What Not to Say in Class During an Election Season

As I was straightening my desk a few minutes ago, I ran across an article I had not yet read in the September 19, 2008 Chronicle. On page A104, the very back page, the article, “What Not to Say in Class During an Election Season,” is a keeper. It reminds us of ways to be respectful of student opinions when expressing our own.

Tuesday Tech Tip: Valuable Site for Mac Tips & Blogroll

Please visit www.themacintoshguy.com for a listing of many user friendly Mac tips. Unlike some tips sites, this one includes clear, easy to follow directions for each topic in the list. When you get to the site, just click on Tips to choose from the many he has listed there.

Check the Blogroll on your right. Here are some great sites. Your Free Publications is a link to Magna Pubs which houses The Teaching Professor and Academic Leader. Remember, you can access either one free.

Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching

From September 26 Chronicle:

“Nominations are now open for the prestigious Cherry Award–at $200,000, the largest single award presented to an individual for great teaching. Nominees for the Cherry Award should be professors in the English-speaking world with a proven record as distinguished scholars and extraordinary teachers. Three finalists, announced in spring 2009, will recieve $15,000, and their home departments will recieve $10,000. In the fall of 2009, each finalist will present a lecture series at Baylor University. The winner will receive $200,000 and will teach in residence at Baylor for a semester.For more information, on how to nominate a great teacher for the Cherry Award, please visit www.baylor.edu/cherry_awards/.” Deadline, November 3. 2008

CFD Grants Deadline: October 31

Click on the tab for CFD grants above to find information about applying for a CFD grant and a copy and paste-able grant application form.

Be sure to plan ahead to get dean and department chair signatures!

Newsletter from National Teaching and Learning Forum

If you visit the National Teaching and Learning Forum’s website, www.ntlf.com, you will discover that you can easily access their newsletter. This month the newsletter features articles such as First-Day Questions for the Learner-Centered Classroom and Are you Organized and Prepared, on merit pay and student rating forms. Right up our alley.

Delicious Make & Take Workshop @ Addlestone

Don’t forget this Thursday@3@Addlestone, Room 120, we have what we call a Make and Take workshop on Delicious. Didn’t make the workshop two weeks ago? That’s okay. See the post below for the links to the notes and resources from the last workshop. There will be folks to help you with your Delicious bookmarking and to get you started if you happened to miss the last session. Hope to see you there!

Good teaching,

Sara

Welcome to the CFD Blog!

Tuesday Tech Tips, announcements about workshops and grant dates, and other newsletters from CFD will now be found at this location: http://blogs.cofc.edu/cfd. Why, you ask? For lots of really good reasons:

1. CFD newsletter attachments will no longer clog the college email server.

2. You will no longer have to archive in your email folders the tech tips that you choose to save–they will all be archived and searchable here whenever you need access to them. (this function is currently under construction.)

3. You will be able to respond to these Tuesday Tech Tips with ideas, comments, and suggestions of your own to share with faculty. You are the most important part of the Center for Faculty Development.

4. Links on this blog will take you to other features of the website you currently use.

5. You will be able to access The Teaching Professor and Academic Leader, your two free publications from this site. And, you will be able to comment on/critique/recommend to others articles you’d like to right here! (this functionality is under construction but will be available soon)

6. There are too many more benefits to mention here now!

Now, on to the Tuesday Tech Tip for this week! It’s full of great ideas, but short and sweet here. It is a link to what you missed at last Thursday’s Thursday@3@Addlestone seminar on the 100 best web tools for teaching and learning, web culture, and using Delicious as a social bookmarking tool. In case you want to see what you missed, just visit http://thursday3.pbwiki.com. Lots of great information here to update you in case you’d like to come to the Make and Take workshop on September 25 at 3, Room 120, Addlestone Library when we will get you up to speed and you can create your own Delicious bookmarks with lots of help. The links you need will be posted on this blog.

Please come back to visit soon! I’d like to hear from you!

Good teaching,

Sara

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