The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program is pleased to announce a new weekly faculty speaker series on Teaching with Technology. This quarter the speakers will include award-winning teachers and new faculty experimenting with emerging instructional technologies and fresh approaches to teaching.

Fridays, 12-1:00PM           250 Olson

Date	Speaker, Department	Topic	Video
Oct 10	Susan Keen, Evolution and Ecology	Pre-Labs and Audio Guides, and other strategies for teaching large enrollment classes
Oct 17	Bruce Hammock, Entomology	Lessons Learned from One-on-One Teaching Interactions with Undergraduates and Graduate Students
Oct 24	James Shackelford, Chemical Engineering and the Integrated Studies Program	Mentoring an Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Lessons Learned for Increasing Undergraduate Research at UC Davis
Oct 31	Bella Merlin, Theatre and Dance	Transformative Teaching and Embodied Learning
Nov 7	Andy Jones, University Writing Program and the Teaching Resources Center	Four and a Half Hats: Classroom Personae We Adopt to Encourage Interaction, Curiosity, and Independent Learning
Nov 14	Krishnan Nambiar, Chemistry	Teaching large classes: Making it relevant using Visuals
Nov 21	John Boe, University Writing Program	On Reading
Dec 5	Faculty Panel	Pleasures and Challenges of the Freshman Seminar

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
University Writing Program and the Teaching Resources Center
Manager, The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program
University of California, Davis
aojones@ucdavis.edu