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Office Of Community-University Partnerships and Service Learning Announce Fellowship Program
This fellowship program is designed as a seminar to help faculty develop a strong background in service-learning pedagogy. By developing a service-learning course, participants will strengthen service-learning knowledge and skills. Fellows will meet every other week during the Spring 2009 … Continue reading
Colleague Tea Event: Virtual Worlds in Higher Education
We are holding a Colleague Tea on Wednesday October 8th (3pm-4pm) to discuss the use of Virtual Worlds in Higher Education as part of a course or assignment. Come to 303 Bailey/Howe for some Coffee/Tea, goodies and some very good … Continue reading
A Moment on MERLOT 2008
My conference event this year found me in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the “City of Lakes”, for the MERLOT International Conference (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Serving as a multimedia developer for the Center for Teaching & Learning I … Continue reading
Thoughts about Web 2.0 from the Campus Technology 2008 conference
I attended the Campus Technology conference this year. The topic was WEB 2.0 technologies in Higher Education. I was excited to attend and learn more. Surprisingly I learned the most participating in the “back channel” of the conference on Twitter. … Continue reading
The Blackboard Jungle: Navigating Race, Gender and Sexuality in the New Classroom Culture
The Office of Multicultural Affairs is sponsoring this symposium on March 28th and 29th for UVM faculty. This event will address “the challenges that emerge when gender, race and sexuality intersect and shape how students learn and how we teach.” … Continue reading
UVM Member of Educause’s Learning Initiative
The University of Vermont is now a member of Educause’s Learning Initiative (ElI). ELI explores the interaction among learners, learning principles and practices, and learning technologies. Membership benefits include reduced rates on ELI events and access to all resources on … Continue reading
Focus the Nation on Global Climate Change
UVM is participating in Focus the Nation, a national educational initiative of faculty, staff, students and community members at over a thousand colleges, universities, and high schools in the United States. The goal is to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, … Continue reading
For faculty interested in service learning:
The Faculty Fellows for Service-Learning Program recruits faculty members from across UVM to participate in a seminar each Spring on how to build service-learning pedagogy into courses. Faculty members must apply and be accepted into the Program, are given a … Continue reading
Center for Cultural Pluralism Event
The Center for Cultural Pluralism is sponsoring an even that promises to be interesting and important: “Moving Beyond the Basics: Shifts of Consciousness and Practice for Transformative Multicultural Teaching and Learning” (snippet of the description on the CCP website) [Transformative … Continue reading
Lights, Camera, Learn! Workshop Resources
We get the opportunity to learn iMovie this morning! Lucky people!! It is one of our favorite software packages to learn. This is a place where we are listing resources for the course for Educational Value as well as general … Continue reading