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F-LIGHT Description,
Guidelines for Submitting Articles, and Back Issues
Our spotlight summary is an
evaluation of
a pilot test of a new academic tool for faculty. The
question: should it be rolled out more widely, or not? The
study was done by Chad Kjorlien and his colleagues about
their use of Tegrity to capture and share elements of
faculty lectures.
Other news:
- The FridayLive! series of webcasts (every Friday at
2 PM Eastern Time) has been amazing: highly interactive
and conversational, topical, and increasingly well
attended (75 people on March 23 for our discussion of
educational uses of Second Life.)
This
Friday, March 30, we'll tackle assessment. The title "Ten
Most Frequently Made Objections to Assessment, and How
to Respond" is only part of the story. We'll also
talk about 'confusors' and conflict, all in a brief,
relaxed atmosphere.
To help us identify the frequently made objections that
will be the focus of the session,
please take a moment to pick your 'favorite' objections
from this list. There is a limit of about 90
guests in our online space, so
register early and, if you can't come, let us know
so we can give the spot to someone on the waiting list.
For some advance reading on confusors, frequently made
objections, and resistance to assessment,
click here.
- The TLT Group will offer an online workshop on using
accreditation self-studies to guide improvement in teaching
and learning with technology. The workshop is free for
individuals and teams from TLT/Flashlight subscriber institutions;
others need to pay a fee (with a discount if you or your
institution are affiliated with one of our many
collaborating associations). For more
information,
click here.
Other News, Primarily for Staff and Students of
TLT/Flashlight subscribing institutions. (To get the
username and password for TLT Group materials, or to get a
Flashlight Online account if your institution has included
Flashlight Online in its subscription, ask
your local
contact.)
- Free webcasts on special topics in assessment (free
but only available for staff and students TLT/Flashlight
subscribers). Early topics include how faculty can use
Flashlight templates to improve their courses. Each of
these webcasts (one every two week or so) will focus on
how to evaluate a different topic described in the
Flashlight
Evaluation Handbook. Almost all these sessions will
include demonstrations of
templates on that
topic that are in Flashlight Online.
- The newest chapters of the
Flashlight Evaluation
Handbook deal with
Second Life (needs assessment, formative evaluation)
and with
how to evaluate pilot tests of new technology,
especially pilot tests dealing with whether or not to
support the software or service for wider academic use.
- Also for Flashlight Online users: we've added new
templates to the system to help you do needs
assessments for information technology support services, evaluations
of educational uses of Second Life, and planning that
can help you facilitate
assessment workshops, accreditation self-studies, and
other discussions where 'assessment' can be a 'hot
button.' (see the FridayLive! session above
for details on that one). For a list of all Flashlight
Online templates,
click here.
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