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VWC Teaching and Learning

In this Wiki we will outline the the most useful and interesting things we took away from the conference in several categories: how to keep up with the scholarship of teaching and learning, ideas for using technology, how to tie it in with faculty development and performance evaluation.

If you are using Fink's model, you are using evidence-based teaching L. Dee Fink, **[|L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant learning Experiences: an Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses(2003)]** Seek out pedagogical lit for your discipline "Teaching Professor Newsletter" is an on-line publication that gives a good evaluative digest Websites for Centers for Teaching and Learning have guides to literature available //How People Learn// (available on line on the NAP (National Academies Press) website --there are several other titles such as //How People Learn History//....etc.
 * Essential and brief bibliographic guide to the Scholarship of teaching and learning**

mindmapping?

I**deas for using technology** (See this Educause site for brief 2-page introductions to a broad range of newer teaching technologies: http://www.educause.edu/ELI/EDUCAUSELearningInitiativeELI/LearningTechnologies/5672)

Wikispaces Picasaweb Poll Everywhere -- one of several free, open-ended response systems that allow students to use their own mobile phones or laptops to "click in" responses to an instructor's question, in support of real-time collection of responses for measurement and discussion. Poll Everywhere is free for use with audiences of 30 or fewer. See http://www.polleverywhere.com/

pechakuchas ("puh CHAW kuh CHAW")-- presentations done with 20 slides, 20 seconds each: see http://www.pecha-kucha.org/what Prezi (see http://prezi.com/) team-based learning: a model for course delivery systematically designed around having students work in semester-long collaborative teams to achieve deep learning of course material. see http://www.teambasedlearning.org/; The "bible" for this approach is: http://www.amazon.com/Team-Based-Learning-Transformative-College-Teaching/dp/157922086X
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Evernotes: a note-taking/project organization and planning tool that can be used across multiple platforms (computer, tablet pc, smart phone): see http://www.evernote.com/.
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