Educational Technology Workshop Series:
Tech Savy Teachers Get Hired
Sponsored Collaboratively by the Graduate Teacher Program, The Faculty Teaching Excellence Program, ATLAS, and ITS
Technology can change the way you teach and improve how well your students learn. Colleges and universities are increasingly looking to hire job applicants who know how to incorporate technology in the classroom. These skills are among the top ten skills they are looking for. However, simply using technology without understanding how to use it in the classroom can be problematic. These workshops focus on how the various technologies work and appropriate pedagogical applications. All sessions have computer training accompanied by discussion of the technology’s advantages and disadvantages for learning.
FALL 2007 Educational Technology Workshop Series
CO-LISTED WITH FTEP
Wednesday 10/17
3:00 - 4:30 PM
ATLAS 200
FACING FACEBOOK:
LEVERAGING LAPTOPS AND OTHER PORTABLE DEVICES
IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM
Diane Sieber, Associate Professor,
Engineering-Herbst HumanitiesWhat are they doing on their laptops? E-mailing, instant messaging, Facebooking, blogging, tagging, shopping, online gaming and other activities that might be going on in our classes - often as instructors, we don't know even if we suspect. Rather than seeing these activities as distractions that cause us to ban laptops from the classroom, or that force us to change our teaching methods in order to compete, higher education faculty have begun to explore methods for leveraging ubiquitous computing in the classroom.
Beyond googlejockeying (assigning students to find out facts from the internet), there are a variety of options under development. This session will introduce approaches developed by the faculty in a variety of disciplines (and a variety of class sizes and circumstances) to the challenge of our always-on wireless culture. From social contracts to free simultaneous feedback software, from the new pedagogical styles to focused peer-learning experiments, there are many opportunities to turn a potential obstacle into an excellent avenue for effective teaching and learning.
Thursday 10/23
ATLAS 200
2:00 - 4:00 PM
USING CLICKERS WISELY
Michael Dubson, Instructor, PhysicsClickers are handheld electronic devices that many faculty are using to solicit feedback from their students during lectures. The professor asks a question and each student answers with their clicker, allowing instantaneous and anonymous responses. Clickers are useful, but not magical; they facilitate good pedagogy, but do not guarantee it. Like knives, clickers are a powerful technology that can be used well or badly. Professor Dubson will demonstrate some good and bad uses of clickers, using the new radio frequency i-Clickers.
The Graduate Teacher Program is not offering, nor planning to offer, any workshops on WebCT. ITS conducts multiple workshops on WebCT every semester.
For further information, please call (303) 492-4902.
All workshops count toward GTP and PD Certification.
All graduate students, undergraduate teaching assistants, postdocs, faculty, and staff are welcome.
