Hybrid Courses—Combining the Strengths of Face-to-Face and Online Learning
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Wednesday, 9-13-2006 from 12:30-1:30 pm
STEW 318
Today’s and tomorrow’s problems require creative solutions. Hybrid cars are such a solution. They utilize the strengths of gas-powered and electric cars to overcome the shortcomings of each one of the two cars. Can the benefits of hybrid approaches also be utilized in higher education by combining the strengths of face-to-face and online learning?
Join us for our first Teaching & Technology Brown Bag of the fall 2006 semester on Wednesday, 9-13-2006 from 12:30-1:30 pm in STEW 318 and find out for yourself what Chuck Calahan (Professor in CDFS) and David G. Meyer (Professor in ECE) have to say about their experiences with teaching hybrid courses. They will talk about their reasons for teaching hybrid courses and some of the advantages and challenges they have experienced with teaching them.
Virtual Simulations--Making Learning More Real and Concrete
Tuesday, October 24 2006, 12:30-1:30 pm
Envision Center
Presented by Jeffrey Holland, Assistant Professor of Entomology; Sorin Matei, Assistant Professor of Communication; Nicholas Rauh, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature
Are you wondering how you can make the content of your classes more ‘real’ and ‘concrete’ to your students? Are you wondering how you can better address the learning needs of visual learners? If you answered the previous questions with yes and you are short of the resources needed to buy a time machine or to take your students on a field trip you may want to consider looking into what the Envision Center here at Purdue has to offer.
Jeff Holland (Entomology) will demonstrate a virtual ecological simulation designed to help students understand a complex theory. Sorin Matei (Communication) and Nick Rauh (Foreign Language and Literature) will discuss their virtual environment that simulates the Ancient Roman Forum. Join us on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 from 12:30-1:30pm in the Envision Center and let your imagination wander to see what possibilities the Envision Center might be holding for your classes. The Envision Center is located in the hallway that connects the PMU to the Stewart Center (close to the Starbucks in the PMU).
Student Retention: Mining Student Data to Support Future Early Intervention Initiatives
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Wednesday, November 15 2006, 12:30-1:30 pm
Presented by: John Campbell, Associate Vice President for Information Technology;
Bart Collins, Director Digital Content & Assistant Professor of Communication
Do you have students vanish from your class or program and you wonder who they are and how you can possibly help them stay in the program or class? Expanding traditional student success models by the inclusion of course management system (CMS) tracking data may significantly aid retention efforts by improving early intervention programs. Come and join us on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 from 12:30-1:30pm in STEW 214B to find out from John Campbell and Bart Collins on how data collected in WebCT Vista can possibly do this.
Spring 2006 Brownbag Schedule
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes- Detecting Online Plagiarism through "Turnitin"
Wednesday, April 12, 12:30-1:30 pm
STEW 320
Presented by: Laurie E. Iten, Associate Professor of Biology
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Have you ever felt like Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie when trying to trace back the origins of your students'
papers? What do you do when you are not sure how original students' ideas really are and whether or not they engaged
in online plagiarism? If you look for answers to those questions you may want to learn more about 'Turnitin', a program
designed to help faculty detect online plagiarism. Come to our Teaching & Technology Brown Bag on Wednesday, 4-12-2006
from 12:30-1:30 pm in STEW 214B and listen to what two of Purdue's Agatha Christies have to say about dealing with online
plagiarism. Find out for yourself what Laurie Iten, Associate Professor of Biology, and Deborah Saks, Lecturer
in the School of Management, have to share about their experiences with using 'Turnitin' in their courses.
Creating Presentations with "Articulate"-Going Beyond PowerPoint's Possibilities
Wednesday, March 8, 12:30-1:30 pm
STEW 320
Presented by: Timothy J. Newby, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
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PowerPoint is probably the most widely-used presentation tool in classrooms. Given PowerPoint's popularity it is
easy to overlook other presentation tools that offer features and capabilities beyond those of PowerPoint. One
of them is Articulate. Some of its features include recording and synchronizing narrations, creating interactive
presentations through adding quizzes or surveys, and transforming PowerPoint presentations into Flash-based
presentations. Come and join us for our Teaching & Technology Brown Bag on Wednesday, 3-8-2006 from 12:30-1:30 pm
in STEW 320 to see for yourself some of the possibilities of Articulate. Tim Newby, Professor in Curriculum and
Instruction, will demonstrate and talk about some of the reasons for which he is using Articulate.
Using Technology to Foster Active Learning: What Dyknow Can Offer
Wednesday, January 18 2006, 12:30-1:30 pm
STEW 320
Presented by: David Berque, Professor of Computer Science, DePauw University
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Are you tired of students falling asleep during your PowerPoint presentation or students surfing the internet during your class? If so, you may want to consider learning about Dyknow, software designed to foster active learning and collaboration inside and outside of the classroom. Among other things, Dyknow enables teachers to transmit class notes to students’ computers, to review and display student work for assessment and discussion, and to monitor and control student computers to help students stay on task.
Purdue University will begin a pilot program to use this new technology in Spring 2006. This brownbag session will provide a demonstration of this new software and provide information to those who may be interested in piloting the software. Come and join us to find out from Professor Dave Berque, who was named in 1997 the Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, what Dyknow may offer to you and your students. |
