Check out these tips for recording and hosting podcasts using the Internet Archive!
Podcasts are a great way to reach your students. Learn more from Profhacker.
ITT Spring 2013 Faculty Academy: Call for Participation
I am very happy to announce a call for participation in the Spring 2013 Innovation in Teaching and Technology Faculty Academy. The purpose of the ITT Academy is to provide support and training to faculty to enhance their teaching with innovative instructional strategies supported with technology.
The faculty selected for the ITT Academy will identify and work on a project which is then implemented in one of the courses they teach. Four 3-hour workshops will be held during which a range of design ideas and technologies will be presented and discussed. Part of each workshop will be dedicated to hands-on development time where faculty work on their projects with assistance given as needed. Chosen faculty need to commit to attending all four sessions (although if slots remain open, we will then consider faculty who can attend at least three of the four). We also strive for highly collegial, enjoyable sessions with plenty of food and conversation.
Although the curriculum of the academy will be flexible, here are the technologies we’re planning on including:
–Google’s Suite of Tools & Other Web 2.0 Tools
–Online Learning Essentials
–Video & Audio Production
–Mobile Learning Essentials
On-going assistance will also be given to academy members as requested during the semester and continuing through project implementation.
Faculty will also be asked to read several national reports and articles about integrating technology into higher education.
This Spring 2013 class of the ITT academy is limited to 10 faculty. All chosen faculty must be full-time with at least 50% of their time budgeted for teaching.
ITT Academy sessions will be held from 1-4 pm on the following Fridays: January 25, February 15, March 22, ad April 5.
Those who complete the academy will be awarded with an ITT Faculty Academy Certificate suitable for including on a curriculum vita in the area of teaching effectiveness, and a modest stipend of $200 (to be used for travel, materials, etc.). Completion of the academy is marked by the successful implementation of the faculty member’s project in one of their courses and the reporting of that project.
To apply, simply send an email to Lloyd Rieber with the following information:
–Name & Rank/Position
–Department/program
–Confirmation that you are budgeted for at least 50% for instruction
–Confirmation of your intent to attend all of the scheduled ITT Academy Sessions*
–Brief (1-2 sentences) description of a general idea for a technology-support teaching project
*If you are only able to attend three of the four sessions, you are still encouraged to apply. However, preference will be given to those faculty who can attend all four.
Faculty who successfully complete the ITT Academy will be expected to share their projects and their design stories with other faculty. It is also hoped that these faculty will choose to become mentors to other faculty at future ITT academy offerings.
The call for applications will remain open through Friday, January 18 with the selection of faculty announced by Monday, January 21.
Lloyd Rieber
Director, Innovation in Teaching and Technology
Finally, a Path Toward Solutions to the Crisis in Higher Ed (link)
Gavin Newsom at UCLA. (Todd Cheney)
In the news…Jeff Selingo from The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a UCLA discussion about online learning. Read the article…
2012′s Top 10 Ed Tech stores from Wired Campus
Wired Campus top Ed Tech stories from 2012
Check out the Chronicle of Higher Education’s top 10 Ed Tech stories of 2012 as described by their Wired Campus blog.
Dr. Jim Garrett – Innovation 20/20 series
“Thinking about Thoughts in the Classroom”
Dr. Jim Garrett: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
10:30am, 631 Aderhold
In this presentation I elaborate on a conceptual model, an illustration, of how thoughts “move” in a classroom. In my teaching I attempt to invite students into conversation with practices, theories, each other, and me. The hope is that in these conversations students have the opportunity to find new ideas about teaching and learning. Within classrooms, though, what ideas get heard? Which do not? Which ideas move a conversation forward? Which ideas lead to new ideas? And, what is the teacher’s role with, through, and around these ideas?
Dr. Lew Allen – Innovation 20/20 series
“I laughed. I cried. My thinking was Transformed: Building Community in Classrooms”
Dr. Lew Allen: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
12:00pm, 631 Aderhold
In my class syllabi I state my classes are highly interactive. However, student interaction is the bare minimum of what I’m shooting for. I don’t want polite, safe interactions. I want memorable interactions that open students’ hearts and minds to different ways of feeling and thinking. In this session we will discuss strategies and activities that have the potential to create the type of classroom environment that facilitates a climate that encourages and facilitates students’ efforts to engage each other and me in meaningful, transformational ways.
Book Club November 2012
ITT November 2012 Book Club selection: Howard Rheingold’s Net Smart
The Innovation in Teaching & Technology Book Club continues in November 2012 with the third book selection, Howard Rheingold’s Net Smart (2012, MIT Press). The ITT Book Club will be meeting this fall to discuss the following book:
Rheingold, Howard (2012). Net Smart: How to thrive online. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
The future of digital culture—yours, mine, and ours—depends on how well we learn to use the media that have infiltrated, amplified, distracted, enriched, and complicated our lives. I’ve been asking myself and others how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and above all mindfully. This book is about what I’ve learned.
All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to join us. If you are interested in participating, please submit this form.
The discussion will take place Monday, December 3, at 1:00 pm (room TBA). You are responsible to purchase the book on your own. Food will be provided at the discussion!
Visit Howard Rheingold’s site: http://rheingold.com/
Howard Rheingold’s book, Net Smart: http://rheingold.com/netsmart/
Net Smart trailer on YouTube: http://youtu.be/QzZSIzBe6w0
To sign up to join the discussion of Net Smart, or to recommend another book for the ITT Book Club to discuss in the future, please fill out this form.
Dr. Cory Buxton – Innovation 20/20 series
“Mock Job Interview as Final Exam in Teacher Education”
Dr. Cory Buxton - Wednesday, October 24, 2012
2:00pm, 631 Aderhold
A number of years ago I became frustrated that the kinds of final exams or final projects that I would use in my classes were not giving me a clear picture of how my students were able to apply what they had learned to their thinking about who they wanted to be as teachers. I decided to try using a mock job interview format as a way to push my students to describe how they could make authentic use of what they learned. Students routinely tell me two things about the experience: 1) it scared them and made them study, and 2) it was the most valuable learning experience in the course.
Dr. Nancy Knapp – Innovation 20/20 series
“Reflective Journals: Using Students’ Life Experiences in Teacher Education”
Dr. Nancy Knapp: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
3:00pm, 631 Aderhold
Many scholars have characterized the “apprenticeship of observation” as a “pitfall” to be avoided or a barrier to be overcome in preservice teacher education, but directly challenging students’ experience-based beliefs often leads to resistance, making students feel discounted or disrespected. In this session, we look at several ways that reflective journals can be used to help early preservice teachers non-threateningly confront their often unconsidered assumptions about teaching and learning, so that their shared life experiences become a resource for, rather than a barrier to, their developing understandings.
Dr. Amy Parks – Innovation 20/20 series
“Designing Productive Groupwork Tasks for Undergraduate Education”
Dr. Amy Parks: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
2:00pm, 631 Aderhold
Although considerable evidence suggests that students learn more when they engage with others, often groupwork tasks devolve into unrelated conversations or result in one or two people taking over. This talk, grounded in sociologist Elizabeth Cohen’s work on status, discusses particular strategies for designing and implementing intellectually engaging tasks in which all students learn and participate.