CRL Learns Events Calendar http://www.kucrl.org/index.php en jtollefson@ku.edu Copyright 2012 2012-02-17T17:00:+00:00 CRLLearnshttp://feedburner.google.com Guest Speaker James Basham http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/guest-speaker-james-basham http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/guest-speaker-james-basham Room 247 JRP

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]]> CRL Learns, Capacity Building, KU-CRL, 2012-05-04T18:00:+00:00 Guest Speaker Punya Mishra http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/guest-speaker-punya-mishra http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/guest-speaker-punya-mishra TBA

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]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, KU-CRL, 2012-04-20T22:00:+00:00 A Phone, a Closet, and a Tennis Ball: Tools for Designing Effective Slide Presentations http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/a-phone-a-closet-and-a-tennis-ball-tools-for-designing-effective-slide-pres http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/a-phone-a-closet-and-a-tennis-ball-tools-for-designing-effective-slide-pres Room 247 JRP

Colors, fonts and images are too often an afterthought when it comes to presenting important information. Thoughtless use of design can confuse or bore your audience and, at worst, make your presentation forgettable. A visually engaging presentation will reinforce and clarify your message to your audience as well as help you keep on track when presenting. By learning a handful of basic design principles, you can create clean, beautiful slides that any LCD projector would be proud to display. This talk will discuss practical ways to pair meaningful content with eye-catching design to create effective and enlightening slide presentations.

About CRL Learns
The CRL Learns initiative presents expert guest speakers, dialogue about cutting-edge research, book discussions, and workshops on research practices. Presentations are open to the entire KU community, and videos of past CRL Learns events may be viewed on the CRL Learns website.

]]> CRL Learns, Capacity Building, KU-CRL, 2012-03-09T17:59:+00:00 Special Education in Singapore: A Different Perspective http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/special-education-in-singapore-a-different-perspective http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/special-education-in-singapore-a-different-perspective Room 247 JRP

In the fall, Ed Meyen and Diana Greer spent a week visiting special education schools in Singapore. The differences between the education systems in Singapore and the United States provided much food for thought. In this presentation, Meyen and Greer will discuss KU’s connection to the Singapore schools, Singapore’s instructional environment, philosophical differences between the two countries when it comes to education, outcomes—and surprising outcomes—for Singapore students, and the collaborative research process that ties together educators and researchers at KU and in Singapore.


About CRL Learns
The CRL Learns initiative presents expert guest speakers, dialogue about cutting-edge research, book discussions, and workshops on research practices. Presentations are open to the entire KU community, and videos of past CRL Learns events may be viewed on the CRL Learns website, http://crllearns.kucrl.org.

]]> CRL Learns, KU-CRL, 2012-02-17T17:00:+00:00 Physical Activity Across the Curriculum (PAAC) (Leon Greene, University of Kansas) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/physical-activity-across-the-curriculum-paac http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/physical-activity-across-the-curriculum-paac Room 146 JRP
The University of Kansas

Many curriculums in schools today promote sedentary behavior. Children spend a large part of the day seated during lessons and spend less time in recess to allow additional academic instruction. Physical education is only required two days a week in the state of Kansas. In an effort to understand the effect of physical activity during school time, KU researchers designed a program aimed at diminishing childhood obesity through an innovative intervention that emphasizes physical activity that is accumulated throughout the school day, taught by classroom teachers, and delivered through standard academic lessons. Leon Greene, one of the co-principal investigators on this NIH-funded project, trained second- through fifth-grade teachers to incorporate physical activity in their regular lessons. Although the intent of the project was to reduce sedentary time of elementary school students, researchers also wanted to assess the effect physical activity had on student learning and academic achievement. Greene will discuss the results of this project and the framework for a current, similar NIH-funded grant, A+PAAC, while actively involving the audience in some of the curriculum activities he designed and helped teachers implement into their daily classroom routines.

]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, 2011-11-09T19:30:+00:00 Rewriting “So Much Reform”: Trying to Understand the Present State of Urban School Reform (Payne) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/rewriting-so-much-reform http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/rewriting-so-much-reform Room 150 JRP
The University of Kansas

Charles M. Payne has done remarkable scholarship in urban education with much of his work being grounded in years of frontline experiences in the Chicago Public Schools.  He is the author of the critically acclaimed book So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools. His interests include urban education and school reform, social inequality, social change and modern African American history. He is the author and co-author of many works, including an anthology, Teach Freedom: The African American Tradition of Education For Liberation (Teachers College Press). Payne is the co-founder of the Duke Curriculum Project, which involves university faculty in the professional development of public school teachers and also co-founder of the John Hope Franklin Scholars, which tries to better prepare high school youngsters for college. He is among the founders of the Education for Liberation Network, which encourages the development of educational initiatives that encourage young people to think critically about social issues and understand their own capacity for addressing them. Payne also will meet informally with researchers throughout the day.

This presentation will be offered as a live webinar: Instructions for participating in webinar.

]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, 2011-11-01T17:45:+00:00 From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-Able: New Learning Environments for New Media Environments (Wesch) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/from-knowledgeable-to-knowledge-able-new-learning-environments-for-new-medi http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/from-knowledgeable-to-knowledge-able-new-learning-environments-for-new-medi 150 JRP Hall
University of Kansas

Dubbed “the explainer” by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the im-pact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on technology, education, and infor-mation have been viewed by millions, translated in over 15 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities. Wesch is the creator of two popular YouTube videos: “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” which has now been viewed more than 12 million times, and “A Vision of Students Today,” which has had more than 4 million views. Wesch also will meet informally with researchers through-out the day.

This presentation will be offered as a live webinar: Instructions for participating in webinar.

]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, 2011-10-19T17:30:+00:00 Stop. Think. Connect. (KU CyberSecurity Awareness Team) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/stop-think-connect http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/stop-think-connect Room 520 JRP
University of Kansas

Come join the CyberSecurity Awareness group for an update on KU issues and threats to digital information. Submit questions ahead to or come with some in hand. Topics will include computer risks, malware traps, KU policy, and more.

]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, 2011-10-13T17:00:+00:00 Enhancing STEM Education with Video Games (Matt Marino, Washington State University) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/enhancing-stem-education-with-video-games http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/enhancing-stem-education-with-video-games Room 247 JRP
University of Kansas

This presentation will describe how the award-winning video game “You Make Me Sick!” enhances science instruction and assessment for all students, including those with learning disabilities and other at-risk populations. The presentation will include a conversation about the project’s research as well as specific examples and techniques for integrating science video games in the classroom. It will conclude with issues that should be considered as teachers evaluate video games for their science classrooms.

Learn more about “You Make Me Sick!” at http://www.filamentgames.com/projects/gils

This workshop also will be offered as a live webinar. Webinar participants will be able to submit questions or comments using a chat box. See details below.


About the presenter
Matthew T. Marino, Ph.D., is a former science, special education, and technology teacher/coordinator. He has extensive expertise in technology-enhanced science curriculum development and evaluation. Dr. Marino teaches courses on inclusive educational practices for students with disabilities and the Universal Design for Learning theoretical framework at Washington State University. Several of his publications are featured on the National Center on Universal Design for Learning website. Dr. Marino co-edited the Fall 2010 issue of the Journal of Special Education Technology, which focused on technology-enhanced STEM education. He provides consultative services for clients ranging from school districts to curriculum developers and video game designers. He was a featured research scientist by the Family Center on Technology and Disability in 2010.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR WEBINAR PARTICIPANTS

Before the webinar
If you have never attended an Adobe Connect 8 meeting before, please do the following before the scheduled webinar:


To join the webinar
A few minutes before the scheduled start time, visit https://desktopconnect.ku.edu/crllearns to access the Adobe Connect webinar online “room.” Log in as “guest.”

]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, 2011-10-12T15:59:+00:00 Mixed Reality Simulation Technology in Teacher Preparation (Sara Aronin, West Virginia University) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/mixed-reality-simulation-technology-in-teacher-preparation http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/mixed-reality-simulation-technology-in-teacher-preparation Room 121 JRP

Mixed reality combines human and computer assets in real time, exploiting the strengths of each to produce simulation/role play tools for advanced training in the health professions, military, business, and education. Only recently has education personnel preparation begun to use virtual reality and mixed reality tools common to the health professions and military for many years. Dr. Sara Aronin will discuss and demonstrate a variety of specific mixed reality simulation applications, using the SOE’s newly acquired simulator, TeachMe™ KU, developed by Professors Lisa Dieker (Sara’s doctoral advisor) of Special Education and Charles Hughes of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Sara will devote most of this 90-minute session to demonstration of specific ways faculty and GTAs can use the simulator to further intended outcomes of their students. Following an introductory description of the simulator and its capabilities, Sara will demonstrate several simulation procedures and techniques followed by questions and discussion.

]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, 2011-07-27T19:00:+00:00 Disability and Health in Rural Tanzania (Noelle Kurth, University of Kansas) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/disability-and-health-in-rural-tanzania http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/disability-and-health-in-rural-tanzania 520 JRP

In the Southern Highlands district of Mufindi in Tanzania, people oftentimes have to walk 20 miles or more to receive needed medical care. The very rural and mountainous nature of the district combined with a lack of infrastructure makes it difficult for health care professionals to reach those in need, especially people with disabilities. With an HIV/AIDS prevalence rate currently nearing 40 percent in some areas of the district, disabling conditions associated with the disease continue to rise. Although local villages do all they can to care for the sickest of the sick, inability to care for and extend services to all in need is inevitable. In an effort to improve the lives of those living in Mufindi, a Tanzania-based non-governmental organization (NGO), Foxes’ NGO, was established in 2005. Foxes’ NGO (www.foxesngo.org) approaches its work holistically, providing services and support in three main areas—education, health, and care for orphaned children. As a Foxes’ volunteer last August and September, CRL researcher Noelle Kurth worked with children and adults with disabilities in Mufindi. Noelle will talk about her experiences and the work being done in Mufindi during this CRL Learns session. The coordinators of Foxes’ NGO’s projects, Jenny Peck and Geoff Knight, also will be on hand to provide information and answer questions.

]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, 2011-05-24T18:00:+00:00 Measuring Mental Toughness (Peter Clough, University of Hull, England, & Doug Strycharczyk, AQR Ltd) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/measuring-mental-toughness http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/measuring-mental-toughness 520 JRP

Mental toughness—the quality that determines in large part how individuals respond to stress, pressure, and challenge—has emerged as a significant factor in the development of young people. The concept of mental toughness explains how individuals develop psychological resilience and an inner drive to succeed. Join speakers Dr. Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk for this guest lecture focusing on mental toughness and its four key components of control, challenge, commitment, and confidence.

]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, 2011-05-03T14:30:+00:00 Battling Expertise with the Power of Ignorance (Bill James, Boston Red Sox) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/battling-expertise-with-the-power-of-ignorance http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/battling-expertise-with-the-power-of-ignorance

Bill James made his mark in the 1970s and 1980s with his Baseball Abstracts. He has been tearing down preconceived notions about America’s national pastime ever since. He is currently the Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. James lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife, Susan McCarthy, and three children.

]]> CRL Learns, Guest Lecture, 2011-04-13T17:00:+00:00 Free Thinking Tools for Teachers (Doug Adams, ALTEC) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/free-thinking-tools-for-teachers http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/free-thinking-tools-for-teachers 520 JRP Hall

Intel provides a collection of tools and resources to support higher-order thinking in the classroom. This session will demonstrate the variety of free resources available to you to support project-based learning. Tools such as Visual Ranking and Showing Evidence can help your students work in teams to organize thoughts, construct arguments, and reach consensus. The Assessing Projects database includes rubrics and checklists covering all types of projects. Intel even offers free online professional development on topics such as collaboration, assessment, and educational leadership.

A laptop is not necessary for this informational session, but you are welcome to bring one to follow along or explore the resources.

This workshop also will be offered as a live webinar. Webinar participants will be able to listen to the presentation, view the accompanying slides, and submit questions or comments using a chat box.

Doug Adams is a senior program manager with ALTEC, where he works as a professional development specialist. He is a 21st Century Skills consultant for Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools and a Field Trainer for Verizon Thinkfinity in Kansas. Doug is a senior trainer with the Intel Teach Program, certifying Master Teachers in Kansas.

]]> CRL Learns, Capacity Building, 2011-04-05T17:00:+00:00 Oodles of Google (Melanie Farmer, University of Kansas) http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/oodles-of-google http://crllearns.kucrl.org/events/oodles-of-google Room 247 JRP

Presenter: Melanie Farmer

Many schools are using Google Apps for Educators because of the wealth of free resources for students and teachers to create and collaborate. Please join us as we highlight the newest resources available for free with a Google account. Tools will help you promote higher-order thinking, 21st Century Skills, and differentiated learning for students with various needs. If possible, please bring a laptop to work along with the presenter.

This workshop also will be offered as a live webinar. Webinar participants will be able to listen to the presentation, view the accompanying slides, and submit questions or comments using a chat box.

Melanie Farmer, MPH, CHES, is a senior project leader and co-coordinator of the Technology Rich Classrooms project for ALTEC. She is a Certified Google Educator.

 

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