PETAL Newsletter: February 2008

PETAL NEWSLETTER

A Word from the Director

Comment Press

I have written both in the PETAL Newsletter and Blog about CommentPress, which is a new blogging software system that works with the popular WordPress blogging system. The value of CommentPress for higher education is that it offers promising possibilities for enabling students to interact with texts and with each other....

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Faculty Focus: What’s Happening at USA?

Increasing faculty awareness and use of the Clicker is one of PETAL’s chief priorities in the area of instructional technology. Nicole Carr, a 2007 Teaching Excellence Award winner, recently shared her thoughts on the Clicker with PETAL after using it for the first half of this semester.

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Teaching and Learning in the Literature

It always takes a while for the Chronicle of Higher Education to find its way through the library to my desk, but even though I have just now received the issue dated November 23rd, James Lang’s “On Course” column in that issue is worth pointing out. It is entitled “Midterm Grades for Blackboard” and discusses his use of the Blackboard™ online learning environment, which is similar to the eCollege system we have here at USA.

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PETAL Events for February 2008

02.20.08	3pm-5pm	Class Management and Plagiarism (Seminar)
02.21.08	1pm - 3pm	Class Management and Plagiarism (Seminar)
02.25.08	2pm-3pm	Cooperative Learning (Roundtable)
02.26.08	10am - 12pm	Teaching with Streaming Video (Workshop)
02.27.08	3pm - 5pm	Teaching with Streaming Video (Workshop)
03.17.08	2pm - 3pm	Making Better Use of the Library in Your Classes (Roundtable)
03.19.08	3pm - 5pm	Problem Solving and Critical Thinking (Seminar)
03.20.08	1pm - 3pm	Problem Solving and Critical Thinking (Seminar)
03.21.08	12pm - 1pm	Teaching with the Socratic Method (Brown Bag Lunch)

For complete event schedules go to the PETAL website: www.southalabama.edu/petal

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