Hard to believe it’s already the beginning of the Spring semester! Mark your calendars for the following Brown Bag presentations this month:
Thursday, January 10 — Getting Started with ANGEL [Room: D117] @ Noon
ANGEL is Penn State’s Course Management System. It allows instructors to share a variety of materials with students via the Web. This presentation is geared toward faculty who want to use ANGEL in a course but are not sure where to start. We will discuss adding course content, previewing, enabling course access, managing students and student teams, and communicating with your class via ANGEL’s built in tools.
Friday, January 18 — i>clicker: Classroom Response Tool [Room: D117] @ Noon
Do you wish to gauge student knowledge in a topic? Would you like to improve class interaction and participation? Try the i>clicker classroom response system! The i>clicker system facilitates student polling during classes with easy to use hardware
and software. This session will get you started using clickers in your classroom.
Tuesday, January 22– ANGEL How-To: The Rubric Manager [Room: D117] @ Noon
Our ANGEL system contains a powerful Rubric Manager for your courses. Grading rubrics provide faculty with an efficient method of consistently grading subjective learner submissions from manually graded assignments, drop boxes, and discussion forums. Create new rubrics by defining criteria and achievement levels, then apply them to any assignment within ANGEL.
Wednesday, January 30 — “Flipping the Classroom” [Room: D117] @ Noon
You may have heard your colleagues discuss “flipping the classroom”, but what is it? This teaching strategy allow you to focus class time on discussion, while providing lecture materials to students for use outside of class. We will discuss the tools and techniques that will allow you to leverage the learning in your classroom and spend more time interacting with your students.