"Office Conversations"
The goal of this program is to allow SUNY Fredonia secretarial/clerical/admin assistants the opportunity to get together, share ideas and work strategies, and learn more about each other and the university.
Meeting dates for Fall 2009: 9/18, 10/16, 11/20, 12/18 - all are from 3pm to 4pm in the Japanese Garden Room Reed Library
“Rubrics I: Strategies to Ease the Burden of Grading”
Thursday, September 10 -- 3:00pm to 4:00pm, Fenton 127 – English Reading Room
With Dr. Michael Jabot, Professor, Science Education, Curriculum and Instruction Department & PDC Associate for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
*This workshop is an extension of Dr. Jabot’s presentation at the 3rd Annual Teaching & Learning Conference. He will be offering more specifics with regards to rubric design and development.* Grading papers, exams, journals, etc. can be very time consuming and frustrating: Do I have to grade everything? How can I manage to get through this stack of papers? Dr. Mike Jabot will offer helpful strategies for providing students with frequent and meaningful feedback on their assignments. Suggestions for planning assignment length, grading procedure, and due dates will also be offered.
A PDC Associates Program
"Teaching F2F vs. Teaching Online: Uncovering the Similarities and Differences"
Thursday, September 24 -- 9:30am to 10:30am, Fenton 127 – English Reading Room
With Dr. Dani McKinney, Assistant Professor in Psychology, PDC Associate for Online Learning
As the numbers of hybrid and fully online courses have slowly increased at SUNY Fredonia there has been an increase in dialogue among the faculty regarding the differences between teaching face-to-face (f2f) and in a virtual environment. This presentation will discuss some of the unique characteristics of teaching a fully online course and the differences that exist between teaching online and f2f. Issues such as group dynamics, feedback, assessment, and instructor ‘control’ will be discussed.
A PDC Associates Program
“Creating a Winning Portfolio”
Wednesday, November 4, 3pm to 4pm, WC S-104
Panel Discussion with:
- Virginia Horvath, Vice President for Academic Affairs
- Guy Boysen, Assistant Professor, Psychology
- Ann Drege Siegle, Associate Professor, English
- Ann Carden, Associate Professor, Communication
- Jonathan Cox, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
- Tedi Cox, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Getting ready for your re-appointment, tenure and/or promotion review and you need advice on putting together a "winning" portfolio? This session features a panel of faculty members who are at various stages in their careers and from various academic departments. They will share their personal experiences and demonstrate how they are able to present their academic work in an organized portfolio. New and veteran faculty are invited to attend.
"Strategic Planning with Appreciative Inquiry for Colleges and Universities Webinar"
Thursday, November 12, 2pm to 3pm, Reed Library Tower Lounge
Overview:
Appreciative Inquiry is an approach to planning and positive change that has been used successfully in colleges, communities and organizations all around the world. It is broad-based, highly participative, and energizing. It builds new skills in faculty and staff, develops new leaders, encourages a culture of inquiry, and helps create shared vision and purpose for your college by building on your core values and strengths. Perhaps most importantly-it leads to action, commitment, and results.
Designed For:
College presidents, executive teams, planning committees, and Ai Consultants who work with colleges and other public agencies.
Learning Outcomes:
Developing Your College's Next Strategic Plan with Appreciative Inquiry will provide college executives, executive teams, and planning committees an overview of how Appreciative Inquiry works and answer key questions.
- How is Appreciative Inquiry different from other planning processes?
- What resources does planning with Appreciative Inquiry require?
- Who gets involved and how?
- How long does it take?
- What is an Appreciative Inquiry "Summit" and how does my college host one?
- What does a strategic plan developed through Appreciative Inquiry look like?
Designing an Effective Service-Learning Course and Meaningful Syllabus (webinar)
Monday, November 16, 2:30pm to 4pm, Reed Library Tower Lounge
This course/webinar will help service-learning faculty to match their desired service-learning courses to appropriate, developmental service-experiences and reflections throughout the semester. It will take them through the idea stage, to community collaboration in course design, to syllabus development, to constructing productive assignments to exams or other culminating experiences.
Using Zotero to Collect, Manage, Cite and Share Research Sources
Monday, November 16, 12:00-1:00 in Reed Library’s Temporary Classroom (1st Floor, Reed Library)
Presented by: Dawn Eckenrode, Reference and Instruction Librarian, PDC Board Co-Chair
Zotero is a free Firefox extension designed to help you collect, manage, cite and share research sources, and is quickly becoming a standard research management tool in higher education for both students and faculty. By the end of this hands-on workshop, you should be able to:
- Set up, add items, and manage content in your Zotero Library
- Capture citation information from a variety of sources, including: websites, library databases, YouTube, Flickr, book catalogs and Google Books with just one click
- Sync your library, so it is accessible from multiple computers
- Create collaborative groups to manage student research projects, or to share research with colleagues
- Use Zotero’s citation features that interface with Microsoft Word in order to automatically generate bibliographies, as well as in-text citations and footnotes
For more information about Zotero, visit: http://www.zotero.org/
Changes that Matter: Looking to the Future of Higher Education
Monday, November 9, 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., in S-104 Williams Center
SUNY Fredonia will be participating in this national webinar offered by AASCU. It features three higher education thought leaders who offer their vision of where American higher education is going:
- Peter Ewell, Vice President, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)
- Nancy Zimpher, Chancellor, State University of New York
- Richard Pattenaude, Chancellor, University of Maine System
According to information from AASCU, “important shifts in technology, demographics, and government policy are under way, promising to transform higher education. To prepare for these dramatic changes, AASCU is launching the AASCU Academic Leadership Series to bring the latest thinking and most innovative ideas directly to AASCU campus teams in a cost-effective way.” At SUNY Fredonia, we’ll hear these presentations together and have the opportunity for further discussions about how these shifts affect planning for our campus and for SUNY.
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the Academic Affairs Office (673-3335)
What Are Students Saying About the Fredonia Experience: An Overview of MAP-Works Results
Thursday, November 19, 3pm to 4pm, English Reading Room, Fenton 127
With: Gary Bice, Director of Residence Life
Over the past two years, the MAP-Works transition survey has been administered to all first-time full-time students. MAP-Works relates back to the First Year Experience (FYE) campus project undertaken three years ago. Four weeks into the fall semester, we administered MAP-Works to measure our students’ social, academic, and overall transition issues. In this workshop, we will provide an overview of the instrument, measurable attitudes of first year students with regards to their academic success, as well as steps within Residence Life that began this year in an effort to support student success. We will also discuss implications of the MAP-Works information for faculty and classroom practices.
What Can Google Do For You?
December 1, 12:30pm to 2pm, Fenton 127 - English Reading Room
With: Andrew Cullison, Assistant Professor of Philosophy & PDC Associate for Technologies
This talk will highlight some of the excellent time-saving things that Google can do for you. A single Google Account gives you access to a wide range of useful productivity tools including: email, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, blog reader, video chat, IM, calendar, YouTube, and more. This talk will briefly introduce you to Google services and give you some useful tips that you can implement right away. We'll also discuss some not-so-obvious applications for teaching/research that are simple to start using right away. Some latter applications include using Google Forms to:
- set up a personalized grading rubric that records to a spreadsheet
- have students create your gradebook
- take attendance
- run diagnostic quizzes
Integrating Sustainability Topics and Assignments into your Spring Courses: An Interactive Workshop
Thursday, December 3rd, 1:30-2:30 PM, English Reading Room, Fenton 127(Light Refreshments)
With: Dr. Sherri Mason, Associate Professor of Chemistry & 2010 Earth Week Coordinator, and Dr. Christina Jarvis, Associate Professor of English & FACE Sustainability Coordinator
Would you like to build 2010 Earth Week programming into your spring courses? Are you interested in revising an existing course to include more environmental and social justice topics or to use more sustainable classroom practices? In this workshop, Drs. Mason and Jarvis will share past assignments, course policy ideas and other strategies for successfully incorporating Earth Week events and sustainability issues into your spring courses.
Tips for Teaching Large Classes
December 4, 11am to noon, English Reading Room (Fenton 127)
With Mike Jabot & Beez Schell
Teaching large classes present unique challenges to both new and seasoned instructors. In this workshop, various techniques will be presented that teachers can use to engage students and assess their learning in a large classroom setting. Participants will be asked to share their own strategies for managing and engaging large classes.