Center for Teaching & Learning at The University of Georgia
Center for Teaching & Learning at The University of Georgia
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| Digital Storytelling Sensitive Classroom Issues Podcasts Lectures ET AL TUGA Project Promote Reading Groups Workshops Faculty Learning Communities Electronic Portfolios |
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| Digital Storytelling | ||||
The digital revolution is creating new ways to tell stories, and a change in methods can mean a change in expressive possibilities. Stories can now include graphics, sound, music, animation, and interactivity—and story form must stretch to accommodate them. CTL supports the development of digital storytelling in the classroom in several ways. We are sponsoring a Faculty Learning Community on the topic that will meet in the Fall of 2007. We will be offering a workshop on digital storytelling in the near future, and we will help instructors develop methods for the creation and use of digital stories in their classes. For more information, contact David Noah at 706-542-6585. A list of online resources and samples is available here. |
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| Sensitive Classroom Issues | ||||
| Teachers frequently find themselves confronted with student issues that go far beyond class assignments and difficult subject matter. These resources are a place to start when you are dealing with difficult students or sensitive issues that you may not feel qualified to address. |
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| Podcasts | ||||
The Center for Teaching & Learning sponsors a series of podcasts related to higher education.
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| Lectures | ||||
| CTL, in cooperation with other UGA agencies, sponsors lectures by nationally recognized scholars on higher education issues. Link. | ||||
| ET AL | ||||
| ET-AL is the Emerging Technologies for Advancing Learning interest group. ET-AL sponsors discussions and demonstrations of assorted instructional technologies and facilitates networking among UGA faculty, staff, and students who are interested in the use of instructional technology to complement the traditional classroom environment or for distance education. For more information or to join the ET-AL listserv, contact Sherry Clouser - sac@uga.edu. |
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| TUGA (Teaching at UGA newsletter) | ||||
First published in 1982, this biannual publication highlights instructional activities at the University and informs readers of instructional and faculty development opportunities available in the CTL. Short articles on instructional matters are invited. Download Acrobat Reader
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| Reading Groups | ||||
| CTL has resurrected the reading group by examining Ken Bain's book What the Best College Teachers Do. In subsequent semesters, titles may include Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach and Thomas Jones's academic mystery The Missing Professor. Faculty and graduate students are welcome. | ||||
| Project Promote | ||||
| The Project Promote portal web site is designed to help address the absence of a support structure for new assistant professors by acting as a mentoring community for new faculty. The website connects faculty to many resources, but the anchor resource of the site is the Question & Answer Center, where early career faculty can post questions and a select group of senior faculty respond to these questions. Early career faculty are given the option to choose, when posting a question, whether to reveal their identity or other parts of their user profile. Senior faculty, on the other hand, are always identified when they post responses. At the present time, participating senior faculty are drawn from the ranks of the UGA Teaching Academy. Initial development of the web site has been handled by Lloyd Rieber and Greg Clinton. | ||||
| Workshops | ||||
The Center for Teaching & Learning offers a variety of faculty development workshops. These include WebCT training (in cooperation with EITS), professional academic website development workshops, and occasional sessions related to better teaching with technology. Information about WebCT training workshops, or contact either CTL at 706-542-1355 or EITS at 706-542-3106. WebCT QuickStart Guide. Can't remember how to make a new Content Page, upload a file, or add students to your course? This PDF is a list of steps that will help you perform the basic WebCt functions. |
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| Faculty Learning Communities | ||||
| CTL sponsors the development of Faculty Learning Communities. An FLC is a cross-disciplinary faculty group of six to fifteen members who participate in a yearlong program to enhance teaching and learning. The group members actively collaborate in seminars and activities that promote learning, development, the scholarship of teaching, and community building. FLCs are topic oriented to address a specific teaching and learning need, issue, or opportunity. Contact Dr. Nelson Hilton at 542-1355 for more information. | ||||
| Electronic Portfolios | ||||
An electronic portfolio is a way to preserve and showcase student work. Also known as an e-portfolio or a digital portfolio, it transforms the traditional idea of the student portfolio into a dynamic pedagogical tool. This page contains links to resources about electronic portfolios. |
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Text-Only Version The University of Georgia | VP Instruction | CAIT | WebCT | Contact CTL Website questions or problems, contact webmaster at emailctl@uga.edu This page last updated on October 23, 2007. |
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