Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources
20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of October 12th)
Date: Available October 12th – October 18th
Session Title: Can Service-Learning Work in My Discipline?
Presenter: Barbara Jacoby, Ph.D. (Faculty Associate for Leadership and Community Service-Learning – University of Maryland)
Overview:
Many educators believe that service-learning can be a valuable practice … for other educators. But they’re sometimes at a loss to understand how it can be incorporated into their own disciplines. You can have service-learning work well in every discipline.
In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor program (Can Service-Learning Work in My Discipline?), you’ll learn how to think creatively about service-learning, and how you can make it a part of your students’ educational experience.
Led by Barbara Jacoby, Ph.D., Faculty Associate for Leadership and Community Service-Learning, University of Maryland, College Park., we show you what service-learning can add to your courses and provide concrete implementation strategies.
You’ll learn:
- The key principles of service-learning—reflection and reciprocity.
- The benefits of service-learning for both students and communities.
- How to link activities to outcomes.
- The different types of service-learning.
- How to assess outcomes and grade service-learning.
You’ll learn through case studies of disciplines as varied as college writing and engineering, Dr. Jacoby helps you appreciate the ample opportunities you have to introduce service-learning to your own courses.
Learning outcomes
When you’ve completed this professional education program, you’ll be able to:
- Determine the opportunities for service-learning in your discipline.
- Select appropriate projects for your students.
- Grade activities and assess outcomes.
The session link and login information to the October 12th 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor is available in the announcements section of the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.
Multimedia Tools Spotlight: Engaging the Instructor and the Learner (OLC Annual Conference – Live Virtual Session)
Date: October 14, 2015
Time: 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: GEB A304
Overview:
This session will stream live from the Online Learning Consortium’s Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Web 2.0 multimedia tools can make considerable impacts on learning when applied effectively in online environments. Hybrid, blended, and fully online courses and training can benefit from the implementation of such tools by the designer, instructor, and/or facilitator. Changing flat text to an engaging and memorable multimedia component can make the difference in connection between the learning content and the learner. During this session, participants will be introduced to various Web 2.0 multimedia tools for course/training design and delivery to further engage learners and apply effective practices.
To learn more about the session and presenters go to: http://olc.onlinelearningconsortium.org/conference/2015/aln/multimedia-tools-spotlight-engaging-instructor-and-learner
To register to participate in this session go to: http://tinyurl.com/olc-multimediatools
Taming the Wild West? AKA Online Discussion Forums (OLC Annual Conference – Live Virtual Session)
Date: October 15, 2015
Time: 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM
Location: GEB A304
Overview:
This session will stream live from the Online Learning Consortium’s Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Online discussion forums are the “wild west,” where anything goes! During this session, the presenters will present tools gleaned from a study of 600+ online university instructors for immediate use in making forums an engaging and civilized community of learning.
To learn more about the session and the presenters go to: http://olc.onlinelearningconsortium.org/conference/2015/aln/taming-wild-west-aka-online-discussion-forums
To register to participate in this session go to: http://tinyurl.com/olc-tamingdiscussionforums
Plagiarism: What You Need to Know (A discussion with the Office of General Counsel)
Date: October 22, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 AM)
Location: GEB A104
Overview:
Important note: We are able to broadcast this session to faculty, staff, and postdocs who cannot join us in Memphis. Email Dr. Cindy Russell (crussell@uthsc.edu) if you need to participate in this way.
Register here: http://tinyurl.com/uthsc-plagiarismdiscussion
Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. While we often search for ways to identify and respond to student plagiarism in the classroom setting, are you aware of how important attention to plagiarism is in your professional life and your academic, scholarly, and research activities?
Attend this session delivered in-person by Lela Young, Attorney & Associate General Counsel, UT Office of General Counsel, to understand more about plagiarism.
Don’t want to ask your own question or raise an item? At a distance and want to make sure your question is heard? We are using a system for feedback called “TodaysMeet” for you to send in questions and/or comments to share in the session. Go to this URL https://todaysmeet.com/room/1995080 and create a nickname, click join, then type your question/item in the message box and click Say. Or send questions to Dr. Cindy Russell (crussell@uthsc.edu) at any time.
Professional Sessions
2015 Biomedical Research Symposium
Date: October 23, 2015
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: St. Jude – Marlo Thomas Center GEC Auditorium
Topic: “Stem Cells and Cancer” – The symposium will be hosted by Drs. Sorrentino, McKinney-Freeman and Roussel
Overview:
- Peggy Goodell, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas
- Emmanuelle Passeque, PhD, of the University of California San Francisco in San Francisco, California
- Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York
- Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD, of HSR-TIGET San Raffaele Telethon Institute in Milan, Italy
- Luis Parada, PhD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas
- Roel Nusse, PhD, of Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Stanford, California
- Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD, of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts
- Guy Sauvageau, MD, PhD, of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer in Montreal QC, Canada
- Chad Cowan, PhD, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Attendance is limited, so please register today to reserve your spot – https://www.stjude.org/education-training/advanced-training/seminars-symposia/biomedical-research-symposium.html
Registration is open for the conference and post celebration until September 30, 2015. Pre-registration is required to attend each event. The post celebration will be held at River Hall @ River Inn-Harbor Town from 6:00pm – 10:00pm.
New Faculty Orientation
Date: Session was held September 25, 2015
Archive Now Available – https://academic.uthsc.edu/faculty/new_faculty.php
Overview:
The Office of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs (AFSA) hosted New Faculty Orientation as a supplement to the orientation that is provided by Human Resources at each faculty member’s hire date. The AFSA New Faculty Orientation is catered specifically to the faculty with introductions of people and resources that may be of help in their growth and advancement during their time of employment with UTHSC.
Did you know….
You can apply credit received for professional development outside the university to your faculty training records? Simply complete the HR Request for Additional Training Credit form found at http://www.uthsc.edu/hrtraining/pdfs/additional_training_credit_form.pdf and forward it, along with a copy of the program’s agenda, to the HR Training Department at 910 Madison, Suite 727.
Why do this? The University of TN believes that professional development and training of its employees are central to the university’s mission, vision, and values. Having credit received elsewhere to your UTHSC training records is very useful to your department and college – for things such as annual reviews and program accreditations.
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