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• Spring Season FASTPASS to FridayLive!

  • Start
    January 01, 2010
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    02:00 PM
  • End
    May 31, 2010
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    03:00 PM
  • Location
    Online meeting info in Registration Confirmation Email [also check your Junk folder] and via email 24 hours prior to event start

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  FridayLive! spring season FASTPASS enables you to click into each FridayLive! without registering.

  FridayLive! occurs approximately every other Friday from 2-3 pm eastern. 

  Check the TLT Group calendar for the topics and the bottom of the home page for entry.

  
  

  NOTE:  Login instructions for the session are at the bottom of this Registration Confirmation Email. Please check your Junk folder as sometimes these emails get trapped there. We will also send an additional login reminder 24 hours prior to the start of the event.

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• Flashlight Online 2.0: Creating Productive Surveys

  • Start
    February 04, 2010
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    05:00 PM
  • End
    February 11, 2010
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  Creating Productive Surveys with Flashlight Online 2.0

  Goal: Hands-on introduction to Flashlight Online 2.0

  Designed primarily for instructors, and support staff who will be training local faculty, but all users should find this helpful.

  Two-part series on February 4 and 11, 2010 from 5-6 pm ET/2-3 am PT; sessions will be archived for those who cannot participate live in one or both events.

  Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group

  These sessions are free.  Admission is limited to people with Flashlight Online accounts.

  (You can get an account for free if your institution has a Comprehensive or Network subscription,
  if you have the single account that Alliance subscribing institutions receive,
  or if you are an Individual TLT Group Member who has purchased a Flashlight Online authoring account. 
  (Contact Bonnie Mullinix if you need to set up a Flashlight Online account.)

  There will be optional 'homework'  before the first session, between the two sessions, and (even more optional) after session 2. We'll provide suggestions for improving any work you send us.

  Required prior to Session I: Get your account if you haven't yet, register for the workshop, and log into the system at least once. (We can give you access to Flashlight ONline 2.0 materials for this workshop, but only after you have logged into Flashlight Online 2.0 at least once).
  
  Session I- Simple Survey: February 4, 12 PM ET (sessions will be archived for later viewing). How to use Flashlight Online 2.0 to design simple, productive surveys, rubrics, and other online forms.
  
  Optional Homework before Session B: Develop your own simple survey and store it in the workshop folder, so that workshop leaders and participants can see it.
  
  Session II- Matrix Survey: February 11, 12 PM ET.  Starting with the survey you've already developed, we'll show you how to turn it into a matrix survey. Matrix surveys allow you to a) easily analyze subgroups of respondents, b) alter the wording for each group of respondents, or each individual respondent,  and c) direct certain questions only to selected subgroups of respondents. Matrix surveys have hundreds of uses, from workshop and class evaluations to disciplinary research in fields from education to health care.
  
  Optional Homework after Session B: create a matrix survey that you're considering for actual use. Submit it to us, and we'll give you suggestions for how it might be improved.
  

   

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• 2nd Tuesday Flashlight Online Users Group

  • Start
    February 09, 2010
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    12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
  • Location
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  2nd Tuesday Flashlight Online Users and Administrators Group 

  Agenda:

  • Your Questions and topics
  • The changeover from Flashlight Online 1.0: your questions
  • Starting up with 2.0: a tour of the new interface

  Second Tuesday sessions are FREE.  Admission is limited to people with Flashlight Online accounts.

  (You can get an account for free if your institution has a Comprehensive or Network subscription, if you have the single account that Alliance subscribing institutions receive, or if you are an Individual TLT Group Member who has purchased a Flashlight Online authoring account.  Contact Bonnie Mullinix if you need to set up a Flashlight Online account.)

  Leaders: Steve Ehrmann and Bonnie Mullinix 

  NOTE:  Login instructions for the session will be sent in the Registration Confirmation Email. Please check your Junk folder as sometimes these emails get trapped there. We will also send an additional login reminder 24 hours prior to the start of the event.
  

  
  

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• Workshop: Sharing Frugal Innovations: Developing Dissemination Materials and Strategies

  • Start
    February 09, 2010
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    01:00 PM
  • End
    February 23, 2010
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    02:00 PM
  • Location
    Online meeting info in Registration Confirmation Email [also check your Junk folder] and via email 24 hours prior to event start
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  Sharing Frugal Innovations: Developing Dissemination Materials and Strategies
  

  Tuesdays, February 9, 16, and 23, 2010
  1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern

  Steve Gilbert, TLT Group, John Prusch, Excelsior College, and Ray Purdom, University of North Carolina Greensboro
  
  

  This workshop helps faculty and other academic professionals meet the challenge of Frugal Innovation:  

  To continue  to improve teaching and learning with technology even when both money and time are especially scarce.  

  Frugal Innovations take advantage of over-abundant, under-utilized, low-threshold resources.  

  This workshop enables participants to find such resources, use them, adapt them to their own needs, improve them, and share their improvements with others.  

  We will introduce the concepts of Frugal Innovations and demonstrate examples.  We will also discuss strategies for developing and expanding the TLT Group's Frugal Innovations Initiative. 

  
  

  Participants are introduced to examples and then guided to to find, select, and use (and to design, develop, and "publish"):

  
  

  1. Low-Threshold Applications & Activities (LTAs)
     Valuable resources for improving teaching and learning with technology - resources that are under-utilized, share-worthy, and widely available.
  2. Engagement Resources
     Materials to support more rapid, active, and effective use - and re-use - of those LTAs.
  3. Improvement Resources
     Materials to support 
     a.  easy collection of feedback  that can be used effectively with 
     b.  guidelines for adapting and improving these LTAs quickly.
  4. Sharing Resources
     Materials, activities, or services to support easy, rapid dissemination of these LTAs among colleagues likely to appreciate and benefit from them.  

  
  

    
  
  Participants are encouraged to exchange information about their own Frugal Innovations and to exchange access to the support materials developed in this workshop.

  
  

  Participants are guided to use a workbook and other Web-based resources for this workshop.  Then participants are invited to help improve and continue to use those materials - in the spirit of open source.  

  
  

  See sample Workbook  and sample Facilitator's Guide & Workshop Resources.  These samples were designed to be easily reduced to fit a variety of schedules and easily re-focused to fit a variety of purposes; and to be improved and shared "in the spirit of open source".

   

  
  

  

  All of the TLT Group’s online offerings include use of “low threshold” tools, examination of controversial issues, options for participants with a range of experience, and suggestions for assessment as you integrate what you’ve learned into your repertoire.      Participants for this workshop should sign-in 15 minutes early for tech instructions and to meet others in the group; they also have the option of remaining online for a half-hour follow-up discussion immediately after the workshop.
  

  NOTE:  Login instructions for the session are in this Registration Confirmation Email. Please check your Junk folder as sometimes these emails get trapped there. We will also send an additional login reminder 24 hours prior to the start of the event.

  
  

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• FridayLive! Frugal Innovations: Simple Feedback Targeting Course Improvement

  • Start
    February 12, 2010
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    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  • Location
    Online meeting info in Registration Confirmation Email [also check your Junk folder] and via email 24 hours prior to event start
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  Frugal Innovations:   Simple Feedback targeting Course Improvement
  

  Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group, and Craig Bach, Drexel University
  

  One way to improve teaching and learning is for faculty and for students to both get a clearer idea of what’s been going on in the course.  For example, what students learn is heavily influenced by how much time, energy and thought they put into doing homework, and how well prepared they are when they come to class sessions. So what could a faculty member ask students to help that faculty member figure out how to make future homework assignments more successful?  Many faculty use technologies such as PowerPoint slides and online discussions; what could faculty ask students about those uses of technology that would help the faculty make future slide shows more compelling, and future discussions more engaging?
  
  The TLT Group is helping Drexel develop a suite of such feedback tools. Our main goal: to create feedback tools that are so rewarding to use, and so extremely easy to use, that increasing numbers of faculty make increasing use of student feedback in their courses. We have some work to share, and many questions to ask you – questions about how to make a strategy like this work. Come prepared to react and advise us.
  

   

  Don't forget that you can register for a FridayLive! FASTPASS.  This enables you to attend FridayLive! every session without registering.

  
  

  NOTE:  Login instructions for the session will be sent in the Registration Confirmation Email. Please check your Junk folder as sometimes these emails get trapped there. We will also send an additional login reminder 24 hours prior to the start of the event.

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• Workshop: Information Literacy and Assessment

  • Start
    February 25, 2010
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    01:00 PM
  • End
    March 11, 2010
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    02:00 PM
  • Location
    Web access will be distributed by email
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  Information Literacy and Assessment
  co-sponsored by ACRL
  

  Thursdays, February 25, March 4, and 11, 2010  
  1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern

  Deb Gilchrist, Pierce College
  Ann Zald, University of Nevada Las Vegas
  

  How can you assess Information Literacy? Should you assess the process or what students find?  How do we determine the effectiveness of our information literacy programs? How do we know as teaching librarians we are making the impact we want in the classroom?  Educators often ponder these questions and others connected with IL programs. Bring your questions and opinions to this seminar for lively discussion in a search for answers.

   

  Three synchronous Webcasts will frame information literacy programs and student learning assessment within the context of  

  ·      AAHE 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning.

  ·      ACRL's Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy That Illustrate Best Practices

  ·      Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.

   

  Seminar leaders will provide practical, specific examples for conducting an assessment of information literacy programs. We assume participants are actively involved in information literacy programs and need to conduct assessments.

   

  While the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and the Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy That Illustrate Best Practices have been introduced in previous seminars in this series, our focus will be on their uses in assessing information literacy programs. The two documents are complimentary and their purposes are different. The webcasts will make these distinctions explicit by showing how they are used in program assessment and outcomes assessment. 

  For more information literacy resources, visit ACRL's Information Literacy Web site. 

  All of the TLT Group’s online offerings include use of “low threshold” tools, examination of controversial issues, options for participants with a range of experience, and suggestions for assessment as you integrate what you’ve learned into your repertoire.  

  Participants for this workshop should sign-in 15 minutes early for tech instructions and to meet others in the group; they also have the option of remaining online for a half-hour follow-up discussion immediately after the workshop.

  
   
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• FridayLive! Online Communities - What's HappeNING 2 Years Later

  • Start
    February 26, 2010
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    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  • Location
    Online meeting info in Registration Confirmation Email [also check your Junk folder] and via email 24 hours prior to event start
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  Online Communities - What's Happe-NING 2 years Later
  

  Bonnie Mullinix, TLT Group, Scott Simkins, NC A&T, and Ning SoTL Community
  

  The TLT Group started using Ning back in February 22, 2008* for it's community building and conversation-promoting features.  We have found that this platform is easy to manage and allows for asynchronous threaded discussion, attaching documents and rss/email notification. We will talk about our experiences and share and compare with others who have been experimenting with this free, easily accessible social networking tool for community building.  Scott Simkins of NC A&T will share how this has been used to support a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Community (with over 150 members exchanging ideas and materials).  We will discuss the possibilities and the challenges associated with establishing, promoting and maintaining such cross-institutional communities.

   

  Don't forget that you can register for a FridayLive! FASTPASS.  This enables you to attend FridayLive! every session without registering.

  
  

  NOTE:  Login instructions for the session will be sent in the Registration Confirmation Email. Please check your Junk folder as sometimes these emails get trapped there. We will also send an additional login reminder 24 hours prior to the start of the event.

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• Workshop: Strategic Planning for Teaching and Learning (with Technology): "Ten Things I (No Longer) Believe"

  • Start
    March 16, 2010
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    01:00 PM
  • End
    March 30, 2010
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    02:00 PM
  • Location
    Online meeting info in Registration Confirmation Email [also check your Junk folder] and via email 24 hours prior to event start
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  Strategic Planning for Teaching and Learning (with Technology): "Ten Things I (No Longer) Believe".
  

  Tuesdays, March 16, 23, and 30, 2010
  1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern

  Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group
  
  Academic programs evolve as the result of environmental changes, formal planning, and day-to-day decisions (often made with no consciousness of their influence on the future). This workshop will focus mostly on the second and third factors. This will be a real workshop: we'll read, think and write together.
  

  
  The starting point: this series of blog posts ("Ten Things I (no longer) Believe about Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology") on one way to think about strategic planning. The product of our work: materials you can use at your institution for planning and for staff development. We'll reexamine and debate the propositions in the blog posts, and then figure out what sort of materials might be most helpful to your institutions.
  
  REGISTRATION LIMITED TO TWENTY PARTICIPANTS.
  As usual, recordings of sessions will be available to registrants.
  

  All of the TLT Group’s online offerings include use of “low threshold” tools, examination of controversial issues, options for participants with a range of experience, and suggestions for assessment as you integrate what you’ve learned into your repertoire.      Participants for this workshop should sign-in 15 minutes early for tech instructions and to meet others in the group; they also have the option of remaining online for a half-hour follow-up discussion immediately after the workshop.
  

  NOTE:  Login instructions for the session are in this Registration Confirmation Email. Please check your Junk folder as sometimes these emails get trapped there. We will also send an additional login reminder 24 hours prior to the start of the event.

  
  

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• Workshop: ePortfolios

  • Start
    April 08, 2010
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    01:00 PM
  • End
    April 22, 2010
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    02:00 PM
  • Location
    Online meeting info in Registration Confirmation Email [also check your Junk folder] and via email 24 hours prior to event start
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  ePortfolios

  Thursdays, April 8, 15, and 22, 2010
  1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern

  Darren Cambridge, George Mason University, and Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group
  
  

  ePortfolios are promising, unevenly implemented, and rapidly evolving. Some see ePortfolios primarily in terms of assessment/accountability, while others focus primarily on their use to create a stimulating, empowering learning environment. And those aren't the only possible goals.

  This workshop will deal with three major issues:
      a) what are ePortfolios and how are they currently being used?
      b) what factors and barriers should be considered in planning an ePortfolio initiative?
      c) how can a program use feedback from faculty and students to guide the development of the initiative?

  This workshop will be led by Darren Cambridge of George Mason University, an international authority on ePortfolios, and Steve Ehrmann, Director of the Flashlight Program on the Evaluation and Improvement of Educational Uses of Technology here at The TLT Group.      

  All of the TLT Group’s online offerings include use of “low threshold” tools, examination of controversial issues, options for participants with a range of experience, and suggestions for assessment as you integrate what you’ve learned into your repertoire.      Participants for this workshop should sign-in 15 minutes early for tech instructions and to meet others in the group; they also have the option of remaining online for a half-hour follow-up discussion immediately after the workshop.
  
  

  NOTE:  Login instructions for the session are in this Registration Confirmation Email. Please check your Junk folder as sometimes these emails get trapped there. We will also send an additional login reminder 24 hours prior to the start of the event.

  
  

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