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Wednesday, October 14 POSTPONED – DATE TBA
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Presenter: Dr. Janja Lalich, CSU, Chico Sociology Professor

In this TILT session, Janja Lalich will show participants a survey she has created in Vista to obtain feedback about text selections, course curriculum, and class procedures. This session will include examples of survey questions, the basics of survey setup, as well as interpreting the results.

Three Ways To Attend:
Live – Come to MLIB 31 and participate in the audience
Online – Log in via the Guest Access Link
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This presentation was held on Wednesday, September 23.
Presenter: Dr. Kim Jaxon, from CSU, Chico’s Department of English
In this TILT session, Kim Jaxon presents classroom practices she uses with her students in order to make their group work productive. This session includes video of students working together as they establish norms, negotiate work, and discuss ideas.

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How you can manage better your Vista!
This presentation was held on Wednesday, September 9
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Presenters: Scott Kodai, CSU, Chico Distributed Learning Manager, and Mark Kauffman, ITC & Vista Integration/Administration

In this TILT session, Scott Kodai and Mark Kauffman explain how the product was developed and show participants how to use it for Vista course management. This CSU, Chico developed tool allows users to: add or remove guest section designers, add or remove community members, add or remove prep areas, reset sections, and hide or show sections.

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Twitter Hash Tag for CSU Chico TILT sessions is #CHICOTILT

Second Life (SL), a virtual world developed by Linden Lab, and accessible via the Internet, has become one of the newest platforms for delivering course content. Learn how two CSU Chico faculty are exploring the possibilities afforded by immersive education and the direction it is taking them. Be advised, this is NOT an in-world presentation, however it is possible to join these faculty and other CSU Chico faculty and staff in Second Life by joining the Linked Campuses International Group in-world.

This session was presented on Thursday, April 23

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Presenters: CSU Chico professors: Paula Selvester and Rick Ford, SL Builder: Chrostopher Barnett, and TLP Consultant: Ann Steckel

There is a new tool available to faculty called clickers, which allows instructors to poll students individually. Instructors say clickers are improving the quality of education by measuring how engaged students are in the material they are learning. Learn how three CSU, Chico faculty are exploring and using clickers to assist them in teaching Math.
Presenters: Jan Costenbader, Kathy Gray, and Mark Wilpolt

The archive of this session is available NOW for viewing through Wimba.
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Interweaving Assessment and Teaching

Friday, April 24, 2009, from 12:30-2:00pm

Dr. Kathleen F. Gabriel, author of highly acclaimed book, Teaching Unprepared Students: Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education invites you to attend part two of this series.

This special TILT Workshop is co-sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Technology and Learning Program (TLP) at CSU Chico. Reservations are required and must be made by Friday, April 17. (Part one attendance is not a requirement for this session.)

Please email Laura Sederberg, lsederberg[at]csuchico.edu for information as to how to sign-up .

The second 90-minute session (April 24th) will deal specifically with strategies that relate to determining whether or not the majority of students are actually learning the material before the midterms (or finals) are given. Interweaving informal and formative assessments throughout lectures and class discussions can not only kindle students’ enthusiasm, but can also promote student learning. Several different types of assessment techniques (with feedback) will be presented which can be easily integrated into any class.

This special TILT Workshop is co-sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Technology and Learning Program (TLP) at CSU Chico. Reservations are required. Please email Laura Sederberg, lsederberg[at]csuchico.edu for information as to how to sign-up.

Student engagement how and why? Ever wonder what other professors are doing
to engage students online? Here is an opportunity to learn from faculty that
have some of the highest student activity in their Vista course environment.
Please join us to see how some instructors are using Vista to engage
students with their course curriculum. You will also see examples of
activities instructors are using to increase student participation and how
they implemented effective strategies to meet their learning objectives.

Thursday, March 26
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Presenters: Tony Waters, Lee Altier, Brian Brazeal, and Cindy Ratekin.

To View Tony Waters presentation please click here

Exemplary Online Instruction and the Rubric for Online Instruction are helping CSU Chico faculty redesign and evaluate courses to be effective and exemplary models for others. This TILT Symposium features faculty who have already been recognized for their exemplary work. They will show courses and talk about the process of nominating their course and applying the Rubric for Online Instruction. The experience of going through our EOI program has been identified as a rich and rewarding experience for faculty members. Nominations are open NOW until May 4th. Instructional Technology Consultants in TLP will be happy to help you nominate your course and apply the rubric to it. 

This presentation was given on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Presenters: Denny Gier, Colleen Hatfield, Ann Martin, Laura Sederberg

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Chico State has demonstrated their innovative thinking once more in using Blackboard Vista to create “Communities” for groups. Thursday, Feburary 19, 2009 from 12:30-1:30pm in MLIB 031 some of the many community coordinators will come to do a show and tell about their community.

Presenting will be: Esther Larocco, Debbie Summers, Jody Prusia, and Clint Woeltjen. You may attend in person, or online. For more information, contact Laura Sederberg, x4326.

The archive of this session is available NOW for viewing through Wimba. It is recommended that you test your computer with the Wimba Wizard before viewing the archive.

An “accessible syllabus” is highly usable by all students including those with disabilities, more easily updated by the faculty member, and is created using best practices and organization with software faculty already commonly use, such as MS Word. Dozens of faculty have attended TLP’s workshop to make their syllabi accessible, and three of those faculty members were kind enough to share their experiences working with their own syllabus, adopting a syllabus template for a new course, and getting feedback from students on their new syllabus. Presenting on February 26, 2009 at our TILT Symposium about accessible syllabi were Laurel Hill-Ward (Special Education), Kathryn Schifferle (Marketing) and Julie Schneider (Nutrition and Food Science) .

Watch the archive online through Wimba here.