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
Jan 16	Katharine Burnett, Art History	Empowered Learning through Online Teaching
Jan 23	John Yoder, Plant Sciences	Discussing Bioethics with Fifty Undergraduates
Jan 30	Kirk Alexander, IET-Academic Technology Services	Using SmartSite at UC Davis
Feb 6	Liz Applegate, Nutrition	What I've Learned from 45,000 Students: The Evolution of Nut 10
Feb 13	Frank Mitloehner, Animal Science	Using Innovative Technologies to Encourage Student Interaction in Animal Science
Feb 20	Roy Doi and Gail Finney	Faculty Panel on Mentoring Graduate Student Research (in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Comparative Literature, and other disciplines)
Feb 27	Faculty Panel	Teaching Interactively in Japan - cancelled
Mar 6	Brad Henderson, University Writing Program	Translating Engineering Projects into Business Plans: TinkerToys as Learning Tools
Mar 13	Faculty Panel	Freshman Seminar Panel

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