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Faculty Professional Development Center: FPDC Opportunities

Seminars

Special Faculty-directed Workshops

Laura Davis, Associate Provost for Planning and Academic Resource Management, and Associate Professor, English
Brown Bag Lunch and Discussion: "Damn Rocks and Hurricanes": Staying the Course as an Administrator-Scholar

Laura Davis will discuss her work as a textual editor for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. As she describes the process of textual editing, Professor Davis will talk about strategies she uses to balance the responsibilities of being an administrator-scholar. Taking strength from the spirit of Conrad's work, she will discuss how damming the obstacles (the sailor's "rocks and hurricanes") can be invigorating. Professor Davis also finds inspiration by comparing textual editing, in her mind, to the evidence-gathering and case-making of a homicide detective or forensic anthropologist (she is an aficionado of police and courtroom dramas). She also finds collaborative relationships energizing and sustaining and uses email to great advantage to support those relationships and meet deadlines.

When: Wed., September 20, 2000: 11:30-1:00 P.M.
Where: Women's Resource Center

For additional information: please contact Judy Harrington, 672-1902 or jharring@lms.kent.edu

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Timothy Gallagher, Sociology
"Using Teaching Evaluations to Improve Your Teaching"

This workshop will present a unique way of interpreting course evaluations, developed by Professor Gallagher. The workshop will begin with a brief presentation of Professor Gallagher's research followed by discussion. Participants are asked to read his article in advance.

Participants then will enter data from their own course evaluations to produce a graph (Note: you must bring at least two semesters of evaluations from the same course to produce a graph which reflects change in teaching over time; three semesters would be even better). Please bring a 3.5" diskette to save as a PowerPoint file. You need not know PowerPoint, although competence in MS windows is required. The workshop will conclude with discussion of individual results.

When: To be announced Fall semester 2000.
Where: Moulton Hall

Registration: please contact Judy Harrington, 672-1902 or jharring@lms.kent.edu

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Chip Ingram, Education
"Applying a Range of Internet Technology to Your Classroom"

In this workshop Professor Ingram will begin with an overview of how and what to put on a faculty web site for instructional purposes. This will be followed by a discussion and demonstration of Internet-based communications options, such as WebCT, The Palace and FrontPage 2000.

When: To be announced Fall semester 2000.
Where: Moulton Hall

Registration: please contact Judy Harrington, 672-1902 or jharring@lms.kent.edu

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Documenting the Scholarship of Teaching

So what is the "scholarship of teaching"? This session will provide an opportunity to discuss the scholarship of teaching, and to engage in documenting and narrating teaching for reappointment, tenure and promotion. You are asked to bring materials from your teaching. Contact Judy Harrington at 672-1902 or jharring@lms.kent.edu

When: To be announced Fall semester 2000.
Where: Moulton Hall

Workshop Facilitators: Denise Seachrist (Music--Trumbull) and Niza Licuanan (Sociology--Trumbull) (members of the Collegial Development of Teaching Project)

Registration: please contact Judy Harrington, 672-1902 or jharring@lms.kent.edu

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Please return for announcements of other upcoming summer workshops

 

For more information contact:
Mary Louise Holly, Director, Faculty Professional Development Center, Kent State University
phone: 21919  ~  e-mail: fpdc@kent.edu