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Portfolio of Strategies for Collaborative Change (TLT Group)
Connecting
Portfolio of Strategies with TLTG Programs
Resources from Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching (CASTL): http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/highered/index.htm
Working the American Association for Higher
Education, the CASTL Program has taken the lead in defining and supporting the
scholarship of teaching nationally. The link leads to a number of valuable
resources.
Visible Knowledge Project http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/vkp/ Perhaps the biggest scholarship of teaching project in the humanities, the Visible Knowledge Project is a multi-institution consortium focusing on issues raised by educational uses of technology. Flashlight provides evaluation support for VKP.
Log onto Flashlight Online: http://flashlightonline.wsu.edu
Flashlight Online - brief description and help sheet for new users of Flashlight Online
Flashlight tools site licensed for the University of South Carolina http://www.tltgroup.org/fl-subscribers/ Username and password are the same for all licensed users. username: flnetwork Password changes every few months; get new password from Ruthie Patterson.
To sign up for a free Flashlight e-newsletter (published every month or two) on evaluating educational uses of technology, see this page on F-LIGHT http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/flight.html
Steve Ehrmann Flashlight Online and LTAs
Flashlight Background Literature; Evaluation/Assessment Literature related to Educational Uses of Technology http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/farticles.html
Flashlight case studies http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/fcases.html
LTA Home Page: http://www.tltgroup.org/LTAs/Overview.htm
Characteristics of LTAs: http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/rltas.html#Characteristics
June 2002 issue of F-LIGHT, including articles on how faculty learn about technology and about assessment and LTAs
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (One-Pager)
Examples of LTAs (sorted into 'seven principles' categories) & LTPDAs (Low-Threshold Professional Development Applications)
LTAs as core of modest beginning of professional development program; Gilbert's "Mainstream Faculty Start with Low-Hanging Fruit?"
Gilbert: Intro to Portfolio of Strategies for Collaborative Change & LTAS
Steve Ehrmann Flashlight Online and LTAs
Gilbert: U. Cincinnati Workshop: LTAs, Personalizing Pedagogy, Translucent Technology, 9-12-02
Panel on Low Threshold Professional Development Activities (LTPDAs) David Starrett, Mike Rodgers, Lisa Star, Tom Laughner
David Starrett, Low Threshold Professional Development Activities
Valley of the
Shadows Project
Hypermedia
archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the
Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania:
newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population
census, agricultural census, and military records.
Harvey
Project http://harveyproject.org/
An international collaboration
of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional
designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic
human physiology course materials on the Web. Materials produced by the Harvey
Project will be made freely available to any educational institution.
Math
Forum http://mathforum.org/
The Math Forum's mission is to
provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and
educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning
in an increasingly technological world.
MIT
OpenCourseWare http://web.mit.edu/ocw/
"MIT
OpenCourseWare (OCW) will make the course materials that are used in the
teaching of virtually all of MIT's courses available on the Web, free of charge,
to any user anywhere in the world. Depending on the particular course or the
style in which the course is taught, this could include material such as lecture
notes, course outlines, reading lists, and assignments for each course."
MERLOT
http://merlot.org/Home.po
MERLOT
is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students in
higher education. With a continually growing collection of online learning
materials, peer reviews, and assignments MERLOT helps faculty enhance
instruction.
Laughner: Teaching Well Using Technology
TLT Group Resources on Student Technology Assistant programs; South Dakota State Tech Fellows Program
Teaching Well Using Technology home (Notre Dame): 7 Step Workshop Schedule (day-long faculty workshop) and Summer Facilitator Workshop co-sponsored with The TLT Group
Information Literacy resources from ACRL
AAHE's Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards
POD, The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education provides support and services to those interested in faculty development through conferences, newsletters, publications, and consulting.
Rubrics and Primary Trait Analysis; example of a rubric on web design