Faculty Academy 2010 Call for Proposals and Registration
We are pleased to announce that the call for proposals and registration is now open for Faculty Academy 2010.
Written on March 10, 2010 | Posted in Featured News | Leave a comment
We are pleased to announce that the call for proposals and registration is now open for Faculty Academy 2010.
Interactive Workshop Julie Meloni In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the basics of Twitter and see some practical examples of using Twitter as a microblogging platform and real-time information network useful for both teachers and students. We will take a look at different types of Twitter clients (web-based, desktop, mobile) and ways thatRead More…
Plenary Presentation Julie Meloni Time and again we’ve been told that our students are digital natives–the most technologically savvy that have ever crossed the thresholds of our institutions, who are able to text, email, use Facebook, and play games on any and all devices and all at the same time–yet as our collective experience hasRead More…
Interactive Workshop Mike Caulfield, Keene State College If mapping out your course objectives to skills-based hierarchies like Bloom’s Taxonomy seems sterile and unhelpful to you, you are not alone. This workshop will introduce participants to an alternative lightweight course design model that will help you analyze the structure of your instruction and assist you in developing clearRead More…
Plenary Presentation Mike Caulfield, Keene State College People with no IT background installing complicated computer systems in a single afternoon. Amateur chess players beating both grandmasters and supercomputers using off the shelf software. Your spouse cooking a meal like a master chef — without any formal training. Coworkers communicating to someone across the world in aRead More…
For the third year in a row, Faculty Academy will include the Deck Wars competition during lunch on one day of the conference.
This year at Faculty Academy, we will be introducing a new presentation format.
Julie Meloni is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Washington State University. Her specialties are American Literature 1800-1945, Textual Studies, and Humanities Computing, but her teaching and research interests range from Transcendentalism to Critical Code Studies.
Mike Caulfield has been working with educational technology since 1997. During the Rise of the Teaching Machines, he built award-winning teaching machines for Columbia University, Harvard Business School, and Fortune 500 companies. When the teaching machines gave way to learning environments, he started building those, and he has been, for the most part, very happy about the change.
Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia. He is awaiting the publication of The Googlization of Everything from the University of California Press. He has written two previous books: Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004).
Faculty Academy is hosted by UMW's Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies
Faculty Academy 2010 is generously sponsored by UMW's Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning.
