First Ten Minutes and First Days

What matters most on the first day? Adrian Rippy-Sheehy and other faculty talked about this during Adrian's "Effective Teaching" segment on Friday night at CMC West Garfield. That students know you are interested in them was Adrian's main message. Additionally she provided and invited techniques that allow students to get to know you and others in this early critical time of the term. One faculty share-back was the use of a scavenger hunt that asks people to find another person in the class with a certain characteristic, such as a dimple. Allowing class members to interview each other briefly, then introduce their classmate to the others can reduce self-consciousness.

To add to those ideas, here are several others:
First Day Tips

What do you do to welcome students and get them excited about your class? We'd love to hear it and learn from it!

Can you train a fruit fly?

The answer is yes -- through operant conditioning. See http://www.jove.com/index/Details.stp?ID=731.

PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's online database, is now indexing videos from The Journal of Visualized Experiments. This video from the Department of Neurobiology, Free University of Berlin, is an example of the many videos available through this blog. These videos show experiments and protocols in the biological and life sciences and offers its video-articles to science bloggers to illustrate their work. The blog can be accessed at http://jove-blog.blogspot.com/2008/08/jove-now-indexed-in-pubmed-medline.html.

Faculty Professional Development Fund--September 15th Due Date

Greetings All,

The Professional Faculty Development Fund provides wonderful opportunity for full-time faculty and for adjunct faculty who have taught at least two (2) terms during the last two (2) years.

This slide show explains the program and is followed by a list of campus representatives.



Interested in Applying?
To begin the process, contact your campus representative for assistance with the application process.

•Alpine – David DeLong
•Aspen – Lorraine Miller
•Summit – Laura Pless
•Timberline – Susanna Spaulding
•VEV – Jan Attoma
•West Garfield – Kimberly Jensen
•Roaring Fork – Tal Hardman
•Adjunct - Susan Herman

Forms:
Application
Rubric

For any additional questions, please feel free to contact Nancy Hays or Alice Bedard-Voorhees at the District Office. We wish you the best as you explore opportunities for your ongoing professional development.

Digital Fluency: 21st Century Tools

Mark Prensky coined the terms "Digital Native" and "Digital Immigrant" as reference points for groups growing up in a wired world and groups coming to it later. This presentation nicely explains the newest tools and how they can be used for "digital fluency," along with how people participate in various ways.

Using Social Media2

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