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One of the strategic initiatives approved last fall by the Strategic Planning Council, the Academy has goals that include enhancing professional development for faculty, assisting in the formation of graduate students as scholar-teachers and promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning through new areas of research.

Teaching and learning in the classroom using the Drupal CMS * Use Drupal in the classroom to enhance teaching and engage students with a range of learning activities * Create blogs, online discussions, groups, and a community website using Drupal. * Clear step-by-step instructions throughout the book * No need for code! A teacher-friendly, comprehensive guide

Pat Sine's 3 personal objectives when she teaches: Think, Hard, Enjoy.

Here' s a little experiment -- using a tool called "Webslides" which allows me to make a type of slideshow consisting of series of links to web pages.

Assessment and accreditation portfolios tend to include quantitative measures of student performance gauged against a set of learning outcomes that have been identified by an instructor, program, department or institution. By using reports that aggregate and analyze data surrounding student learning in relation to a predefined set of educational outcomes, these types of portfolios provide a rich source of information about the actual results of the teaching and learning process and can therefore help institutions align their institutional practice with their stated institutional mission or goals.

Welcome to your community space for teaching and learning with technology at Brandeis!

Fall 2008 is the first semester UD has offered Sakai to all faculty teaching credit courses. "We had set goals of about 120 faculty using approximately 180 Sakai courses during fall 2008," said Janet de Vry, IT-User Services. "Faculty use has exploded past those targets."

Currently I avoid, as much as I can, LMSs. Instead I kluge together a loose collection of free web applications, (Eduspaces Community blog, PBwiki, Pageflakes, Audacity, a password-protected mark site, and whatever free file-hosting service my current students recommend.) It's a bit more work than using a LMS but I believe this approach, the kluging together of a selection of free web services, is a richer and more productive teaching practice.

Mark C. Marino, a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California, has turned his Web page for a writing course he's teaching into a series of modular "widgets" that others can easily drop into their own Web pages.

In higher ed, there are really three ways I think a wiki can be useful: teaching, research, and administration.

Lester Ray, a development executive with Apple, hosted the afternoon session of UD's Summer Faculty Institute, during which he addressed the frequent divide between technologically savvy college students and traditional lecture hall teaching practices.

A clip from Channel 11 in Colorado Springs regarding the use of video podcasting (vodcasting) at Woodland Park High School. Lectures are recorded, students do homework in class.

Just because 50-minute classroom sessions are the norm on a college schedule does not make that the ideal duration for students outside the lecture hall.

The tool I used in class. $45 (single license) or $125 (5 licenses).

The software I have been using for the last 4 years to stimulate classroom engagement. It's a timer and a student or team random picker. Very easy and useful.

I handle wikivandalism under our school vandalism policy. In this case, I didn't know how to lock pages and a student edited the assignment. By the next period, they were in the principles office dealt with on vandalism charges in the way we handle that -- like writing on the bathroom walls level of vandalism. So, expect wiki vandalism to happen early but catch it early.

What we developed was a list of "lessons learned" for online instruction that correspond to the original seven principles.