Focusing on the "Triple Bottom Line" (People, Planet, Profit), this course is designed to help faculty create a "sustainability" infused curriculum.
What is Sustainability Across the Curriculum?
"The World is Your Classroom" with this course, which seeks to infuse civic responsibility and strengthen communities.
What is Service Learning Across the Curriculum?
The next section is at Osceola (CRN 2567): May 14 - June 11.
This is the Valencia College term for two or more courses that are paired together with an integrated curriculum.
What is LinC?
Infuse a global perspective into your classrooms with the course.
What is Internationalizing the Curriculum at Home?
This course was developed through the LSAMP grant; its aim is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
What is Engaging Underrepresented Minorities in STEM?
The next course offering is at Osceola on April 3 (CRN 3133).
This is a visual interpretation of your thoughts and ideas, arranged around a central topic.
What is Mindmapping?
Brick: post-it notes; Click: Popplet
This active learning technique is typically conducted at the end of a topic, chapter, or class period in which students are asked to report what idea, topic, etc. about the previous lesson was confusing or unclear.
What is the "Muddiest Point" activity?
Brick: exit ticket box Click: (discussion forum/Google Form/VoiceThread/VideoEverywhere)
This engagement strategy, developed by Lyman and Associates to encourage student classroom participation, is designed to provide students with "food for thought" on given topics enabling them to formulate individual ideas, share these ideas with another student, then communicate these ideas to the class.
What is Think, Pair, Share?
Brick: Think, Pair, Share (Partnering with the Library) Click: Today's Meet
This tactile strategy energizes classroom discussion, stimulates kinesthetic learners, and most importantly, makes learning fun. Use it to play the Name Game, Good News, or Key Concepts.
What is Kooshing the Envelope or Kooshball Game?
Brick: Kooshball (Kooshing Handout) Click: Name Randomizer (Random Picker)
This cooperative learning technique, originally developed by Elliot Aronson (1978) to help weaken racial cliques in forcibly integrated schools, makes each group member responsible for becoming an "expert" on one section of the assigned material and then "teaching" it to the other members of the team.
What is a Jigsaw Activity?
Brick: Jigsaw (Jigsaw handout) Click: Padlet
These learning spaces are set in the open air; one is even equipped with a writable glass surface.
What are outdoor classrooms?
These documents serve as a handy checklist to keep track of your progess towards any of Faculty & Instructional Development's five certifications.
What are the Certification Planning Documents on the Faculty & Instructional Development website?
Not to be confused with the popular red wine, this space is filled with multimedia educational resources for learning and online teaching.
What is the Merlot learning object repository?
You play the starring role in this learning space, limited only by your imagination.
What is the recording studio?
If you're in a pickle with your course development, you can visit this space to get a fresh perspective.
What is the Osceola campus Center for Teaching/Learning Innovation?
"More than a student response system", this mobile friendly application allows educators to initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races.
What is Socrative?
When you scan these with a smart device they reveal the identity of flora and fauna around the campus.
What are QR Codes?
"Create. Connect. Inspire!" with this reusable learning object tool that allows you to engage students with 21 mobile friendly learning activities.
What is SoftChalk?
No need to install this mobile friendly app that lets you "show what you know"!
Use it to record what's on your computer screen,
Narrate as you go.
What is Screencast-o-matic? Or What is a screencast?
This revolutionary mobile device can be used as a recordable whiteboard, a device to mirror video and presentations on a projector, and author interactive textbooks and videos.
What is an iPad?
Google "Teach with an iPad" for ideas from Apple
Touchcast
This dynamic duo are our OC/LNC Faculty Developer/Instructional Designers. They are your thought partners for professional development, curriculum design, and educational technology. They are based out of the Centers for Teaching/Learning Innovation at each campus.
Who are Gary Kokaisel and Amy Eger?
A former Math Depot tutor and current IMathAS expert, he is the newest member of the OC/LNC Faculty & Instructional Development team.
Who is Luke Monaco?
She has five years as a full-time faculty member at UCF; credentials to teach within the Communications, Hospitality, Business and Education fields; and Doctoral work with learning styles and experiential education.
Who is Shara Lee (Campus Director, Faculty & Instructional Development)?
More than just your colleagues, these innovators are instrumental in creating and implementing development opportunities for faculty such as Circles of Innovation. Our campus-based representative is Steve Cunningham.
Who are Faculty Fellows?
Also known as subject matter experts, these innovators are storytellers, learning coaches, and mentors.
Osceola Campus Faculty!