Richard Felder

Hi Folks, watch this video on relooking the way we teach and how we get out students to learn by Richard Felder.


Richard M. Felder
Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, a widely used text for the introductory chemical engineering course. Since 1991, he has co-directed the American Society for Engineering Education National Effective Teaching Institute. Many of his education-related publications, handouts for students, and workshop descriptions can be found on his website, Resources in Science and Engineering Education. Beginning in the late 1980s, Dr. Felder shifted his career focus from disciplinary engineering research to educational scholarship. He has coauthored two book chapters and over 200 education-related articles and Random Thoughts columns (the latter in the quarterly journal Chemical Engineering Education). His research and publications deal with many aspects of teaching and learning, with his primary emphasis being on student-centered instructional methods including active learning and cooperative learning. Dr. Felder has given education-related seminars and workshops, with his wife and colleague, Dr. Rebecca Brent, on campuses throughout the United States and abroad. In 1991, with James Stice of the University of Texas, he founded the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI), a three-day teaching workshop given annually in conjunction with the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education.

http://sspvs000.sp.edu.sg/esd/edu-09-felder.asx

Teaching with Technology

Hi Folks

I came across this blog with some links on Teaching with Technology. Check it out, you may find some things useful in this day and age where every one of our students are digital natives and social networkers on Facebook.

Marilyn Western's Technology Tips for Classroom Teachershttp://www.edzone.net/~mwestern/

I like "101 Uses for a Classroom Computer"http://www.edzone.net/%7Emwestern/101.html
Some broken links though that are annoying.

Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachershttp://www.essdack.org/tips/
Has some interesting student projects.

Teaching TIps Newsletter Archivehttp://www.teach-nology.com/newsletters/archive/

Over 300 brief newsletters with links to various tools and resources, including a "Teaching Tip of the Week" Might be worth subscribing to!

Teaching with Technologyhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/technology/Scholastic provides advice on using cameras, making digital movies, and managing your classroom computer center, as well as having a database of online activities. I like their ePals (keypals) pages: http://www.epals.com/scholastic/index_sch.html?seesf=8939232

Technology and Learning: The Resource for Education Technology Leadershttp://www.techLEARNING.com
This site has interesting articles on new technologies such as clickers (personal response systems), smartboards, tablet PCs, wireless sound reinforcement systems and more. Has a grants database to help fund your school's projects!Lots of tutorials here: http://www.techlearning.com/quickflicks/archives.jhtml

Teaching and Learning with Technology Tipshttp://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/tlt_tips/This site focuses on higher education, and includes diversity and classroom management tips. Talks a lot about ANGEL, which is a particular learning management system, but you could replace the references with Blackboard or WebCT or whatever you're using. Table format is easy to read quickly.

http://research.education.purdue.edu/challenge/resources.html

Here's another really great one by Annette Lamb - 7 Simple Ways to begin using technology: http://eduscapes.com/sessions/simple/index.htm

Source: http://teachwtech.blogspot.com/2006/06/teaching-with-technology-tips-websites.html

Something to Share!

Hi Folks

Mark from DMIT has come across the term "pecha-kucha". Do your lecture with only 20 slides, each slide taking exactly 20 seconds. Thats 6 minutes 40 seconds! Something for us to think about. Design lecturers might be particularly interested in this. Check out the links below!\


http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-09/st_pechakucha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGaCLWaZLI4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha