The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program presented its first weekly faculty speaker series on Teaching with Technology during the Spring 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.

Date	Speaker, Department	Topic	Video
April 6	Amy Clarke, University Writing Program	“Teaching with Images” (including discussion of PowerPoint, Almagest, etc.)
April 13	Roger McDonald, Nutrition	“Using the SmartSite Wiki to Encourage Collaborative Learning”
April 20	Susan Keen, Evolution and Ecology	"Reaching Big Classes with Clickers and Writing Tablets"
April 27	Chris Thaiss, Director, University Writing Program	“Teaching Writing with and without SmartSite”
May 4	Ken Shackel, Plant Sciences	“Using Assessment Tools for Surveys” (with bonus commentary on tablet PCs)
May 11	D. Kern Holoman, Music	“Using SmartSite and Podcasting in Large Classes”
May 18	Jeanine Pfeiffer, Science and Society / Plant Pathology	“Twenty Ways to Trick (Engage) Students In Proactive Course Participation”
May 25	Kristina de Korsak, Linguistics	“Encouraging Participation with SmartSite Tools” (now with comments from students)
June 1	Bob Ostertag, Technocultural Studies	Teaching Technology with Technology: Examples from Technocultural Studies

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