Faculty Showcase 11
Faculty Showcase
2011 Showcase
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011
Time: 8:30-2:30
Location: The Carolina Club
To access the presentation files, click on the links below.
Schedule & Presenters
- 8:15-8:50 Registration, continental breakfast, and Welcome
- 9:00-9:50 Concurrent sessions I
- Striving for Purpose in Virtual Learning Environments: Bobby Allen, American Studies;Pam Lach, School of Information and Library Science
- Easy Recommendation Management in Sakai Rachel Willis, American Studies
- Extreme Makeover: Carolina Classrooms Designed to Promote Active Learning: Ritchie Kendall, English and Comparative LiteratureDuane Deardorff, Physics and Astronomy
- 10:00-10:50 Concurrent sessions II
- Confessions of an Online Skeptic: How Online Teaching Can Inform Face-to-Face Experience: Joe Lowman, Psychology
- Leveraging the Experiences of Students Studying Abroad Seville Correspondents and Spanish 255H, Seville-Chapel Hill correspondent in Cultures of Spain classSeville Correspondent movie Bill Maisch, Romance Languages and Literatures Hélène de Fays, Romance Languages and Literatures Abel Munoz-Hermoso, Romance Languages and Literatures
- Clickers in the Classroom: Initial Uses and Experiences of Response Pads in a Social Science ClassJohn Scott, Public Policy
- 11:00-11:30
- Now What?: Todd Zakrajsek, Executive Director for the Center for Faculty Excellence
- 11:35-12:20 Lunch
- 12:30-1:20 Concurrent sessions III
- They’re on Facebook, So Why Aren’t You?: Gary Kayye, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Engaging Students in Large Classes, Add Five Minutes of Active Learning to Any Topic: Kelly Hogan, Biology Tenzing! Learning in Large Classes (ZIP archive) Patrick Conway, Economics
- Sakai: The Good, the Different, and the Not-so-ugly: Jeannie Loeb, Psychology
- 1:30-2:20 Concurrent sessions III
- Using Social Media to Promote Teaching Objectives Inside and Outside the Classroom: Margarita Mooney, Sociology
- Using Electronic Lectures (eLectures) to Complement In-Class Instruction: Jeremy Petranka, Economics
- Techniques for Effective Online Instruction: Jane Monaco, Biostatistics
- 2:20-2:30 Giveaways and Wrap-up
Event sponsors: Center for Faculty Excellence, Information Technology Services, Lenovo, and Pearson Publishing.