Friday, June 5, 2009

Round Table on Faculty Support and Development at TTIX

ideas from the roundtable (I missed a few, but oh well):

* invlove faculty in the active learning to provide support (things like getting basic content is not as necessary.
* start small
* soft chalk
* get new ideas even if you cannot fully get faculty to implment
* engage them in self-evaluation -- is this working? Let them do what they want to do but encourage them to evalaute their efforts (nice thought, Marc).
* hosting showcase (sharing of best practices)
* look for opportunities (teaching moments) to introduce new ideas...find out what they are already doing then introduce ways that they can do it better and/or easier.
* use the statewide license to use Wimba (asynchrnous stuff is good to allow people to get trainign and info on thier time).
* how can you help faculty avoid information overload (help them find a thing and do it well, then move on to the next thing). If you don't try something you'll never do anything, but if you try to do too much you won't be able to do it either.
* Always changing (we have to keep up but if we do it helps us keep our jobs)
* don't try to give them everything (there are thousands of web 2.0 teachologies), what you think is useful, you're willing to support.

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