{"id":1530,"date":"2013-03-06T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2013-03-06T21:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:31:56","slug":"professional-development-opportunities-for-spring-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/2013\/03\/06\/professional-development-opportunities-for-spring-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development Opportunities for Spring 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Faculty Brown Bag – MyLesley Tips & Tricks<\/strong>
\nFriday, March 8
\n1:15pm \u2013 2:30pm
\n<\/strong>Doble Hall, Room 309
\nRegister for the Brown Bag<\/a>
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Join Nicholas Pietrowski<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Psychology, for a discussion of best practices for faculty use of myLesley for web and mobile devices. This hands-on talk will highlight how myLesley is being used to increase faculty efficiency, engage students, and expand the possibilities of learning.<\/p>\n

Using Group Work for Student Collaboration
\nA Fully Online Course Taught in myLesley
\nMarch 18 – March 31
\nRegister for the Seminar<\/a>
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This seminar will help you design group activities in your myLesley course. We will identify strategies for designing and scaffolding group work. You will also design a series of learning activities, tied to your course’s learning objectives, that require students to work collaboratively (either completely online or across face-to-face and online activities). We will provide resources for structuring and assessing these activities. Tools explored in this seminar may include Group areas and discussions, wikis, blogs, VoiceThread, and\/or Webspiration.<\/p>\n

Faculty Brown Bag –\u00a0Social Media for Social Change: Researching Current Events through New Media<\/strong>
\nWednesday, March 20<\/strong>
\n12:00pm \u2013 1:30pm<\/strong>
\nUniversity Hall, Room 3-085<\/strong>
\nRegister for the\u00a0Brown Bag<\/a>
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Join Laura Fokkena<\/a>, PhD Candidate in International & Comparative Education, as she explores how students can augment (not replace!) traditional research by following current events via Twitter, Facebook, wikis, blogs, photo- and video-sharing sites, livestreaming, and other social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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