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Mid-Semester Lunch for New Teachers-Scholars
The mid-semester lunch for new full-time faculty, adjuncts, and TAs offers the opportunity to converse collegially over a meal about your first semester teaching at TCU, ideas for improving the first-semester experience for new instructors in the future, and to talk with peers about adapting to TCU students and our community of scholars. Please join us March 23, 2010.
Teaching and Learning Conversation - Undergraduate Research & Academic Publishing
Undergraduate Research & Academic Publishing
TCU's strong commitment to undergraduate research prompts the question, "What about publishing as a co-author with an undergrad?" There is value in doing so for the student (deep learning process and content) and for faculty (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning). However, doing so must be based on a quality decision-making process and on operationalizing the venture in a way that ensures good scholarship, includes rubrics to define when the student(s) earn(s) co-author status, etc. TCU's Matt Chumchal (Biology) and his co-author colleague from Southwestern University, Romi Burks, will present this topic based on their recently published article, "To Co-Author or Not to Co-Author: How to Write, Publish, and Negotiate Issues of Authorship with Undergraduate Research Students."
Turnitin
The Koehler Center's approach in working with faculty about how and why to use a plagiarism detection tool is that such use is for the purpose of teaching. Many students don't know they are plagiarizing, and many detected instances are really more about improper citation formatting or other issues than they are about appropriating others' work. Faculty training discussions on this topic also cover such issues as assignment load and timing within a class – things under faculty control which often have significant implications for students' decisions about plagiarizing.
This focus on the use of Turnitin as a teaching tool instead has been very successful.
SoftChalk
SoftChalk LessonBuilder™ is a powerful web lesson editor that lets you easily create engaging, interactive web lessons for your e-learning classroom.
With SoftChalk, you can create professional-looking, interactive content without knowing any HTML, or programming. Spend your time developing course content, no programming or html required.
With SoftChalk, it’s easy to engage your students because creating interactive content has never been easier. Within minutes you can create:
- interactive learning games, including customizable flashcards, image labeling, image hotspot activities, matching games, crosswords and more.
- six question types: multiple choice, multiple answer (more than one correct answer), short answer, true/false, matching, and ordering.
- pop-up text annotations to define terminology, or enhance the interactivity of your lesson content.
Faculty must attend training to receive one license to download SoftChalk to their office and home computer. One license per person.
eCollege Boot Camp
Provides TCU faculty with the resources and training they need to integrate the new learning technologies into both traditional and distance education classes. Each session is limited to eight participants. eCollege Boot Camp provides:
- Overview of technology options available to instructors, understanding how emerging technologies can be used in instruction, and insight into how technology can be integrated into curriculum development.
- Hands-on experience using eCollege course management tools.
- Follow-up support: Koehler Center staff members are available for continuing consultations following Boot Camp.
Includes Lunch.
Beyond the Basics
This full-day workshop takes faculty "beyond the basics" of eCollege and introduces other software solutions that can enrich activities which enable improved course design and delivery of content.
This workshop will cover the following:
- SoftChalk software, various free multimedia solutions for use in an online classroom will be covered along with the educational rationale for, and current research on, the use of multimedia in the classroom.
- Attendees will learn to use web-based applications, resources, web cams and microphones in locating, manipulating, creating, and editing text, images, video and audio files.
- From linking audio and video to creating video introductions, this workshop will get participants engaged in high-tech behaviors with high-touch results.
- These items can enhance and potentially promote learning.
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