Schedule for 2007 Symposium

Requiring Civic Engagement of Graduate Students: An Example from ISU (Beck, Beyer, Kurtain, Springer, Turner)

Engaging Teaching Assistants: Everybody Learns More (Lamonica, Pohlman, Widergren)

Clickers I: Enhancing Learning through the Use of Classroom Response Systems (Smith, Marx, McLauchlan, Hauck, Cheung, Bettendorf)

Wow! What an Experience! Engaging Pre-service Professionals in Course-Related Research (Angell, Stoner)

Civic Literacy in the Writing Classroom: Limits and Expectations (Hammontree)

Top 10 Things We’ve Learned as First-Time Instructors of Internet-Based Classes (Friberg, Sawyer)

The American Democracy Project at ISU: An Open Conversation with George Mehaffy & the American Democracy Project Task Force

Constructing Teacher & Student Ethos

Do You Lead a Rich Fantasy Life? Implement it in the Classroom! (Burt, Pacha)

Establishing Teacher Credibility in Intercultural Classrooms (Wang, Baldwin)

Clickers Continued: Enhancing Learning through the Use of Classroom Response Systems (Smith, Marx, McLauchlan, Hauck, Cheung, Bettendorf)

Autonomous Learners

Exploring the Effect of Team Leaders who are Autonomous Learners on Enhancing Team Learning in Construction Management Classes (El-Gafy, Rahn)

Predicting Learner Autonomy: The Role of Teacher Immediacy and Student Attachment Representations (Creasey, Jarvis, Gadke)

Transferring Face-to-Face Teaching & Learning Principles to the Online Environment (Toledo, Miller)

Growing Town & Gown Networks: ISU Physics Educational Outreach Projects in Central Illinois (Johns, Holland, Ansher, Willmitch)

Professional Development Circles for First-Year Faculty (Fredstrom, O’Sullivan)

Infusing Political Engagement into the First-Year Curriculum (Wilson, Shane, Roser, Kaisner, Day, Beichner)

Civic Engagement: Forging an Electronic Link Between ISU and Community Service Opportunities (Fitzgibbons, Campbell, Myren, Gillespie, Kane)

Student Perceptions of Online Teaching in Speech-Language Pathology (Sawyer, Bailey)

Lunch and Conversations with Colleagues in Brickyard IV and V

Luncheon Program:

General Introductions & Thanks
Introduction of 2006-2007 Outstanding University Teaching Award Winners
Recognition of all Teaching Award Winners
Kickoff of FOCUS Initiative

Introduction of ADP Task Force Members and Keynote Speaker by Provost John Presley

Keynote Speaker: “Developing Informed and Engaged Citizens: The Imperative for Higher Education ,” Dr. George Mehaffy, American Democracy Project

Learning in the World

Teaching Beyond the Walls of Institutionalized Learning (Moos, Venneman)

"Hoy, Cambio o Continuidad"/"Today, Continuity or Change": Observing the 2006 Mexican Elections (Olsen, Gifford)

Using Writing to Help Students Learn: Strategies for Your Classroom (Neuleib, Applegate, Baumann, Bularzik, Justice, Lienhart)

Get FOCUSed on Civic Engagement (Wilson, Lindsey, O’Sullivan, Bachman, Hallsten, McCluskey-Titus)

Assessing Our Students/Assessing Ourselves

Rewarding Accountability and Professionalism in the Classroom (Beggs)

Grading: Resistance as Resolution (Zona)

Evaluating Online Courses: Looking Beyond "As Good as Face-to-Face" (Kossmann)

U.S. Studies and the Laptop Initiative at University High School (Fitzgerald, Kurz, Kelly, Kinsella)

Teaching In and For New Contexts

The Postal Crisis Reenactment: Using Critical Reading and Writing Skills to Understand Disaster Documents (Ellison)

The Hurricane Poster Project (Landry)

A City is Like a Poem?: Creative Engagement in the Post-City Democracy (Hatmaker)

Walking the Talk: Reflecting on Positive of Student Mentoring (Woeste)

“Advisory Councils”: You Don’t Have to Teach Alone (Ruszkowski, Lang, Mordis, Hayworth, Myers, Buckellew, Hamilton, Strassheim)

The ISU Podcasting Initiative: Part I (O’Sullivan, Thompson, Simonds, Juvinall, Lorsbach, Schumacher, Clesson, Cheung, Thetard)

Measuring the Gap Between Faculty and Student Perceptions of Engagement: Results from the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (Wilson et al.)

The Cutting Edge of Classroom Engagement: Implementing Clickers in Your Class (Hooker, Radford, Phillips)

Into the Schools

Reciprocal Learning Between ISU Pre-Service Elementary Educators and Local Middle School Art Students (Briggs, Prairie-Steber)

Student Research Leads to Teacher Research in K-12 Schools (Meyer)

Preparing Future Teachers: Assessing the Impact of Curricular & Instructional Approaches to Secondary Literacy and Methods Courses (Ducett, Haynes, O’Malley)

Students & Their Teachers: Teaching & Learning Together

Facilitating Students’ Preparation and Participation (Bantham)

Meet the KeyPURS (Barham)

Teamwork: Instructor Techniques for Facilitating Student Success and Enhanced Team Productivity (Hallsten)

The Relationship of Ethnicity and Gender to Professional Credibility
Glascock)

The ISU Podcasting Initiative: Part II (O’Sullivan, Thompson, Simonds, Juvinall, Lorsbach, Schumacher, Clesson, Cheung, Thetard)

Getting to Good Digital Citizenship: A National Best- Practices Model (Elzy, Walbert, Greenfield, Arbogast)

Life at the Intersection of Teaching & Technology

Exposure to Spanish via WebCT (Mir)

Teaching Design of Building Structures Using Visualization and Animation
Techniques (El-Gafy)

“I’ll See You on Facebook”: The Effects of Teacher Self-Disclosure on Anticipated Student Motivation, Affective Learning, Classroom Climate, and Perceptions of Teacher Credibility via a Computer-Mediated Social Network (Simonds)

Reception