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Faculty Development News and Events
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Summer's Coming
Thursday, May 23
Learning Commons, Viewing & Taping Room C
It's May: student papers, exams, projects, all of that unfinished committee and department business and many events on our calendars this month. I'm tired. You?
Good News: Summer's Coming. Bad news: it's 12 weeks long.
- Can you complete your current research/creative project in between turning in spring grades and preparing fall courses?
- How do productive faculty make the most of summer months?
- What about rest and recreation?
Faculty Women of Color Network and Faculty Development warmly invite you to join us for lunch and conversation about summer. Join a discussion with Elsa Chen (Political Science) and Sharmila Lodhia (Women's and Gender Studies), who will walk us through the resources available to us as institutional members of the NCFDD (National Council on Faculty Development and Diversity) concerning planning and implementing a set of research/writing/creative work goals.
All faculty welcome.
RSVP to Anne Riconosciuto.
Can't join us, but you'd like to do a little more thinking about summer productivity (even if you hate that word)?
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ePortfolios: More Than a New Technology
Wedneday, May 15thth
Many SCU faculty use (e)Portfolios to support engaged, reflective and integrative learning. Join a conversation about the benefits of ePortfolio for teachers and learners. Explore new portfolio tools for teaching, learning and your own professional development.
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KNOWLEDGE UNLOCKED
Publishers of scholarly research began locking up knowledge with spiraling costs. Now only wealthy institutions can afford a broad spectrum of scholarly journals. Academic response: change the system! The result: changes in author rights, open-access journals, and the use of institutional repositories.
Join Us for a Scholarly Communication Forum
- Find out how to protect your author rights.
- Check out SCU's new Scholar Commons, where to deposit your work to make it widely read.
- Hear about FASTR: legislation picking up the pace on Open Access.
- Help your students learn the communication ropes of research.
Speakers
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
SPARC leads the way in effective models of Scholarly Communication. Joseph will address these trends and how they affect you.
Presenting the view from SCU:
Professor Justen Whittall - Biology
Professor Laura Robinson - Sociology
When: Wednesday, May 22, 4-5:30 pm
Where: Saint Clare Room (3rd Fl, Learning Commons)
Light refreshments
We look forward to seeing you,
Scholarly Communication Group:
Michal Strutin, Tom Farrell, Susan Boyd
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Blogging and Tweeting: Hands-on Workshops
Week of May 6th, Learning Commons Faculty Development Lab, Room 142
Learn about applications for blogging and tweeting.
- Monday, May 6, 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Wednesday, May 8, 2:30-4:00pm
- Thursday, May 9, 2:00-3:30pm
- Friday, May 10, 11:45am - 1:15pm
- And by appointment with Mike Ballen & Gloria Hofer
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Creating Online Content: Hands-on Workshops
Week of April 22, Learning Commons Faculty Development Lab, Room 142
Learn about a variety of applications for creating audio and video modules with screen capture.
- Wednesday, April 24, 2:30-4:00pm
- Thursday, April 25, 2:00-3:30pm
- Friday, April 26, 11:45am - 1:15pm
- And by appointment with Mike Ballen & Gloria Hofer
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Reimagining Student Assignments
Monday, April 22nd
How do students demonstrate their learning in your courses? Exams? Researched papers? Lab reports? Websites? Course blogposts? Wikipedia entries? Course wikis? Films? Discussion posts? Symposia poster presentations? Prezi/keynote/powerpoint presentations? Portfolios or e-portfolios? Who is the audience for your students’ demonstrations of their learning? You? The class? A more public audience outside of your classroom? What pedagogical values and assumptions inform your decisions about student demonstration of learning? What about assignment design and evaluation? Join a conversation with faculty using a variety of approaches to this topic.
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EVENT DATE: JANUARY 25TH
Varsi CAFE3
January 25th, 11:45 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Varsi 114
Join Sharon Merritt (English) as we play and experiment with Nearpod, an app for the synchronized use of iPads and mobile phones, which facilitates real-time interactive presentations and activities. Bring your phones or iPads (and feel free to download the free Nearpod app before CAFE3), or pick up an iPad at the session so you can participate fully.
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WHAT’S GIS?
Learn how mapping can enhance teaching and research in any subject
David DiBiase, ESRI’s Education Director, will be on campus Thursday, November 1, to present an introduction to GIS—geographic information system. The layered mapping capabilities of GIS provide powerful visual information for any discipline, and ESRI is a “gold standard” for GIS among academic communities and the federal government. Come find out how it works and how it can enhance your teaching and research.
As an introduction to David DiBiase , SCU Professors Iris Stewart-Frey (Environmental Studies and Sciences) and Ed Maurer (Civil Engineering) will share how they and their students currently use GIS in teaching and research.
WHEN: Thursday, November 1, noon - 1 p.m.
WHERE: Learning Commons, Taping/Viewing Room A (first floor)
Brown-bag lunch, with light snacks and beverages provided
For more on GIS:
What’s GIS
2:17 min. video / ESRI
The Geospatial Revolution
17:45 min. video, 4 parts: Climate Change, Hunger, Tracking Disease, Mapping Power to the People / Penn State Public Broadcasting
GIS for Higher Education
ESRI website
“Digital Maps Are Giving Scholars the Historical Lay of the Land,” New York Times, July 26, 2011.
Hosted by SCU Library
For more information, contact Christa Bailey: cbailey@scu.edu
Please direct ADA/504 accommodation requests to Terry Hingston (408-554-6830, TTY 1-800-735-2929)
at least 72 hours prior to the event.
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EVENT DATES: Monday, October 29 OR Thursday, November 1
Nobili Dining Room
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Co-sponosored by the Drahmann Center
Please join us to learn more about effective advising, a key component to student success. We will discuss Santa Clara’s philosophy of advising and highlight tools that can help you in the advising process. Topics that will be covered include understanding the Core Curriculum, reading the student degree audit and transcript, using Course Avail effectively, accessing information online in the Undergraduate Bulletin, and conversations with students who are in academic difficulty.
Contact Ed Ryan, x4318 to RSVP, and bring your advising questions or experiences to discuss.
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Event Date: Tuesday, October 2nd
Viewing & Taping Room A, University Library,
Think those LO's are for WASC/ Your Chair /Dean /Provost /Faculty Curriculum Committee? Or could they help your students and make you a more effective teacher? Come hear experienced colleagues (Lisa Goldstein, Education; Tonya Nilsson, Engineering) talk about they use learning objectives as a part of their teaching practice. Divergent views welcome; let's talk.
Lunch will be served, RSVP REQUIRED - email Anne Riconosciuto, x2746.
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