You are invited to join your colleagues for brown-bag conversations, workshops, and presentations on a range of teaching- and learning-related topics. Upcoming events include:
The Children of Anthropomorphic Guns: Using Comics to Enhance Student Engagement and Learning
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Time: 11-11:50 AM
Location: FLITE 135
Presenter: Nate Garrelts (Languages and Literature Department)
From classical literature in translation to biology-themed comics published by MIT,
instructional comics are popular and effective teaching tools. This session gives
a brief overview of instructional comics and focuses especially on how they are used
today to inform and instruct people.
True Colors: Four Personalities Types in the Classroom Student – Part 1
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Time: 9-11 AM
Location: IRC 121
Facilitator: Judy Elsey, Manager, Career Services, Ferris State University (Statewide)
Color has long been used as a component associated with learning and True Colors is a tool designed by Don Lowry for understanding human characteristics and how behaviors must be differentially rewarded. In this session, you will gain a general knowledge of the four personality color types and the strengths and weaknesses of each color. This will bring awareness to your classroom teaching style and a better understanding of how to manage an effective learning atmosphere. This will be a fun, interactive session and you will see yourself and students differently at the end of this session.
Engaging Millennials: Unlocking the Secrets of Gen Y in the Classroom
Date: Monday, March 19, 2012
Time: 1-1:50 PM
Location: IRC 121
Facilitator: Brooke Moore (FCTL/Humanities) and Patrick Bishop (Marketing)
Although we are seeing more non-traditional students in our classrooms, the majority of our students are still Millennials, or Gen Y, born between 1980 and 2000. This session will examine research done by Dr. Jean Twenge in her book "Generation Me" to reveal the truths and myths of this generation and how this translates to us in the classroom.
Help! I Need To Do A Literature Review and I Have No Time!
Date: Friday, March 23, 2012
Time: 10 AM -11:30 AM
Location: FLITE 108
Facilitators: Stacy Anderson and Kristy Motz (FLITE)
Learn how to master the literature review process by discovering how to keep track of sources, searches and new research by using the library more effectively. In addition we will cover automating the delivery of pertinent information using e-mail alerting features available from most databases, as well as locating recent studies or articles that cite key older works.
Building Community in an Online Class
Date: Friday, March 23, 2012
Time: 1-2:30 PM
Location: FLITE 133
Panelists: Beverly DeMarr, Sheila Mac Eachron, Elaine McCullough, Spence Tower, Jonathan Taylor
This session will focus on building a community of learners in an online environment. Faculty-to-student, student-to-faculty, and student-to-student community building will be explored. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss, practice, and take away strategies to foster a community of learners in their own online courses; the session's panelists are faculty who have experience with this issue. Participants may want to bring a current course syllabus as a means of fostering reflection and growth for their own online course.
Follow Your True Colors in the Classroom – Part 2
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Time: 9-11 AM
Location: IRC 121
Facilitator: Judy Elsey, Manager, Career Services, Ferris State University (Statewide)
(Attending Part 1 is important to understanding the information discussed in this session.)
With an understanding of your own personality colors and the characteristics of each color, you are ready to transfer this information to better understanding of students' differences, behaviors and responses in the classroom. You will learn how to apply these criteria to create effective learning groups and teams, as well as maximize the strengths of the diverse personality types of your students. It will be a short journey well worth your time and effort and will impact many segments of your teaching role in the classroom. You will see the diverse world more clearly after this TRUE COLORS experience.
Faculty Use of Copyright
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012 or Friday, March 30, 2012
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Location: FLITE 112
Presenters: Mari Kermit-Canfield and David Scott (FLITE)
Do you wish you knew more about how copyright and fair use laws apply to teaching and research?
How copyright and fair use laws apply to teaching, research, and publications is not always clear. The increasing ease of copying and distributing digital materials raises the stakes even more. Faculty often do not have access to the resources and support they need to sort these challenges out.
Join us online to understand the challenges and solutions of applying copyright law in your classrooms, research, and scholarly publications.
Learning Outcome
After participating in this workshop, you will be able to apply copyright laws in the face-to-face and virtual classrooms.
