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Teaching and Learning Collaborative

Butine Faculty Development Fund Awards

wootton-copyThe Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2016-2017 Butine Faculty Development Fund Fall cycle, according to committee chair Aaron Wootton, mathematics. Butine award recipients are:

  • Alfrey, Lauren: “Geek Girls: Race, Gender and Power in the Tech Industry,” $3,300
  • Barber, Halina & Amber Vermeesch: “Road Less Traveled: Stressors and Coping Strategies Unique to Undergraduate Nursing Students,” $1,776
  • Chakrabati, Saikat: “A security framework for resource constrained IoT devices,” $5,000
  • Coida, Olivia: “Mechanical Model of the Respiratory System,” $3,000
  • Eckman, Ted: “Understanding Distributions of Industrial Odors in North Portland,” $5,000
  • Eshleman, Andrew: Funds to attend the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Conference, $1,150
  • Gates, Alice: “Enhancing scholarship and teaching in Policy Practice,” $4,550
  • Hancock, Christin: “Unspeakable: Sex, Madness, and the Malarial Treatment of Syphilis in Middle America,” $4,060
  • Hill, Allie: “Gender and Memory of East German Every-Day Life,” $3,313
  • Hoffman, Sr. Angela: “Study of products made by bacteria isolated from soil taken from Pollentia, an ancient Roman city on Mallorca,” $3,038
  • Ilosvay, Kimberly: Reflection and Research, $3,000
  • Jones, Kevin: “Testing the Applicability of the Circle of Courage Youth Development Model for Undergraduate Social Work Education,” $3,343
  • Kotas, Jakob: “A Robust Framework for Airline Scheduling,” $3,000
  • Krautscheid, Loretta: “The effect of trans-disciplinary educational strategies on student nurse resilience and moral distress,” $2,936.50
  • McRee, Nick: Funds to attend the 12th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, $1,500
  • Meiser, Jeffrey: “The Moral Factor in War: Combat Effectiveness from Chosin to Mosul,” $3,000
  • Reyes-Giardiello, Giannina: “Researching masked-social activism in Mexico City,” $850
  • Viljee, Shazib: “Analysis of Charcoal Samples for Composition and Energy Content,” $1,809
  • Warshawsky, Matthew: “May Your Divine Inspiration Call Me in the Desert’: New Jewish Identity in the Baroque-Era Poetry of the Iberian New Christian João Pinto Delgado,” $3,000

For more information, contact Wootton at x7377 or tas@up.edu.

 

TLC from the TLC: Rethinking How Office Hours Are Kept

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This week’s selection from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative comes from Zachary Simmons, psychological sciences. Like many UP professors, he does his best to carve office hours in stone, held invioalate for the good of his students, but life always seems to do its best to wreak havoc on his best laid plans. Sound familiar? If so, be sure to read his piece on exploring the possibility of keeping virtual office hours on days he cannot be on campus at this link.

A reminder: these weekly tips from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative are meant to be taken in during the time it takes to enjoy a cup of coffee or kombucha at your desk. They are also archived at sites.up.edu/tl. If you have a teaching dilemma for which you’d like some insights or resources, please contact TLC coordinator Karen Eifler, eifler@up.edu, or x8014.

TLC Tip of the Week: CaptureSpace

capturespace-copyCaptureSpace is the simplest way to turn a presentation into a video to share with students. Faculty can use this tool to capture video as part of a flipped classroom or use screencast videos to provide feedback to students. Also, CaptureSpace makes it easy to record audio as part of podcast lectures for online, hybrid, or technology assisted courses.

In this video Ben Kahn, academic technology services, provides an overview of screencasting with CaptureSpace.

To get started with CaptureSpace visit https://sso.up.edu or https://go.up.edu, log in with UP credentials, and click on the MediaSpace icon.

To learn more about CaptureSpace visit CaptureSpace – How to Login to MediaSpace and Install CaptureSpace, CaptureSpace – Set up Microphone, and Podcast with CaptureSpace.

For more information contact academic technology services at ats@up.edu or training@up.edu. Faculty can also follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/upacademictech or IS at https://twitter.com/upinfoservices.

Interactive Video in Education

videoThis week from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative website: “Using Interactive Video to Improve Learning Outcomes,” an exploration of the state and future of interactive video in learning. The brief white paper, offered by Kaltura, Inc, provider of UP’s MediaSpace service, asserts that “Interactive video is bringing about a revolution in education, helping teachers engage more deeply with students and students engage more richly with the material.” This statement is supported with 5 main arguments:

  1. Video personalizes education for both faculty and students.
  2. Video helps students and faculty be more collaborative.
  3. Video makes learning more engaging.
  4. Video makes education more flexible.
  5. Video makes education more accountable.

Throughout each section, eye opening findings are shared from Kaltura’s recent survey on the state of video in education, and helpful tips are offered for educators who are curious about or new to using video as a part of their teaching – for example:

  • Don’t limit video to long form video lectures – try using mobile devices to create short videos for simple explanations, feedback, or messages to the class.
  • Experiment with a flipped model to free up class time for active learning.
  • Remember you aren’t producing the 5 o’clock news. Content doesn’t need to be perfect.

For much more detailed insight and many more helpful tips, please see the Teaching and Learning Collaborative website to read or download the white paper in PDF form. The TLC site offers weekly tips on classroom technology, podcasts on active learning, and other quick ideas for amplifying the impact of teaching: https://sites.up.edu/tl/.

How We Learn: a Quick Summary

ben carey copyAccording to recent research, students learn best through distraction, ignorance, interruption, and frequent quitting. This may sound like nonsense on stilts. But according to New York Times science writer Benedict Carey (pictured), successful pedagogy will benefit from such counter-intuitive wisdom. Have a peek at this two-page summation of Carey’s book How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why it Happens, provided on the website of the Teaching and Learning Collaborative. The site offers an array of tips on classroom technology, podcasts on active learning, and other quick ideas for amplifying the impact of teaching: https://sites.up.edu/tl/.

For more information contact Lars Erik Larson, English, at larson@up.edu.

New Tech Talk Podcasts

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This week from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative: Shiley School of Engineering professors Tammy VanDeGrift and Niki Schulz appeared on the UP Tech Talk podcast to discuss their experiences using instructional media to “flip” the classroom and create active learning opportunities during class sessions. Go to the TLC blog to stream, download, or subscribe to the podcast, or offer your own take on the flipped classroom model and active learning.

Contact Maria Erb, information services, at erb@up.edu, or Ben Kahn, information services, at kahn@up.edu.

TLC Resource Of The Week

coffeeAs the race toward the end of the term accelerates, the Teaching and Learning Collaborative encourages faculty to take a look at this brief article on “Moving From Multi-tasking to Mindfulness,” in which professor Kristin Rousch describes how to help students focus their attention rather than fracture it. The article provides several specific strategies to use in classes from nearly any academic discipline, as well as a cogent rationale for weaning students away from their fragmented approaches to cognitive tasks. All this can be gleaned from an article that takes as long to read as it does to sip a cup of tea…mindfully, of course.

For more information contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.

TLC Tool of the Week: Facework

jeff kgAs midterms and projects and other major student products are well underway, professors may feel a tension between maintaining positive, upbeat interactions with students and the need to provide them with honest feedback on their performance. In this brief video featuring Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, faculty can learn three specific strategies for communicating accurate, constructive feedback to students, even when the news isn’t what they were hoping for. It takes the duration of a cup of coffee to view the video, and faculty can enjoy that coffee compliments of the Teaching and Learning Collaborative and the associate provost.

TLC From the TLC

lyndaThis week’s teaching resource is a collection of how-to videos for everything from creating voiceovers for lecture notes to getting the most out of  personal websites. The University’s Lynda.com is chock-full of digital resources for teaching, with videos ranging from a few minutes to several hours, and is available from the Go Media single sign-in portal. This link leads to the Lynda.com welcome page.

The Teaching & Learning Collaborative encourages faculty to scroll through the contents over a cup of coffee (compliments of the associate provost and the TLC) and see the online tutorials that are waiting to assist them. Those who are wondering where their coupon for a free Bon Appetit beverage is, please contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.

TLC From the TLC

cappuccino.jpgThis week’s teaching resource is a brief video featuring Pamela Potter, nursing, sharing several specific strategies she employs in her online and hybrid courses for creating a sense of community among students and using basic multimedia tools accessible to all faculty to move beyond information in the textbook. Support for all the ideas she offers is available in the Clark Library Digital Lab or through academic technology services.The video was created by Phyllis Egby, education, as part of her ATR grant.

Please remember that TLC resources are meant to be enjoyed with a cup of coffee, compliments of the associate provost and the Teaching & Learning Collaborative. Those who have not yet received a coupon are asked to contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.