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BEER and APPS (& Appetizers): Join colleagues as faculty and staff gather across the street at Raleigh Brewing Company to celebrate the end of the academic year and the beginning of another great Stone Soup.  Raleigh Brewing Company is a local female-owned brewery and have opened their doors to us for this event. Each person will receive a ticket that can be used for beer or wine.  Appetizers will be from a local favorite restaurant! Short Raleigh Brewery tours will be offered at 2:15 PM and 3:15 PM.  AND...most importantly, during this social gathering, interact with colleagues who will share interesting APPS that they use on their smart phones and tablets (iPhones, iPads, Android, etc).  Some APPS are useful in the classroom and some APPS are handy for other productivity uses.

I am not Content: The Future of Education Must Come Today

Abstract: Look left, look right, look back, and then look dead-on straight ahead...what do you see? Of course, the air is filled with e-learning opportunities as well as talk of educational transformation. So much news. So much progress. Each second of the day, dozens of learners discover shiny learning nuggets previous unknown. Each week, thousands of schools, universities, corporations, and government offices announce strategic plans for e-learning. Every month, hundreds of new online courses, programs, and certificates are offered. Year after year, research reports and meta-analyses indicate that there are undeniable positive benefits of online teaching and learning. The world of technology-enhanced learning, is looking up, up, up. But wait a minute. It is no time to be content. It is not time to relax and just let the "inevitable" future unfold in front of our eyes. No! We must all jump in and help build the changes we want to see. Besides, there are hundreds of millions of people who cannot wait. They need access to a more free and open education today--one with high quality content, interactive and engaging tasks, and motivating technology use. This is a land of where nature (i.e., technology) meets nurture (i.e., pedagogy). It is time you joined in to build the future. Those attending this talk should be cautioned to check their hearts and credits cards at the door since this will be an emotionally-packed talk intended to make you act.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Facilitators: Tim Hendrix and Dianne Raubenheimer
What is meant by the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning? In this session, we will introduce principles and components of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Learn about ways to engage in the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning that can have a powerful impact on our teaching and interactions with students, both in and out of the classroom. Examples of action research at the higher education level will be shared as we think about possibilities for our own classrooms and programs. You will have the opportunity to begin thinking of ways that you could engage in action research that would inform your teaching or interactions with students.

Hyper-Engaging Instructional Strategies for Any Size Class: Critical, Creative, and Cooperative

Abstract: Are you bored with your teaching? Are your students? Are students dropping out like flies or wishing they could? Do you feel that new approaches simply take too much time or are too risky? Do you lack funding for mass structural changes? In this talk, Dr. Bonk provides dozens of ways to liven up your lectures and get your students involved and engaged in learning. There will be dozens of methods that you can use to motivate and engage your students in their learning. Some of the strategies will be very teacher-centered, while others will give students more ownership and control of the curriculum. These strategies will relate to creativity, critical thinking, cooperative and collaborative learning, and motivation. Importantly, each strategy will be laid out in a step-by-step approach. In addition, Dr. Bonk will label each one in terms of the degree of risk, time, and cost and he will offer his advice for getting started with these tools and techniques. Attend this talk and become hyper-engaged yourself!

Where are You, R2D2?: Addressing Diverse Learner Needs with the Read, Reflect, Display and Do Model

Abstract: Teachers, technology coordinators, and principals are frustrated trying to keep up with the never ending parade of new learning technologies. So many choices! Add to that the scores of people saying teachers should embed them in their teaching. Then there are complaints that few teachers were trained on how to develop highly interactive and collaborative online activities and environments. Teachers are once again told that students will quickly complain about their classes if they do not address their learning preferences or appropriately use the technologies that they have access to outside of school. Time to pull the hair out? Not yet. There is hope. An innovative model called Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) is detailed in Curt Bonk’s book, "Empowering Online Learning: 100 Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing." In this talk, Bonk will detail dozens of examples and ways to use R2D2 make your use of technology more engaging, empowering, and exciting. The R2D2 model can be expanded to meet your needs, no matter the discipline you teach or age of your students. As you will see, integrating technology need not be difficult. This four-part model not only simplifies the process, it can accelerate learning and provide a mechanism for discussing and sharing technology integration ideas with others. Perhaps it is time for you to taken an adventure to a new learning galaxy where you find R2D2 and begin using technology to address the diverse learners you find there. 

Experiential Learning/Service Learning
Facilitator: Diane Strangis

“Community Engagement; what is in it for students, a faculty and staff, and community partners? Come hear a presentation about the benefits and mechanics of community engagement. Then, help shape the future of Meredith’s community engagement during an interactive discussion.

An Instructional Technology Buffet

Facilitators: Cheryl Todd and Campus Computing Team

Buffet Faculty Participants: Jason Andrus, Susan Fisher, Cameron Johnson, Bob Reid, Anne York

We invite you to join us for a buffet of Instructional Technology fare. Explore the creative technology entrees that you colleagues have served up for their students in blended, online and F2F learning environments. The buffet will include the following offerings: Using web conferencing tools to host online classes, promoting collaborative group work and discussion, holding virtual office hours with students; using voice thread to spotlight student presentations; allowing asynchronous instructor peer commenting and critiquing; using animation to create interactive graduate student projects; piloting an online module on how to use Google Drive to develop student e-portfolios; and using a combination of multi-media tools to capture, edit store, and share student created video of lab sessions for the purpose of assessing the accuracy of the processes and to encourage peer commenting. Please join the campus computing team and your colleagues for this flavorful session.

Critical Thinking through Discussions
Facilitators: Steven Benko, Brent Pitts, and Jonathan Wade

This Stone Soup mini-course demonstrates practical techniques for guiding classroom discussion according to critical thinking principles and invites attendees to share from their own experience as well. Attendees will leave with at least three ideas for creating more meaningful interactions in their classrooms.

Dine-In or Take-Out: Flipped Course Content

Facilitator: Becky Kirstein and Campus Computing Team

Faculty Panel: Karthik Aghoram, Jason Andrus, John Meacham, Bob Reid

Please join our panel of faculty for a “sweet” and hopefully, not so “sour”, discussion on why you might consider flipping your course content and what resources you will need to get started. The “hot” topics in flipped courses include: Video capture and editing; file storage; accessibility requirements; time and resource management; impact on student learning; assessment; student engagement; and adapting to multiple learning styles. Please bring your spicy questions for our panel. In the end, you may be surprised by what your fortune cookie might reveal!

Critical Thinking in Writing
Facilitators: Carmen Chrisopher Caviness and Eloise Grathwohl
Join the College Writing Committee in our quest to rekindle a vibrant writing community at Meredith. Learn what kinds of writing your students are practicing in other classes; share your own approaches, expectations, and writing-related needs; and meet the online Meredith Writing Exchange, where we can post assignments, rubrics, and sample papers to use or adapt for our classes.
Immediate outcomes:
1) Familiarity with the Writing Exchange, a wonderful new resource for our campus (courtesy of Carmen Christopher Caviness)
2) Proceedings of our session, to be emailed to all participants and posted to the Writing Exchange for posterity. The proceedings will summarize the kinds of assignments and the writing terminology students are encountering across the campus.
Long-range goals:
1) As we become familiar with the practices and terminology instructors use in other disciplines, we can help students transfer their writing skills across contexts more successfully.
2) The Writing Committee will use the feedback from this workshop to focus our 2013-2014 writing series on the most pressing issues that emerge from our discussion.

Grant Writing Workshop
Facilitator: Grant Prose, Inc.

The ‘Introduction to Grant Writing’ session will provide an overview of the grant writing process, beginning with the question, “Why write grants?” Information will be provided on the characteristics of grant programs, where to find grant funding opportunities, the narrative elements that are common to many proposals, and the process of building a budget. Logic modeling will be shown to be important to the organization of the proposal, and three keys will be described that are essential to crafting the compelling story.

UDL (Universal Design for Learning)
Facilitators: Cheryl Todd, Campus Computing and Jeremy Bryant, Disability Services
In this session we will be serving you yummy dessert and a tasting of UDL (Universal Design for Learning) and accessible course design. The recipe for success is simpler than you might expect. Here are few tidbits you can expect to learn about in this session: how to create a uniform heading structure in Word to allow screen readers to navigate a document; how to add alt tags to images in documents so the descriptions can be read by a screen reader; how to convert Powerpoint presentations to accessible formats; and how to produce accessible PDF files for the web. Please join us to learn how to put the right ingredients together for accessible course design.

Ethical Perspectives
Facilitator: Steven Benko
The ethics session will focus on the development of new courses, or revision of existing courses, for EP designation. The session will consist of a review of gen ed EP learning outcomes, suggestions for assignments and approaches to moral and ethical decision making that would meet those outcomes, assessment goals and rubric development, review of available resources, and the development of a collaborative and personalized plan to see the faculty member through the process.

Classroom to Careers Pathways
Facilitator: Carol Finley

As part of the Meredith Forever Strategic Plan, the Faculty Development and Instructional Technology Committee (FDIT) is sponsoring a summer workshop series for program representatives to work on the construction of Classroom to Careers Pathways for their degree program.  Participants in this workshop applied to FDIT earlier in the semester and pre-registration for this workshop is already closed.  Look for similar opportunities in the upcoming year.

Dr. Curt Bonk, University of Indiana: Dr. Curt Bonk is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and President of CourseShare. Drawing on his background as a corporate controller, CPA, educational psychologist, and instructional technologist, Bonk offers unique insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology. A well-known authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk reflects on his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan. He has authored several widely used technology books, including The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education, Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, and Electronic Collaborators.