ksu excellence in action Summer 2008 Exploratorium: Tools for Learning and Teaching

Faculty, need to update your fall classes with technology or learning techniques?

You are invited to attend the Summer 2008 Exploratorium: Tools for Learning and Teaching on July 24 and 25 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in White Hall. The two-day event will include technology tools hands-on sessions and exploratory demonstrations.

Concurrent Session Topics: 45-minute pedagogical approach and demonstration of tools, followed by an optional 45-minute hands and minds-on practice. Bring your syllabus or project ideas. There will be three concurrent sessions and each day will consist of two morning times and two afternoon times. Popular topics will be offered more than once.

13 different workshop topics:

  • Smartboards
  • Podcasting
  • WebCT Vista
  • Information literacy
  • iMovie/video editing
  • Surveys
  • Web pages 2.0 enhanced
  • Camtasia/lecture capturing
  • Modern writing assignment
  • AQIP
  • Internationalization of your course
  • Service learning
  • Undergraduate research

Workshop participants will be entered into a drawing to win digital recorders, Food 4 Thought coupons, thumb drives and more.

Exploratorium of additional technologies (displays and information) will be available all day:

  • Digital audio and video recording
  • Twiter
  • VoiceThread
  • Wiki
  • Blog
  • iTunes U
  • Videoconferencing with Skype/Net meeting
  • Ethical issues of Facebook
  • Second Life
  • Effective posters and more

Online registration:
Sign up soon. Space for the concurrent sessions is limited. http://fpdc.kent.edu/ For more information, contact Mary Tipton at mtipton@kent.edu.

This event is hosted by the Instructional Resources Center in the College of EHHS, and the Faculty Professional Development Center, with support from the Educational Technology division of IS.