COF TEACHING & LEARNING CONFERENCE

10th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference

Fostering Engaged Learners and Teachers

October 27-28, 2011

Summary, Presentation PowerPoints and Handouts from Interactive Sessions for Engaging Learners

Date: Thursday, October 27
Title: Opening Avenues of Communication: An Example Using Copyright Law and Fair Use
Speaker: Greg Wallace, Public Services Librarian, Mass Art

To help address a need to provide students with information about copyright issues       surrounding the appropriation of art, the MassArt Library designed an interactive game show called JeopARTy. It presents case studies of appropriation that consist of homage, satire, critique, as well as outright theft. After getting an overview of each case, audience members use their phones and laptops to vote on whether they think these acts of appropriation are fair or not using PollEverywhere, an electronic voting website. In this TLC session, attendees will play a condensed version of the game and reflect on how best to use communication strategies to elicit student participation. The use of electronic voting is an obvious way to get students involved in a lesson. More profoundly, however, querying learners about their sense of what is fair and prompting them to express their values and convictions are reliable methods of fostering engagement.

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Date: Friday, October 28
Title: Active Learning Strategies in Face-to-Face and Online Classrooms
Workshop Leaders: Rebecca Petersen, Director of Faculty Development, WIT

Participants will be introduced to active learning concepts based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. The taxonomy, developed by educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom, provides a clear framework for instructors who are looking for ways to engage students in higher-order thinking tasks and projects. During this workshop participants will review different examples of Bloom’s Taxonomy in action in both the face-to-face and online classroom. Participants will also be asked to identify opportunities to create new domains of engagement within their own courses based on Bloom’s work.

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Date: Friday, October 28
Title: Building Social Networks in the Real and Virtual World
Workshop Leaders: Susan Owusu, Director of Communications and Media Literacy, Wheelock College

Communication tools have always served to help us interact, but the recent explosion of social media leaves many of us wondering if we really are more connected. This session will examine the impact that the proliferation of social media has played in shaping students and classrooms through engagement.  We will explore ways to make interactivity on the web and in the classroom work for you and your students. Participants will learn specific strategies turning social media and interactive games from entertaining distractions into powerful classroom tools that promote engagement, increase connectivity and improve learning.

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Additional Resources

Date: Thursday, October 27
Title: Why Engagement?
Speaker: Maureen Kelly, Senior Vice-President, Mass Art

http://www.tltgroup.org/seven/basics.htm