To register for the "i>clicker" training, or any other IAC training, please go to http://www.miami.edu/iac and click on the "Events" menu item.
Today at 12:30 we have a session on RefWorks, the free (at UM) bibliographic system. Tomorrow we have five sessions on using i>clickers to enhance the classroom experience. Additional sessions are listed on the "Events" page.
I hope you will be able to attend some of our sessions.
Please, please, please, try to attend one of the five training sessions on Friday. They will be taught by a person from i>clicker to demonstrate how to use the i>clicker in your classrooms. This is a real opportunity to learn from an expert. She will be showing how to incorporate the student response units (clickers) into your classes to increase engagement and adapt your teaching to the students. I really hope that you will attend if you can.
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In addition, the sessions will be held in the beautiful Glasgow Hall in the Perez Architecture Center. This is the white building in the School of Architecture. If you haven't been in Glasgow Hall, this is a real opportunity to experience one of the most beautiful learning spaces on campus.
Teaching with Clickers at UM
When Friday November 21, 2008
* 9:05 am to 9:55 am (Period B)
* 10:10 am to 11:00 am (Period C)
* 11:15 am to 12:05 pm (Period D)
* 12:20 pm to 1:10 pm (Period E)
* 1:25 pm to 2:15 pm (Period F)
Where Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall
[This is my third message today, each on a distinctly different topic. Sorry if I am flooding your mailbox.]
RefWorks: Manage Citations & Create Bibliographies Blindfolded
Thursday, Nov. 20, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Memorial Classroom Building, Room 205
Don't know what RefWorks is? It is a free program that does what EndNote and ProCite do. You can use RefWorks to organize references and information, and then create a perfect bibliography for any writing that you do, using any of the style guides. Unlike EndNote and ProCite, RefWorks is FREE for you and your students at UM, since the library has a site license.
If you have never seen this program, come to lunch on Thursday and take a look. Even if you use something else, you might want to recommend that your students learn about this system. The training on 11/20 is for faculty and staff only. The library offers training for students at other times.
Lunch will be provided. Registration is required. To register, go to http://www.miami.edu/iac and click on the "Events" link. Then locate the "Refworks" session on 11/20. Feel free to sign up for any of the other sessions listed there. I hope to see you at the RefWorks lunch and learn session.
Bill Vilberg
I got a number of responses describing how people are using the classroom technology. They were wonderful to read. Thank you to those who wrote, and thanks to all of you who find the equipment useful in enhancing teaching/learning. This is turning out to be a useful activity for me.
Here are a few areas that I haven't heard about yet.
1. Does anyone use the computer to have someone present to the class via video conference? Either the fancy systems provided by IT or the standard system available through iChat or AIM or Skype or such? Either audio only or audio and video?
2. Does anyone use any virtual activities such as archeological digs, museums, or such with their classes? Either IN class or OUT of class?
3. Does anyone use any outside activities such as on-line archeological digs or science events or such with their classes? Either IN class or OUT of class?
4. Who is using clickers (student response systems) successfully in their classes?
5. Anyone recording their lectures as podcasts and putting them on-line for the students?
Bill Vilberg
If you are free today from 12:15 pm to 1:00 pm, I encourage you to come by the University Center patio for the opening ceremonies for Global Entrepreneurship Week. There are a number of fascinating sessions being offered throughout the week that you and your students might enjoy attending.
The opening session features Larry Rosen, http://www.larryrosen.com. On his web site it says,
Mr. Rosen is currently producing a world class jazz series at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, in Miami Florida titled, JAZZ ROOTS. The series, which is debuting in November 2008, will consist of six monthly concerts, and will be accompanied by an in-depth educational program consisting of audio/ visual materials and a curriculum for middle and high school students.
This is an example of the influential people who will be sharing their valuable knowledge with us this week.
Here is the blurb from today's e-Veritas.
Today, Monday, November 17 Global Entrepreneurship Week: Opening Ceremonies. Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education William S. Green and Frost School of Music Dean Shelton "Shelly" Berg open the Global Entrepreneurship Week festivities with entrepreneur, visionary, musician, and producer Larry Rosen, chairman of Larry Rosen Productions, Inc. The event occurs at the University Center Patio from 12:15 to 1 p.m. For more information, call 305-284-2789 or visit www.thelaunchpad.org/news-events.
Bill Vilberg
If you are actively using technology at UM in ways that enhance learning and you would like to share your excitement, please let me know. Just tell me, briefly, what you are doing so I can keep track and try to get you some much-deserved recognition for your teaching activities.
This does not require huge systems nor expensive technology. It could be the technology in the General Purpose Classrooms that you have integrated into your class in some exciting way. It could be recording your lectures and making them available to your students. I get asked for examples of High-Tech Learning taking place here. This is usually for a news story or article for the general public, so how high the tech needs to be is relative to the reader, not to the state of the art. I need to create a list, so please let me know if you, or someone you know, should be on it.
A short e-mail will suffice. Please reply now, so I can get started with this project ASAP.
Thanks,
Bill Vilberg
If you would like to more fully engage your students, but your classes are too large to have class discussions where everyone can participate ...
If you would like to know whether your students have learned a concept or skill while you are teaching it, so you can adjust your presentation ...
If you would like to know what your students understand from the assigned readings, so you can adjust your teaching ...
... Then come to the DEMONSTRATION/explanation of the student response systems (clickers) that will be held on Tuesday, November 11, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm, in the Memorial Classroom Building, Room 113. This will be a demonstration of the i>clicker system, the standard adopted by UM and available for student purchase through the campus bookstore.
There will also be a series of training sessions on Friday, November 21, in the beautiful auditorium in the School of Architecture. These will include step by step instructions for obtaining the receivers and using the clickers in class.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. To register, go to http://www.miami.edu/iac and click on the "Events" menu item.
Bill Vilberg
Instructional Advancement
Bill Vilberg
Knight Center Hosts Lectures
Rich Beckman to speak on Monday, Nov 10
The Knight Center for International Media will launch its Knight Chair lectures this fall, starting with Rich Beckman on Monday, Nov. 10. In this first lecture, Beckman, the University of Miami School of Communication's Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, will discuss how new media technologies have changed his teaching philosophy and methodology. Beckman, also a faculty member of the School of Communication's Visual Journalism program, began his career as a photojournalist and is now recognized as one of the country's foremost 'new media journalism' educators. As a producer, Beckman has led teams of students that have won many of the most prestigious multimedia prizes in the world including a Pirelli INTERNETional Award for Educational Media, and multimedia storytelling awards from the Online News Association, the National Press Photographers Association, The Society for News Design, Horizon and the Pictures of the Year International competition.
The lecture, "Staying Relevant: The Challenges of Teaching in the Digital Age," will take place at the School of Communication's Common Ground Courtyard, on Monday, Nov. 10, at 6:30 p.m., following a wine and cheese reception. A question and answer session will follow the lecture. To RSVP, email socevents@miami.edu. For more information contact Melissa Rubi Falcón at mrubi@miami.edu.
