Invitation: “In-Class Polling Strategies for Student Engagement” Mar. 4; RSVP by Mar. 2

For any who are considering using “clickers” for polling in classes this would be a good event to attend.  I have been using clickers in my PPD 240 class as a way of drawing of encouraging participation, taking a quick snapshot of class opinion on particular issues, and comparing a particular class to previous classes on key questions.

Terry L. Cooper, Ph.D.
The Maria B. Crutcher Professor in
Citizenship and Democratic Values
Director, Civic Engagement Initiative
School of Policy, Planning, and Development
RGL 302
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, 90089-0626
Office-213-740-0371
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Dear USC Faculty, Staff, and Administrator:

We invite you to two events:

Please join us on Friday, March 4 for an interactive Faculty Forum on different in-class polling strategies from three seasoned faculty perspectives. This session is a rich discussion on the use of ‘clickers’ and other in-class polling technologies for heightened student engagement, improved and faster feedback loops, and for agile and ‘just-in-time’ teaching strategies.

**This is a highly interactive session and participants will be using the very technologies discussed.**

What:   “In-Class Polling Strategies for Student Engagement”
               featuring an multi-disciplinary panel of faculty experts:
              Tom Lyon, Gould School of Law
              Helena Seli, Rossier School of Education
              Chris Forest, Keck School of Medicine
When:   Friday, March 4 at 12 PM – 1:30 PM – light lunch provided
Who:     Faculty, Staff, Administrators
Where:  HNB 100
How:      Please RSVP by 5:00 PM on Wednesday, March 2.
               http://cst.usc.edu/events/rsvp.html
               (light lunch provided)

Please contact me/reply here if you wish to participate remotely in this March 4 Faculty Forum via the web and phone.

******IMPORTANT UPCOMING MONDAY FEB 28 9 AM ONLINE CST CO-SPONSORED EVENT!*******
Please consider participating online in this upcoming session on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 9 AM.

Teaching Writing as an Information Art
a webinar roundtable discussion
Feb. 28, 9am PST/12pm EST
(50 minutes)

To join the event: http://usccollege.na4.acrobat.com/r96553205/

Contemporary writing courses have been taking on the computational tools for over two decades now, and for a large portion of that time, the tools have taken center stage.  However, contemporary talk of media “literacies” has changed the place of the tools in the classroom — or rather, has reframed the role of language as information.  When students begin to study the role of words as tags, metadata, or search optimizing keywords, they are studying not just semantic structures but the logic and rhetoric of the flow of information.  This panel discusses the idea of reframing those courses and their lessons under the title of Information Arts.

To join the event: http://usccollege.na4.acrobat.com/r96553205/

USC event announcement : http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/32/event/892923

**No RSVP required for this February 28 online event.**
 
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Otto Khera, Director
Center for Scholarly Technology
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
Information Technology Services
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571
tel. 213.821.3049

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