[ED-TECH] Innovative Assignments (New Media)

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I am looking for people at UM who are using innovative assignments in their classes.  Most assignments tend to be written work.  The second most common tend to be oral presentations. I am looking for other types of student assignements/projects, particularly those that use new media such as web logs, wikis, recordings/podcasts, videos, web sites, or other similar materials.

 

For example, Blythe Nobleman, a Podcasting Teaching Fellow in 2006, had her students create podcasts in her “Writing about Science and Technology” class.  The final podcast of the year, produced by the students, can be heard at http://www.as.miami.edu/english/wiki/images/f/fc/Final_podcast.mp3. Currently, in the same course, her students are working on “visual rhetoric” and creating videos.  One draft, by a student who had never used animation software before, is posted on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cx9ApVus1g.

 

We would like to set up some Lunch and Learn activities for the Spring where people who are creating these types of learning activities can share their experiences with their colleagues across the campus.  If you are using innovative student assignments using new media, please let me know, OK?  If you know of anyone else doing this, either ask them to get in touch with me or let me know and I will get to them.

 

There are so many exciting activities that UM is doing with our students, I look forward to providing this opportunity to help promote and share these with other faculty members.

 

Bill Vilberg

Assoc. Dir. of Instructional Advancement

[ED-TECH] Podcasting

Ed-Tech mailing list,

 

UM has signed an agreement with Apple’s iTunesU to host podcasts. We also have the ability to record presentations from the newly renovated classrooms.  We have the ability and equipment to support faculty who want to record their presentations from any other location.  Recorded classroom presentations and lectures can be made available right now through Blackboard, on a special server UM has set up, on individual web pages, and, soon, through iTunesU.

 

As part of this move toward podcasting of appropriate classes, I would like to find out what classes at UM are currently being recorded and distributed to the students.  If you are recording and distributing your lectures to your students, would you please let me know?  If you know of someone doing this, would you either tell me about it or ask them to let me know?

 

Our goal is to identify the early adopters. We would like them to share their experiences with other faculty, and we would like to work with them first, if they would like to make use of any of these new capabilities.

 

Bill Vilberg

Assoc. Dir. of Instructional Advancement

[ED-TECH] Workshop on LEARNING

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Executive Summary:

 

What: Workshop on Learning

When: Wednesday, 11/15 and repeated Thursday, 11/16; 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

Where: University Center, Room 226 A/B (Flamingo Ballroom A/B)

Who: Faculty and TAs or anyone else interested in participating

How: Register by going to http://snipurl.com/TAInfo

 

Explanation:

 

The Instructional Advancement Center invites you to attend a workshop on Learning.  It will be  a real workshop, not a presentation. Participants will evaluate their own learning styles and how they have affected their studies in their disciplines. Participants will also work on creating learning activities for their students that would help students with different learning styles.  I will be facilitating the workshop.

 

If you are interested in these topics, I encourage you to attend.  If you have contact with TAs, I hope you will encourage them to attend.  The workshop will be given twice, once on Wednesday, November 14^th and once on Thursday, November 15^th. Both workshops will start at 3:30 PM and end at 4:45 PM.  The workshops will take place in University Center, Room 226 A/B (Flamingo Ballroom A/B).  Refreshments will be served.  Registration is required.

 

To register, please go to http://snipurl.com/TAInfo and click on the link to the registration form.  This session is part of the TA Training Program offered by the IAC, so the participants will be both faculty and TAs.  As a faculty member, your experiences will be a valuable contribution to the discussion at your table.  I hope you will be able to participate.

 

Bill Vilberg

Assoc. Dir. of Instructional Advancement

[ED-TECH] The "Acting" of Teaching

Bruce Lecure teaches in our Department of Theatre Arts and won an Excellence in Teaching award in 2004.  The next year he gave a wonderful presentation at the Teaching Assistant Orientation where he talked about warming up for teaching the same way an actor warms up for a performance: voice, muscles, mind, etc.  On October 30 and repeated on October 31, he is going to offer a workshop on these and related topics.  I strongly encourage everyone to attend.  Here is the notice, with the sign-up link, from Friday’s e-Veritas.

Tuesday, October 30 and Wednesday, October 31 “Improving Your Performance: Maximizing the Communication Skills of Your Voice and Body.” Attend a workshop for faculty and teaching assistants presented by Bruce Lecure, professor in the Department of Theatre Arts, who will share specific techniques to improve communication in the classroom. Attend the workshop both days from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. in the Learning Center Classroom Building. To register, visit www.snurl.com/lecure. For more information, e-mail pnickerson@miami.edu or call 305-284-2008.

This session is also part of the TA Training series that Instructional Advancement offers, so please share this with your Teaching Assistants. 

 

Late last semester I received a phone call about a faculty member who had just taught four consecutive classes and no longer had a voice left.  I was asked if there was anything the IAC could do to help faculty with this problem.  So we invited Bruce to teach this workshop.  Don’t miss this chance to pick up some valuable information.

 

Notice that the sessions will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm, in the Learning Center, Room 110.  Registration is required.

 

Bill Vilberg

Assoc. Dir. of Instructional Advancement

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