Introducing the
Excellence
in Learning and Teaching Initiative's
Fall
Book Club
Meeting Mondays in the Provost
Conference Room
from 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Each session will feature a different article or excerpt from a noteworthy book. Share this chance to garner wisdom and camaraderie with colleagues. Pre-registration is a must so we can get the articles to you in time!
October 22: We will take a look at "Growing Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People Learn." This article is by John Seely Brown, the chief scientist of Xerox.
November 5: A "visit" with the words of Lee S. Schulman of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. This session will be led by Associate Provost David Sill.
November 26: "Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds" by Richard J. Light. This session will include a special SIUE student panel, which will lend its views on current campus experience.
For more information, contact Cathy Santanello at x3636 or csantan@siue.edu. For reservations, call Cindy Scarsdale at x3647 or cscarsd@siue.edu
"Assessment of
Technology-Assisted Learning"
with SIUE's
Douglas Eder
Wednesday, Oct. 17
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Mississippi Room
Morris University Center
This seminar/workshop will put into participants' hands seven direct assessments of student learning that are suitable for use in both face-to-face and the technology-assisted programs. Results can be used to improve course delivery and to support the Scholarship of Teaching for a professor's promotion, merit and tenure candidacy. Several handouts will be provided.
Douglas Eder has served as an assessment consultant to the four-state Midwest Technology and Teaching Association, has assisted with establishing academic standards for the Michigan Virtual University, and is a regular contributor to "Web Corner" of the journal Assessment Updates. He is steward of SIUE's assessment program.
Sponsored by the Excellence in Learning and Teaching Initiative
and Undergraduate Assessment and Program ReviewFor more information, contact Cathy Santanello at x3636. For reservations, contact Cindy Scarsdale at x3647 or cscarsd@siue.edu.
Featuring
Lisa Colbert Bandele
SIUE Theater Artist in Residence
and
Kevin McClearey
SIUE Speech Communications
Department
Multi-Function
Room, Bluff Hall
11:00
a.m. - 1 :00 p.m.
Come join us for two hours of hands-on interactive work with voice, body, movement and reflection techniques that can make your own classroom presentations more fun!
Lisa holds an MFA in acting from the University of California, Irvine, and has been with SIUE since 1998. She is the director of University Theater's most recent production, "A Raisin in the Sun."
Kevin has been a speech communications faculty member at SIUE since 1979. He received his PhD in speech communications and human relations from the University of Kansas, and has more than 25 years experience in teaching public speaking.
Wear relaxed, comfortable clothing and come with an open mind!
For more
information, contact Cathy Santanello at x3636. For reservations, contact
Cindy Scarsdale at x3647 or cscarsd@siue.edu.
Concocting
Cases
Presenters
will share the knowledge gleaned from the Pace University Conference entitled
"Using Cases and Classroom Assessment to Improve Learning and Teaching"
they recently attended in Vancouver, Canada
For more information, contact Cathy Santanello at x3636. For reservations, contact Cindy Scarsdale at x3647 or cscarsd@siue.edu.
Preparing for Promotion and Tenure
with
Associate Provost David Sill
and
Eric "Duff" Wrobbel
of the SIUE Speech Communications
Department
Tuesday, Nov. 27
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Provost Conference Room, Third
Floor Rendleman Hall
For more information, contact Cathy Santanello at x3636. For reservations, contact Cindy Scarsdale at x3647 or cscarsd@siue.edu.
Last updated on September 28, 2001.