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
Apr 10	Jon Wagner and Leslie Madsen-Brooks, The Teaching Resources Center; Daniel Goldstein, Shields Library	Visual Literacy and Critical Thinking
Apr 17	Annaliese Franz, Chemistry	Personalizing Student Learning in Large Science and Math Classes with Scavenger Hunt and YouTube Writing Assignments
Apr 24	Larry Lagerstrom, Electrical and Computer Engineering	Multimedia: Practical Theory and Advice for Instructors
May 1	John Owens, Electrical and Computer Engineering	What I've Learned About Teaching with PowerPoint
May 8	Bob Blake, Department of Spanish. Accompanied by Kelly Bilinski, Maria Cetto, and Omar Velazquez Mendoza	Teaching Language in Blended and Virtual Learning Environments: Voices from the TA Trenches.
May 15	David Webb, Physics, Andy Jones, The University Writing Program	Radically Decentered Teaching
May 22	Wendy Silk, Professor, Land, Air, and Water Resources	How They Learned Science by Singing About It
May 29	1) Sandy Harcourt, Anthropology, 2) Beth Freeman, English	1) People Watching: Problems and Pleasures of a Lower Division Course in Scientific Methodology & 2) Your Friend the Index Card

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