CTL News Archive
December 2007
- Summer Faculty Development Workshops
APPS: Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to provide funding support for tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty to design, develop and implement an innovative instructional strategy for an online or face-to face learning environment.
- Call for Proposals: Annual Teaching with Technology Showcase
The Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the first annual Teaching With Technology Showcase, a one-day event held in conjunction with the Technology Fair sponsored by the FSU Computer Store. We invite faculty, librarians, and teaching assistants to share their experiences in using technology in teaching, learning and assessment. Proposals should address the impact of strategies on student learning, and instructor efficiency and effectiveness as well as provide insight into challenges encountered and solutions discovered. The deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, Jan. 11, 2008.
November 2007
Teaching Excellence Series: The Importance of Group Dynamics in College Teaching, Dr. Frederick R. Davis. (requires Windows Media Player)
- Review Innovative Instruction Grant Activities
The Advisory Council for Innovative Instruction invites proposals for faculty-led and department supported undergraduate instructional development projects.
October 2007
- Teaching Excellence Series: How Ordinary Classrooms can be Transformed into Active Learning Communities, Dr. Elizabeth Goldsmith. (requires Windows Media Player)
September 2007
- Teaching Excellence Series: Seriously Funny: What I've Learned About Teaching (And Why You Shouldn't Listen to Me), Dr. David Kirby. (requires Windows Media Player)
August 2007
- PRS - Introduction and Overview Julie Weiss, InterWrite PRS (requires Windows Media Player)
- PRS - Basics Julie Weiss, InterWrite PRS (requires Windows Media Player)
- PRS - Advanced Applications instructor discussion (requires Windows Media Player)
- PRS for Students (90 Kb
) - PRS for Instructors (Mac) (1.3 Mb )
- PRS for Instructors (PC) (664 Kb )
- Encouraging Active Learning in Large Classes
Dr. Nora Underwood, assistant Professor of Biological Science and a University Teaching Award Recipient (2006) shares strategies for an easy (and low-tech) method for encouraging active learning in large classes.
- Teaching Large Classes
Strategies, guidelines and resources for creating interactive environments, successful lectures, and managing the large classroom. - FSU's 2007 Teaching Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2007 Teaching Award recipients! APPS Center for Teaching and Learning is looking forward to working with the Provost and 2006-2007 University Teaching Award Winners to build an environment of teaching excellence at Florida State University.
- Fall Kick-Off Teaching Conference - August 15, 16 and 17, 2007
This three-day series of workshops and discussions for new and returning FSU faculty will address a wide range of topics, from new instructional technologies to engaging and effective strategies and techniques for the traditional classroom. The sessions will be highly participatory and pragmatic, and will give instructors the opportunity to meet some of their colleagues from around campus while establishing contact with the team of teaching enhancement consultants at APPS: Center for Teaching and Learning.
Conference Agenda - Adobe PDF (264kb)
- PIE Fall Teaching Conference
This annual conference for Teaching Assistants (TAs) will be held on August 22-23, 2007 from 8:00am - 4:00pm in the New Classroom Building. TAs will learn strategies for teaching, understand their role as a TA, and learn about University policy issues such as academic integrity and sexual harassment. They will also have an opportunity to earn a PIE Certificate and network with experienced TAs.
Register Online
July 2007
- CTL Tech Tip 7: Guidelines, Models and Templates
Use models to help you organize and present course materials. In some cases (like Powerpoint), you can "apply a template" and change the look of an entire group of materials with a few mouse clicks. Review our Course Website Design Guidelines, Organization models and Powerpoint Slide Templates.
June 2007
- CTL Tech Tip 6: Instructional Media: Chalkboards to Video
Types of instructional media, general presentation guidelines, instructional strategies involving media, and more from chapter 9 of Instruction at FSU: A Guide to Teaching & Learning Practices. ( 272 Kb)
- CTL Tech Tip 5: Flash video examples in Blackboard
See examples of Flash video that have been used effectively in Blackboard course sites. An excellent example is Professor Douglas Stevens' Accounting 5308 video intro to Current Issues in Accounting. When playing Flash video, place the cursor in the playback window for a smoother picture. Use our online form to request digital media from production staff.
May 2007
- CTL Tech Tip 4: Use the Technology-Enhanced Classrooms
Technology-Enhanced Classrooms (TECs) allow you to use computer consoles, DVD/VHS players, personal response systems, wireless microphones, and other technologies to enhance your teaching.
- CTL Tech Tip 3: Add Multimedia to your Blackboard course site
Interested in using audio and video in your course? Get guidance in incorporating instructional multimedia into your content areas, and discover options for adding digital media to your course site. Requires Windows Media Player
April 2007
- CTL Tech Tip 2: Use Technology to Improve Student Learning
In this enhanced podcast, see a learning model for considering where technology can improve student learning. Specific ways of incorporating Blackboard into classroom instruction are demonstrated. (requires iTunes)
- CTL Tech Tip 1: Get Started with PRS
A very short (1 minute, 43 seconds) Flash video tutorial shows how to enter your Blackboard ID into the PRSfr clicker
- Graduate Student Award Recognition
See the graduate student awards recently granted for excellence in teaching, research and creativity, leadership, contributions to the university, and service to fellow graduate students. - PIE Fall Teaching Conference
The 2007 Fall Teaching Conference will be on August 22-23, 2007 from 8:00am - 4:00pm in the New Classroom Building.
March 2007
- Teaching Excellence Series: Increasing Students Engagement in Large Classrooms Dr. Ken Goldsby (requires Windows Media Player)
- Sociology hybrid nominated for award
Sociology professors Ike Eberstein and John Reynolds recently learned that their hybrid “Introduction to Sociology” course has been nominated for a Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Course award. - Summer Faculty Development Workshops
APPS: Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to provide funding support for FSU faculty (Assistant-In classification and higher) to design and develop an innovative instructional strategy in a Summer Faculty Development Workshop. The strategy will then be implemented in the Fall semester. Deadline to apply is April 2, 2007. Find out more. - Graduate Student Award Recognition
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 from 10:00-11:30 at the Student Life Building, FSU will honor graduate students for excellence in teaching, research, contributions to the university, and service to fellow graduate students. We are proud of their outstanding achievements and congratulate them on their success.
February 2007
- Teaching Excellence Series: Building a "Real World" Classroom Dr. John W. Parks (requires Windows Media Player)
- Instruction at FSU: A Guide to Teaching & Learning Practices
Read the chapters online in the links provided, or download a zipped file of the entire handbook. - Funding Opportunities
APPS-CTL offers funded support for design and development of innovative instructional strategies for the online and face-to face learning environments. - Summer Institute Application Process - Delayed
Details on the Institute and revised application due date will be forthcoming. - Update: 12+ Simple Things to Do with a Course Site
(PDF: 128 Kb)
January 2007
- Teaching Excellence Series: Enhancing Faculty-Student Interaction Dr. Sissi Carroll (requires Windows Media Player)
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