Learning Curve Audio

Establishing Community in the Online Classroom (Quicktime Video)

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:11:00 -0400

In this workshop, Ann Palazzo, of Communication Skills department tells participants about simple methods of anchoring students in online courses by establishing a sense of responsibility and kinship with peers and the instructor. This is part 1 of an hour long presentation

Establishing Community in the Online Classroom (MP3)

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:10:00 -0400

Too Much Information (Quicktime video format)

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:36:00 -0400

Today's Podcast: Too much information! Teaching information literacy skills in a wacky Wiki, MySpace, YouTube world.

An archived presentation from the 2007 Celebration of Learning Conference

Presented by Tracy Kemp, Educational Resource Center

In this collaborative session, we will provide examples, resources and a framework for a discussion of teaching and learning information literacy skills. Be ready to share your ideas and practices for integrating information literacy activities into your classes. Let's talk about ways to collaborate with librarians and faculty to help our students make sense of an evolving, often chaotic universe of information.

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Part II: Designing Teaching to Foster Active and Developmental Learning (Mp3)

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:48:00 -0400

Today's Podcast: Designing Teaching to Foster Active and Developmental Learning
by Tim Riordan, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Philosophy at Alverno College.

As the title suggests, this workshop engages participants in an exploration of the principles and practices that foster active and developmental learning. Drawing from the experience of Alverno College, where faculty and staff have developed and refined an ability-based curriculum for more than thirty years, the workshop will address:

Processes for articulating learning expectations for our students
The developmental aspects of teaching, learning, and assessment
Ways of designing courses to engage students in active and developmental learning
Forms of collaborative inquiry that foster scholarly teaching

In the first part of the workshop participants consider together the principles, practices, and insights that have informed the work of the Alverno College faculty and staff in creating a student learning-centered culture. In the second part of the workshop participants use those principles, practices, and insights to begin exploring implications for enhancing student learning at Columbus State Community College.

Tim Riordan is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Philosophy at Alverno College. He has been at Alverno since 1976 and in addition to his teaching has been heavily involved in developing programs and processes for teaching improvement and curriculum development. In addition to his work at the college, he has participated in national initiatives on the scholarship of teaching, including the American Association for Higher Education Forum on Exemplary Teaching and the Association of American Colleges and University’s Preparing Future Faculty Project. He has regularly presented at national and international conferences, consulted with a wide variety of institutions, and written extensively on teaching and learning. He is co-editor of the 2004 Stylus publication, Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning: Teaching the Practice of the Disciplines. He was named the Marquette University School of Education Alumnus of the Year in 2002, and he received the 2001 Virginia B. Smith Leadership Award sponsored by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

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Part I: Designing Teaching to Foster Active and Developmental Learning (Mp3)

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:42:00 -0400

Today's Podcast: Designing Teaching to Foster Active and Developmental Learning
by Tim Riordan, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Philosophy at Alverno College.

Processes for articulating learning expectations for our students
The developmental aspects of teaching, learning, and assessment
Ways of designing courses to engage students in active and developmental learning
Forms of collaborative inquiry that foster scholarly teaching

Too much information! Teaching information literacy skills in a wacky Wiki, MySpace, YouTube world.

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:33:00 -0400

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Assessment and Grading (iPod video format)

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:00:00 -0400

Today's Podcast: Assessment and Grading: Identical Twins or Distant Cousins?

An archived session from the 2007 Celebration of Learning conference.

Presenters: Phil MacLean and Elizabeth Betzel, Mathematics

How is grading different from assessment, or are they really the same thing? We’ll look at the difference between evaluating a student’s work for the purpose of assigning a grade and assessing what the student really has (or has not) accomplished.

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Assessment and Grading: Identical Twins or Distant Cousins?

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:50:00 -0400

Today's Podcast: Assessment and Grading: Identical Twins or Distant Cousins?

An archived session from the 2007 Celebration of Learning conference.

Presenters: Phil MacLean and Elizabeth Betzel, Mathematics

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Design for Learning (iPod video format)

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:11:00 -0400

iPod video: Design For Learning

From the 2007 Celebration of Learning Conference

Presented by Rich James, Teaching and Learning Resource Center

Don't just cover content. Design for learning. Instructional design is the process of making deliberate choices about student and instructor activity that lead students toward course and general education outcomes. In this interactive workshop we will identify and discuss core elements of instructional design. Then, using the Learning Design Process developed by the TLRC, unleash your creativity and designing real world instructional activity that aligns with intended outcomes and how you assess learning.

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Design for Learning

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:00:00 -0400

Today's Podcast: Design For Learning

From the 2007 Celebration of Learning Conference

Presented by Rich James, Teaching and Learning Resource Center

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"Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? What Happened in Ohio?"

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:22:00 -0500

Today's Podcast:"Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? What Happened in Ohio?"

Description: Columbus State Professor Dr. Robert Fitrakis reviews the evidence of intimidation and neglect leading to the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters in Ohio.

Environmental Health - Critical Local Needs and Global Opportunities

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:51:00 -0400

Today's Podcast: Environmental Health - Critical Local Needs and Global Opportunities

Description: This is a recording of a Columbus State Earth Day lecture presented by Dr. Gary Silverman of Bowling Green State University. His presentation covers a rnage of global environmental and health challenges and points out the many opportunities for Environmental Science students to find employment serving the needs of people and our environment.

Links for this podcast: CSCC Environmental Sciences Department

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From Push to Pull with John Seely Brown

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:16:00 -0500

Today's Podcast:From Push to Pull with John Seely Brown

Welcome to this edition of Learning Curve Audio. This episode is a co-production with the Ohio Learning Network.

In this episode I interview Dr. John Seely Brown. He is the author of several books including The Social Life of Information and his latest work The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction And Dynamic Specialization. John Seely Brown is a leading thinker on living, learning and doing business in the digital age. He advocates a shift in educational strategy away from teaching students about subjects toward enculturating students into communities of learning for their discipline. Digital communication is central to this learning. John Seely Brown was a Keynote speaker at the recent Ohio Digital Commons for Education conference. I’ll provide a link to a recording of his talk when it becomes available. I caught up with John Seely Brown between sessions to record a brief interview.

Links for this podcast:
http://www.johnseelybrown.com/
http://oln.org
http://oln.org/conferences/ODCE2006/ODCE2006keynotes.php

Music: "So Mote It Be" by Utham; Columbus, OH; http://podsafeaudio.com/

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Talkin' bout the NeXt Generation with Mark Taylor

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Thu, 9 Mar 2006 16:57:00 -0500

Today's Podcast:Talkin' bout the NeXt Generation with Mark Taylor

Welcome to this edition of Learning Curve Audio. This episode is a co-production with the Ohio Learning Network.

In this episode I interview Dr. Mark Taylor, Director of Guidance Services at Arkansas State University. Mark is an advocate of Post-Modern Pedagogy to engage Generation Next, our students who are the product of the media saturated and consumer society we have raised them in. He says there is a serious mismatch between what they want and expect from school, and what we offer. Mark was a Keynote speaker at the recent Ohio Digital Commons for Education conference. I’ll provide a link to a recording of his talk when it becomes available. I caught up with Mark between sessions to record a brief interview.

Links for this podcast:
http://www.taylorprograms.org
http://oln.org
http://oln.org/conferences/ODCE2006/ODCE2006keynotes.php

Music: "So Mote It Be" by Utham; Columbus, OH; http://podsafeaudio.com/
"The Majesty of Rock (The Pageantry of Roll)" by Spinal Tap

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Interview with Dave Litt

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:09:00 -0500

Today's Podcast:Interview with David Litt

Description:
In this edition of Learning Curve Audio, the TLRC's Rich James interviews professor David Litt, Coordinator of the Sports and Fitness Management program at Columbus State Community College. Dave discusses the benefits and challenges of teaching a hybrid course -- one where instruction occurs online and face to face -- and makes a case for students to achieve a sufficient level of technological literacy in order to grow professionally throughout their careers.

Links for this podcast:
Camtasia
Previous Learning Curve post on Technology Literacy

Music: "Things Happen Fast" by Fuzzy Logic; Columbus, OH; Podsafe Music Network

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Interview with Ed Busher

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:33:00 -0500

Today's Podcast:Interview with Ed Busher

In this edition of Learning Curve Audio, Rich James interviews Dr. Ed Busher.
January 13th, was Ed's final day at Columbus State as he ends his tenure as
the Administrator for Distance Learning and INstructional Technology at Columbus
State and departs for a job as Dean of Student Services at Clark State Community
College. In this podcast, Ed shares his thoughts on Columbus State has grown
to be the largest distance education provider in Ohio and how th eCollege can
continue to provide and excellent distance education in this rapidly changing
environment.

Music: "Perform" by Cats Walking Backward; Cincinnati, OH; http://podsafeaudio.com/

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Welcome to Learning Curve Audio

rjames01@cscc.edu (Unknown) — Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:00:00 -0500

Today's Podcast: Welcome to Learning Curve Audio

Welcome to the premier edition of Learning Curve Audio. This podcast is produced by the Teaching and Learning Resource Center at Columbus State Community College. In this podcast, multimedia developer Rich James orients you to the Learning Curve Blog, explain how blogs work, what you can expect to find here, and how you can participate.

Links for this podcast:

iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware

iTunes podcasts http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

Web 2.0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web2.0

Directoryof News (RSS) Aggregators http://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/000877.php

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