POWER UP YOUR PEDAGOGY CONFERENCE
January 3, 4, and 7, 2008, Ernst Cultural Center, Annandale Campus
To view indiividual handouts and slie presentations, check out these program links:
Over 300 new and experienced faculty members and administrators from all over the NOVA community presented over 50 workshops and sessions on January 3, 4, and 7, 2008 at the Ernst Community Cultural Center on the Annandale Campus of Northern Virginia Community College. The conference was free to all NOVA faculty.
Highlights for PUP this year include the following:
- Thursday, January 3, Keynote speech, Dr. Steve Sachs, Understanding the Web 2.0 Generation - A Faculty Survival Guide.
- Friday, January 4, Faculty Resource Fair, 10-12N, with over 30 tables of resources. You're welcome to look at pictures taken by NOVA photography Kevin Mattingly on the share drive, \\cssrvr3\nova_photo_events
- Monday, January 7, Keynote speech, Dr. Charlie Errico, Professional Development Opportunities that Benefit You, Your Students, the College. To view the video of this, go to mms://vod01.nvcc.edu/vod/Public/Power_Up_Pedagogy/Errico.PUP.wmv
You can view both keynote presentations on NOVA's TV Center website, http://www.nvcc.edu/tvcenter/vod/CourseView.aspx?Course=POWER_UP_PEDAGOGY
Here's what former participants from PUP said about the conference:
- I have attended many sessions and really enjoyed them. We will be sharing what we are learned at our own professional development session next week.
- Helps me understand my students better and I feel stimulated to innovate.
- Many of the sessions were extremely relevant with new ideas for collaborating with our students.
- The food was the best that we've had at the college!
- Well organized. It was great to have so many different sessions and so many good speakers.
- I have a lot of good ideas that I want to try this semester!