Lecturer?

Working with faculty and lecturers, we have the opportunity to see how their professional landscapes often differ. Or do they? All of our Fellows are committed to teaching regardless of their professional status. That’s a given. But how what we do map onto the RTP process? Or time commitments, when for example lecturers teach at other institutions as is the case with several fellows? Join the conversation HERE.

Talking about teamwork over on Val’s blog

Fellow Val Renegar started an interesting conversation about teamwork. She, Kurt Lindemann and Brian Spitzberg from the School of Communication are working together to redesign Comm 103 which Kurt teaches. We all had some insightful things to share. Join our conversation here. They’ll be presenting their redesign at our April 30th Learning Stories Luncheon.

Qs Learning Stories Risks/Rewards

Larry Beck, Chad Harris and Jacki Leak each answered audience questions about their course designs. We didn’t get to all the questions so here are some more.

For everyone

Has anyone really figured out how to do online exams?
Have any of you used the jigsaw technique? If so, what were the results?
What about your workload? Preparing/reviewing and managing for both class and web-based class?

For Larry and Jacki,

What is a WebQuest?

For Larry:

How do you actually prepare and give lectures for Captivate? How long did it take?
How complex was this information presented in Captivate? Was the content the same or different from your f2f lecture?

For Chad

What about the “audience effect” associated with the quality of student work on the wiki?
What about the extended shelf life of work posted on the wiki?
What level of technological sophistication do students need to have to use Wikispaces?
How do you address the “unfiltered” nature of material posted on the Wiki? At what point do you discuss/analyze?

For Jackie

Was there a difference between the amount & intensity of information disclosed online verses in class?

Take a Survey on Digital Learning Objects

The CSU is involved in a project – the Information/ICT Literacy Digital Learning Objects Initiative – to develop a repository of information literacy digital learning objects and other tutorials that can be used in your courses to improve student learning. Digital learning objects are web-based, interactive, self-contained, reusable learning materials used to support a specific learning objective.

In order to provide the most appropriate digital learning materials, we would appreciate your taking a few minutes to give us your expert insight into the information literacy, or research, needs of your students and what. The survey takes no more than 6 minutes to complete.

Simply click on this URL:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=XGOX6wiD7E8UXQXR9c_2bTwQ_3d_3d

We would appreciate your response to the survey no later than April 18, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Brasley, CSU Manager, Information Literacy Initiatives, 562-951-4372 or sbrasley@calstate.edu. Thank you.