Announcing Professional Learning Communities
In collaboration with the Library, ITS and the College of Education, we’ve created a new opportunity for you to exchange ideas and learn from one another. PLCs are voluntary, monthly gatherings of 8-12 members focused on course design topics the PLC defines. They’re open to all faculty, administrators and staff redesigning courses to improve student learning. See the attached invitation for details.
If you’re interested here’s what’s next:
By September 5th, reply by to this email with your general availability. It’s enough to say something like: “I’m available Mon, Wed Fri, 2-5pm; Tues and Fri 8-3pm.
Then wait. . .
- I’ll put the group(s) together based on your availability and contact you.
- At that time, you’ll also receive a very short questionnaire asking about what topics you’d like to cover. (If you wish, you may include them in the reply to this mail.)
- From there, the facilitators will schedule your first meeting, at which time you all will discuss and set your PLC topics and “agenda.”
Facilitators are Mark Laumakis, Faculty/Faculty in Residence ITS, Carolyn Baber, Library Faculty; Pam Jackson, Library Faculty; Keven Jeffery, Library Faculty; Andrea Saltzman, Faculty Consultant.
Note: While being a member of a PLC is voluntary, we ask that members commit to monthly meetings. Also, PLCs are in addition to our Friday OverLunches and CTL/ITS Luncheon series on various topics.
Please feel free to contact Suzanne at 4-2953 or pict at rohan.sdsu.edu
Download the invitation plc_invitation.pdf
cdi.sdsu.edu has arrived!
Thanks to Marc Pastor, we’ve got what’s called a redirect, which means that if you use the url http://cdi.sdsu.edu you’ll end up here even though this url (look in your address bar) still says http://sdsu-pict-cdi.org. Either address will work, but of course cdi.sdsu.edu is soooo much easier to remember.
Does Facebook really make us more connected?
COLORADO LEARNING & TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE’S
INTERACTIVE THEATER PRESENTATION
“An Open (Face)Book,” asks
the question: Does Facebook really make us more connected? Facebook, the
social networking tool, has gone from a novelty to a necessity in the eyes
of today’s college student. We invite colleagues from across the country
and around the world to join in and interact with the student performers as
they explore the phenomenon of Facebook and how it affects them and their
lives as students. View the performance via Adobe Connect, and submit your
questions for the actors. Go to the COLTT 2008 Broadcast Room at
http://realeyes.acrobat.com/coltt/, click “Enter as a Guest” and enter your
fist name and last name to join in the fun. Come listen, come watch, come
interact!
Wednesday, August 13, from 2:45-4:15 MDT, that’s UTC - 6 hours
and 1:45-3:15 PDT.
Learning in Virtuality Archived Session
Access the archived Horizon Wimba session go to Blackboard>Course Design Institute>Communications>Live Classrooms>Learning in Virtuality Archive.*
* A string of links with the greater than symbol “>” inserted is a simplified way of showing the path to a link that’s a few levels into a website. The links are often, but not always in the main menu of each level.
Deliverables 2 and 3 for 2007 Fellows up and ready to go
We had a very successful working group session on June 13th for 2007 Fellows. One of our goals was to collectively produce a draft of the the next 2 deliverables. The impetus behind having Fellows decide what their goals will be is rooted in creating more collaborative leadership mechanisms and bringing Faculty’s organizational and governing experience into programmatic decision making. We also believe that folks are generally more enthusiastic about achieving goals when they’re involved in setting them. The document is linked here and on the Resources for Fellows page.
