- Participants will receive a modest stipend for their participation and completion of all activities and all four days. Faculty who anticipate absence should not join the program.
- There is very limited parking at Arlington Center. Participants are encouraged to carpool, to use public transportation or to park at the designated spaces S18-37 behind Arlington Center. Parking is also available across the street in Ballston Commons Mall at a very reasonable cost.
- Lunch will be on our own, although the stipend should more than cover this and other expenses. Plan to have one hour free time for lunch each day.
- STARTALK, our grantor, may schedule site visits and there may be media presence on some occasions.
Participants will meet each other and their discipline-specific consultants who will facilitate a discussion that will go on for four days. The leading question will be: How do we incorporate technology to meet the needs of the 21st century learner?
In the curriculum development workshop, faculty participants will learn from Dr. Hall Haley, an expert in teaching methods, multiple intelligences and activities to address all learning styles.
In the online communication workshop, faculty will work in a facilitated environment to incorporate technology activities in their syllabi. Blackboard, blogs and wikis will be reviewed.
In the MERLOT familiarization workshop, participants will learn how to search and browse the collections effectively.
This day will end with a discipline specific session, facilitated by Professors Esa and Dong, where all participants will share best practices that they learned in Day Two. There will be further refining of how to write a technology-enhanced syllabus.
This day will begin with discipline specific sessions that will include a guest speaker and/or a video presentation. Facilitators will lead a group discussion following this activity. The morning will end with open lab time so that participants can ready their demonstrations for day four.
In the afternoon, Franklin will demonstrate how to make Personal Collections and archive lesson plans in MERLOT. Participants will spend the rest of the afternoon completing Personal collections in Chinese and Arabic.
Facilitators will make their final presentations on the technology-enhanced syllabus and advise participants during the last open lab session. The faculty showcase will begin an hour before lunch and continue after lunch until all have presented. Participants will evaluate the institute and receive certificates of participation.
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