Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program Speakers for Spring 2008


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 (Note Room Change)

DateSpeaker, DepartmentTopicVideo
April 11 Bryan Enderle, Chemistry A Panoply of Teaching Technologies   
April 18 Jon Wagner, Education and TRC Assessment "Of" and "Through" Instructional Technology icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
April 25 Sally McKee, History iTouch in the Classroom: So Close and Not Too Far icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
May 2 Michael Wilkes, Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Health Programs TAL: an Example of Statewide Collaborative Learning icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
May 9 Lauren Liets, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior Integrating the tablet PC with other teaching technologies in both large and small classes icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
May 16 Frank Hirtz, Human and Community Development Collaborative Research and Report Writing in a Class of 70 Students icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
May 23 Donald Strong, Evolution and Ecology Large Lecture Classes: Struggling into the Future icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
May 30 Lori Lubin, Physics CHiPPs : My Experience with the Personal Response System icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media
June 6 SmartSite Panel Faculty users of SmartSite share their experiences icon for Quicktime icon for Windows Media

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