Rob Carr, John Chetro-Szivos, Jon Krasner, Viera Lorencova, and Lauren MacKenzie
"A Dialogic Pathway to Assessment: Conversations on Evaluating Our Students and Ourselves"
Thursday, 6 November, 2008 (42 minutes, 33mb)
Helen Obermeyer-Simmons, "Echo of the Maritime: Artwork by Helen Obermeyer-Simmons"
Links for the presentation: Rollstone Studio and
Echo of the Maritime
Monday, 3 November (38 minutes, 36mb)
Jon Krasner, "Developing Creative Approaches to Teaching and Learning"
Thursday, 24 July (10 minutes, 9mb)
Sara Marks, "Library Resources: LibGuides, RefWorks, and Credo"
Wednesday, 23 July (46 minutes, 42mb)
Ali Hanyaloglu, "Adobe Acrobat Professional in the Classroom"
Links for Ali Hanyaloglu's Presentation: Adobe's Video Tutorial Library, the Acrobat User's Site,
Ali's Acrobat Blog
Monday, 21 July
(55 minutes, 51mb)
Tom Schoenfeld, "A Year in the Classroom with Clickers: In Search of Best Practices"
Tom Schoenfeld's PowerPoint Deck for the Presentation
Monday, 21 July (77 minutes, 71mb)
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)
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)
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)
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.)
Michael Leamy, "Using Audacity to Record Audio and Make mp3s" Get Audacity at sourceforge.net. Be sure to download Lame for mp3 conversion. Network Resources for PCs
(60 minutes, 55mb)
Richard Rogers, "Using Clickers to Engage Students and Enhance Learning: A Decade Later"
21 May, 2008 (click here for the accompanying PowerPoint deck)
(See alo the University of Massachusetts' PRS website.)
"The Large Lecture Course Redesign Project," University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(8 minutes, 81mb)
The faculty perspective: The UMass "Best Practices Fellows Project"
MERLOT International Conference 7 - 10 August, 2008
Hilton Minneapolis Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota
MacWorld Conference 5 - 9 January, 2009
The Moscone Center
San Francisco, California
Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009
"The Technology Revolution in Higher Education: IT as a Catalyst for Change " 7 - 9 January, 2009
Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SITE's International Conference (K-12 Educators)
Call for Presentations: Due 10 December, 2008 2 - 6 March, 2009
Charleston, South Carolina
NERCOMP 2009 Annual Conference
"Creative Intersections, Wise Collaborations, and Substainable Technology" 9 - 11 March, 2009
Providence, Rhode Island
New England Faculty Development Consortium Fall Conference (NEFDC)
"Accessing Academic Excellence: What Colleges Can Do to Promote Student Success " 14 November, 2008, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
DCU Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
The SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 11 - 13 March, 2009
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, Georgia
Lilly West (Lilly) Conference on College and University Teaching (SoTL)
"Millennial Learning: Teaching in the 21st Century " 20 - 21 March, 2009
Kellogg-West Ranch
Cal Poly Pomona
Lilly East (Lilly) Conference on College and University Teaching
"Millennial Learning: Teaching in the 21st Century" 16 - 17 April, 2009 University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
Intl. Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IS-SoTL)
"Solid Foundations, Emerging Knowledge, Shared Futures 22 - 25 October, 2009
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
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.
Assessment Conferences:
New England Educational Assessment Network (NEean) Conference "How Assessment Improves Teaching and Learning " 7 November, 2007
Worcester State College
Worcester, Massachusetts
New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Annual Meeting and Conference 3 - 5 December, 2008
Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel
Boston, MA
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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.
