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CTL Newsletter Archive

Spring Semester, 1999 Volume 4 Number 2

Invitation to the Faculty

On Tuesday, April 20, there will be a day long Teaching and Learning with Technology Expo which will be held in the new Student Center. Murray Goldberg, the developer of WebCT, will be the keynote speaker. During the past three years many GSU faculty have participated in Center for Teaching and Learning Forums to demonstrate their use of technology to enhance the teaching and learning in their courses. This is a chance to see what is new. Faculty from GSU are invited to demonstrate their innovative uses of technology to enhance teaching and learning as part of the Expo. We will invite participants from other USG and area schools to attend for free. No registration required. The event is jointly sponsored by the CTL and IS&T under the guidance of the TLTS.

To apply to demonstrate your application of technology to teaching, please submit the following by April 1:

Name, Department, email address
Title of demonstration
A one paragraph description summarizing how the technology is used to enhance teaching and learning (to be included in the program) and equipment needed to demonstrate the technology.

All demonstration sessions will be for 40 plus time for questions minutes. For similar or overlapping topics, presenters may be asked to share the time slot. Email your applications to Kirk Richardson, krichardson@gsu.edu or Harry Dangel hdangel@gsu.edu.

Teaching and Learning with Technology Expo

Featuring: Dr. Murray Goldberg, U. of British Columbia and developer of WebCT
Plus: GSU Faculty and their use of technology in Teaching
Where and When: Beginning at 9 am, Tuesday, April 20 in the Student Center

Also Spring Semester
Effective Classroom Management

Cognitive Style Applications to Learning

Shifting from Teaching to Learning

WebCT Brown Bag Lunches

WebCT is an increasingly popular teaching tool at GSU as instructors from all colleges develop WebCT course materials. WebCT Brown Bag Lunches meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month in 301 Classroom South from 11:45 to 1:15 on March 17, April 7, and April 21. Come and share your WebCT experiences and learn from your colleagues. The format is informal with participants arriving and leaving as their schedule dictates. We often have focus topics and occasional short presentations.

Campus Conversations

Georgia State University has taken the initial steps to participate in the nationwide Campus Conversations on Teaching Program sponsored by the Carnegie Teaching Academy. This innovative program, which is endorsed by the American Association for Higher Education, is designed to encourage and engage faculty members in integrating local issues of teaching and learning into a campus-wide definition and ultimately with a national definition. The Carnegie Teaching Academy draft definition is: The scholarship of teaching is problem posing about an issue of teaching or learning, study of the problem through methods appropriate to disciplinary epistemologies, application of results to practice, communication of results, self-reflection, and peer review.

At Georgia State University the Campus Conversations Program will be facilitated by the Center for Teaching and Learning. The program has received the endorsement and support of the University's Provost, Associate Provost for Academic Services, and Council of Deans. Phase 1 activities will occur across several levels. The campus conversations will include discussions with the Associates of the Center for Teaching and Learning (see the article which follows). The Associates are faculty members who have been selected by each department because of their work in and interest related to issues of teaching and learning.

In addition to promoting conversations about the scholarship of teaching, the Advisory Committee of the Center has committed the 1999-2000 Scholarship of Teaching grant program to support the collaborative efforts of departments and program units in developing initiatives related to the Campus Conversations Program. Applications for this competition are included in the newsletter.

Associates Program

The Center for Teaching and Learning is currently developing the Associates of the Center Program. With the support of the Associate Provost for Academic Services and the Deans of the Colleges, each department in the university is identifying a faculty member who will provide the Center with a personal contact within that department. The Associates will work with their College’s Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee member(s) and the co-directors in framing the dialogue from the various departments part of the Carnegie Teaching Academy Campus Conversations Program. Associates will also serve as contact persons to departments, faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and part-time instructors in distributing information about issues and events from the Center as well as being a conduit for information and concerns about teaching and learning from the departments and other teaching faculty.

The initial meeting with the Associates is being scheduled for later in the spring semester.

Center for Teaching and Learning
Co-Directors

Advisory Committee