1) Course in College Teaching Part II Spring Cohort
Dates: Wed January 16, Tues Jan 29, Wed. Feb 20, Wed. March 13, Wed. April 3, Wed May 1, Wed. May 8
Time: Noon – 12:55 pm
Location: GISTC 103
All are welcome – Add your thoughts and wishes to the cohort planning/schedule. Bring your calendars please!
2) Adobe Connect Demonstration
ITS Training Services Event
Date: Thursday January 17, 2013
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Location: Online with Adobe Connect https://meeting.psu.edu/r54559680/
No registration or RSVP necessary
3) Academic Advising Noon Seminar #1 – Advising Basics – Walk-in
Date: Thursday January 17
Time: Noon – 2:00 pm
Location: Advising & Career Development office
Stop in and ask questions in regard to advising. Not sure how to read degree audits or do academic reviews? Have an advisee with specific issues? All questions are welcome.
Who’s invited? All faculty and staff.
Why attend? To network, share how-to’s, and learn about advising resources
4) Accessibility and Microsoft Office: Overview (via Meeting@PennState powered by Adobe Connect)
ITS Training Services Event
Date: Friday January 18, 2013
Time: 12:45 -2:00 pm
Location: Adobe Connect
https://register4its.psu.edu/Public/ShowDetail.asp?scheduleid=110751
5) Self-Determined: What Motivates You?
University of Rochester Alumni Association Event Webinar
Date: Tuesday January 22
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Location: GISTC 104
Presenter: Edward L. Deci, Professor of Psychology and Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Rochester
Most psychologists and economists have treated motivation as a single concept that varies only in amount. People are simply viewed as having more motivation or less. Self-determination theory (SDT), the path-breaking work of University of Rochester professors Edward Deci and Richard Ryan differentiates types of motivation rather than focusing only on the amount of motivation. In the broadest sense, the theory, as it has developed over the past quarter century, maintains that motivation develops from within us, grounded in our basic human needs to develop our skills and capacities, to act of our own accord, and to connect to others and to our environment-needs that are referred to as “competency, autonomy, and relatedness.” Self-determination theory holds that we are most deeply engaged, and that we do our most creative work, when we feel that we are acting according to our own will on behalf of goals we find meaningful.
The work has included laboratory experiments as well as field studies in areas of life including education, parenting, health care, organizational behavior, physical activity, virtual worlds, and primary relationships. We invite you to join Professor Deci, an internationally recognized scholar in the field of human motivation, as he discusses how applying the concepts of self-determination theory can lead to enhanced performance and psychological well-being.
6) Conversations in Teaching: Finding the Sweet Spot: Maintaining High Standards while Fostering Academic Skill Building
Date: Friday January 25
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Location: GIST 107
7) Born Digital – and Accessible - an EDUCAUSE.edu Event
Date: Monday January 28, 2013
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Location: GISTC 108
More information? http://www.educause.edu/events/eli-webinar-born-digital-and-accessible
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Larry Goldberg and Madeleine Rothberg of WGBH NCAM. The digitization of online learning and media, including electronic publishing and textbooks, has brought both great opportunities and unique challenges for colleges and universities with a mission to serve all of their students inclusively. Anywhere, anytime learning in malleable and flexible digital formats can provide students with disabilities timely and equal access as never before. However, old models of retrofitting materials no longer work and can be vastly expensive.
A new approach, building infrastructure and enhancements into content and delivery from conception, enables direct and on-demand access for all: learning materials and processes can be “born digital—and accessible.” In the past few years, more than ever before, resources and tools have become available to support this goal. Progress is evident in a variety of sectors: federally funded research and development projects, commercial enterprises large and small, cloud-based services with distributed labor, hardware and software manufacturers, and advocacy and standards organizations.
8) Summarizing, Understanding and Using Assessment Evidence to Improve Student Learning – a Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Offering
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2013
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Presenter: Linda Suskie
NOTE Location: Dean’s Hall, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, University Park
REGISTER: http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/register/detail.aspx?id=10560
9) What are you Working On series
Date: Thursday January 31
Time: 12:10 – 1:25 pm
Location: GISTC 107
Presenters & Topics:
Kristin Cole: Metered English Poetry
Jorge Santiago-Blay: Topics in Puerto Rican natural history: Giant (and beautiful) arboreal millipedes and amber
10) Making your Course Content Accessible (Office documents, pdf, ANGEL, web, video)
Date: Tuesday February 5
Time: 12:10-1:25 pm
Location: GISTC 103
Presenter: Suzanne Shaffer
11) Academic Advising Noon Seminar #2 – Conversations in Advising
Date: Wednesday February 6
Time: Noon – 2:00 pm
Location: TBA
What tools do we use in advising, what other tools do we need? Advisers will share what works and what doesn’t work. What, how and why do we keep records and how is this data used?
Who’s invited? All faculty and staff.
Why attend? To network, share how-to’s, and learn about advising resources
12) SRTE Question and Answer Session – a Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Offering
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Time(s): 9:45 – 11:15 am
Location: Adobe Connect https://meeting.psu.edu/srteqa/.
Presenter: Angela Linse
Register: http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/register/detail.aspx?id=10508
13) Course Design Elements that Make a Difference series
Date: Wednesday February 13
Time: 12:05 – 12:55 pm
Location: GISTC 103
Presenter: Noel Sloboda
Topic: Are our courses “over-designed,” to the point where the fun, dynamism,
and surprise of learning are limited?
14) Best Practices for PowerPoint: Tips for Teachers – a Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Offering
Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Time(s): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Location: Adobe Connect https://meeting.psu.edu/powerpoint/
Presenter: Chas Brua
Register: http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/register/detail.aspx?id=10504
15) Motivating Student Learning – a Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Offering
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Time(s): 10:00 – 11:30 am
Location: MCB 31B via Polycom
Presenter: Crystal Ramsay
Register: http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/register/detail.aspx?id=10514
16) New Ed Tech Tools at PSU: Yammer, Sites (new PSU blog tool), ANGEL Mobile App (pilot), Lecture Capture
Date: Tuesday March 12
Time: 12:10-1:25 pm
Location: GISTC 103
Presenter: Suzanne Shaffer
17) Make your own Awesome Graphics and Posters
Date: Tuesday March 19
Time: 12:10-1:25 pm
Location: PULLO 102
Presenter: Barb Eshbach
18) Academic Advising Noon Seminar #3 – Advising First-year Students
Date: Thursday March 21
Time: Noon – 2:00 pm
Location: TBA
Who advises first year students, when does advising and career planning start, what are the specific issues of first year students?
Who’s invited? All faculty and staff.
Why attend? To network, share how-to’s, and learn about advising resources
19) ANGEL Mobile Pilot Demo
Date: Tuesday March 26
Time: 12:10 – 1:00 pm
Location: GISTC 103
Presenter: Suzanne Shaffer
20) Inclusive Teaching and Learning Practices: Applications of Universal Design – an EDUCAUSE.edu Event
Date: April 1, 2013
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Location: GISTC 108
Presenter: Sheryl Burgstahler, Affiliate Professor, Higher Education, College of Education, Director, Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT) Center
University of Washington
More information? http://www.educause.edu/eli/events/eli-webinar-inclusive-teaching-and-learning-practices
Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, will moderate this webinar with Sheryl Burgstahler. Most postsecondary faculty and administrators desire to make teaching and learning opportunities engaging for all students, but many do not feel fully prepared to ensure that their offerings are fully accessible to potential students with disabilities. This presentation will address typical disabilities of postsecondary students, challenges they encounter in accessing technology-based learning opportunities, assistive technology that provides access to technology, and universal design strategies that can be employed to make teaching and learning welcoming and accessible to all students, including those with disabilities. Practical suggestions will be offered and resources will be shared.
21) Considering the Courage and Practice of Teaching: A Conversation (recorded) with Parker Palmer and Maryellen Weimer + Local Discussion
Date: Tuesday April 2
Time: 12:00 – 1:25 pm
Location: Grumbacher 107
Facilitator: Suzanne Shaffer
Reminder of other training options:
A. Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence offerings at UP– Offers a great variety of workshops now in F2F and online (via Adobe Connect or Polycom) versions. Check out the offerings at http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/Events If there is anything that you see offered online that you’d like to gather and chat about, let me know and I’ll arrange it!
B. ITS Training Services – Many of these offerings are available online via Adobe Connect. Check out the current listing at http://its.psu.edu/training/
C. Lynda – Technical training of any sort – at your own pace. http://lynda.psu.edu/ There are still some log-in issues for PT faculty – they say after the first pay check gets into the system, that you should have access. Keep me posted if otherwise.
