Navigating the Idea Center

Podcasts (mp3 format):

"Building a Portfolio for Annual Renewal, Tenure, and Promotion"
Accompanying documents: AY08/09 Personnel Calendar, Appendixes A-1, B-1, and B-2
Wednesday, 30 April (58 minutes, 54mb)


Sara Marks, "Wikipedia: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Tuesday, 29 April (49 minutes, 45mb)


Benjamin Railton, "Publishing (Without Perishing) at FSC"
Thursday, 3 April, 2008 (38 minutes, 35 mb)


Michael Hoberman, Margarite Roumas, Susan Williams, "Digital Storytelling"
Thursday, 27 March (40 minutes, 37mb)
(To view Susan's video presentation, click here.)


Sara Marks, "RefWorks: An Online Research Management, Writing and Collaboration Tool"
Thursday, 28 February (32 minutes, 30mb)


Heather Pellerin, "Blackboard: The Assignment Tool"
14 and 27 February, 2008 (37 minutes, 34mb)


"TurnItIn: A New Weapon in the War Against Plagiarism"
5 and 7 February, 2008 (38 minutes, 36mb)
Susan Williams' PowerPoint Deck for these presentations.
Visit TurnItIn.com and go to their "training" pages (complete with step-by-step Flash videos).
Brock Read, "Anti-Cheating Crusader Vexes Some Professors," Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 February, 2008.


Julie Frechette, Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Worcester State's Center for Community Media
"Building a Mentoring Program at FSC," Thursday, 31 January (61 minutes, 56mb)


Peter Staab, "Online Materials for Introductory Mathematics Courses"
Wednesday, 30 January (71 minutes, 66mb)


Karen Frank Mays, "External Funding: Travel Grants, Foundations, and Corporations"
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Travel Grant: Due at Grant Center, 21 January, 2008
Wednesday, 12 December, 2007 (27 minutes, 25mb)


Kevin B. Austin, "Technology to Encourage Classroom Interaction and After-Class Reflection"
Featured Technologies: OneNote 2007, Zoho.com, UCSD's Ubiquitous Presenter, UW's Classroom Presenter, DyKnow.com
Tuesday, 4 December, 2007 (47 minutes, 44mb)


Ali Hanyaloglu, "Adobe Acrobat Professional in the Classroom"
Useful links: Adobe user group's site; instructional resources (click the "resources" tab); and our MHEC vendor.
Thursday, 18 October, 2007 (53 minutes, 50mb)


Anne Howard, "Rubrics and the Assessment of Student Achievement"
Powerpoint deck for the presentation, as well as Anne's list of references.
Wednesday, 17 October, 2007 (24 minutes, 22mb)


Michael Hoberman, "Students as Mentors: The Writing Associates Program at FSC"
Writing Associates website on the English Department pages
Wednesday, 26 September, 2007 (47 minutes, 45mb)


Karen Frank Mays, Shirley Goldsby, Chris Hendry, and John Paul
"Grant Writing and Internal Funding"
Links to the Development Office and Grant Center
Websites for the Ruth Butler, CTL Innovation, and Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Grants
Thursday, 20 September (19 minutes, 17mb)


Paul Weizer, Cap Corduan, Roberta Adams, René Reeves, and Linda LeBlanc
"Building a Portfolio for Annual Renewal, Tenure, and Promotion"
Appendices and personnel calendars from the MSCA contract (in PDF format)
Monday, 10 September, 2007 (55 minutes, 51mb)


Shawn McGuirk, "Promoting Academic Integrity"
PowerPoint deck for the presentation. See also Higbee and Thomas' article in the NASPA Journal.
Summer Institute, 20 July, 2007 (26 minutes, 24mb)


Ben Railton, "Mobile Learning: Using Laptops in the Classroom"
Summer Institute, 19 July, 2007 (38 minutes, 35mb)


Sara Marks and Deb Verhoff, "Information Literacy"
Handout on Information and Technology Literacy in Core Curriculum by Carla J. List-Handley
The American Library Association's Information Literacy Competency Standards (in PDF format)
Summer Institute, 19 July, 2007 (30 minutes, 28mb)


Laura Garofoli and Christopher Picone, "Scaffolding Students to Higher Order Thinking"
PowerPoint deck for the presentation, containing a graphic of Bloom's Taxonomy from LSU.
Summer Institute, 18 July, 2007 (21 minutes, 20 mb)

Online Instructional Technology Tutorials:

Blackboard Tutorials
(BB "Basics" are available here on the FSC BB site.)

"Uploading a Syllabus to BB "
Michael Leamy, "Posting an Announcement on BB "
Michael Leamy, "Uploading Audio to BB"
"Making a Course Available"
"Copying or Re-using Course Content in Another Course"
Request form for Merging Multiple Sections of a Course


Microsoft Office 2007 Tutorials

Sylvia Charland, "Getting Familiar with the Office 2007 User Interface"


Making Audio Podcasts

Michael Leamy, "Using Audacity to Record Audio and Make mp3s"
Get Audacity at sourceforge.net. Be sure to download Lame for mp3 conversion.


Technology Enhanced Classroom Tutorials

"Using the TEC I"
"Using the TEC II or III"

Network Resources for PCs

Sean C. Goodlett, "Using Networked Printers"
Sean C. Goodlett, "Using the J: Drive"


Tk20 Resources

Faculty Tutorials at Tk20
Administrative Tutorials at Tk20

Teaching and Learning Conferences:

New England Faculty Development Consortium Fall Conference (NEFDC)
"Engaged Learning: Fostering Student Success"
9 November, 2007, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
DCU Center, Worcester, MA

Lilly (West) Conference on College and University Teaching (SoTL)
"Learning By Design"
21 - 22 March, 2008, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Kellogg-West Ranch
Cal Poly Pomona

Lilly (East) Conference on College and University Teaching
16 - 18 April, 2008
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

Intl. Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IS-SoTL)
Eighth Annual International Meeting
15 - 16 May, 2008
London, England

Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching
"Faculty Learning Communities" (FLC Homepage)
23 June, 2007
Claremont Graduate University

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CF)
Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL)
(See especially their "resources" page.)

Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (SoTL) Conferences
A comprehensive list of all SoTL sponsored conferences is found here.

 

Instructional Technology Conferences:

Educause 2007 Annual Conference
"Information Futures: Aligning Our Missions"
23 - 26 October, 2007
Seattle, Washington

Campus Technology
10 - 12 December, 2007
Westin Hotel
San Francisco, CA

MacWorld Conference
8 - 12 January, 2008
The Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA

SITE's International Conference (K-12 Educators)
Call for Presentations: Due October 22, 2007
3 - 7 March, 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada

Educause's Northeast Regional Computing Conference
10 - 12 March, 2008
Providence, RI

Ed-Media International Conference
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education)
"World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications"
30 June - 4 July, 2008
Vienna, Austria

MERLOT International Conference
7 - 10 August, 2007, (Save the date)
More information coming soon!
New Orleans, LA

Assessment Conferences:

New England Educational Assessment Network (NEean) Conference
"Telling Our Assessment Stories"
2 November, 2007
College of the Holy Cross
(N.B.: Academic Affairs will fund a departmental representative to this conference; please see your chair.)

New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Annual Meeting and Conference
"CIHE Assesment Forum"
5-7 December, 2007
Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA

A Selected Bibliography of the Center's Holdings:

Anderson, Rebecca, John F. Bauer, and Bruce W. Speck. Assessment Strategies for the On-Line Class: From Theory to Practice. Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Bean, John C . The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. Jossey-Bass, 1996.

Boice, Robert. First-Order Principles for College Teachers: The Basic Ways to Improve the Teaching Process. Anker Publishing, 1996.

Brinkley, Alan, et al . The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Brown, David G., ed. Developing Faculty to Use Technology: Programs and Strategies to Enhance Teaching. Anker Publishing, 2003.

Comeaux, Patricia, ed. Assessing Online Learning. Anker Publishing, 2005.

__________ Communication and Collaboration in the Online Classroom: Examples and Applications. Anker Publishing, 2002.

Cox, Milton, and Laurie Richlin, eds. Building Faculty Learning Communities. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Spring 2004.

Day, Christopher, ed. Research on Teacher Thinking: Understanding Professional Development. Falmer Press, 1993.

Diamond, Robert M. Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula: A Practical Guide. Jossey-Bass, 1998.

Dolence, Michael, and Donald Norris. Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century. Society for College and University Planning, 1995.

Freed, Jann, and Marie Klugman. Quality Principles and Practices in Higher Education: Different Questions for Different Times. Oryx Press, 1997.

Hirsch, Werner, and Luc Weber. Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium. Oryx Press, 1999.

Knowlton, Dave, and David Sharp. Problem-Based Learning in the Information Age. Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Laufgraben, Jodi Levine, and Nancy Shapiro and Associates. Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities. John Wiley and Sons, 2004.

McKeachie, Wilbert. Teaching Tips. Houghton-Mifflin, 1999.

Meyers, Chet, and Thomas Jones. Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the Classroom. Jossey-Bass, 1993.

Smith, Barbara Leigh, et al. Learning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education. Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Strand , Kerry, et al. Community-Based Research and Higher Education: Principles and Practice. Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Upcraft, M. Lee, John Gardner, and Betsy Barefoot. Challenging and Supporting the First-Year Student. Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Wholey, Joseph, Harry Hatry, and Kathryn Newcomer. Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation. Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Zachary, Lois. The Mentor 's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships. Jossey-Bass, 2000.