Faculty Commons Events – Winter Quarter 2008

• January
• February
• March

February
Blogs, Wikis, and Meeting Students Where They Write (CWE)
Friday, February 1, 2008
Facilitated by Paul Shovlin and Dr. Sherrie Gradin
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
301U Faculty Commons
Refreshments will be served
Our special emphasis in this seminar will be on using blogs and wikis as a means of writing to learn. Writing - even informal writing - is an invaluable learning mode. Faculty will learn how to create and manage their own blogs and wikis for classroom use and see examples of the ways these tools can enhance students’ learning.
www.ohiou.edu/writing • 740.597.1869 • wac@ohio.edu

Teaching Portfolios for Future Faculty (CTL)
Tuesday, February 5 and February 19, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:00 N
301U Faculty Commons
Facilitated by Tim Vickers, Associate Director, CTL
Second and third sessions of a four-part workshop series for graduate students on the professional teaching portfolio and the critical role it can play in securing a faculty position and achieving success in the professoriate.
www.ohiou.edu/ctl • 740.593.2681 • ctl@ohio.edu

Using Technology to Promote Active Learning (CAT & CTL)
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Facilitated by Marjorie DeWert, Director, CAT; Laurie Hatch, Director, CTL
1:00 - 2:30 PM
301U Faculty Commons
Second of a two-part workshop series focusing on how to effectively utilize Clickers (Audience Response Systems) and Blackboard to promote active student learning and engagement.
www.ohiou.edu/ctl • 740.593.2681 • ctl@ohio.edu

Teaching Portfolios for Faculty (CTL)
Friday, February 15 and February 29, 2008
12:00 N - 1:30 PM
301U Faculty Commons
Second and third sessions of a three-part workshop series for faculty on the teaching portfolio. The third session is cosponsored by CTL and CAT, focusing on ways to showcase teaching portfolio materials with an electronic portfolio (ePortfolio).
www.ohiou.edu/ctl • 740.593.2681 • ctl@ohio.edu

Teaching Writing in the Disciplines (CWE)
Friday, February 22, 2008
Facilitated by Dr. Sherrie Gradin
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
301U Faculty Commons
Refreshments will be served
This seminar will address writing for both major-area students, who need to learn the conventions and styles of the discipline, as well as for student writers in courses from a variety of fields. We will discuss what we expect from our students, how we might write better assignments to encourage those expectations, and strategies other instructors use to teach writing in various disciplines.
www.ohiou.edu/writing • 740.597.1869 • wac@ohio.edu

Appalachian Learning Community, Regional Health Research (SLC)
Thursday, February 28, 2008
5:45 - 8:00 PM | 301U Faculty Commons
Potluck dinner followed by activity/discussion facilitated by Larry Wood and Sharon Denham
http://appalachia.citl.ohiou.edu/index.html • 740.593.2546 • graybill@ohio.edu

Blackboard 7.3 is coming to Ohio University! The Center for Academic Technology will begin piloting Blackboard 7.3 during winter term. Product enhancements include improved discussion forum tools, retention assistance tools, a plagiarism detection tool, and a suite of social learning applications – social bookmarking, wikis, blogs, and podcasts. For more information, contact Project Manager, Andy Kranyik, at kranyikt@ohio.edu or 597.1464.

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Would you like to join a Scholarly Learning Community sponsored by the Faculty Commons or start a new one?
Current Learning Communities include Appalachia, Clickers (Student Response Systems), and Second Life.

To join one of these groups, contact:
• Appalachian Learning Community, Merle Graybill, 593.2546 or graybill@ohio.edu
• Clickers Learning Community, Mike Roy, 597.2705 or roy@ohio.edu
• Second Life Learning Community, Marjorie DeWert, 597.2703 or dewert@ohio.edu

If you would like to start a new Scholarly Learning Community, please send an email to facultycommons@ohio.edu for additional information and the application form.