Using iClickers in Your Courses for Instant Student Feedback

Classroom Clickers can be a great way to engage students in your classes and provide you with instant feedback as to whether or not they “get” the lesson. In this hands-on workshop, discover how you can use these devices in your own classes and department meetings for informal polling of students/colleagues. Also, learn how you can get your hands on the College’s iClicker loaner set to try using classroom clickers today. Related Link: iClicke

How to Avoid “Death by PowerPoint”

You’ve probably been witness to a live presentation utilizing PowerPoint that may have been ineffective – or simply bored you to tears. Presenters reading text directly off of slides, overuse of bullets, animations, and clip art, poor background and text color choices that strained your eyes – the list goes on and on. Learn how you can avoid “Death by PowerPoint” for your audience by creating more effective PowerPoint presentations for live delivery. We’ll explore the presentation styles of presentation pioneers such as Larry Lessig and Dick Hardt, as well as look at the emerging, challenging presentation style known as Pecha Kucha

Blackboard Course Design – Don’t be Boxed in by Blackboard

Announcements, Syllabus, Faculty, Course Documents, Assignments, Communication, External Links, Tools – do I really need all this stuff? In this hands-on workshop, learn how to remove features you don’t need, add quicklinks to features you use regularly (like Discussion Board and Student Grades), and completely transform your Blackboard site into something that doesn’t look, well, so much like Blackboard anymore. Your students will greatly appreciate the efficiency, intuitiveness, and creativity of your newly designed Blackboard sites

Ditch Your LMS Discussion Board and Make the Move To Facebook Groups

This past semester I taught an undergraduate Communications course on social media, and we spent a week holding our online course discussions in a Facebook Group site, rather than in our course Learning Management System (Moodle). The Facebook discussions worked so well that my students asked if we could abandon the Online Discussion Board tool and use Facebook Groups for the remainder of the semester. I will share with you the pros and cons of using Facebook for your online course discussions

Color and Spin in Quarkonium Production

I describe the NRQCD factorization approach to the inclusive production of heavy quarkonium, contrasting it with the color-singlet and color evaporation models. These approaches differ dramatically in their assumptions about the roles played by color and spin in the production process. They also differ dramatically in their predictions for the production of charmonium at large transverse momentum.Comment: 17 pages, LATEX with style file sprocl.st

Emergent Technology Smorgasbord

A year after performing this session at EdTech Day 2010, we revisit the emergent technology landscape, looking at how things have changed in a year, and where we’re headed in the future with mobile teaching and learning, open textbooks, iPads, location-based services, edu-gaming, social media, and other new tools, services, and practices for better engaging students