The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program presented its second weekly faculty speaker series on Teaching with Technology during the Fall quarter of 2007. Speakers included award-winning teachers and new faculty experimenting with emerging instructional technologies and fresh approaches to teaching. Presentations were recorded live in the Mediaworks (ATS) Conference Room.

Fridays, 12-1:30PM           ATS (Mediaworks) Conference Room

Date	Speaker, Department	Topic	Video
Oct 5	Kristina de Korsak (Chancellor’s Teaching Fellow from Linguistics)	SmartSite Tools
Oct 12	Don Meisenheimer (University Writing Program)	Voice Recognition Software used to Evaluate Student Writing
Oct 19	Pat Randolph (Evolution and Ecology) and Milmon Harrison	Podcasting
Oct 26	Peter Yellowlees (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)	Using Second Life to Understand Schizophrenia
Nov 2	Kirk Alexander (IET-Academic Technology Services)	ARTstor
Nov 9	Dawn Sumner (Geology)	"del.icio.us", YouTube, and Undergraduate Sedimentology Students
Nov 16	Innisfree Seyman and Andy Jones	Teaching with Concept Maps and other visuals
Nov 30	Robert Blake	Moodle

After each featured speaker’s informal presentation, participants discussed the advertised topic and other teaching strategies and tools, including SmartSite, the new UC Davis course management system, past participants in the Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program who have benefited from the peer support, new teaching ideas, and camaraderie generated at the weekly meetings.

Please contact me with any questions.

Andy Jones
Faculty Liaison, Mediaworks (ATS) and the Teaching Resources Center
Manager, The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program
University of California, Davis
aojones@ucdavis.edu