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Invitation to Compassionate
Pioneers for Feb 2 - FridayLive!
New Year's Resolutions: How to Separate or
Integrate Our Personal and Professional Lives
Sample Pre-Recorded Excerpts
More on Personal/Professional Boundaries
Please
help develop and share some New Year's resolutions from and
for Compassionate Pioneers.
A "compassionate pioneer" is
someone who has demonstrated commitments to BOTH exploring
new educational and technological options AND helping
colleagues - at least some of the time.
On Friday, February 2nd,
at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific) the TLT Group’s weekly,
interactive FridayLive! series will be devoted to discussing
these two questions for 2007:
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In what ways do you
want your personal and
professional life
more separated or more integrated?
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What are you going
to do for yourself?
To make your life better personally or professionally?
NOTE: If you are inclined to consider this
question too self-centered, remember
why airplane the flight
attendants always say:
"In the event of an emergency an oxygen mask will drop
down in front of you. If you are traveling with a child
or someone who needs assistance place the oxygen mask on
yourself first and then on your child." Most of us
need to take care of ourselves first in order to help
others effectively.
and
How are you going
to help make the world better in some small way?
Please contribute via one
or more of these options - at your convenience:
FridayLive!
is a free, interactive, Internet-accessible series moderated
by Steven W. Gilbert, President, The TLT Group, from 2:00 to
3:00 pm EST each week. We cover a wide range of topics
related to teaching, learning, and technology.
For
more information:
http://www.tltgroup.org/tlt-swg/Friday.html
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Session Focus |
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Discussion
Factors contributing
to ...
Identify Options
What are some
easy, small next steps? What are some big,
challenging next steps? |
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Flexibility, time, curiosity - willingness to share
ideas, hopes, and burdens and help colleagues |
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Context |
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- We cannot keep up.
- Rising expectations (self,
public, ...)
- Diminishing discretionary
resources (money? time...)
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Web 2.0
We're
rapidly approaching a time when almost everyone will
have access to the Internet, but only recently have
resources emerged that enable almost everyone to do
things that were previously impossible or only available
to the technologically advanced. This
loosely defined set of resources is called "Web 2.0" by
some; the term is rejected by others.
For some good introductory resources about Web 2.0,
see:
http://www.tltgroup.org/oli/fridaylive/120806.htm
Consider these observations. Do
you agree with each one? What are the implications
of living with all the ones you accept?
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Triple Burden: Many faculty members want to
keep up in their own disciplines; keep up with new
instructional options; and keep up with new kinds of
information resources!
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Many faculty members
want to increase student engagement in their
courses.
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Many faculty members
want and feel obliged to encourage students to ask
questions and test ideas individually.
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Many faculty members and students
feel that each should respond rapidly and
individually to communication from the other.
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Many
faculty members find that their college/university
workload obligations outside of teaching and
research have increased in the past 5 years.
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Many faculty
members need time for their personal lives as well
as their professional obligations.
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Many faculty members and administrators want to
restrict student use of cell phones in classrooms.
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Many students want to restrict faculty members'
and administrators' access to FaceBook.
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Faculty member
asks:
“When can I begin using tools for my courses
that I already enjoy using often at home for my
personal correspondence, etc.?”
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Technical solutions for
limiting students’ behavior
almost always fail.
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Sample Pre-Recorded Excerpts (MP3
Files)
Art Chickering,
1/30/2007
1.
Resisting dichotomy of personal & professional life [approx. 1
minute]
Citing Robert Frost,
Two Tramps in Mud Time, last stanza:
But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.
Full text of poem (as of 1/30/2007) available at:
http://www.etymonline.com/poems/tramps.htm
2.
Cherish failure, be wary of success... [approx. 30 seconds]
3.
Balance, Intentionality: "Time is the only thing we have."
[approx. 1 minute]
4.
Response to "Anything you would like to add?"
[approx.
3 minutes]
Support of wonderful
wife; work on marriage of 50+ years!
Art Chickering is currently Special Assistant to the President,
Goddard College. He recently co-authored Encouraging Authenticity
and Spirituality in Higher Education, and was co-author of the
widely respected and used Seven Principles of Good Practice in
Undergraduate Education... and many other important
publications.
Full
unedited recording - MP3 approx 45 minutes
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Schedule
This online synchronous session is scheduled for
2pm to 3pm EST on
Friday 2/2/2007.
i. Intro, orientationii.
Samples Received
iii. Break -
move around!
iv. Discussion
iv. Next Steps ...
Asynchronous Online Follow-up Discussion
Invitation to follow-up session, activities:
Involve others? Extend this topic? New
topic?
v. 3 pm EST Official
Adjournment
iv. Informal Discussion
No more than 30 minutes additional...
continue informal discussion among those who have the time and
interest.
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