Topics for the August 29 Gala Showcase Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center Back To TLC Home Page
Name	Email	Topic
1. Albrecht, Donna	AlbrechtD@uwstout.edu	Using WebBoard to Facilitate Classroom Discussion Students are assigned differentiated roles related to written comments on readings before face-to-face discussion. All WebBoard comments ended with questions.
2. Becker, Joy	BeckerJoy@uwstout.edu	Engaging Students: Activating Different Learning Styles in an Online Course Dealing with different learning styles successfully in an online environment can be especially challenging. I will share some strategies I have used to address various learning styles and help students achieve success in online courses.
3. Bomar, Charles and James, Krista	BomarC@uwstout.edu JamesK@uwstout.edu	Engaging Students: Service Learning Through Citizen Science for General Education Students This session looks at way that BIO 111 engages students in community service learning using citizen science as a model. This presentation will emphasize integrated learning, service, collaboration, civic responsibility, and student reflection on earth friendly activities.
4. Maylath, Bruce	maylathb@uwstout.edu	Laptops in Class: Engaging Research Activities "What are they looking at now?" Ever asked that question as students, with wry smiles adorning their faces, focus on their laptop screens instead of you? This session examines remedies.
5. Busby, Joe	busbyj@uwstout.edu	Engaging Students: Combining Service Learning and Student Professional Organizations
6. Dahl, Kari	DahlKar@uwstout.edu	Empowering Students to Learn: Honoring Their Life Experiences How do you integrate your classroom environment, teaching methods and assessment so that students take responsibility for their own learning?  If students are allowed to chase their own ideas based on their own interests, they are more likely to take risks and approach assignments with a willingness to accept challenges far beyond a teacher's expectations.  Can you reduce your assumption of control over students and truly honor them as emerging thinkers?  Based on your own life experiences, come to this session ready to challenge your assumptions.
7. Fichter, Amy	fichtera@uwstout.edu	Kinesthetic Learning: Students Learn Better Through Movement Learning occurs best when movement is involved.  I will demonstrate two techniques I use to help students learn even difficult concepts:  1) building with clay, and 2) understanding through movement.
8. Fitch, Brian and Kirby, Alec	fitchb@uwstout.edu kirbya@uwstout.edu	Closing the Distance Education: Bringing Diverse Student and Instructor Populations Together Participants will learn of the pitfalls and rewards of learning through the eyes of a multi-national, multi-cultural lens and discover how students and instructors alike are transformed by this sort of experience. We will include exercises that worked especially well across the entire spectrum of students, schools, and instructors.
9. Flom, Barbara	FlomB@uwstout.edu	Adding Adventure:  Using Experiential Strategies in Counselor Education Counselors empower their clients or students to set goals, make decisions, solve problems, and work with others. Adventure-based counseling offers an effective—and fun!—means of building these skills.  Introduce your human services students to the adventure approaches used in school, day treatment, and residential settings.
10. Ghenciu, Petre	ghenciup@uwstout.edu	Discovery Method and Groups: Engaging Students in Math The discovery method encourages students to take a more active role in their learning process by answering a series of questions or solving problems designed to introduce a general concept. The instructor guides the student'sthought process by posing a series of questions whose responses lead to the understanding of a concept before it is explicitly stated.
11. Gjevre, Jonna	GjevreJ@uwstout.edu	Developing Independent Critical Thinking: Films and Rhetoric
12. Harris, Ed	HarrisE@uwstout.edu	Team-Based Learning: Selection, Assessment, Evaluation This session shows you how to use Team-Based Learning. It focuses on (1) team selection techniques; (2) team assessment Techniques, including team quizzes; and (3) team member performance evaluation techniques, including peer assessments.
13. Hoel, Anne	HoelA@uwstout.edu	Using Online Mentoring to Enhance Student Learning Hear how online mentoring can increase student engagement and learning by providing a direct method of communication to professionals, their organizational challenges, and rewards.
14. Holland, Joe	hollandj@uwstout.edu	Using Microsoft's Tools to Manage, Correct and Provide Feedback and Engage Students in the Learning Process
15. Madland, Denise, Lugo, Lelah and Hagness, Carol	MadlandD@uwstout.edu hagnessc@uwstout.edu lugola@uwstout.edu	The Library: All This and Google Too—Search Engines, Super Search, Resources in Your Laptop --Search Engines: Ten Tips in Ten Minutes to get the best from the web. --Super Search!!  Save time by simultaneously searching for books and articles, customizing your database sets and search results. --Put Library Resources Into Your Laptop: Fight plagiarism; Incorporate electronic course materials, research links, and flash demos.
16. Muldoon, Andrea	muldoona@uwstout.edu	You've Assigned the Major Paper, Now What?: Strategies for Student Success in Any Discipline This talk will feature engaging, user-friendly classroom activities and assignments which you can use to help students in any discipline through each step (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, reflecting) of the writing process.
17. Murray, Nancy	MurrayN@uwstout.edu	Learning Styles and Large Classes: Assisting Student Learning This session will explain how learning styles relate to student learning & performance outcomes. See how you can use a survey to enhance learning in your large class.
18. Muza, Robin	MuzaR@uwstout.edu	Technology in Class: Using Online Discussion Questions with Students This session will feature how to use and assess online discussion questions to engage students’ learning and applying of course materials.
19. Nold, Steve	nolds@uwstout.edu	Tired of Unprepared Students? Try Team Learning Quizzes! Many students come to class unprepared.  Team learning quizzes encourage them to read and think before coming to class, leaving valuable class time for more important things-problem solving and critical thinking.  Come learn how.
20. Parejko, Ken	ParejkoK@uwstout.edu	Develop Critical Thinking in Your Students: Problem-Based Learning Students learn science best when they can apply the concepts to everyday life. I use problem-based learning as the structure for most of my introductory biology classes. Examples of problems include: how can a caterpillar remake itself into a butterfly? What colors does a dog see, and how do we know?
21. Parsons, Ann	ParsonsA@uwstout.edu	MERLOT--Better than Red Wine Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Learn about this powerful, searchable, college-based database 1000’s of learning objects at www.merlot.org Bring your laptop
22. Peters, Bob	PetersB@uwstout.edu	Laptops and Groups:  Effective In-Class Strategies This session includes discussion of laptops and groups (freshman to graduate students), structuring groups for success and developing thought provoking questions to enhance student learning.
23. Post, Sherri	posts@uwstout.edu	Teaching Visual Literacy This session will inform instructors about the four main design principles so you can create effective, efficient, appealing visuals that facilitate and enhance student learning.
24. Tank, David	tankd@uwstout.edu	Hybrid Classes: Combining Face-to-Face and Online Teaching Students appreciate the flexibility of an online class. Teachers enjoy interacting face to face with their students. You can have the best of both worlds by creating a hybrid class, taught partly online and partly in the classroom. I use the hybrid model in Newswriting and Freshman English. This session will help you envision ways that you can use it in your classes.
25. Taylor, Juli	TaylorJu@uwstout.edu	Fostering Resilience in Students Do you or your students have "busy thinking"? This session will help you recognize your thinking so you can model resilience for colleagues and students.
26. Champe, Julia	champej@uwstout.edu	Taking the Sting Out: Fostering Effective Peer Feedback for Students’ Professional Development and Personal Growth Learning to develop collaborative working relationships with peers and supervisors is essential to students’ professional development. Because effective collaboration requires the ability to give and receive honest assessment, this session presents an approach for fostering learning environments in which students develop appropriate feedback skills. Strategies are presented for managing dynamics of authority, competence, and intimacy.

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