Spring 2012 Workshops
Wednesday 2/8, 4:15, ARH 227: Designing Effective Writing Assignments
Learn to design creative critical thinking and writing activities as well as how to “bundle” the teaching of skills.
Presenters: Caleb Elfenbein, Rebecca Hamlin, Michael Thompson
Sponsored by the Writing Lab
Tuesday 2/14, 12:00, ARH 305: Responding to Student Writing
Come and hear how your colleagues face down piles of student assignments to give feedback that is both valuable and concise.
Presenters: Jackie Brown, Ed Cohn, Michael Guenther
Sponsored by the Writing Lab
Thursday, 3/1, 12:00, ARH 315: Making Time for Revision
Learn how your colleagues build revision into assignments without short-changing course content using scaffolding strategies that encourage students to re-envision their essays.
Faculty Presenters: TBA
Sponsored by the Writing Lab
Monday, 3/12, 12:00, ARH 227: Oral Presentation Assignments
Find out how to design Oral Presentation assignments to enhance content learning in your classroom.
Faculty Presenters: TBA
Sponsored by the Writing Lab
Tuesday, 3/13, 4:15 p.m., ARH 227: Reading With a Purpose: Framing Creative Reading Assignments
Todd Armstrong and Al Lacson will share ideas for framing creative reading assignments that encourage students to read more critically, generating productive class discussions, and thoughtful, analytical papers. Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, 3/21, 10:30 a.m., Forum Training Room: Using YouTube videos
Hands-on workshop to learn how to create YouTube playlists of multiple videos, trim clips to certain start/stop points, and link/embed YouTube videos into Pioneerweb.
Presenter: Stephanie Peterson
Sponsored by the Creative Media Initiative
Wednesday, 3/21, 2:00 p.m., SCI 1530: Introduction to Course Gallery video tool in Pioneerweb
Get an overview of the Kaltura building block that lets any Pioneerweb user upload/record videos to their personal My Media gallery or a Course Gallery. Hands-on workshop; we will be recording a short video clip in Pweb.
Presenter: Stephanie Peterson
Sponsored by the Creative Media Initiative
Thursday, 3/22, 2:00 p.m., Forum Training Room: Introduction to Handbrake
Learn the basics of Handbrake, a fairly simple video transcoder that can resize and convert a number of video formats and can create shorter clips from longer vidoes.
Presenter: Stephanie Peterson
Sponsored by the Creative Media Initiative
Wednesday, 4/18, 4:15 p.m., ARH-120: Engaging Students with Clickers
Student response systems (i.e., clickers) can be used in a variety of classes (including small ones!) to increase student engagement and solicit responses from an entire class. Cynthia Hansen will demonstrate and explain how she is currently using the College's new set of i-Clickers in her Linguistics classes, then participants can brainstorm with CTSs and each other about applications in their own classes.
Faculty Presenter: Cynthia Hansen
Sponsored by Curricular Technology
Wednesday, 5/9, 12:00 p.m., ARH 227: Critical Analysis of Visual Materials
Come to this workshop to learn how other faculty teach and model the practice of thinking critically about visual information.
Faculty Presenters: Terri Geller & Sarah Purcell
Sponsored by Faulconer Gallery and Creative Media Initiative
