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Teaching in the Round: Chalkboards, Whiteboards, Smartboards
Location: MH 038, Date: 2/9/2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join Kendra Douglas, Modern and Classical Languages/Linguistics, for a presentation and workshop on strategic teaching techniques in which instructors utilize all four walls of the classroom, via chalkboards, whiteboards, or Smartboards, for student learning activities. more
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Gender in a Changing World: Through Nature via Nurture to a Humane Appreciation of Gender Diversity (Part 2 of 2)
Location: HU 106, Date: 2/2/2012 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
How does one make sense of gender in a rapidly changing world when yesterday’s norm, today’s convention and tomorrow’s possibilities have little in common? How does one study and teach gender issues in such a volatile and evolving environment?
Lena Ericksen examines the changing nature of gender through history and the effect socioeconomic conditions have had on the rise of gender consciousness, the successive waves and versions of feminism, and the subcultures based upon gender orientation that have emerged. more
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Learning Technology Group: Mobile Learning
Location: VU567, Date: 1/31/2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Members of our campus community are welcome to join the "Learning Technology Group" lunch-hour discussion aimed at increasing our campus-wide understanding and use of technology as a teaching tool. All Western faculty, staff, and interested students are welcome to attend.
Explore ways to reach students via mobile technology such as smartphones and tablets (iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.).
The Learning Technology Group at Western is an ongoing collaboration of Academic Technology and User Services, working with the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, to engage faculty in impleme... more
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Webinar - Re-Centering Teaching: 20+ Techniques For Promoting Active Learning
Location: VU 462B, Date: 1/27/2012 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ever wonder how and when to use particular teaching techniques or feel the need to revitalize your course/session designs? Connecting teaching strategies to learning outcomes is a challenge that higher education faculty face on a daily basis. In this session, participants will discover strategies for redesigning the way they teach challenging concepts or topics and will expand their repertoire of strategies to promote students’ active engagement in learning.
Join us in the Viking Union for a "site connection" to this live webinar, from Innovative Educators, where Dr. Bonnie B. Mullinix, Co-... more
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Gender in a Changing World: Through Nature via Nurture to a Humane Appreciation of Gender Diversity (Part 1 of 2)
Location: HU 106, Date: 1/26/2012 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
How does one make sense of gender in a rapidly changing world when yesterday’s norm, today’s convention and tomorrow’s possibilities have little in common? How does one study and teach gender issues in such a volatile and evolving environment?
Lena Ericksen examines the changing nature of gender through history and the effect socioeconomic conditions have had on the rise of gender consciousness, the successive waves and versions of feminism, and the subcultures based upon gender orientation that have emerged. more
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Peer Teaching Workshop
Location: Bond Hall 106, Date: 11/29/2011 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Kendra Douglas, Modern and Classical Languages/Linguistics, and her students, Daniela Tinoco and Rebecca Donaldson, for a presentation and workshop on strategic teaching techniques in which instructors direct students to engage their peers directly in teaching and learning. more
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Learning Technology Group: “Choice Session”
Location: VU 567, Date: 11/29/2011 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Members of our campus community are welcome to join the "Learning Technology Group" lunch-hour discussion aimed at increasing our campus-wide understanding and use of technology as a teaching tool. All Western faculty, staff, and interested students are welcome to attend.
The Learning Technology Group at Western is a faculty-oriented discussion group, focused on technologies used in teaching and learning. For more information about the group, please visit the sites listed below.
Learning Technology Website
Learning Technology Blog and Community Site more
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Learning Technology Group: Wikis, Blogs, Journals
Location: VU 567, Date: 10/25/2011 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Members of our campus community are welcome to join the "Learning Technology Group" lunch-hour discussion aimed at increasing our campus-wide understanding and use of technology as a teaching tool. All Western faculty, staff, and interested students are welcome to attend.
This Tuesday, learn to use Blackboard's built-in interactive tools to promote communication and collaboration in your classes. We'll be covering wikis for collaborative work, blogs for whole-class learning communication, and journals for individual student learning communication.
We'll show you how to make it happen!
The ... more
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Webinar: The Broken Spoon: How to Use High Impact, Interactive Practices to Develop Higher Order Thinking
Location: Viking Union 567, Date: 10/19/2011 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Do students think that they like being spoon-fed: passively taking notes and viewing lectures on static PowerPoint slides? Do they think that easy learning is to open up, swallow some facts, spit them out, and forget about them? Of course, this is not learning at all. And the truth is that it really is not interesting or enjoyable either. Real learning—applying, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating—is not only enjoyable but increases academic success and persistence.
Join us in the Viking Union for a "site connection" to this live webinar, from Innovative Educators, where M.E. McWilliams, an ... more
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Faculty GUR Group: "Culture" and "Religion": We Can't Define It But We Know It When We See It (Part 2 of 2)
Location: VU 567, Date: 10/11/2011 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
“Culture” is the primary object of study in the discipline of anthropology. “Culture” is also impossible to define to the satisfaction of all its scholars. Anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn famously published Culture (1952) that compiled 164 published attempts at definition. How then can culture be taught to a large-lecture introductory GUR as the core concept of the quarter’s study? In the first of this faculty GUR series I will teach the culture concept to you as I teach it to undergraduates. In the second meeting we will take up the role of religion in cultural cons... more
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