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jackshrawder — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:02:01 CDT

News Item: July,13,2009:

TFS launching a new project, we are creating a Quick Tip PP Slide Stack for high impact instructors looking for way to improve teaching and learning. Send us your success tip and if we use it, you will receive a link to the first Series 1 TFS QT Slide Stack. Keep tip very short, simple and succinct. Thanks

Teaching For Success is a grassroots, independent voice for developing and promoting "high impact" teaching and learning improvement in higher education. This wiki is a place where change-oriented administrators, faculty, and staff can come together to seek, share, discuss and post ideas, principles, technology applications, and strategies related to boosting teaching retention, performance, and satisfaction.

The vision is to create a groundswell of interest and dedication among educators to collaborate for continuous betterment of teaching and learning for the benefit of the instructor, student, the enabling institution and global economic and humanitarian needs.

Please join us; your knowledge, opinions and questions matter.

We're Building a Collaborative Learning Community to Ask and Answer Crucial Questions
about Teaching and Learning and Faculty Development in the new (Conceptual?) Era.

••• New, Posted 06-10-09, TFS Higher Education Faculty Poll: Top Teaching Challenges.
To participate and see poll results at LinkedIN go to <http://polls.linkedin.com/p/42140/hkxviin> or click here.

Topics

Punctilio, Etiquette
This is a place for questions, openness, discussions, encouragement, recommendations, learning, advising, collaborating, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating; favorite quotes, photos; getting to know other teaching and learning professionals. Most importantly: growth, learning, encouraging, trial and error and just plain making mistakes.

This is not a place for criticizing, denigrating, reprising, putting down or belittling.

Food For Thought

jackshrawder — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:59:39 CDT

• Sir Ken Robinson's discourse on the state of public education and profound questions about how we have designed it and implement it.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems. He advocates an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. I love the points he makes about creativity, taking a chance and being wrong.
See his video at: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

• Ms. Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together.

In 1992, Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman to go into space. She's become a crusader for science education -- and for a new vision of learning that combines arts and sciences,…
Watch her 2002 presentation video on the TED video site: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_together.html

• Budget Hero Game

Just ran across this game that challenges your skills at public budget management.
American Public Media’s ‘Budget Hero’ allows players to simulate balancing government priorities, and other games can serve to supplement training materials in such corporate topics as logistics management and supply chain management.
Game Link: Budget Hero Management Game
What's your opinion, great learning experience, or waste of time?

• E-book Reader Review: Amazon Kindle
In the past few weeks I've read references to the new Amazon "Kindle" E-book reader this review is of the first generation product

Here's a video review I found in YouTube that helped me get handle on what this reader offers.

Do you own a "Kindle" if so what is your experience with it?
Add your comments to a thread, I'd be interested to know more about it.

• Best Books:

A Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink
Note: no, I don't benefit at all if you buy this book. I love books that change
my thinking and open windows of understanding, and this one certainly did. Jack

Comments on this book? Have you read it?
Do you agree that we are entering the "Conceptual Age"?
How might this alter what we do in education?

What are you reading and watching?

Happened on this video posted on futuramb blog a result of doing a Google search for "futurists".
Also, didn't know that one new designation for the age that we are living in is AG (After Google)
or yesteryear was of course, BG (Before Google). Please post your reaction.
I felt a bit like being put in my global place by some of the statistical comparisons-very high impact.

Anyway, some videos for viewing and thought…

Did You Know? the video

E-Learning Resources Member Recommended

jackshrawder — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:02:59 CDT

I recommend Cnet as a web site to check your bandwidth. In selecting an Internet service provider you need to know how fast the connection is compared to their published numbers.

You can find their free bandwidth tester at www.cnet.com and select the bandwidth test link on the right hand side of the page. (Since the "most popular" list on the right hand side of the cnet home page changes frequently, the direct URL http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-speed-test may be useful.)

Be aware that the results may (or may not) be a bit "optimistic" -- my DSL has consistently tested as equal to a T-1 connection. Either I'm getting especially good results with the bandwidth tester or BellSouth has given me a real perk for my account! by dbequ

A UK learning technology site, http://emergingtechnologies.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=etn&rid=14335, posts a report for the UK that experts there are requesting a min of 2 megbs connection speed be available for video based communications and learning.

Staying Current

jackshrawder — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:02:38 CST

How are you staying current with teaching, learning and faculty development?

What resources to you use the most?

Favorite, book, website, guru, organization, video, best conference, best seminar/workshop/course taken?

Percentage of time you learn online vs traditional methods?

What are the major trends/challenges that you see for 2009? by 2014, by 2019?

See How Tomorrows Students Will Find Out about Your College

While researching uses of Twitter and Twickie, I discovered a video clip informing me about Unigo.com. What is Unigo.com?

It's one of worlds largest resources of college information, a web 2.0 college review site where students take video of their campuses and post reviews and information of interest to other students.

During the video the CEO of Unigo.com describes the unique generation of the site's business plan, structure, and services and details on the site was launched. It's worth watching. This sites startup activies could serve as a model for many colleges who are looking for new new ways to connect their students to their alumni.

The clip is part of a blog site,: http://scobleizer.com/. The college reference site is: http://unigo.com

Also, NY Times Magazine article on Unigo: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21unigo-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=unigo&st=cse

Pressing Fac Dev Challenges

jackshrawder — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:56:45 CST

What do faculty really need in the way of support, development, training? Are their special needs related to being an adjunct faculty?

Part-time and Adjunct Faculty

jackshrawder — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:39:11 CST

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Teaching Across Generations

jackshrawder — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:43:34 CST

Group Name	Birth Years	Population	Traits
The Silents	1925-1945	45 million	Respects authority and structure, stick to it, stay with one organization.
The Boomers	1946-1964	80 million	Give maximum effort, health and wealth important. Learning to find balance, good learners. Do it Your Self Take risks.
The Gen Xers	1965-1976	49 million	Techo-hip, informal, balanced life, quick learners, like diversity
The Gen Yers, Nexters, or Millenials	1977-1994	73.5 million	Need Structure, mobile, fun, optimistic, need quick recognition. Info has to be live, now and peer based. Prefer to know the “Why” behind assigned tasks.

Chart published in Teaching For Success, Vol. 19. No. 3
*Compiled from: “Generational Diversity—The Nexters,” ARON Journal, Sept., 2003
“The Next Generation of Workers” Report by The Ken Blanchard Companies, 2007

Classroom Teaching Impacts

jackshrawder — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:04:16 CST

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Critical Fac Dev Challenges

jackshrawder — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:49:51 CST

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E-Learning Best Practices

jackshrawder — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:46:54 CST

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