iPad pilot project meeting
This is a monthly meeting of the faculty group participating in the iPad pilot program. Any faculty interested in exploring the use of mobile devices for instructional purposes is encouraged to attend.
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Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Your Research from the Sponsor's Perspective
Jack Gelfand, Linda Cook, and Maria Nakamura will will discuss how agencies and foundations are internally organized and how this dictates the way in which you craft your proposals to them. We will review Broad Agency Announcements and other communications from funders and how to develop perspective about your work in terms of their needs.
Assessment: Clear, Simple, and USEFUL
In the session Barbara will discuss some of the fears around assessment, the national climate surrounding assessment, and then provide some useful recommendations for assessing student learning effectively. It is meant as a crash course for those who did not get the opportunity to attend one of the May workshops.
Alternatives to Lecture
This workship will first describe why lecture is an ineffective method of encouraging long-term learning. Then it will describe several different methods that minimize lecturing: just-in-time teaching, team-based learning, and peer instruction. Common pitfalls will be addressed. More importantly, student and faculty benefits will be emphasized.
iPad Apps for Faculty
John Kane and Casey Raymond will discuss and demonstrate iPad applications that are likely to be of interest to faculty.
What Makes a Good Proposal?
Developing a COIL Course: Finding a Foreign Partner
The SUNY Cooperative Online International Learning (COIL) initiative is designed to support the development of classes in which students in domestic classes interact in a meaningful manner with students from a partner class in a foreign country. Student interaction may be synchronous or asynchronous and relies on a variety of web 2.0 tools (including wikis, blogs, Nings, course management systems, Skype, Google talk, Google Docs, VoiceThread, YouTube, Vimeo, Imgur, and Picasa). A number of faculty at Oswego have expressed an interest in developing COIL classes.