An Introduction to the On-line Environment at ISU

 

Designing a Service-Learning Course                                                           
May 7, 1:00-2:30 PM
Linda Maule, General Education Coordinator
Nancy Rogers, Director, Center for Public Service and Community Engagement

This workshop will guide participants through the steps of designing a service-learning course. Participants will learn about identifying learning outcomes, choosing a project and community partners, reflection, and assessment. Participants should come to the workshop with a course that they would like to transform into a service-learning course.


Developing Inquiry-based Learning Environments
May 14, 1:00-2:30 PM
Peter Mikolaj, Faculty, College of Business
Cindy Crowder, Faculty, College of Technology

Join us as a panel of ISU faculty shares their strategies for developing inquiry-based learning environments. Both teaching with case studies and problem-based learning approaches will be presented. Learn how to develop a problem-based learning activity and a case study for your course and hear about other ISU faculty members who have used these techniques successfully.

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Scholarship of Engagement: Strategies for Documentation
May 21, 1:00-2:30 PM
Linda Maule, General Education Coordinator
Nancy Rogers, Director, Center for Public Service and Community Engagement
Greg Bierly, Director, University Honors Program

In this workshop participants will: explore the concepts of engagement and the scholarship of engagement; identify evaluative standards for the scholarship of engagement; explore publication outlets for the scholarship of engagement; and identify strategies for documenting the scholarship of engagement.



The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course         
June 11, 1:00-2:30 PM
Kelly Wikinson, Faculty, College of Technology
Kenneth Janz, Director, Center for Instruction, Research, & Technology

Based on the work of Linda B. Nilson this workshop will assist with college instructors’ understanding of how to communicate their course organization to students in a graphic syllabus, a one-page diagram, flowchart, or concept map of the topical organization, and an outcomes map, a one-page flowchart of the sequence of student learning objectives and outcomes.

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Designing Courses for More Significant Student Learning
May 28 and 29, 9:00-4:00 PM
Virginia S. Lee, Associate of Dee Fink & Associates

This workshop examines the role of course design in teaching, and then introduces participants to a new way of designing courses which is the subject of Dee Fink’s book, Creating Significant Learning Experiences (Jossey-Bass, 2003).



Creating Engaging Discussions in Your Course                                                      
June 18, 1:00-2:30 PM
Larry Tinnerman, Faculty, College of Education

Join ISU faculty in a discussion about the pedagogy of engagement as they share techniques they use to draw students together, in both on-campus and in distance classes.


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Strategies for Dealing with Underprepared Students Students                                 
July 9, 1:00-2:30 PM
Marylin Leinenbach, Faculty, College of Education
Jennifer Latimer, Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences

A common dilemma faculty must address is the underprepared student. Join in a discussion with a panel of ISU faculty as they discuss strategies for addressing this issue.



Course Transformation Academy                                                                                   
June 3, 4, and 5, 1:30-4:00 PM
Center for Instruction, Research, & Technology Faculty Development and Instructional Design Staff

Participants will explore the complex role as it relates to an on-line course. Elements of a quality on-line course are discussed. Faculty will experience authentic assessment as they begin to create an on-line course during the program.

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Flip™ for Video                                                                                                                                       
Offered twice: May 13, 9:30-11:30 AM and  June 26, 1:30-3:30 PM
Les Lunce, Instructional Design Specialist, Center for Instruction, Research, & Technology                     

This interactive session will introduce an inexpensive and simple to use camcorder to produce video for online instruction. The camcorder holds up to 60 minutes of video and has built-in software that easily allows editing video clips, capturing still photos from your videos, or creating custom movies set to music. Participants create a video that will be produced during the presentation as best practices for incorporating video into online instruction are shared.

 

Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasting: Working with New Blackboard Plug-ins                                    
Offered twice: June 10, 9:30-11:30 AM and July 24, 1:30-3:30 PM
Silvie Huang, Instructional Design Specialist, Center for Instruction, Research, & Technology                        

What if a wiki could transform a group into a team? What if a blog could foster reflection and debate? What if instructors could engage students anytime or anyplace with a podcast? Learn how the new Blackboard plug-in available to ISU faculty can do just that!

Using Captivate© to Reinforce Instruction                                                                            
Offered twice: May 6, 1:30-3:30 PM and  June 24, 9:30-11:30 AM
Silvie Huang, Instructional Design Specialist, Center for Instruction, Research, & Technology                    

Want to learn how to record your computer screen action with narration, share it as a video with students, and more? This hands-on session will enable you to enhance your instruction using Adobe Captivate. You will learn how to create interactive demonstrations and simulations, build interactive tests using built-in quiz feature, and publish your Captivate project online. No programming knowledge or multimedia skills are required.

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Using Multimedia Available through MERLOT

Offered twice: May 15, 1:30-3:30 PM and July 8, 9:30-11:30 AM
Debra Runshe, Assistant Director, Center for Instruction, Research, & Technology                          
                
Participants will register as a MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-line Teaching) members; navigate through the website of on-line resources created and submitted by faculty and others from Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology and Social Sciences,; and browse the collections of: simulations, animations, tutorials, drill and practices, quizzes, tests, lectures, presentations, case studies, collections, reference materials, learning objects and pod casts.