Not Your Parent’s ‘Course Content Delivery’ — Campus Technology

Quite an interesting article about whether technology is driving the impending changes in envisioning courses as something other than content delivery .. or not. Comments?

Not Your Parent’s ‘Course Content Delivery’ — Campus Technology

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One-Minute Paper

A very concise version for quick classroom feedback:

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Clickers in the Chem classroom

Professional Day Preview

On Wed, September 2nd, BCC’s Professional Development Day “Spotlight on Innovation” will feature news and presentations from some of the best innovations in community college education – right here from your colleagues at BCC! We will hear results from recent Student Success Research projects, all about student email, LMS Updates, Service Learning in the community, our first teaching practices survey, and much more. It’s a chance to learn and socialize with colleagues before the Fall semester begins. Details are forthcoming — mark your calendars!

Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory — Group Work

Sabotaging Cooperative Learning: or, Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Jim Cooper, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Over the last few years a number of faculty at CSU Dominguez Hills have had the opportunity to share strategies for implementing Cooperative Learning with colleagues within the California State University system and around the nation. In discussions with these colleagues we have compiled a list of small group teaching techniques

Pics from the Summer Institute!

Many, many thanks to Colin Adams for these great photos!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carafox/sets/72157618512289507

Summer Institute, Part 2

Please click the link below to read the evaluation of the session

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Summer Institute, Part 1

The Summer Institute, “Learning Outside the Classroom/Learning 2.0″ was held May 20-21. There was a tremendous amount of information shared, and that is still being processed. Here are some reflections from the participants to start things off:

Reflections at the end of Day One (Learning Outside the Classroom – Service Learning, Experiential Learning, Field Trips, Study Abroad):

Students can be their own best teachers

Involve students more, allow them to give more feedback – needs trust

Students committing time

It’s never perfect; desire to impart knowledge vs. giving more responsibility to students

Peer work with guidance and goals

Time for reflections with students who are doing service learning

Role of accidental learning – willingness to let go and trust that good learning can take place

Students doing service learning felt that they had support

Issue of students’ time availability

Students are often focused on the arrival, not the journey – how to inspire them?

Students can inspire each other

Recording effective work is useful to support service learning

Service-learning stretches boundaries – other realities are out there. We need to open those boundaries up in Berkshires, become more global for competition and life

Reflections at the end of Day 2 (Learning 2.0):

Mesmerized by and tempted to use techniques

I want more life to do all of it well

Walking into dark woods, scared, pandora’s box

Delighted, learned about web 2.0, will start blog

Wondering about assessment for service-learning, how to do that, important

Day 2 only: I liked it

Still playing catch up with technology

Good flow, want to cover more but don’t know what to ask

Synchronizing instructor tech literacy with students

So many ways to use tech to expand LOTC – tech’s overlap

Could fill up summer with this

Feel more confident in ability to pursue tech

Excellent acoutrements

Exciting to integrate into classes, show off how techie I am

New goal to excite service learning by integrating newly learned tech

Welcome to the future

Useful. Transparency of students’ work to other students – stuck with me

Constructive and innovative teaching and learning materials and methods to enhance active learning in the 21^st century

Excellent intro to topics I have heard about; surprise to see how many are in similar boat; we’ll have to keep playing with it

Inspirational useful and reaffirming the fact that we need more balance in our workload

From tech nightmare to mini-nightmare

So many options, so little time

I learned a lot of action verbs that I experienced: blogged, wiki’d, facebooked, served, surveyed, blindfolded

Shifting the emphasis on the teacher, to community – need support group in September

Power of the group to learn

Besides learning and technology, chance to be among colleagues, very enriching

Summer Institute – Day One

Learning Outside the Classroom was the focus for SI Wednesday. With 25 participants and 11 guest speakers (six of them BCC students), a lively dialog ensued. Highpoints included:

- John Reiff’s presentation on the five elements of service-learning: preparation, action, reflection, evaluation, celebration

- Participants with blindfolds walking the trust line to get an experiential feel for the obstacles students encounter at community college (led by Louise Hurwitz)

- Carol Hilderbrante and Tom Troiano talking about their work at Salvation Army’s juvenile life skills course

- Visions of study abroad and field tripping with Graziano Ramsden of MCLA and Lois Cooper and Tom Tyning

- Five BCC students and two Crosby Elementary Students talking about math tutoring as service learning

- Faculty at round tables engaging across disciplines about student learning and teaching approaches

Tomorrow we shift to “Learning 2.0″ – where technology becomes the medium for getting outside the classroom… more soon

Summer Institute starts today!

Soon 28 BCC Faculty and Staff will arrive shortly for Learning Outside the Classroom & Learning 2.0 – will report on the outcomes later today…