown-bag session will explore opinions on the causes of and possible solutions for this problem, and participants will receive readings related to the issue.
12:10 – 1:30 p.m., Friday, February 1
2030 Morrill Hall
Graduate Student Programming: Going on the Academic Job Market
Donna Kienzler, CELT Assistant Director
Going on the academic job market is stressful work. This session, specifically for graduate students, will offer an overview on how to seek an academic job, especially how to write vitae and cover letters.
3:10 – 5:00 p.m. Thursday, January 24
1115 Pearson
Graduate Student Teaching and Learning Circle: Generation Me
Donna Kienzler, CELT Assistant Director
Generation Me, a new book by Jean M. Twenge, describes the cultural milieu of Americans born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. It is based both on research data and on examples from contemporary popular culture, and has significant implications for teaching and learning. Enrollment limited to 15.
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Mondays, February 4, 11, 18, 25
Register to receive readings and details
Graduate Student Teaching and Learning Circle: McKeachie's Teaching Tips
Karen Bovenmyer, CELT Program Coordinator
McKeachie's Teaching Tips has long been a valued resource for beginning and experienced teachers alike. This Circle, specifically for graduate students, will read and discuss portions of McKeachie’s text, which covers such topics as course preparation, discussion and lecture, grading and assessment, and more. Enrollment limited to 15.
10:30 a.m. – Noon, Fridays, February 8, 15, 22, 29
Register to receive readings and details
Graduate Student Programming: Preparing for Academic Interviews
Donna Kienzler, CELT Assistant Director
This session, planned specifically for graduate students, will cover ways to prepare for academic interviews, including researching institutions, constructing questions and answers, and preparing for campus visits.
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Thursday, February 14
1115 Pearson
Faculty Forum: Student Evaluation of Teaching
Presenters at this Forum will discuss how end-of-term course evaluation can help faculty assess how students are learning, and how evaluations can serve as one measurement among many in assessing an instructor's achievements in the classroom. A set of guidelines for effective student evaluation of teaching, generated by members of the CELT Advisory Board, will be presented. These guidelines have been identified through a review of the literature on student evaluation of teaching. Beverages and desserts will be provided.
12:10 – 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 19
Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
Faculty Forum: Reaching the Net Generation through Blended Learning
This Forum will return to a popular recent topic: educating today's net-savvy students through "blended learning," that is, a combination of face-to-face and online instruction. Hear from faculty who are successfully bringing blended learning into their teaching.
Beverages and desserts will be provided.
12:10 – 1:30 p.m. Monday, February 25
Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Master Teachers on Large Classes
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences annually recognizes outstanding classroom teachers among its faculty. This year, LAS has recognized six of its faculty who have been successful in teaching courses with more than 100 students enrolled. This session will provide examples, insights and suggestions for working with large-enrollment classes.
All are welcome; refreshments provided.
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Thursday, February 28
Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Faculty Forum: Teaching Tips
Experienced professors, teachers new to the classroom, advisers – so many of our ISU colleagues have been recognized as innovative and creative teachers. At this Faculty Forum, several ISU teachers will offer a quick idea, technique, or demonstration to make your teaching life easier. It's a fun and fast-paced hour that is sure to provide useful ideas.
Beverages and desserts will be provided.
12:10 – 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 4
Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Implementing Universal Instructional Design in Teaching
with Nancy Evans, Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Universal Instructional Design, an adaptation of the architectural concept of Universal Design, is a model for providing access to higher education for students with disabilities. Through UD and UID, faculty develop curricula and programs that include all learners—reducing or eliminating the need to provide last-minute accommodations or to segregate students on the basis of individual needs. Beverages and desserts will be provided.
12:10 – 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11
Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Miller Showcase
The 2008 Miller showcase has been canceled.
Teaching Creativity
This panel discussion will explore whether and how creativity can be taught in university settings. What is creativity and how can we encourage it? Does it take a creative teacher – or subject matter – for students to learn to be creative? How can faculty evaluate the creative efforts of students? Refreshments will be provided.
3:30 – 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 8
Gallery, Memorial Union
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute: Outcomes and Updates
During the 2007–08 academic year, several faculty have been working on projects related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. Come to one or all of these brown-bag sessions to learn how your colleagues have implemented the scholarship of teaching and learning to improve the the learning experience for ISU undergraduate students.
12:10 – 1:30 p.m., Wednesdays, April 16, 23, and 30
2030 Morrill Hall
Your Fall ’08 Syllabus
This brown-bag workshop offers an opportunity to get a jump on your fall (or summer) teaching with a review of the basics of syllabus construction and the learner-centered syllabus, the relation between a course syllabus and department outcomes, and some ideas about using the syllabus as a course management tool.
12:10 – 1:30 p.m., Friday, April 18
2030 Morrill Hall
Teaching and Learning Technology Workshops
These workshops are targeted specifically to faculty, instructional support staff, and teaching assistants interested in using technology to enhance undergraduate and graduate education.
In addition to these workshops offered through the CELT, other workshops and hands-on training for IT-related subjects and software are offered by Information Technology Services (ITS).
The following sessions will be held in 1230 Communications Building.
Introduction to WebCT GOLD
What is WebCT? How can I get an account? How can I use it in my courses? This workshop will provide a brief overview of the tools and features available in WebCT, followed by a hands-on session in which you will learn how to customize a homepage for your course and examine ways of making course materials available online.
Tuesday, January 29, 2:10 – 3:40 p.m.
Tuesday, February 19, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Friday, March 28, 2:10 – 3:40 p.m.
WebCT GOLD: Managing Course Content
Effective organization and presentation of course material is critical in an online or blended learning environment, and WebCT GOLD has a number of tools to assist instructors with content delivery. In this hands-on session, participants will review methods of converting existing course materials for online delivery and organizing them into a Learning Module. We will also look at options for using other content management tools such as the Media Library.
Prerequisite: Introduction to WebCT GOLD, or some familiarity with WebCT.
Friday, February 1, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Thursday, February 21, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, April 8, 2:10 – 3:40 p.m.
WebCT GOLD: Communication Tools and Strategies
Communication is an essential part of any online or blended course, whether students are on- or off-campus. In this hands-on session, you will explore the communication tools available in WebCT and discuss strategies for using these tools in your course.
Prerequisite: Introduction to WebCT GOLD, or some familiarity with WebCT.
Wednesday, January 30, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, February 26, 2:10 – 3:40 p.m.
Monday, April 21, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
WebCT GOLD: Quizzes, Surveys & Self-Tests
For online exams, practice quizzes, or to gather feedback from students, WebCT GOLD's powerful Assessments tool provides many ways to enhance students' performance. In this hands-on workshop, you will review the use of the Assessments tool for quizzes, surveys and self-tests, and discuss options for using these and other assessment methods in your course. Prerequisite: Introduction to WebCT GOLD, or some familiarity with WebCT.
Thursday, February 7, 2:10 – 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 26, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
WebCT GOLD: Managing Students & Grades
WebCT GOLD's Grade Book is an effective tool for tracking students' progress and providing students with immediate access to grade information. In this hands-on session, you will learn how to use the WebCT gradebook to manage grade distribution in your course. You will also learn how to use the Group Manager to organize students into Learning Groups, and review the uses of the Tracking and Reporting functions.
Prerequisite: Introduction to WebCT GOLD, or some familiarity with WebCT.
Thursday, January 31, 2:10 – 3:40 p.m.
Friday, February 29, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Friday, April 25, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Clicker Pedagogy Discussion
Come and join us for this informal discussion and hear how our peers use "clicker" technology in their teaching. Everyone is encouraged to share his or her "clicker" pedagogy and effective practices.
Wednesday, February 20, 12:10 – 1:00 p.m.
Using TurningPoint 2008 Clickers to Engage Students in the Classroom
The TurningPoint clicker system is the standardized Student Response System (SRS) adopted by Iowa State University. Learn how to prepare interactive presentations, collect students' responses, and gauge students' learning by using TurningPoint software, as well as manage students' responses through the WebCT GOLD grade book. The TurningPoint 2008 software works with Office 2003 and 2007 and has a redesigned interface.
Basic PowerPoint skills required.
Thursday, April 24, 12:10 – 1:00 p.m.
What's New in PowerPoint 2007: Learn the Basics for Classroom Teaching (WindowsXP/Office 2007)
The newest release of PowerPoint for Windows - Office 2007 - has been totally redesigned with a new interface and new features. The old menus and toolbars that have remained unchanged for many years have been replaced with a "ribbon" interface, contextual tabs, mini toolbars, shortcut menus, and a quick access toolbar. If you are ready to make the jump from version 2003 to version 2007, this beginners workshop will help you learn to navigate the new interface and become competent performing basic tasks and exploring new ones.
Thursday, April 3, 1:10 – 3:00 p.m.
PowerPoint I: Creating Effective Presentations for the Classroom
(PowerPointXP/Office 2003)
This is a basic introduction to PowerPoint (PowerPointXP/Office 2003). Learn how to plan, create, and deliver effective classroom presentations. Topics include classroom strategies for using PowerPoint to deliver content and manage classroom interaction as well as step-by-step guidelines for using text, color, graphics, photos, and multimedia in PowerPoint.
Wednesday, February 6, 1:10 – 3:00 p.m.
PowerPoint II: Working with Objects and Multimedia Tools
(PowerPointXP/Office 2003)
Review PowerPoint's (PowerPointXP/Office 2003) tools for creating and managing graphic objects, including sizing, grouping, layering, duplication, rotation and alignment. Learn how to create and edit complex curves and organic shapes. Practice inserting, resizing, cropping and editing pictures. Insert sounds and video clips in presentations. Extract graphic image files from PowerPoint presentations, and capture PC screen images to insert in your presentations. Add visual transitions between pages, set up timed stand-alone presentations, and save PowerPoint presentations as sequences of linked Web pages.
Friday, February 22, 1:10 – 3:00 p.m.
PowerPoint III: Using Animation and Branching Tools
(PowerPointXP/Office 2003)
Learn how to guide viewers' attention and build complex structures in steps. Build animation sequences to reveal, emphasize, move and remove objects. Discover the power of interactive animation using triggers, which provide on-screen buttons to start animation events. Explore ways of using branching tools to control program flow, to launch other presentations or other programs, and to create menus and interactive structures that run seamlessly within PowerPointXP/Office 2003.
This workshop requires the ability to work with graphic objects and drawing tools, which is covered in the PowerPoint II workshop.
Friday, February 22, 3:10 – 5:00 p.m.
YouTube and TeacherTube: Introduction to Video Sharing Websites
At video sharing websites, users can upload, view, share, and comment on video clips. TeacherTube, a new online community for sharing instructional videos, is a more educationally-focused safe venue for instructors and students. Learn about the educational and online community building potential of this new form of social software as well as the technical process of getting your videos online.
Tuesday, March 11, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Tuesday, April 8, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
eDoc Electronic Portfolio System
eDoc is a campus-wide electronic portfolio system developed collaboratively by faculty, students, and staff at Iowa State University. Since 2003 it has gone through several iterations of design, development, and implementation—and now offers a new improved interface and functionality. Come see how you can use a generic eDoc electronic portfolio template or enlist CELT help to design an eDoc portfolio template for your department and/or program.
Tuesday, April 15, 1:10 – 2:00 p.m.
Teaching & Learning and Social Networking Technology
What do Facebook.com, MySpace.com, Second Life, Social Bookmarking, and Wikis have to do with teaching and learning? What are the connections between technological change and social change and what are the implications? How can we, as educators, adapt to rapidly changing technologies, learner characteristics, and ideas like communities of practice and collaborative knowledge building? Please join us, share your thoughts, and discuss possibilities for what we may do at ISU.
Thursday, April 10, 1:10 – 2:30 p.m.
Teaching & Learning in a MUVE (Second Life)
Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) offer opportunities for real-time interaction with others—and with objects and activities in a three-dimensional online world. Second Life is one such application that is getting a lot of attention for its potential to enable active, cooperative learning. Participants in this session will be introduced to the environment, take a virtual tour of some educational sites and discuss the potential benefits and/or drawbacks of using Second Life for teaching and learning activities.
Thursday, April 17, 1:10 – 3:00 p.m.
