teaching
workshops
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
Classroom assessment techniques allow you to incorporate quick, meaningful
assessment - both formative (assessment for learning) and summative
(assessment of learning) - into every class session. Learn several
techniques that can help you learn more about your students, and help
your students learn more effectively.
Designing Effective Research Assignments
Learn how to design compelling research assignments that teach the
research process and foster critical thinking, problem solving and
analytical skills. Originally developed as Designing Assignments to
Integrate Scholarly Research and Inquiry.
Web Publishing
In addition to developing a set of
curriculum guides for teaching web publishing at the University of
Oregon that are based on web standards (topics include HTML, cascading
style sheets, and using Dreamweaver) and the work of several instructors,
I've created several stand-alone workshops, among them:
- Cascading Style Sheets: introduction to style sheets, originally taught as a stand-alone workshop, but later integrated into the HTML workshops
- Web Design Principles and Practices: focus on aesthetics, usability, and content
- Organizing Your Web Site: introduction to creating and maintaining a web site, including organizational principles, information architecture, and security
Information Literacy Across the Curriculum
Information Literacy Across the Curriculum (ILAC) builds on existing
campus-wide curricular initiatives that: emphasizes information literacy
as a "process" skill that must be fully integrated into departmental
courses and programs; promotes the library as an instructional resource
for students and faculty; fosters collaboration between the library and
similar resource centers (e.g., Writing Centers); and must be offered
according to a flexible menu of instructional options, and provide
opportunities for professional development for faculty and librarians.
This workshop identifies several models of ILAC programming and examines
the advantages/disadvantages of each within various campus environments
and assists participants in developing a framework for campus-wide
discussion within which ILAC programming can thrive, evaluating their
individual campus environment, and identifying ILAC programming and
partnership opportunities. Originally developed as a pre-conference for
the LOEX-of-the-West Conference in 2002, it was re-configured as a
preconference for the ACRL National Conference, then again as a workshop at
the ALA Midwinter conference. I participated in the latter two initiatives,
along with colleagues from across the United States.