If anyone is interested let me know, I have some funds to support a limited
number of people attending.
Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820
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Subject: [coa-l] SUNY TC: Teaching Matters: Spring Conference on Teaching &
Learni ng - Buffalo, NY
THE SUNY TRAINING CENTER AND UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO'S CENTER FOR TEACHING AND
LEARNING RESOURCES PRESENTS:
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Teaching Matters: Spring Conference on Teaching & Learning (a one-day
conference)
Featuring Ronald Berk, John Hopkins University - Author of Humor as
an Instructional Defibrillator
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Date: February 25, 2005
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Place: Center for Tomorrow, University at Buffalo - Buffalo, NY
=========REGISTER ON-LINE=============
http://www.tc.suny.edu <http://www.tc.suny.edu>
Category: "Academic Programs"
$110 SUNY Training Center Member
$140 Non-SUNY Training Center Member
=========CONFERENCE WEB SITE=============
For up to date information
http://www.tc.suny.edu/tlconf0205/welcome0205.html
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Phone: 315-464-4078 Fax: 315-464-7303 Email: [log in to unmask]
=========KEYNOTE SPEAKER=============
RONALD A. BERK, PhD, CNN, BBC, DNA, is Professor of Biostatistics and
Measurement at the School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University. He served as
Assistant Dean for Teaching from 1997-2003. He received the University's
Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in 1993 and Caroline
Pennington Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997 and was inducted as a
Fellow in the Oxford Society of Scholars in 1998. Since that date, he has
been in the Federal Witness Protection Program living in Maryland under the
name Britney Spears. He has served 29 years of a life term at Johns
Hopkins, 11 years in the Division of Education and 18 years in the School of
Nursing, where he has mentored numerous faculty and hundreds of students,
all of whom unfortunately are in prison now. He has written a monthly humor
column, "Ask Mister Humor Person," for health professionals in the
newsletter MedWorldNEWS. He has published 8 books, including 2 on humor:
Professors Are from Mars, Students Are from Snickers (Stylus, 2003) and
Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator (Stylus, 2002). The quality of
those books and his more than 250 journal publications and presentations
reflects his life-long commitment to mediocrity and his professional motto:
"Go for the Bronze!"
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8:30 - 9:00 am : Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:10 am : Welcome
9:10 - 10:45 am : Keynote : Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator - Ronald
Berk, Johns Hopkins University
Grab those paddles. Charge 300. Clear! "Ouch!" Now how do you feel? Great!
Humor used as a systematic teaching tool in your classroom can bring
students and deadly, boring course content to life. Since some students have
the attention span of goat cheese, we need to find creative techniques to
hook them, engage their emotions, and focus their minds and eyeballs on
learning. This session presents 10 evidence-based, "low-risk" humor methods
that can be integrated into handouts, examples, case studies, discussion
questions, homework problems, project outlines, tests, wedding invitations,
and parking tickets. Examples include quotations, cartoons, multiple-choice
items, top 10 lists, anecdotes, skits/dramatizations with music, and
"Jeopardy!" type reviews. The techniques are applicable to any course level,
discipline, content area, or ice-cold beverage. This session "boldly goes
where no academician has gone before," maybe!
10:45 - 11:00 am : Break
11:00 - Noon : Motivating the Millennials: Getting to know the new
generation of college learners - Stewart Brower, MLIS Coordinator of Library
Instruction, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo
The Millennial generation of college-age learners has been called the "most
numerous, affluent, and ethnically diverse generation in American history."
They can also be one of the most demanding generations to teach, with a
strong sense of self-identity and entitlement that can impede more
traditional teaching modalities. Technology-savvy, goal-oriented Millennials
place a premium on their college experiences, and college professors and
other academic leaders are beginning to discover new ways of motivating
these students. This session will provide a generational look back at the
social and historical factors that influenced this generation's development
and give participants an opportunity to share their personal knowledge with
others. By sharing our collective experiences about the Millennials, we will
discover better ways to motivate them, and, ultimately, to teach them.
Noon - 1:00 pm : Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 pm : How To Write A Case Study Dr. Kipp Herreid, Distinguished
Teaching Professor Academic Director, University Honors Program, Director,
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Department of Biological
Sciences, University at Buffalo
Case study teaching is one of the fastest growing alternatives to the
lecture method. Over 90% of the faculty that attend workshops on case study
teaching say that students like it better and perform better on tests.
Attendance improves dramatically when cases are used, because students learn
in a context. In this workshop we will focus on showing you how to write a
case for your own class. You should walk away from this with a great start
on a case that you can use right away. Fame and fortune await!
2:30 - 2:45 pm : Break
2:45 - 4:15 pm : Test Wars: The Evil Empire Wants to Vaporize
Multiple-Choice Tests - Ronald Berk
This is the intergalactic event of the 2005 winter in Buffalo. After 75
years of research and experience with tests in this galaxy, why are there
still so many complaints by students about their quality and the conditions
under which they're administered? This presentation will answer your most
throbbing questions about classroom assessment. It will address the
following prickly topics based on evidenced-based practice:
* How you can make the best use of assessment methods without resorting
to medications
* A "Consumer's Guide" to shopping at THE ASSESSMENT DEPOT to get a
"Best Buy" on appropriate methods
* Top 15 complaints by students about taking tests and strategies to
resolve them
* Top 10 flaws in multiple-choice test items that can clue testwise
students
* Alternative assessment methods to measure problem-solving and
higher-order thinking skills, such as the student portfolio
* How to survive classroom assessment without getting voted out by your
class
These topics will be illustrated with semi-amusing items, music, and
demonstrations. May the "FORCE" compel you to attend this session.
4:15 - 4:30 pm : Evaluations and Wrap-Ups
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