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G.I.F.T.S. Sessions - February 20, 2007
Dennis Radice (Adult Education, Levy Center) “Essay Outlines in 30 Seconds or Less”
I find students waste too much time in the preparation as a way to avoid putting pencil to paper. This presentation will highlight a fun technique for helping students create basic essay topic sentences and outlines quickly. The goal is to get students past the “ponder, ponder, ponder,” stage and into the “production” stage of essay writing.
Joe Zimmerman and Liz Minnerly ( T/LI, LRC ) “Faculty Portfolios for Dummies”
Joe and Liz reviewed the portfolio process (both continuing extended contract and rank/reward) and offer helpful hints for each step.
Amy Cantrell (Math) “Dr. Amy's Portal Philosophy”
In this session participants saw a completed application of our new portal system. Amy shared some tips about two programs very useful in distributing information to students: Starboard and Writely, an internet based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps your documents on a Google server.
Rod McGinnes ( EMS) “Paperless Quizzes: An Intro to Classroom Performance Systems”
Want to save lots of time grading quizzes and tests? Want to find out if your students have been paying attention the first thirty minutes of class? Come and learn the basic setup and operation of the CPS student feedback system, a system that uses individual student clickers and a teacher workstation for quick and easy student assessment.
Carole Bartholomew (Communications) “Learning Styles”
Albert Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read. A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had “no good ideas.” As teachers, we know that different people develop at different rates. Understanding and using learning styles activities, strategies and techniques in the classroom expand opportunities for all students to have a more successful experience in the classroom.
Mike Temple (Communications, Citrus) “When Will I Ever Use This Literature Stuff in the Real World?
--Teaching the Literary Classification Essay”
Every liberal arts instructor, as well as many math and science instructors, has heard this student complaint. At its heart is a powerful American cultural belief that L. Frank Baum satirizes with these words by the Wizard of Oz: “You don’t need an education. All you need is a diploma!” So how do we, as educators, persuade our students to see the dangerous fallacy inherent in the pervasive anti-intellectualism of their own culture? In my ENC 1102 Comp II class, I use the literary classification essay to teach students how to analyze the messages of popular culture by teaching them how to classify the messages by the various artistic schools to which they belong.
Rhonda Rawls (Business and Technology) “Podcast ≠ Ipod”
Participants will be introduced to the steps involved in creating a podcast and receive information to explore it on their own.
no geeks allowed!
Verne Ayers (Fine Arts) “3 Lines to Success”
This quick learning experience encourages the student to see and think differently. Everyone can be successful with a little help from a creative mind. This encourages the student to see parts rather than the final project. Seeing before you create is vital to the growth of an individual. Verne will demonstrate the technique and you will be surprised at just how talented you are!
