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Podcasts (mp3 format):

Press here to listen to the presentation on "Building Portfolios for Annual Renewal, Tenure, and Promotion."
"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)

Press here to listen to Sara Marks' presentation on "Wikipedia."
Sara Marks, "Wikipedia: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Tuesday, 29 April (49 minutes, 45mb)

Press here to listen to Ben Railton's presentation on "Publishing (without perishing) at FSC."
Benjamin Railton, "Publishing (Without Perishing) at FSC"
Thursday, 3 April, 2008 (38 minutes, 35 mb)

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

Press here to listen to Sara Marks' presentation on "RefWorks."
Sara Marks, "RefWorks: An Online Research Management, Writing and Collaboration Tool"
Thursday, 28 February (32 minutes, 30mb)

Press here to begin Heather Pellerin's podcast on Blackboard's Assignment Tool.
Heather Pellerin, "Blackboard: The Assignment Tool"
14 and 27 February, 2008 (37 minutes, 34mb)

Press here to begin Susan Williams and Bob Foley's podcast on TurnItIn.
"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.

Press here to listen to Julie Frechette's presentation on faculty mentoring.
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)

Press here to listen to the Math Department's presentation on online learning
Peter Staab, "Online Materials for Introductory Mathematics Courses"
Wednesday, 30 January (71 minutes, 66mb)

Press here to listen to Ali Hanyaloglu's presentation on Adobe Acrobat Professional.
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)

Press here to listen to Ali Hanyaloglu's presentation on Adobe Acrobat Professional.
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)

Press here to listen to Ali Hanyaloglu's presentation on Adobe Acrobat Professional.
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)

Press here to listen to Prof. Ann Howard's presentation on rubrics.
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)

Press here to begin the "writing associates" podcast.
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)

Press here to begin the "finding funding" podcast.
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)

Press here to begin the "portfolio" podcast.
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)

Press here to begin Shawn McGuirk's podcast.
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)

Press here to begin Ben Railton's podcast.
Ben Railton, "Mobile Learning: Using Laptops in the Classroom"
Summer Institute, 19 July, 2007 (38 minutes, 35mb)

Press here to begin Sara Marks and Deb Verhoff's podcast.
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)

Press here to begin Laura Garafoli and Christopher Picone's podcast.
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.