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Minutes of PDC Meeting of October 10, 2005
2pm Cranford S112 in attendance:
Maureen told everyone to look at the PDC
website,
http://faculty.ucc.edu/committee-pdc,
because she has added things like upcoming
teleconferences, faculty teaching tips, Stan's
idea to have a pop quiz when the class is
disturbed by a cell phone. She invited PDC
members and all faculty to submit short
descriptions of teaching ideas that work.
We discussed the day for the 2006 Teaching
and technology conference. Maria had a list of
the responses to her memo to the faculty
(include here)
Most of the folk who has responded to her
email to the faculty preferred Friday over
Saturday. I passed on Paula Belonte's idea that
we should do it after the snow season, in late
march or early April. We checked the calendar
to avoid Easter and Passover and decided on
March 31st. with a schedule of
- noon lunch
- 12:30 to
1;20 speaker
- 1:0 1st
session
- 2:30
coffee/soda break
- 2:45 2nd
session
- 3:45
conference over, people turn in evaluations
and get a goodie bag
We felt that since there were 60 people in
2005 and perhaps there would be more in 2006
since it will be a Friday, better weather and
adjunct faculty invited, 5 workshops in each of
the 2 sessions would be good. Ideas for
workshops were :
Already emailed to Maria:
- Bohdan – TurnItIn
- Vince Wrice – using technology in
student assessment, calculating grades,
scheduling and attendance
- Donna Weir – Teaching an online
course
- Helena Holmes, teaching students how
to find and evaluated websites for research
Ideas:
- CPR presented by the EMT staff in
Plainfield, even though it is a lot of work for
them to bring the material to Cranford, it was
so well received last time we will really try to
offer it again
- Ergonomics in the workplace was a
session Plainfield put on in Plainfield this all
and perhaps they will repeat it for the T&T
- Webboard – how to set it up and use it
(Pat Ishill uses it,
Barbara McGoldrick
and
Susannah Chewning have given talks on
WebBoard in the past
- WebCT for beginners and a round table
for people currently using it to trade knowledge
(MLG will arrange)
- MLG will contact
Carl Cuttita and
Joanne Gouveia if they would like to present
Not discussed, but I just thought of
it, we can ask media if they can do a session
More ideas:
- Pat Biddar could do a session on how
the statistics she has available could help us
improve teaching
-
Patricia Castaldi
could discuss Middle
States Review preparation
- The library staff should be invited to
discuss databases available from the library
- Toby Marx and Cyndi Roemer might want
to do a session on the new Women's Studies
program and innovative teaching methods used
- Gail Hein could provide a session on
the ALC
- Alan November could be a possible
keynoter. I requested that the library order
his book.
http://www.novemberlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=30
We all should ask around for ideas for
keynoter and workshop presenters.
The next meeting will be Wednesday November
16th at 1:30 when we are on Cranford for the
faculty meeting at 3:00
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