Previous Events
Summary of Previous Events
TableTalksSpring 2013
| Topic | Presenters |
How do we get students to come to class prepared especially in content rich or content dry courses? |
Elisabetta Fasella,
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How do we get students to come to class prepared especially in content rich or content dry courses? |
Elisabetta Fasella, |
Why gradebook is useful and overcoming obstacles o its use. A discussion among faculty who use it, those who are just startling to use it and hose who are not yet using it. |
Ruth Schemm,
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Why gradebook is useful and overcoming obstacles o its use. A discussion among faculty who use it, those who are just startling to use it and hose who are not yet using it. |
Ruth Schemm, |
How can we resolve the educational and cultural differences for new international students? |
Brian Colfer,
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How can we resolve the educational and cultural differences for new international students? |
Brian Colfer, |
How much do you know about online regulations and the USciences document/policy on online teaching that has been approved by the Commonwealth. This is relevant as we move to more online and blended learning. How do the curriculum committees consider these regulations when they are approving courses or programs? |
John Connors, |
How much do you know about online regulations and the USciences document/policy on online teaching that has been approved by the Commonwealth. This is relevant as we move to more online and blended learning. How do the curriculum committees consider these regulations when they are approving courses or programs? |
John Connors |
Why are some programs growing while others are not? What questions should e be asking to understand these complex issues? The questions relate to changes in demand for programs, the public's perception of the field and of our university's program. How will facts help us to understand the situation? |
Danny Benau,
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Why are some programs growing while others are not? What questions should e be asking to understand these complex issues? The questions relate to changes in demand for programs, the public's perception of the field and of our university's program. How will facts help us to understand the situation? |
Danny Benau, |
How clarity in our directions to students might avoid plagiarism and thus avoid taking our student through the conduct process. |
Carl Walasek, |
How clarity in our directions to students might avoid plagiarism and thus avoid taking our student through the conduct process. |
Carl Walasek, |
What is the new PharmD curriculum? This is meant to inform faculty who teach in general education. What will ready plus 4 mean? |
Cathy Poon, |
What is the new PharmD curriculum? This is meant to inform faculty who teach in general education. What will ready plus 4 mean? |
Cathy Poon, |
Can it be easier to be green: sustainably in research and education at USciences: Why it is so necessary because of climate change. |
Julie Becker |
Can it be easier to be green: sustainably in research and education at USciences: Why it is so necessary because of climate change. |
Julie Becker |
TableTalks Spring 2012
Topic |
Presenters |
What faculty and staff can expect from the Presidential search process (i.e. information flow, what can be communicated, and not to talk about the next candidates) nd why confidentiality concerns make the process less transparent |
Elisabeth Morlino,
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How effective are we in our new branding efforts |
Maria Buehler |
How effective are we in our new branding efforts |
Maria Buehler |
What do faculty and staff need to know about the whole Middle States accreditation process? |
Peter Miller, |
What do faculty and staff need to know about the whole Middle States accreditation process? |
Peter Miller, |
Having students do presentations when they are in large-classes |
Joan Tarloff |
Having students do presentations when they are in large-classes |
Joan Tarloff |
Where are we going with mobile learning systems, what strategies do we have to maximize their effective use in teaching and learning? |
Mark Nestor,
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Where are we going with mobile learning systems, what strategies do we have to maximize their effective use in teaching and learning? |
Mark Nestor,
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Should we strive for a uniform policy about workload across the university? What might be in this policy? |
Voki Torbica-Pophristic, |
Should we strive for a uniform policy about workload across the university? What might be in this policy? |
Voki Torbica-Pophristic, |
Our experiences and our students' experiences with the IPAD pilot project |
Lora Packel, |
Our experiences and our students' experiences with the IPAD pilot project |
Lora Packel, |
Using the VALUES rubrics (nationally validated sets of rubrics on core competence's for college graduates) to assess students and their progress in a program: a work in progress/early work |
Pat Audet, |
Using the VALUES rubrics (nationally validated sets of rubrics on core competence's for college graduates) to assess students and their progress in a program: a work in progress/early work |
Pat Audet, |
TableTalks Fall 2012
Topic |
Presenters |
What do the HERI survey results mean and how can we improve the perceptions of faculty |
Ken Liebowitz |
What do the HERI survey results mean and how can we improve the perceptions of faculty |
Jeanette McVeigh |
Does the Honors program benefit USciences? |
Justin Everett, |
Does the Honors program benefit USciences? |
Roy Robson, |
Copyright and Course Reserves after the Georgia State Ruling on educational fair use, especially for courses that includes online resources |
Mike Krasulski |
Copyright and Course Reserves after the Georgia State Ruling on educational fair use, especially for courses that includes online resources |
Mike Krasulski |
The changes to the MCAT how this will impact course delivery for the long haul here at USciences. Will we be able to continue to be successful getting students into med school? |
Steve Moelter, |
The changes to the MCAT how this will impact course delivery for the long haul here at USciences. Will we be able to continue to be successful getting students into med school? |
Steve Moelter, |
What is right/wrong with our general education curriculum? |
Laura Pontiggia, |
What is right/wrong with our general education curriculum? |
Laura Pontiggia, |
How are we doing with restructuring and transitions |
Rod Wigent |
How are we doing with restructuring and transitions |
Rod Wigent |
What is the impact of reduced budget on teaching and learning? |
Shawn Curtin, |
What is the impact of reduced budget on teaching and learning? |
Shawn Curtin, |
Why are some programs growing while others are not? What questions should we be asking to understand these complex issues? The questions related to changes in demand for programs, the public's perception of the field and of our university's program. How will facts help us to understand the situation? |
Barbara Elliot |
Why are some programs growing while others are not? What questions should we be asking to understand these complex issues? The questions related to changes in demand for programs, the public's perception of the field and of our university's program. How will facts help us to understand the situation? |
Barbara Elliot |
TableTalks Fall 2011
Topic |
Presenters |
How can we overcome the students stereotype that courses that are required for their major should be easy courses to boast their GPA |
Joe Ruane |
How can we overcome the students stereotype that courses that are required for their major should be easy courses to boast their GPA |
Joe Ruane |
Assessing general education: Our overall plans and timetable |
Peter Miller |
Assessing general education: Our overall plans and timetable |
Peter Miller |
Leadership in this year of transition |
Russ DiGate |
Leadership in this year of transition |
Russ DiGate |
Are we realistic in our research expectations? How competitive are we in attracting research money? |
Karen Mitchell, |
Are we realistic in our research expectations? How competitive are we in attracting research money? |
Karen Mitchell, |
Creating order in the chaos that we nw have in terms of documentation and accessing policies and materials coming from he Senate, committees and Councils |
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Creating order in the chaos that we nw have in terms of documentation and accessing policies and materials coming from he Senate, committees and Councils |
Michael J. Krasulski,
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How effective are our new branding efforts? |
Maria T. Buehler, |
How effective are our new branding efforts? |
Maria T. Buehler, |
Can rubrics assess information literacy for the skills part of General Education: |
Leslie Bowman,
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Can rubrics assess information literacy for the skills part of General Education: |
Leslie Bowman,
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What has been the impact/success of the Misher General Studies and Misher Pre-professional Studies programs? |
Leslie Bowman, |
What has been the impact/success of the Misher General Studies and Misher Pre-professional Studies programs? |
Leslie Bowman, |
TableTalks Spring 2011
| Topic | Presenters |
| Teaching a course outside your expertise | Kevin Murphy Steve Metraux |
| Teaching a course outside your expertise | Kevin Murphy Steve Metraux |
| What are 'writing-intensive' courses and how might they change the way you teaching and assess students? | Justin Everett |
| What are 'writing-intensive' courses and how might they change the way you teaching and assess students? | Justin Everett |
| Should old exams be made available | Joan Tarloff, Gil Zink, Anil D'Mello |
| Should old exams be made available | Joan Tarloff, Anil D'Mello |
| Planning and living with renovations to instructional space | Fred Schaefer Paula Kramer |
| Planning and living with renovations to instructional space | Fred Schaefer Paula Kramer |
| The dilemma of offering innovative, authentic assessment in programs where students need to pass traditional multiple choice, license exams | Sue Wainwright Jean Scholtz |
| The dilemma of offering innovative, authentic assessment in programs where students need to pass traditional multiple choice, license exams | Sue Wainwright Jean Scholtz |
| Faculty roles in recruiting incoming students- What is effective, not as effective | Dianna Collins Bill Law |
| Faculty roles in recruiting incoming students- What is effective, not as effective | Admissions personnel Bill Law |
| The impact and results of Senate or Senate Committee decisions: successes and those not as successful | Roy Robson Elisabeth Morlino |
| The impact and results of Senate or Senate Committee decisions: successes and those not as successful | Roy Robson Elisabeth Morlino |
| Journaling and other self-reflective methods as a way to foster teaching improvement | Therese Johnston |
| Journaling and other self-reflective methods as a way to foster teaching improvement | Therese Johnston |
TableTalks Fall 2010
| Topic | Presenters |
| Maintaining the quality of educational programs and resourcing new programs when we have a projected shortfall | Joe Trainor Shawn Curtin |
| Maintaining the quality of educational programs and resourcing new programs when we have a projected shortfall | Joe Trainor Shawn Curtin |
| How much bang do we get for our efforts with AFE's? What are AFE's used for? | Marc Campolo Kevin Murphy Ade Adejare |
| How much bang do we get for our efforts with AFE's? What are AFE's used for? | Marc Campolo Kevin Murphy Ade Adejare |
| Faculty mentoring: What benefits result in mentoring for the mentor and the person being mentored? | Lindsay Palkovic, |
| Faculty mentoring: What benefits result in mentoring for the mentor and the person being mentored? | Lindsay Palkovic, |
| How do we go from strategic and tactical planning to effect real change? | Tilman Baumstart, Laura Pontiggia Suzanne Murphy |
| Developing a campus wide policy for assigning credit hours with asynchronous or distance learning: some insights from those who have experience with this | Dan Benau, |
| Developing a campus wide policy for assigning credit hours with asynchronous or distance learning: some insights from those who have experience with this | Dan Benau, |
| The impact of video recordings of our classes on teaching and learning | Mike Bruist, Joan Tarloff |
| The impact of video recordings of our classes on teaching and learning | Mike Bruist, Joan Tarloff |
| Is our general education curriculum meeting its objectives? | Roger Ideishi, Steve Moelter |
| Is our general education curriculum meeting its objectives? | Roger Ideishi, Steve Moelter |
| Is it time to revisit our student evaluation forms? Should we rethink how much they count given our participation rates? | Peter Miller Mike Krasulski |
| Is it time to revisit our student evaluation forms? Should we rethink how much they count given our participation rates? | Peter Miller Mike Krasulski |
TableTalks Spring 2010
| Topic | Discussants |
| Implications for course planning or teaching
with a looming health epidemic |
Jeanette Litts Amy Jessop |
| Implications for course planning or teaching
with a looming health epidemic |
Jeanette Litts Amy Jessop |
| How can the course capture technology be used effectively as a teaching and learning tool? | Rod Murray, Cathy Poon, and 5th yr Pharm D student |
| How can the course capture technology be used effectively as a teaching and learning tool? | Rod Murray, Cathy Poon, and 5th yr Pharm D student |
| Writing across the curriculum | Justin Everett |
| Writing across the curriculum | Justin Everett |
| How you can use evidence to improve your teaching | Madhu Mahalingam Laura Pontiggia |
| How you can use evidence to improve your teaching | Madhu Mahalingam Laura Pontiggia |
| Planning for more Angel training: What are your frustrations or concerns with Angel |
Rod Murray |
| Planning for more Angel training: What are your frustrations or concerns with Angel |
Rod Murray |
| How do our students, faculty obtain, use and share data or information | Melanie Oates Charles Myers |
| How do our students, faculty obtain, use and share data or information | Melanie Oates Charles Myers |
| How do you manage your own and your student expectations when you try innovations? | Christine Flanagan Bernie Brunner |
| How do you manage your own and your student expectations when you try innovations? | Christine Flanagan Bernie Brunner |
| Should reflection and evidence-based decision making be part of how teaching is assessed or part of your development efforts? | Sue Wainwright |
| Should reflection and evidence-based decision making be part of how teaching is assessed or part of your development efforts? | Sue Wainwright |
TableTalks Fall 2009
Topic |
Presenters |
| How are you getting students to do online assignments and how are you grading or counting them |
Elisabeth Morlino |
Reflections on a year of transition to the new faculty senate |
Micki Cohen, |
| How does one objectively and fairly assess teaching load, and scholarly pursuits across the disciplines |
Marc Campolo, |
| Does implementing learner-centered
teaching inflate grades? |
Andrew Peterson, |
Should we have a document of expectations or faculty development plan for associate or full professors? |
Joan Tarloff, |
So Blackboard bought Angel, what does that mean for University of the Sciences? |
Rod Murray, |
Discussions of findings of the faculty workload committee |
Voki Pophristic, |
TableTalks Spring 2009
Topic |
Presenters |
Engaging students with dry (e.g. theoretical, grammar) material |
Paula Kramer, |
Creative ways to assess the effectiveness of courses for formative feedback |
Laura Pontigga, |
The impact of the world's economic situation on teaching and learning at USP |
Joe Trainor, |
The present and future challenges to the university infrastructure, including technology infrastructure, and its impact on teaching and learning |
John Connors, |
Impacts/opportunities/threats on a possible merger or offering educational programs at other sites |
Charles Myers, |
Using and evaluating writing effectively in all courses |
Deirdre Pettipiece, |
Exploring reasons why students do not take responsibility for themselves and for their learning: Causes and what we can do about it |
Gerard Hoefling, |
TableTalks Fall 2008
Topic |
Presenters |
Faculty governances issues in a time of change |
John Porter, |
What has worked with service-learning |
Christine Flanagan, |
Conflicts in our students between evolution and their beliefs |
Justin Everett, et al |
IRB issues as they relate to Scholarship of Teaching and Learning classroom based research |
Micky Cohen, |
How the election will influence higher education and the new Higher Education Authorization Act |
Mary Kate McGinty, And Others |
Quickie ideas for breaking up the routine in your classes |
Catherine Bentzley, |
“This too shall pass. – The over-utilization of avoidance as an academic and personal coping style” |
Paul Furtaw |
TableTalks Spring 2008
Topic |
Presenters |
Prescription pad for success |
Kevin Wolbach |
Preventing Plagiarism |
Justin Everett, |
Quickie technology techniques:Scivee - science video on web 2.0 Real time typing of notes on computer allows student input. Turning point, Angel Tips |
Jacquie Smith, |
Using humor in your teaching |
Jacquie Smith, Babis, Murray Zanger, |
Introducing the Mayes College of Health Care Business |
Bill Aston |
Portrait of a student as a young wolf- How to motivate
undergraduates Discipline control in the classroom |
Darby Lewes and her four legged assistant |
Working win-win with Marketing and Development - fundraising, media, and promotions |
Rod Miller |
Will an honors program have and impact on your teaching |
Roy Robson |
Using scientific evidence to improve your teaching |
Bernie Brunner, |
Using Outlook more productively |
Cathy Poon, |
TableTalks Fall 2007
Topic |
Presenters |
How strategic marketing communications or the media and faculty can interact in a win-win way |
Brian Kirschner |
How to deal with students who have alcohol or other substance abuse problems |
Aminta Breaux, |
Moving forward in a time of transition |
Roy Robson |
Using writing to promote disciplinary cognition and development in classes beyond composition |
Deidre Pettipiece |
Maximizing Teaching Through Advising |
Gerald Hoefling |
All you need to know about citations including the connection between citation writing and valid sources, technologies and citation writing |
Leslie Bowman, |
Self Correcting Examinations |
Stephen Moelter |
Table Talks Spring 2006
Topic |
Presenters |
Making the first day of class a meaningful, learning experience |
Andrew Peterson, |
Status report and update on the General Education Outcomes |
Margaret Kasschau, |
POD Casting in education |
Jacqui Smith |
Using films as a teaching tool |
Bill Reinsmith, |
Mentoring from graduate student to colleague |
Annette Iglarsh, |
A student and faculty panel discussing what makes a good learning experience |
TBA |
How are we addressing cheating and plagiarism? |
Barbara Little, |
What have we learned about respect and civility for USP |
TBA |
General education update |
Members of the General Edu. Implementation
Committee including Lois Peck, |
TableTalks Fall 2006
Topic |
Presenters |
Discussion on the Chronicle of Higher Education review article on the end of multiple choice tests due to pda's |
Karen Tietze, others |
Disseminating your educational programs to larger academic audiences |
Paula Kramer and other OT faculty |
Getting your students to do good reflections or reflective journals |
Carol Maritz, |
Case discussions on authorship and publications |
Mickey Cohen, |
How to use wireless PDA devices on campus |
Kevin Wolbach |
Is the service learning I am asking my students to do worthy of publications? |
Ruth Schemm |
General Education Implementation issues |
Lois Peck, |
Current IT policy issues impacting us all |
Pat Lepore, |
TableTalks Spring 2005
Topic |
Presenters |
What does it mean to be supportive of our students? |
Joe Canaday, |
What is quality education? How can it be measured |
Kevin Wolbach, |
General ed: vehicle for well education USP graduates |
Reynold Verret, |
What are reasonable expectations for prompt and constructive feedback? |
Cathy Poon, |
What should the mission of USP be? |
Lisa Lawson, |
What are characteristics of quality relationship with students? |
JoAnne Opperman, |
Managing a transition in leadership |
Andrew Peterson, |
Establishing a university-wide plagiarism policy |
Justin Everett, |
Discussion of recent data from the NSSE and student satisfaction surveys |
Peter Miller |
TableTalks Fall 2005
Topic |
Presenters |
Who are the current college students? |
Aminta Breaux |
Using immediate feedback test scoring sheets |
Pam Kearney |
Beginning a dialogue on respect |
Ken Liebowitz, |
Surviving as a faculty member |
Micki Cohen, |
Making the faculty data base useful for all |
Karen Mitchell |
FERPA issues for faculty, including posting grades |
Alan Sims |
The most recent student satisfaction data |
Peter Miller |
What we can learn from liberal arts colleges and what they can learn from us |
Paul Halpern |
TableTalks Spring 2004
Topic |
Presenters |
Group problem solving sessions in recitation |
Fred Schaefer, |
What does Middle States want us to do with learning outcomes? |
Peter Miller |
A generic template for learning outcomes |
Margaret Kasschau, |
Making Theory Interactive |
Paula Kramer |
Improving your students' information skills |
Leslie Bowman |
Advances in our General Education Curriculum |
Reynold Verret, General Education Steering Committee |
Progress report on changes to student discipline, student judiciary review |
Tim Rupe, |
Cantasia - The easiest way to create videos of computer on-screen activities |
Jeanette McVeigh |
Competency and Proficiency Exams in Writing and Computers |
Roy Schriftman, |
TableTalks Fall 2004
Topic |
Presenters |
Who are the current college students |
Aminta Breaux |
Surviving as a faculty member |
Micki Cohen, |
Beginning a dialogue on respect. Who to Ask? |
Elena Umland, |
Using immediate feedback testing forms |
Pam Kearney |
Making the faculty data base work for all of us |
Karen Mitchell |
FERPA issues for faculty, including posting grades |
Alan Sims |
The most recent student satisfaction data |
Peter Miller |
What we can learn from liberal arts colleges and what they can learn from us |
Paul Halpern |
TableTalks Spring 2003
Topic |
Presenters |
A science course model without lectures and exams |
Alison Mostrom |
Promoting deep learning |
Barbara Millis |
Implementing Learner Teaching |
MaryEllen Weimer |
Integrating a large multi-component course |
Michael Cawley, |
Turning the classroom on its side: Learning through action |
Mac Turner, |
Progress in Assessment at the University |
Eric Boyce |
An update on the Core Curriculum Review |
Peter Hoffer, |
Practical implications of the Psychology of Learning |
Marilla Svinicki |
What can Blackboard do for you? |
Tarlok Aurora, Jeanette McVeigh, Cathy Poon |
Helping our students to acquire information literacy |
Leslie Bowman, Grace Earl |
Learning centered teaching in large classes |
Andrew Peterson, Liza Takiya, |
TableTalks Fall 2003
Topic |
Presenters |
What do we agree upon regarding Learning Centered Teaching? |
Phyllis Blumberg, Justin Everett |
Enhancing Students' Ability to self-evaluate |
Ellen Flannery-Schroeder |
Group problem solving sessions in recitation |
Fred Schaefer, Madhu ahalingam |
Using cooperative learning, peer modeling |
Miriam Diaz-Gilbert |
Handheld devices for educational purposes |
Jacqui Smith |
Revising courses to foster student learning |
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Learning centered teaching will not work with my teaching because... A question and answer session with the participants providing the questions and the Faculty Learning Community on Learning Centered Teaching responding |
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Transitioning from student centeredness to patient-centered care |
Michele Mulhall |
Making your student evaluations work for you |
Micki Cohen |
Innovations with Learning Leahy Award Winner Concept mapping |
Peter Miller |
TableTalks Spring 2002
Topic |
Presenters |
First Year Experience Course |
Melanie Rago, |
Top 10 Tips for Assessing Student Writing |
Christine Flanagan |
Integrating two discipline's content within separate courses |
Alison Mostrom, Barbara Reilly, |
Creating dynamic and useful videos |
Bill Horton, |
Who should teach courses at USP and how core distribution requirements are met? |
Eric Boyce, |
Developing a code of ethics at USP |
Amy Kimchuk, Elena Umland, |
An on-line course on search strategies and professional writing |
Mignon Adams, Leslie Bowman, Jeanette McVeigh |
Dealing with the increasing bimodal distribution of student performance |
Becky Finley, |
Integrating knowledge learned in prerequisite courses in professional courses |
Shanaz Tejani-Butt |
TableTalks Fall 2002
Topic |
Presenters |
De-scamming the scammers in professional settings |
Grace Earl |
Core Curriculum: Its History at USP and current issues |
Paula Kramer, et. al |
Student Centered Exam preparation: a new way to answer the same old question, "Are you giving us a review for the exam?" |
Anne Marie Flanagan |
Student-centered learning and living: Plans for USP |
Catherine Bentzley, Aminta Breaux |
Working effectively with the Student Discipline Committee |
Eleana Umland, |
What are the philosophical implications of a culture of student-centered teaching |
Andrew Peterson, Glenn Rosenthal, Peter Miller |
Peer review of teaching: Can it improve educational quality for our students |
Ray Orzechowski, et. al |
Making student orientation a win-win for students and faculty |
Len Farber |
TableTalks Spring 2001
Topic |
Presenters |
Instructional uses of the new videoconferencing equipment |
Jacqui Smith, colleagues at another site through CAPE |
Using Concept Mapping as a content integrating technique |
Shanaz Tejani-Butt, |
Instructional possibilities for the new multi-media work station |
Jacqui Smith |
A 1st year experience as a way to improve student success |
Melanie Rago, |
Promoting on line information literacy within majors |
Mignon Adams, |
Using digital and scanned images in teaching |
Roger Ideishi, |
Assessing English competency with non-native English speakers: TOFEL exam. et.al. |
Miriam Diaz-Gilbert |
Using Peer and Student Evaluations |
Peter Miller, |
What happens when technology fails, beyond the obvious |
John Connors, Jeanette McVeigh, Andrew Peterson, John Porter |
TableTalks Fall 2001
Topic |
Presenters |
Helping students to succeed and showing we care |
Amy Kimchuk, Diane Morel, |
Distance learning demonstration |
Pam Kearney, |
Stopping Plagiarism before it happens |
Mignon Adams, |
Differences between a college and a university: Is USP really a university? |
Bob Boughner, Aminta Breaux, Glenn Rosenthal |
Using museums in your teaching: History of alternative medicine |
Ruth Schemm, Jennifer Connor, |
Teaching using Evidence Based Practice |
Roger Ideishi, |
Using a Virtual Personal Network (how to work from home) |
George Downs, |
Ninety years in the world of work in America |
Pat Peterson |
TableTalks Spring 2000
Topic |
Presenters |
Fostering Critical Thinking |
Rod Wigent, |
Being a Successful Graduate Student Instructor Making pre-lab lecture a learning experience |
Phyllis Blumberg, Kevin Wolbach |
How classes change when technology is used |
Sue Barker, |
Supplemental Instruction (SI) Student Mentorship |
Phyllis Blumberg, Gail Webster, |
Handling Difficult Situations in Lab |
Joe LaPrade, |
Using on-line Testing |
Andrew Peterson |
Fostering Critical Thinking and Problem Solving |
Peter Miller |
Being a Successful graduate student instructor |
Joe LaPrade, |
How are on-line courses different from live courses |
Lili Velez |
Using Outcomes Assessment Problem Solving |
Eric Boyce, |
Facutly Enrichment Workshops, January 2013
Topic |
Presenters |
TED talks: New lecture model |
Julie
Becker, |
Microsoft office |
Rod
Murray, |
Blackboard, LMS Assignment, exams and grade book |
Rod
Murray, |
Blackboard: communication tools |
Rod
Murray, |
What you believe about teaching has implications for how you teach. |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops March 2012
Topic |
Presenters |
Blackboard LMS: |
Andrew Esposito, |
STEM faculty to evaluate adequacy of materials form Hands on Labs, Inc. for first two years courses for use in our regular labs, make-up labs or possibly as part of an online or blended course. Each hour starts with a short description of what is in the kit and then faculty in that discipline will be free to explore the kit to test if it meets their needs. Kits will be provided. All faculty are welcome to observe. |
1-2 Biological Sciences/Microbiology faculty - |
Office 2010 |
Andrew Esposito |
FERPA |
Alan Sims |
New admission models, predicting our next class |
Barbara Elliott |
Blackboard LMS: |
Andrew Esposito, |
Blackboard LMS - Content Collection
|
Rod Murray |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops, January 2012
Topic |
Presenters |
| Hands on Prezi training - Prezi presentations are less linear and more graphic.) Participants should bring an electronic version of a powerpoint presentations to transfer into a Prezi presentation | Jason Porter |
SmartDraw
demonstration - SmartDraw is a visual processing program that
has templates to make presentation, time charts, and concept
maps. It also has many templates for concepts in health and
science. Individuals need to purchase this software on their
own; we do not have a site licenses for it. For more information
see |
SmartDraw Vendor |
| Panopto and Mediasite - hands on training - (how to make and edit videos). | Rich Cosgoff |
| Panel
discussion and dialogue on learning centered teaching: Are faculty
being recognized for their efforts in using these approaches? What would motivate you to use more learning-centered teaching How and where should your learning centered teaching be documented |
Suzanne
Murphy, Ed Reimers, Fred Schaefer |
| Getting
started with Blackboard - This session is offered again on Mon. Jan 9th |
Rod
Murray, Joe Evanick, Amy McLaughlin |
| Copyright issues for faculty - What do faculty need to know about copyright issues | Mike Krasulski |
| Getting started with Blackboard | Rod
Murray, Joe Evanick, Amy McLaughlin |
| M. Buehler's top 10 tips to use social media for personal branding | Maria Buehler |
| Educational Partnering: Mentoring Students in Higher Education with career choices | Kimberly Bryant |
| Slide-ology. A new way to think about and deliver presentations and use more graphic or pictorial slides in presentations based on the book by a famous graphic designer | Justin Everett |
| Using
Turning Point effectively. Turning Point is our software to use clickers in your classes. |
Rich Cosgoff |
| Using Twitter for educational purposes. Please bring your cell phone. | Cristina
Hanganu-Bresch, Brian Kirschner |
| Teaching or assessing writing in the General Education courses | Justin Everett |
| Advanced Blackboard - This session will cover gradebook, online quizzes and assignment | Rod
Murray, Joe Evanick, Amy McLaughlin |
| Nuts and bolts of educational program assessment to prepare better assessment reports including qualitive data analysis | Claudia
Parvanta
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Faculty Enrichment Series
August 2011
Topic |
Presenters |
Getting students to take responsibility for their learning |
Phyllis Blumberg |
How do we teach these millennial? Who are our students |
BJ Cunningham |
4 pillars of technology |
Mark Nester |
Blackboard Beginners Workshop |
Rod Murray Joe Evanick |
How do you know your courses are meeting their
goals How to assess your courses |
Bernie Brunner, |
Blackboard Refresher Workshop |
Rod Murray, |
Advising pre-medical and pre-health professions students |
Bill Law,
|
Completing your dossier for Promotion & Tenure |
Joan Tarloff, |
Assessment 1: Effective multiple choice question tests |
Lisa Davis, |
Assessment 2: Understanding the statistics from multiple choice questions tests |
Linda Robinson |
Table Talk: Informal discussion on How can we overcome the student Stereotype that courses that are not required for their major should be easy courses to boast their GPA? |
Joe Ruane, |
Assessment 3: Authentic assessment on project that require writing |
Christine Flanagan, |
How to meet when you or your students are not on campus using technologies such as videotaping or webbings |
Dan Benau, |
| Training on advising - this training is only for new faculty who will be advising first and second year students? | Professional Academic Advisors
|
| Enrichment Workshop | March, 2011 |
| Theme & Topic | Presenters
|
Developing scoring rubrics to efficiently grade papers, essays and still provide useful feedback to the students
|
Justin Everett |
| A consensus conference to implement one
of the major tenets of the Misher College Strategic Plan: learning-centered
teaching All Misher College faculty are encouraged to attend and to bring examples of how they implement learner-centered teaching currently. |
Phyllis Blumberg |
| Developing good multiple choice questions | Sara Spinler Lisa Davis |
| Dialogues on teaching and learning the
skills of oral, written communication, critical thinking, and
problem solving in both general education and in advance courses
within the majors and professional programs To foster real sharing, please bring materials you use in courses to teach, practice or assess this skill. Please RSVP that you are coming and indicate which skill you want to discuss, working groups will be determined by registration. |
Phyllis Blumberg |
| Using our Journal List as a current
awareness tool Want to know the latest development in your area of expertise or when one of the prime movers in your field publishes something new? We will be looking at the features in our journal list that enable us to see the tables of contents of periodical to which we subscribe, and to set up profiles to have these tables of contents delivered automatically to our email |
Gina Kaiser |
| An Instructional Strategy to Improve
Problem solving |
Madhu Mahalingam, Elisabetta Fasella, Elisabeth Morlino |
| Technology Focus |
|
| Best practices for blended learning | Joe Evanick |
The Rollout of Blackboard: |
Rod Murray |
| Using Angel to get students to follow paperless directions | Miriam Gilbert-Diaz |
| Using Course Capture through Panopto
at you own desk Faculty should sign up for this in advance so an account can be set up so this can be a hands-on experience for faculty |
Joseph Evanick |
| Google Apps: Introducing our Public Domain | Rod Murray |
Faculty Enrichment
Workshops
January 2011
| Theme & Topic | Presenters |
| Course Planning Using graphics in your syllabus |
Alison Mostrom |
| Pathways to Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | Laura Mandos Alison Mostrom Phyllis Blumberg |
| Planning your courses to help students integrate the content | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Course Planning Engaging students in the community within courses |
Mary Kate McGinty Ruth Schemm |
| Educational Technology co-sponsored with the Office of Academic Technology Using social media in teaching |
Rod Murray Cristina Hanganu-Bresch |
| Educational Technology co-sponsored with the Office of Academic Technology Using Prezi to Interject Perspective and Scale in Lectures: An alternative to Powerpoint |
Jason Porter |
| What happens when our students are constantly connected to electronic devices? For background information view the PBS Frontline video called Digital Nation (which may be borrowed from the library HQ 784 T3 D574 2010) or read the NY Times lead article Sunday, Nov. 21 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/technology/21brain.html? |
Mike Krasulski Steve Moelter Sam Talcott |
| Open Education in Chemistry Research and the Classroom | Jean Claude Bradley College of Arts& Sciences Drexel University |
| Research Using our Journal List as a Current Awareness Tool |
Gina Kaiser |
Making good on some New Year's resolutions Relaxation Training |
Alix Timko |
| Adaptions to being an employee who sits at a desk, uses computers extensively and has a long commutes | Greg Thielman |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops for Fall 2010
| Topic | Presenters |
| Online Seminar: Making Online group work Meaningful and Manageable | Dr.Jean Mandernach Park University |
| Introduction to teaching and assessing so students will learn more | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Understanding Faculty Governance at USciences |
Mickey Cohen |
| Introduction to Using Angel Course Management System | Jeff Swain |
| Grade book function on Angel | Jeff Swain |
| Google Apps for Education | Rod Murray |
| New way to organize and integrate a course using organizing schemes (Bring an existing course syllabus, if you have one) | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Advanced functions on Angel Workshop | Jeff Swain |
| Getting students to take greater responsibility for learning | Phyllis Blumberg |
| What is meta-cognition and how can it help your students to learn better | Pamalyn Kearney Diane Morel Lois Peck |
| Our new library journal table of contents access system | Gina Kaiser |
| Maintaining the quality of educational programs and resourcing new programs when we have a projected shortfall | Joe Trainor Shawn Curtin |
| How to use Google applications, wikis in courses | Cristina Hanganu-Bresch |
| How to use Google scholar in own research and in teaching | Jeanette McVeigh |
| Millennials and Learning | Carol Maritz Lora Packel |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops for March Spring Break 2010
Topic |
Presenters |
| Uploading images onto Angel and other sites. | Jamie Hayden |
| Making a poster for professional meetings. | Fred Schaefer |
| Online teaching - asynchronous to synchronous; boring is not an option. | Dan Benau |
| FERPA: - An overview,updates and your questions. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended, (FERPA) is turning 36. This session will provide brief overview of the regulations that implement. FERPA which is the major federal law governing the privacy of student information. Since this legislation is dynamic, emphasis will be placed on the regulatory changes made effective. A significant amount of time will be devoted to participants' questions, and group discussion will be encouraged. | Alan Sims |
| Panel discussion Making Successful Transitions from high school to college professional student to practitioner. | Steve Sheaffer, Roger Ideishi, Sue Wainwright, Kevin Wolbach |
| Reducing Stress: A hands on workshop | Karin Richards |
| CPR training Part 1, Participants need to register in advance with Mary Rafferty and need to commit to both sessions. Participants will receive a certificate if they successfully complete the course | Karin Richards |
| Develop your own or ask students to develop case studies using commonly known famous people | Jenny Pitonyak |
| On line seminar. Blended learning - live session | Ike Shibley, Penn State - Berks |
| Metacognition Made Easy: Reflection in the Form of a Final Exam. | Anne Marie Flanagan |
| CPR training Part 2, Participants need to register
in advance with Mary Rafferty and need to commit to both sessions.
Participants will receive a certificate if they successfully
complete the course |
Karin Richards |
| Online Seminar - Blended Learning - recorded session | Ike Shibley, Penn State-Berks |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops, January 2010
Topic |
Presenters |
| Panel discussion on how and why mentoring is important to faculty member's success | Mignon Adams, Charles Gibley, Paula Kramer, Suzanne Murphy |
| Writing a successful submission for an education conference | Phyllis Blumberg, Carol Maritz |
| Organizing your courses to foster more learning | Phyllis Blumberg |
| How can you decide what you want to improve in your teaching | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Walking the walk about students' taking responsibility for their own learning | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Using wikis effectively in courses | Cristina Hanganu-Bresch |
| How to use Goggle Apps: A hands-on demonstration | Rod Murray |
| Finding the literature you need for your evidence-based teaching or scholarship of teaching and learning | Jeanette McVeigh |
| Importing, exporting and storing data and information on Angel. | Madhu Mahalingam |
| Why requiring self-assessment improved student performance and learning. How to use it effectively | Carl Walasek, Roger Ideishi |
| Using refworks, a bibliographic database, in your scholarly activities | Jeanette McVeigh |
| Teaching students to become information literate and not just assuming that they are information literate | Leslie Bowman, John Porter |
| Online seminar Supplement Classroom Learning with Screen Capture Software |
Dave Yearwood, University of North Dakota |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Topic |
Presenters |
| Finding a balance in your job including time for yourself and scholarship | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Basic course design: Objectives and syllabi | Phyllis Blumberg |
| How do we teach these millennial's? Who are our students? How do they learn and what support do we offer them? | Phyllis Blumberg, Gerald Hoefling, Roxanne Evans |
| Introduction to teaching and assessing so students will learn more | Phyllis Blumberg |
| A new way to organize and integrate a course using organizing schemes (Bring an existing course syllabus, if you have one). | Phyllis Blumberg |
Wednesday August 19, 2009; Focus on Technology
Note: Some sessions are held concurrentlyTopic |
Presenters |
| Introduction to Angel | Jeff Swain |
| How to meet when you or your students are not on campus. Using webinar and videoconferencing technology | Danny Benau |
| Grade book function on Angel | Jeff Swain |
| Advanced functions on Angel | Jeff Swain |
| AV classroom support, using computer as whiteboard, etc. | Bill Horton Cliff Greer |
| What is new and what is currently available in academic technology at USP | Rod Murray |
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Topic |
Presenters |
| General education: What it means here and how to get a course approved for it. (Bring syllabi for courses you want to get General Education approval if you have them) | Roger Ideishi: Fred Schaefer Phyllis Blumberg |
Monday, August 24, 2009
Topic |
Presenters |
| Teaching students to have more responsibility for learning | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Creating good multiple choice questions and how to understand the results (Bring some questions you developed, if you have them) |
Jean Scholtz; Linda Robinson |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops for March Spring Break 2010
| Topic | Presenters |
| Uploading images onto Angel and other sites. | Jamie Hayden |
| Making a poster for professional meetings. | Fred Schaefer |
| Online teaching - asynchronous to synchronous; boring is not an option. | Dan Benau |
| FERPA: - An overview,updates and your questions. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended, (FERPA) is turning 36. This session will provide brief overview of the regulations that implement. FERPA which is the major federal law governing the privacy of student information. Since this legislation is dynamic, emphasis will be placed on the regulatory changes made effective. A significant amount of time will be devoted to participants' questions, and group discussion will be encouraged. | Alan Sims |
| Panel discussion Making Successful Transitions from high school to college professional student to practitioner. | Steve Sheaffer, Roger Ideishi, Sue Wainwright, Kevin Wolbach |
| Reducing Stress: A hands on workshop | Karin Richards |
| CPR training Part 1, Participants need to register in advance with Mary Rafferty and need to commit to both sessions. Participants will receive a certificate if they successfully complete the course | Karin Richards |
| Develop your own or ask students to develop case studies using commonly known famous people | Jenny Pitonyak |
| On line seminar. Blended learning - live session | Ike Shibley, Penn State - Berks |
| Metacognition Made Easy: Reflection in the Form of a Final Exam. | Anne Marie Flanagan |
| CPR training Part 2, Participants need to register
in advance with Mary Rafferty and need to commit to both sessions.
Participants will receive a certificate if they successfully
complete the course |
Karin Richards |
| Online Seminar - Blended Learning - recorded session | Ike Shibley, Penn State-Berks |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops March Spring Break 2009
| The impact of the world's economic situation on teaching and learning at USP. |
Russ DiGate, Joe Trainor |
|
Melanie Oates |
Smart boards and whiteboards: How to use the smart board and how to use the whiteboard without a marker |
Clifford Greer, Alison Mostrom |
Knowing and using the full technology capacity of the STC 145 (how to use more than one piece of equipment at once) |
Bill Horton |
Using the statistics you get with the Scantron answer sheets to be a better evaluator |
Linda Robinson |
How can I use evidence to support how I am teaching: Part 1: Where to find evidence of good teaching practices in higher education or discipline-specific literature and what data bases to consult |
Phyllis Blumberg, Jeanette McVeigh |
What data from my courses is evidence to support my claims that I am a good teacher |
Phyllis Blumberg |
FERPA at 35 - An overview and update on January 2009 regulatory changes: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended, (FERPA) is turning 35. This session will provide brief overview of the regulations that implement. FERPA which is the major federal law governing the privacy of student information. Since this legislation is dynamic, emphasis will be placed on the regulatory changes made effective in January 2009. A significant amount of time will be devoted to participants' questions, and group discussion will be encouraged |
Alan Sims |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops, January 2009
Demo sessions of the new features and changes in ANGEL |
Eva Agbada |
Anecdote to Data: Conducting research about Teaching and Learning: Getting Started Doing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Using portfolios for holistic (comprehensive or whole person for many skills) assessments |
Deirdre Pettipiece, Justin Everett |
How can I show I am a good or excellent teacher? Issues and Introducing a Tool |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Responsibility - This is Your Class, Not Mind: Encouraging Student to Take Responsibility for Learning |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Did I write good multiple choice questions? How to write good questions and how to interpret the computer generated statistics |
Linda Robinson, |
The Devil's in the Details of Angel - Morning Plenary: ANGEL Overview Jeff Swain, Instructional Designer/Angel specialist at Penn Sate University |
Jeff Swain |
Hands-on Session #1 How to set up and Use the gradebook. In this session attendees will learn how to set up and use the gradebook. It is recommended that participants have access to ANGEL to participate Jeff Swain, Instructional Designer/Angel specialist at Penn Sate University |
Jeff Swain |
Afternoon Session Outline: |
Jeff Swain |
Hands-on Session #3 The Advanced Features of ANGEL - Maximizing Performance. In this session attendees will learn how to set up and use some of the intermediate and advanced features of ANGEL It is recommeded that participants have access to ANGEL to participate Jeff Swain, Instructional Designer/Angel specialist at Penn Sate University |
Jeff Swain |
Open Session General Questions about ANGEL
|
Jeff Swain |
Faculty Enrichment Weeks, January 2008
Being more productive in your scholarship and writing of scholarship |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Overcoming myths that you cannot use learning-centered teaching with courses that are lower level, have large enrollment or have unmotivated, immature students |
Phyllis Blumberg |
How we get our students to take more responsibility for their own learning |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Using a new way to classify your objectives: A revision and improvement of Bloom's Taxonomy |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Creating self-assessments, and online assignments on Angel |
Cathy Poon |
Using games in your classroom, laboratory and online |
Shawn Boyle |
Advisor Toolbox Workshops |
Kelly Duffy and |
Helping you complete the gen ed template and get your course approved for gen ed and further discussion of some of the skills categories |
The Faculty Council Curriculum Committee. |
Faculty Development Workshops, August 2007
Introduction to teaching so students will
learn more |
Phyllis Blumberg |
A Primer on how and why USP employees should be political activists including a panel discussion briefing on accreditation, accessibility/financial aid, and professional practice changes |
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Criteria for promotion and tenure |
Paul Halpern, |
How you assess your students will impact how and what they learn |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Getting your courses off to a
good start |
Melanie Oates, |
What does the new general education curriculum mean for your teaching and for your students? |
Roger Ideishi, |
Introduction to ANGEL |
Cynthia McClellan, |
Dinner and a workshop on Teaching at USP for all newer adjunct faculty |
|
My Advisees and E-Advising functionality
for WebAdvisor All advisors must attend 1 of these workshops The trainers try to assign test logins and students to those attending training, so it is essential that you RSVP to Kelly Duffy a day or two in advance. My advisees will allow advisors to view information for their
assigned advisees. They will have the ability to view advisee
transcripts, Degree Audit program evaluations, schedules and
certain test scores. E-Advising will allow advisors and advisees
to create an educational plan for the student. Both students
and their advisors will have the ability to add courses to
a plan. If a student adds a course, it must be approved by
an advisor to become part of the student's educational plan.
Any course added by an advisor will automatically become part
of the educational plan for the student. Graduate, first-year
and second-year students will only have the ability to register
for courses on their educational plan. The feature will be
available for all other students, but will be used as a tool;
the registration process will not change for this population.
E-Advising is the necessary piece that will allow Graduate,
first-year and second year students to register via the WEB.
|
Kelly Duffy and others |
Using specific features on ANGEL Storing documents, announcement and grade book features and
the chat function - open to anyone, but you must register
in advance so that you can be registered onto ANGEL. It is
essential that you RSVP to angelhelp@usip.edu. so that
you can be logged into the ANGEL system in advance |
Cynthia McClellan, |
Using assessment data to improve
course or programs |
Faculty member from DOPPA,and |
Faculty Enrichment Workshops for March 2007
1. If you plan to come to any of the sessions focusing on ANGEL, please let us know in advance. Cynthia and Eva will register your name on the ANGEL system. Then you can log on to ANGEL during the session and interact with the system and not just be an observer. Just a reminder, USP's contract with Blackboard expires June 30, 2007. The course management system that we will be using exclusively beginning in July is ANGEL. Currently both systems are operating so you can start to practice with ANGEL.
If you are planning to teach either a summer or fall course on ANGEL, when you register, pelase indicate:
the course title,
course number, and
course section number (or if you are working on a master course
that will include multiple sections)
Please feel free to bring a course file that can be used to practice
uploading materials into your ANGEL course shell..
Please note: All who plan to teach in the summer are strongly advised
to attend whichever sessions is appropriate in order to ensure that
you are prepared well in advance of its start.
2. If you have never given a poster at a scholarly conference,
or are new to developing posters, you might be interested in attending
the session on developing posters.
There will be two opportunities to present a poster at USP during
the Spring, 2007.
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The first is the research scholarly day on April 19 and the deadline for the abstracts is April 9, 2007. We are encouraging people to present all kinds of scholarship
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The second one is hosted by the Teaching and Learning Center and will focus on teaching practices that work at USP. This poster session will take place on Friday, May 11. The call for submission of abstracts will be posted very soon.
3. These workshops are open to all faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students and staff for whom these skills are appropriate. Please share this announcement with staff or students who are not on this distribution list.
4. ANGEL training will also be held in May and June 2007.
Faculty Enrichment Workshops for March 2007
|
Phyllis Blumberg |
General ANGEL tarining - open to anyone, but you must register in advance so that you can be registered onto ANGEL |
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Using specific features on ANGEL: A closer look at adding documents, communication features, and the grade book. Open to anyone, but you must register in advance so that you can be registered onto ANGEL. This session will be repeated in the afternoon |
Cynthia McClellan, |
Why students need to protect themselves on the intranet - such as with "My Space" |
Aminta Breaux, |
How to present a poster at USP or at a professional conference for people who have never presented a poster |
Jeanette McVeigh, |
Cleaning tips and tricks for daily maintenance of your computer including outlook and home share |
Long Le, |
Faculty Enrichment Weeks, January 2007
| Focus on technology
Dynamed, an evidence based medical decision making data base In response to clinical faculty requesting an electronic data base on evidence based decision making, electronic services within the library have asked this vendor to demonstrate what they can do. They want feedback on their product and are willing to make reasonable changes to accommodate our needs.
Dynamed "is a clinical reference tool created by a physician for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care ....updated daily...monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review database directly." The product is described at www.dynamicmedical.com. A study from the Annals of Family Medicine also looked at the product. www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/3/6/507.
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Review of online depositories of educational materials available for free |
Jo-Ann Gonzalez-Major. |
The ANGEL Object Repository enables storage, tagging, searching, sharing, reuse, and management of learning objects (tutorials, presentations, multimedia teaching units, web resources, exams, etc.). The ability to easily reuse learning objects across courses, sections, departments and schools reduces the investment of effort and time of recreating the material for new courses and additional sections Each instructor has a personal LOR that comes with their ANGEL account, and JoAnn Gonzalez-Major has created two additional repositories containing topic specific tutorial, multimedia drill and practice exercises, virtual labs, videos, and photos that are available for adoption.
This workshop will demonstrate how to copy and/or link resources from the repository into your courses and how to add new content to your personal repository. |
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Developing objectives and outcomes for your course |
Peter Miller |
| How to get your course approved for the new general education skills component. The new General Education curriculum will be implemented in the Fall 2007. All instructors or course coordinators who will be teaching first year courses during 2006-2007 are strongly encouraged to attend one of these workshops so that they will know what they need to do to get their courses approved for the next academic year. Workshops will be presented by the members of the General Education Task force. |
General Education Task force |
| Are you redesigning your courses? Come to this session to talk to others or use this time in the workshop to work on your courses away from distractions. Laptops without web connections will be provided to help you work on your course redesign. |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Are you redesigning your courses? Would you like some consultative help? Sign up for 30 minutes of 1:1 consultative time |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Moving your insights on how you are teaching to scholarship, presentations and publications |
Phyllis Blumberg |
| How is your teaching going? Consultative and renewal session for faculty who have started in the last 2 years |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Here is a solution for distance synchronous learning: using Webinar software which is available at USP. Location - in your office - we will be running this demonstration using Webinar, but you must sign up for in advance to be registered |
Danny Benau...In your office |
Talking About Teaching Days Week of May 10 - 14, 2010
| Date, Time & Place | Topic | Presenters |
| Mon., May 10 1 - 4 WDL 119 |
CPR Participants need to register in advance with Mary Rafferty. Participants will receive a certificate if they successfully complete the course. Limited to 10 people | Karin Richards |
| Tue., May 11 10 - 11:30 STC 148 |
Are you searching Pub Med's new interface efficiently? Are you using My NCBI to personalize your Pub Med searching and to save searches and results? The session will include tips for searching Pub Med and for Using My NCBI | Leslie Bowman |
| Tue., May 11 3 - 4:30 STC 137 |
Are there any criteria to evaluate teaching? A Socratic approach to determine criteria | Elia Eschenazi
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| Wed., May 12 10 - 11:30 GRI 110 B |
Preparing a dossier for Promotion & Tenure | Joan Tarloff |
| Wed., May 12 11:30 - 1 GRI 110 B |
Webinars and print lectures as creative components of distance learning | Kelly Flaherty |
| Wed., May 12 2 - 3 GRI 110 B |
The need for IRB approval for educational investigations to improve teaching | Amy Jessop |
| Thurs., May 13 10 - 11:30 GRI 110 B |
How do you know if you are a good teacher? | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Fri., May 14 10:30 - 12:00 GRI 110 B |
Teaching information literacy skills | Leslie Bowman John Porter |
| Friday, May 14
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Poster session We will feature posters of:
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Talking About Teaching Days
Week of May 4 - 8, 2009
Preparing a dossier for Promotion & Tenure |
Joan Tarloff |
How to develop and implement a travel educational experience for our students |
John Connors and Bruce Rosenthal |
Two Formative Assessments To Improve Students' Thinking & Writing Skills |
Alison Mostrom |
SMILE: An information literacy innovation implemented in general education course |
Alison Mostrom, |
Discussion on educating our students on sustainable futures. What USP faculty and students can do to help save the planet |
Glenn Beamer and Kevin Wolbach |
Primary Trait Analysis: A course assessment tool to measure knowledge gain |
Salar Alsardary, |
Peer teaching across the curriculum |
Carol Maritz and |
Web 2.0 and Podcasting Implications for Healthcare Education |
Rod Murray |
Finding evidence of good teaching practices in higher education or in my discipline |
Jeanette McVeigh |
Refworks to catalogue all your resources and create accurate bibliographies |
Jeanette McVeigh |
Introduction to Google Apps for Education |
Rod Murray |
Mindfulness based stress reduction |
Melanie Oates |
Group problem solving in an introductory course recitations to promote learning |
Madhu Mahalingam, Fred Schaefer, Elisabeth Morlino |
Poster session and electronic fair of innovative learning or assessment practices |
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| We will feature posters of: |
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Talking About Teaching Days
Week of May 5 - 9, 2008
Demonstration on how to use the Sympodium as a teaching tool |
Mike Bruist |
Demonstration on Teaching Using Second Life within a course |
Melanie Oates |
A team from Apple will discuss with us what it would take to become part of iTunes |
Jacquie Smith |
Using qualitative methods to assess student learning |
Sue Wainwright |
Advancing learning content in the sciences: A vision for developing rich Scientific literacy |
Phyllis Blumberg, |
Getting started and doing scholarship on your teaching |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Promotion and Tenure dossier preparation |
Joan Tarloff |
Teaching so students will learn more of your discipline |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Poster Session: |
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Talking About Teaching Days
Week of May 7 – 11, 2007
How to prepare your dossier for promotion and tenure |
Joan Tarloff |
Giving constructive feedback to students |
Carol Maritz |
Introduction to ANGEL. This is for anyone
who has not taken |
Cynthia McClellan, Eva Agbada |
Understanding how students learn. |
Phyllis Blumberg |
Using specific features on ANGEL. Storing
documents, |
Cynthia McClellan, Eva Agbada |
Using Conceptual Diagrams/Maps to Promote
Deep Meaningful |
Alison Mostrom |
Poster Session STC Atrium |
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Talking About Teaching Days
May 10, 2006
| Behavioral Modeling by Faculty Leads to Increased Student Achievement | Robin Zappin, and Carol Maritz |
| Everyday I Have the Blues: Promoting Learning in Psychology through Music | R. (Mac) Turner |
| What Student Reflective Writing Reveals about Student Learning and Teaching Effectiveness That Traditional Student Course Evaluations Do Not | Miriam Diaz-Gilbert |
| Fostering learning centered practices | Phyllis Blumberg and Joann Gonzalez-Major |
| An Analysis of Using Multiple Active Learning Techniques over Several Years in Introductory Physics |
Bernie Brunner |
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Poster Session and Informal Reception honoring faculty who submitted a nomination for a Leahy Award for Learning Innovation for faculty who use learning centered practices in their teaching, and faculty who presented educational posters at higher education conferences. |
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| What USP as a campus and what individual faculty can do to prevent/minimize cheating on exams and plagiarism. |
Kevin Wolbach, Elizabeth Morlino and Phyllis Blumberg |
| How to proctor to minimize cheating and identify those who do cheat | Kevin Wolbach, Elizabeth Morlino and Phyllis Blumberg |
Talking About Teaching Day
May 9, 2005
Plenary workshop open to the entire faculty: "Integrating Teamwork into the University Classroom." This workshop will consider how you can use teamwork in both large and small classes, how to remediate dysfunctional groups and how to evaluate group performance. |
Barbara Oakley |
Faculty consultation on teams |
Barbara Oakley |
Individual or small group consultations |
Barbara Oakley |
We will feature posters of: |
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Talking About Teaching Day
May 14, 2004
Informal poster session
What I am proud of or excited about in my teaching
A sharing and learning tribute to Charlie Gibley
Workshop: Capitalizing on the unique aspects
of science teaching: collaboration and communication |
Drs. Ike Shibley, Tami Mysliwiec and Maureen Dunbar from Berks- Lehigh Valley College of Penn State University |
Talking About Teaching Day
May 8, 2003
ALL FACULTY, STAFF AND ADMINISTRATORS ARE INVITED
REGISTRATION FORM
Please send your registrations to the Teaching and Learning Center,
Box #68, or e-mail m.raffer@usip.edu
Name of Registrant (please print) ____________________________________________________
Department: __________________________________________ Box #: ________________
e-mail: ______________________________________
Workshops Luncheon and Poster Session Consensus Conference
Workshops
Talking about Teaching Day
Spring 2002
| Developing concept maps for use in curricular planning or course assignments | Peter Miller, Lois Peck |
| Grading essay exams efficiently (bring papers from your students to work on) | Christine Flanagan |
| Just in time teaching with technology | Bernie Brunner |
| Transforming your teaching into scholarship of teaching and learning | Phyllis Blumberg |
| Making reflection a valuable learning experience for students | Barbara Hogan |
| Making labs a meaningful learning experience for the students | Cathy Poon |
| Are you going up for promotion or tenure: Some tips to get started | Paul Halpern, Murray Zanger |
| Developing assignments to prevent plagiarism | Mignon Adams |
| Innovative course assessment tools | Phyllis Blumberg, Sue Wainwright |
| Examples of integrated within Service-Learning courses | Lori Pompa from Temple |
| Streamlining your grade book with Excel Getting started Part 1 |
Amy Kimchuk |
Talking about Teaching Day
Spring 2001
How to incorporate meaningful assessment methods into the classroom |
Eric Boyce |
Why and how to do student peer assessments |
Peter Miller |
Using active learning techniques in classes of any size |
Phyllis Blumberg |
How to engage students in reflection to increase learning |
Barbara Hogan |
Getting grants to assist with Service-Learning |
Jamie Birges, PA. Campus Compact |
How to evaluate students on professional skills |
Annette Iglarsh |
Increasing our abilities to work with our diverse student population |
Miriam Diaz-Gilbert |
Using Competency-based assessments |
Lois Peck, |
Intellectual Heritage: |
Anne Marie Flanagan, |
Teaching without textbooks |
Amy Kimchuk, Anthony Monteiro |
Assessing the learning in Service-learning |
Roger Ideishi |
Are our faculty good advisers? |
Catherine Bentzley, Robert Morgan |
Teaching strategies for immature students |
Lois Peck |
How can we implement what was learned from the workshop by Dr. Fink on designing courses to increase student learning? |
Phyllis Blumberg |
What do learning style inventories tell us about our students? |
Lisa Davis, |
Is the early grade reporting system working? |
Suzanne Trump |
How do non-Western cultures impact on our teaching and learning at USP? |
Shanaz Tejani-Butt, Linda Stanley |
How can we encourage greater professionalism among our students? |
Joan Anderson, Suzanne Murphy |
Will all these interdisciplinary efforts lead to real changes? |
Liza Takiya, |
Technology Day
May 9, 2001
Assessing the Impact of Technology and Learning |
Keynote Speaker, Kyle Peck, Penn State |
| Smart Board Demonstration | Jacquie Smith, Bill Horton |
| Setting Up an Excel Grade Book Demonstration | Amy Kimchuk |
| Implementing the Assessment of Technology at University of the Sciences Discussion | Eric Boyce, Phyllis Blumberg, and others |
| Creating a Faculty Home Page on the Web Hands-on Workshop | Amy Christopher |
| Using New Graphical Equipment in the LRC Demonstration | Jacquie Smith and Friends |
| Sharing Experiences in Distance Education | Jennifer Connors , OT Faculty, et.al. |
| Using the Graphic Calculator | Amy Kimchuk |
| ERes or Course Home Page? Discussion | Amy Christopher and Nicole Duncan-Kinard |
| Palm Pilot | sales rep (tentative) |
| Impact of the Administrative Upgrade on Teaching—Discussion | Pat Lepore, et.al. |
| Using ERes Workshop—Nicole Duncan-Kinard | Nicole Duncan-Kinard, Amy Christopher |
| Using Front Page to Create a Course Web Page | Amy Christopher |