2015 Program
2015 Program
Trying to figure out how to determine if your ELU bank is correct? What are the rules for calculating a faculty member’s ELUs? The objectives of this workshop are to:
We hope you will find this workshop to be practical, but depend on your jokes for entertainment.
Presenters: Vicki Purslow & Karen Stone
Open access gives faculty the freedom to tailor their textbooks to instruction rather than the other way around (and saves students money). Come learn how to find and use high-quality, open-access textbooks and hear about SOU and HECC funding opportunities in support of them.
Presenters: Mary Jane Cedar Face, Shawn Foster, Jeff Gayton & Brian Stonelake
We call it the grading grind—the teaching activity that takes the most out of most of us. We know that providing thorough, timely, relevant and frequent feedback is the most effective way to support student learning, but it.. is.. just.. so.. hard. Let's explore best practices in assignment design and smart use of tools, and figure out how to "work wiser" so that you can provide good feedback, and still have a life.
Presenters: Kristin Nagy Catz, Vicki Suter & Hart Wilson
SOU has adopted DegreeWorks, a “comprehensive academic advising, transfer articulation, and degree audit solution that aligns students, advisors, and institutions to a common goal: helping students graduate on time.” With degree auditing, what-if scenarios, student planning tools and other features, DegreeWorks will help all of us support students.
Presenters: MaryAnn Neely & Matt Stillman
Students vary considerably in their preferences and abilities related to visual, auditory, and tactile learning experiences. This session will describe innovative activities designed to appeal to different learning styles in an Immunology course and how students rated them. For example, classroom games appealed to all students, regardless of preferred learning style. Participants will learn how to invent a classroom game and have the chance to play a game. Come prepared to share some of your course activities and how they relate to diverse learning styles.
Presenter: Kathleen Page
Find out how to streamline and enhance your Moodle site. We’ll look at how to use labels as signposts, attach files to assignment links, embed pdf files in pages and books, facilitate group sign-ups, enhance student engagement with glossaries and forums, and more. Jot down your questions and prepare to noodle your Moodle!
Happy Moodler: Hart Wilson
A growing number of students are coming out as transgender or gender non-conforming before and during their college experience. This session will help participants explore how trans* students understand and express their identity as well as provide concrete steps that staff and faculty can implement to provide a more trans* inclusive environment.
Presenters: Kylan deVries, Carey Sojka, Marjorie Trueblood-Gamble & janelle wilson
How can current research on memory and learning inform our course design and teaching practices? Questions we’ll explore include:
Presenters: Mark Krause, Vicki Suter & John Taylor
Graphics and multimedia are more than just “eye-candy.” If used appropriately, multimedia can improve student learning and engagement. Participants in this workshop will see how faculty and students have used simple multimedia tools (including YouTube) to express scientific concepts. In the hands-on section of this workshop, participants will learn how to use the same technology to create a multimedia introduction of themselves that will help them make connections to their students whether face-to-face or online.
Presenter: Ellen Siem
During the past eighteen months, the ePortfolio Explorations Task Force carried out seven pilots to:
In this session, faculty participating in the pilots will showcase student ePortfolios and talk about their experiences. ePortfolio Explorations Task Force members will also describe the recommendations made to the University Assessment Committee.
Facilitator: Hart Wilson
What are the stories that our syllabi tell and what promises do they make? We’ll look at examples of syllabi that tell stories and engage students. Join in a conversation with colleagues about the purposes, teaching philosophies, and challenges of creating a syllabus.
Presenter: Jessica Piekielek
Undergraduate research is strongly correlated with student persistence, academic achievement, and post-graduate success. Learn about the impact of undergraduate research and hear stories about students and their research. Find out how SOAR can help faculty and students support undergraduate research. What other resources can we develop and deploy to create a culture of undergraduate research?
Presenters: Jeff Gayton & Deborah Hofer
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex and gender-based discrimination at institutions which receive federal financial assistance. There has recently been a lot of discussion about sexual harassment and assault as violations of Title IX, but are you aware of other sex-based discriminatory actions? In this session, we will discuss what is protected under Title IX and SOU’s response to violations through the Campus Choice Program.
Presenters: Marjorie Trueblood-Gamble & Angela Fleischer
Join us for the afternoon plenary to take a playful look at a serious subject—student success—and try out our board game, Win, Lose or (With)Draw to get a taste of the student experience (and some fine refreshments, too). Winners—those who make it through the ten weeks of the term with A’s—will win a gift certificate for $5.
Convener: Vicki Suter
Zoom is the new web conferencing system available to all SOU faculty, staff and students. Learn how you can use Zoom to meet online with students, groups, colleagues, or anyone else using a computer, tablet or smartphone. We’ll discuss how real-time conferencing can create connections, increase the sense of faculty presence for all students—online or face-to-face—and increase student engagement.
Presenter: Vicki Suter
We hear about active shooters, natural disasters, and inclement weather impacting campuses across the country. Would you know what to do if any of these things happened at SOU? Do you know what SOU has planned? Join the Crisis Management Team (CMT) in a discussion of your role in responding to a crisis and find out how CMT supports all aspects of SOU.
Presenters: Taylor Burke, Victor Chang & Fred Creek
Join colleagues from across campus in a working session to address strategies for fostering a campus culture of extracurricular learning and participation. By the end of this workshop, you will have participated in the development of a series of best practices and strategies for:
Facilitators: Vince Smith & Danielle Mancuso
Come learn about recent updates to the Library's website—large and small. We will cover our new FAQ service, streamlined homepage, new research guide interface, added ability to search across multiple resources in the catalog, and changes in our databases including the move from EBSCO to ProQuest and the new WorldCat interface. Take advantage of this guided tour and find what you need more quickly.
Presenter: Emily Miller-Francisco
If your course is approved for University Studies credit, it should include one or more assignments that directly map to the relevant University Studies outcome:
SOU requires students to earn a third of their credits within University Studies. In return, we make a commitment to students to help them achieve general education outcomes set forth by faculty-approved criteria. How do you find out if your course is a University Studies Course? Where can you get help to make sure it meets the University Studies requirement? Join Lee Ayers, Director of Undergraduate Studies, for a conversation about what it means to teach a University Studies course.
Facilitator: Lee Ayers
This session will provide an overview of the 2015-16 Campus Theme, Exploring Reality, focusing on ways you and your students can get involved and participate.
Presenters: Prakash Chenjeri & Dan Morris
This is session reserved for members of the Teacher Education Committee (faculty teaching special methods in the MAT program and supervising student teachers).
Convener: John King
Join us to explore the statement “Our students deserve access to an education that prepares them to succeed outside the classroom" (Clawson, Preparing Students for Competency-Based Hiring). In a 2013 survey sponsored by the AAC&U (It Takes More Than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and Student Success), employers “consistently rank outcomes and practices that involve application of skills over acquisition of discrete bodies of knowledge.” Employers also want candidates to be able to demonstrate their skills. Are we creating conditions that allow students to showcase their knowledge and applied skills in ways that are meaningful to potential employers? How are we helping students make the transition from college to the next step on their chosen path?
Facilitators: Erik Palmer, Mark Shibley & Vicki Suter