Good Morning!
Here are a few of the upcoming events at DCAL:
Responding to Crisis: Sexual Assault, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Tuesday, April 1, 2014
This session is designed to assist you when students, staff or faculty colleagues disclose that they have been a victim of sexual violence. We'll discuss basic crisis intervention skills and provide a complete overview of resources on campus. This session will provide useful information if you have never experienced this situation and those who are looking for a refresher on these skills.
Register for this session: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event.php?id=619620
First-year Writing and Canvas: New Strategies, New Possibilities, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, April 3, 2014
The College has made the decision to move from the Blackboard Learning Management System to the Canvas system (see http://sites.dartmouth.edu/canvas/). Among the new features Canvas enables is the option to connect courses’ learning outcomes to specific activities and assignments. Several Institute for Writing and Rhetoric faculty are among the early adopters for Canvas. This session will offer examples from these faculty and from members of the Instructional Design team (Educational Technologies) of the kinds of uses of Canvas we have begun to adopt in first-year writing courses, and will show faculty the learning outcomes function. The session will conclude with brainstorming about how this function might support both the use and the revision of our course outcomes.
Register for this presentation: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event.php?id=520954
Leveraging Openly Available Course Materials To Enhance Student Learning, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Tuesday, April 8, 2014
What are the benefits to student learning of openly available and reusable materials? What resources are available to you for discovering, reusing, remixing, and redistributing educational materials for your courses, and licensing your own for reuse too? Learn about the teams available to help you develop your content for new ways of learning in both the edX and residential courses. Find out about open education resources and tools, and how to apply Fair use and Creative Commons licenses to your own course materials.
Register for this discussion: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event.php?id=620357
Teaching Science Seminar-Science Textbooks: Past, Present, and Future, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, April 10, 2014
An article in Change magazine in 1992 said that “textbooks have never been more beautiful, sophisticated, or useful. The textbook ‘package’ is a premier vehicle for teaching and learning.” As an author, John Kotz (SUNY Distiguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus), believes this was and still is true. However, market forces such as cost and the rise of social media, tablets, online courses (MOOCs), and OERs are changing the landscape rapidly. His publisher said recently that “it is like being in a jungle now,” and that “this is an interesting time if you have the stomach for it.” In this seminar Professor Kotz plans to survey the current situation and solicit opinions and ideas for the future of materials used in science education.
Register for this seminar: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event.php?id=620377
Lunch is provided at all midday events, please be sure to register!
Have a great weekend-
Elaine
Elaine Livingston
Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL)
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