Podcast
Faculty Mentoring Faculty
Hosted by Andy Jones · ENGLISH
The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program provides UC Davis faculty an opportunity to mentor and to learn from their peers who interested in innovative teaching and instructional technology. Participants learn about tools such as SmartSite, the new suite of Web-based course management tools that will improve upon and eventually replace the current tools faculty use to instruct and communicate with their students.
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The Undisciplined Instructor
May 28, 201000:59:37Tap to summarizeLeslie Madsen-Brooks is a teaching consultant at the Teaching Resources Center. At the Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program for spring 2010 she presents, "The Undisciplined Instructor: Lessons from a Perpetual Amateur."
Transcribe →(up to) Ten Teaching Techniques that I will Try in 2011
May 21, 201000:58:34Tap to summarizeBoth Andy Jones and Karma Waltonen, lecturers of the University Writing Program, inspire other teachers to try new teaching methods in the new year at the Spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Transcribe →Engaging Students with Media
May 14, 201000:54:43Tap to summarizeA lecturer of the University Writing Program, Sasha Abramsky speaks about how to engage students with media at the Spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Transcribe →Thirty-two Years of Academic Computing
May 7, 201000:59:39Tap to summarizeKevin Roddy, a lecturer of the medieval studies program, gives a talk on academic computing, mainly "The Insights and the Out-of-sight Sights," at the spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Transcribe →Technological Change and Collaboration
Apr 30, 201000:56:20Tap to summarizePeter Siegel, vice provost for information and educational technology explores the "treacherous waters of technological change and the nature of collaboration in the academy" at the spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Transcribe →Two Programs I Can't Work Without
Apr 16, 201001:01:15Tap to summarizePaul Salitsky, professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior, shares two programs essential to his profession: MacSpeech Dictate and TextExpander at the spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Transcribe →iPad: New Uses
Apr 9, 201000:52:54Tap to summarizeAndy Jones, lecturer for the University Writing Program, presents new uses for personal technologies, including teaching and learning with the iPad at the spring 2010 Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program.
Transcribe →Encouraging Classroom Discussion
Mar 12, 201000:52:27Tap to summarizeDrew Halfmann, assistant professor of sociology, gives a presentation on how teachers can encourage discussion in their classes.
Transcribe →Humanities for Non-Majors
Mar 5, 201001:05:56Tap to summarizeJack Hicks, an emeritus English professor at UC Davis, presents "Local Is Global: A Model for Teaching Humanities to Non-Majors."
Transcribe →Discussion of 'Higher Education at Risk'
Feb 26, 201000:37:59Tap to summarizeUC Davis faculty participants discuss John Merrow's film "Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk" and how it relates to UC Davis, with Andy Jones leading the discussion.
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