The Center for Instructional Advancement and Technology (CIAT) is proud to offer professional development workshops for all full- and part-time faculty. These mostly faculty-led sessions include many aspects of instructional design, teaching topics, and using technology in teaching.
Questions? Please contact Audrey Cutler at {acutler@towson.edu} or x4-5082.
To register and for more information, please look for these titles at {http://fusion.towson.edu/www/ciat/workshops} or see a calendar view here: {http://goo.gl/7g0Qm}.
TEACHING TOPICS
Faculty Professional Development:
Effective Grading Strategies to Enhance Learning & Preserve Sanity
Monday, August 6, 2012, 1:30 ? 3 p.m., Cook 404B
Based on her book, “Effective Grading and Assessment in College” (Walvoord & Anderson, 2010), Professor Emeritus Virginia Anderson will engage and prepare you to:
? Recognize common student and faculty misconceptions about grading
? Identify the kinds of learning you want student to masters in your course
? Construct assignments/tests that will help students achieve those outcomes
? Use data-driven classroom information to enhance student learning
? Communicate effectively with students about their grades
? Save TIME in the grading process!
— Dr. Anderson has given grading workshops for faculty in all disciplines at more than 200 colleges and universities across the nation. She is currently an external evaluator on six national grants.
Faculty Professional Development:
The Case of the Engaged Student
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 1:30 ? 2:30 p.m., Cook 404B
Want to ensure your students are not texting, facebook-ing or sleeping when you teach? Please join Carl ?Wallenda? Gold to learn how to capture your students? attention by putting them on a tightrope between angst and engagement. Learn how to use fear (in a nice way), and how to deal with anxious, shy, easily distracted and checked-out students by using techniques that can be applied to all of the humanities and many other disciplines. This will be an interactive session?and Mr. Gold promises there will be a safety net. Will you take part in the case of the conjoined twins? The pothead teenage rebel? The wealthy matriarch whose children (or at least some of them) want her to die so they can have her money? The fractured, same-sex couple fighting over frozen embryos? You will have to come to find out.
— Presenter: Carl Gold is a practicing attorney in Towson. He has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Family Studies Department at Towson since 2000.
Faculty Professional Development:
Use Course Design Templates to Develop Online & In-Person Courses
Thursday, August 9, 2012, 9 ? 10:30 a.m., Cook 404B
During this workshop, we will discuss the use of templates to plan, design and develop online or face-to-face courses. We will explore:
? Creating a plan for the development of modules for online or face-to-face courses
? Developing the objectives using the ABCD model
? Identifying content (yours & others?)
? Presenting content
? Choosing appropriate technology
— Presenter: La Tonya Dyer, CIAT Instructional Designer
Faculty Professional Development:
Reaching, Respecting and Relating to Students
Thursday, August 9, 2012, 10:45 a.m. ? Noon, Cook 404B
Have you found yourself waxing nostalgic about a past when students were more disciplined, attentive, and motivated? Do you wonder how can you relate to students whose learning seems to have evolved so differently from your own? This session is designed to explore the teacher-student relationship at the college level and to provide a framework and practical methods for reaching, respecting, and relating to today?s college students.
— Presenter: Joella Moore Anzelc is a visiting assistant professor in the psychology department. She has a doctorate degree in school psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.
TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
Faculty Professional Development:
VoiceThread ? Adding Multimedia to Your Online Discussions
Monday, August 6, 2012, 10:30 a.m. ? Noon, Cook 404B
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in five ways ? using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). VoiceThread provides instructors with an opportunity to use media (voice, video and text) to transform the standard discussion board into a collaborative workspace. Students can interact with these threads by posting verbal comments on a course topic or uploading documents to demonstrate their ideas, all in one space. In this workshop, we will discuss how you can use VoiceThread to enhance student discussions and assignments.
— Presenter: La Tonya Dyer, CIAT Instructional Designer
Blackboard Fundamentals
Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 9 ? 10 a.m., Cook 404B
The Blackboard Fundamentals training will cover the overall layout of Blackboard Learn 9.1, as well as the following topics:
? The course site menu
? Creating Course Links
? Adding and managing items (Files)
? Creating and managing assignments
? The Control Panel menu
? Making the course available
? Changing the color scheme
? Communication Tools
— Presenter: Ryan Peterson, Blackboard Administrator
Faculty Professional Development:
Supplement Your In-Person Class with Blackboard
Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 10:30 a.m. ? Noon, Cook 404B
Faculty and students often associate Blackboard (Bb) with online classes, but Blackboard offers many features that support traditional on-campus courses, too. Links to university resources, grades, and documents such as course syllabi and assignments can be uploaded and made available 24/7. When extreme weather, illness, and other circumstances interfere with holding face-to-face classes, online activities can be uploaded and even collected in the Bb course site to avoid an ?overflowing? inbox of assignments.
— Presenter: Linda Caplis is a member of the Allied Health Department. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at Towson University for the past six years, using Blackboard for in-person, hybrid, and online courses.
Faculty Professional Development:
Engaging Students through Interactive Online Tools
Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 1:30 ? 3 p.m., Cook 404B
A hands-on lesson with tools you can use in your classroom to engage a variety of learning styles. Utilize a graphic organizer, search through open educational resources and find a resource to help teach that difficult concept in your curriculum. Leave with concrete ideas for your class and an additional resource guide to encourage you to continue exploring.
— Presenter: Laksamee Putnam is a research and instruction librarian. She is a liaison for the biology, chemistry, environmental, forensic chemistry, and molecular biology departments.
Faculty Professional Development:
Capture Voice and Screen Action with Ease Using Screencast-O-Matic
Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 3:15 ? 4:30 p.m., Cook 404B
Are you looking for a tool you can use to create just-in-time instruction and demonstrations or to provide audio comments on papers or other assignments? If so, then join us for the Emerging Technologies – Capture Your Voice and Screen Action with Ease Using Screencast-O-Matic brown bag session. Screencast-O-Matic is a free online screen recorder software that allows you to capture 15 minute recordings. With a few clicks you can capture, store and share whatever action is happening on your computer screen along with your voice narration. All that is required is a computer, internet access, mic and speakers to record your presentations from any location. In this hands-on workshop we will use Screencast-O-Matic to create recordings with narration and screen captures.
— Presenter: Audrey Cutler, CIAT Instructional Designer
Faculty Professional Development:
Teaching with Clickers
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 10:30a.m. ? Noon, Cook 404B
Join Jeff Simpson (Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences) as he demonstrates active learning techniques for use with clickers. Wireless student response systems or “clickers” can be used to engage students, measure, and ultimately improve student understanding. These techniques are especially useful in larger lecture classes. Participants will have a hands-on opportunity to try clickers as students and to create some instructor materials. While the current Physics solution (eInstruction) will be used in this workshop, the focus will be on the pedagogical benefits and some challenges of using clickers in general. After the workshop we will offer an optional half-hour lab for additional questions and to use the technology from the instructor’s perspective.
Faculty Professional Development:
Using Google Docs for Group Collaboration
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 3 ? 4:30 p.m., Cook 404B
Google Drive includes an online office suite (previously known as Google Docs) that allows you to create, edit, share, and publish documents, including spreadsheets and presentations. Real time collaboration is easy with simultaneous editing, comments (with discussion features), and a sidebar chat. Google Drive extends beyond Google Docs to further integrate the Google experience in a cloud-base collaboration forum. Google Drive can be used on multiple operating systems, browsers, and mobile devices. Learn strategies for creating common assessments, sharing best practices, and capturing the conversation – even between meetings. Google Drive can even be used for data collection and analysis. Come learn the newest tips and tricks that educators and students can use right away.
— Presenter: Wendy Gibson is the manager of the College of Education?s Education Innovation Lab and Faculty Professional Development
Faculty Professional Development:
Blackboard: Assignments and SafeAssign
Thursday, August 9, 2012, 1:30 ? 3 p.m., Cook 404B
The SafeAssign Blackboard feature aids professors in detecting unoriginal content in their student?s papers. The Blackboard Assignments and SafeAssign training will cover the Assignment and SafeAssign features as well as the following topics:
? Quick review of the system usage
? Drafts, multiple submissions & final submissions
? Basic Graded Interactive elements (Discussion Boards, Wikis, etc.)
? Basic Grade Center usage
— Presenter: Ryan Peterson, Blackboard Administrator
Faculty Professional Development:
CLA Classroom Technology Orientation
Thursday, August 9, 2012, 3:15 ? 4:30 p.m., Cook 404B
This workshop is a hands-on introduction to some of the technologies found in smart classrooms in the new College of Liberal Arts Building. It is designed specifically for faculty who will be teaching in the new building. Topics include:
? How to prepare the room for class
? Using the Creston controller to project your presentation, documents, programs or the Web
? Using the Computer station
? Using the document camera to show transparencies, or documents
? Preparing to exit the classroom
— Presenter: Audrey Cutler, CIAT Instructional Designer
Sloan-C Online Workshops:
Various Topics on Teaching with Technology and Teaching Online
Ongoing, Online
OTS sponsors Towson?s membership to Sloan-C. With this membership, a limited number of Towson faculty members can attend two or more of the workshops below for free. Normally, these workshops cost $350 – $500 each. All courses are offered in a fully online format and they require a time commitment over one or more weeks. These workshops are facilitated by an instructor and asynchronous; there is no need to be at your computer at a specific time. For workshop descriptions, go to {http://sloanconsortium.org/institute/workshops/upcoming}. To register for the Sloan-C online workshops, contact Audrey Cutler, CIAT, at 410-704-5082 or {acutler@towson.edu}.
