Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program Speakers for Fall 2009


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


DateSpeaker, DepartmentTopicVideo
Oct 2 Sam Nichols, Music What Teaching with Writing has Taught Me about Teaching Music icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
Oct 9 Delmar Larsen, Chemistry Encouraging Writing in Large Chemistry Classes via the Online ChemWiki Resource icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
Oct 16 Mikaela Huntzinger, Ecology & The Teaching Resources Center; Andy Jones, University Writing Program & The Teaching Resources Center Concept Mapping: Determining How and What Students Learn from our Classes icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
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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