AGENDA...Action Research poster presentations available in the building 8 foyer all day. 7:45 am —...
Transcript of AGENDA...Action Research poster presentations available in the building 8 foyer all day. 7:45 am —...
Sponsored by the
TCC Faculty
Association
and the Engaged
Learning Division.
7:30am—8:00am Check-in / Continental
Breakfast
West Campus Student
Union
8:00am—8:15am Welcome West Campus Student
Union Gallery
8:30am—9:15am Breakout Session One West Campus Liberal
Arts Classrooms
9:30am—10:15am Breakout Session Two West Campus Liberal
Arts Classrooms
10:30am—11:15am Breakout Session Three West Campus Liberal
Arts Classrooms
11:30am—12:15pm Breakout Session Four West Campus Liberal
Arts Classrooms
12:30pm—1:15pm Lunch West Campus Student
Union Gallery
1:30pm—2:15pm Breakout Session Five West Campus Liberal
Arts Classrooms
2:30pm—3:15pm Breakout Session Six West Campus Liberal
Arts Classrooms
3:30pm—3:45pm Wrap-up / Evaluation West Campus Student
Union Gallery
Presented by: Jennifer Campbell and Jerilyn Schultz
Room: WCINFO 136
Defining expectations, providing quick feedback, and
consistent grading help students understand what they are
doing well, and where they might improve. Creating a
grading rubric that includes criteria and scale helps convey
information about the relative importance of each aspect of
an assignment. You will examine examples and have time
to create elements of a rubric, so that by then end of the
session, you will be well on your way toward building a tool
that allows you to evaluate the work students submit as
evidence of their learning.
Presented by: Cynthia Townsend
Room: WCLIBA 102
Active learning increases student engagement and student
retention, in terms of both the information students retain
and in terms of student persistence. There is a plethora of
active learning strategies. This session will review a
number of those strategies and explore how they might be
adapted to various disciplines.
Presented by: Cheryl Bates
Room: WCLIBA 136
Do you feel like you are talking to a brick wall and wonder if
students absorb any information? This session will present
examples of quick and easy classroom based assessment
activities to help determine if students have knowledge on
the subject matter. Discussion will include the use of
games/activities, and more. DISCLAIMER: This session is
not discussing TCC's assessment requirements; however,
you may be able to apply knowledge gained from this
session to help with those assessment needs.
Presented by: Elizabeth Szkirpan and Andy Taylor
Room: WCLIBA 140
TCC instructors have several cloud-based resources at
their disposal to better collaborate with colleagues,
students, and college administrators. Of these, OneDrive
and SharePoint are perhaps two of the most convenient
technologies for document storage, retrieval, and
collaboration. The presenters will cover these tools,
access, and suggest uses for both platforms.
Presented by: Sasha Townsend
Room: WCLIBA 236
My presentation will discuss Standards Based Grading
(SBG), the benefits and challenges of the grading system,
my experiences over the last seven semesters
implementing the method with different student populations
(STEM vs. non-STEM majors, TCC students vs. TU
Students), and common variations in the implementation of
SBG. I will provide links to further resources and aim to
offer practical assistance to faculty who wish to implement
SBG for the first time. While there are both logistical and
buy‐in challenges to switching to SBG, student outcomes
and understanding have made me a firm believer in the
efficacy and fairness of this approach.
Presented by: Rob Katz, Mike Limas, and Cindy Shanks
Room: WCLIBA 240
This session will serve as a facilitated opportunity for
faculty to brainstorm about sustainability in the liberal arts
and social sciences. In this session we will focus on the
issues of diversity, equity, social justice, poverty, economic
injustice, and mindfulness as topics already present in the
Liberal Arts and Social Science and their connection to
sustainability.
Presented by: Jennifer Campbell and Jerilyn Schultz
Room: WCINFO 136
Using the rubric tool in Blackboard leads to efficient grading
practices giving the student detailed performance
feedback. In this session, you will create a rubric in
Blackboard, grade from a student assignment using a
rubric, and then view the completed rubric from a student
perspective.
Presented by: Tom Rowe
Room: WCLIBA 102
Meet the First Ladies as they pushed toward and pulled
away from expanding roles women would play in
American society. Find out which women held the power,
which were hidden away, and which ones liked beer. We
may even discover a romance or two along the way.
Presented by: Wesley Mosier
Room: WCLIBA 136
Presentation will focus on a service-learning course I am
currently teaching in which students participate in the
Library of Congress's Veterans History Project. Students
will have the opportunity to learn about history and the
process of preservation by recording interviews with our
nation's veterans. The interviews will be archived in the
Library of Congress.
Presented by: Elizabeth Szkirpan and Andy Taylor
Room: WCLIBA 140
The TCC Archives and Heritage Center at the Northeast
Campus Library is working diligently to preserve and
present the history of the College. This is being done
through an innovative open source platform called OMEKA.
The result is the TCC Archives and Heritage Center Digital
Collection.
Presented by: Dewayne Dickens, Tiffany Engel, Gay Phillips,
and Steven Woods
Room: WCLIBA 236
The session is for anyone interested, not just honors
faculty. The presenters will discuss the Minorities in Honors
conference and their takeaways for classroom inclusion
and engagement. They will also lead brainstorming to
identify significant faculty challenges in the classroom and
beneficial conversations for us to have as colleagues.
Presented by: Brian Benson, Kristen Marangoni, and Chris
Perkins
Room: WCLIBA 240
Data suggests that students tend to write better papers
when they participate in a more "authentic" environment.
This project examines 150 student papers from 6 different
composition courses. Our project scored these essays
using a common rubric and then performed an analysis of
variance to determine which areas of student writing
improved with authentic audience and which stayed the
same or had no statistical significance.
Presented by: Glenn Jones, Susan Hoggard, and
Sabrina Ripp
Room: WCINFO 136
Organizations must analyze data in order to identify
business trends and make data-driven decisions.
Participants will actively learn how to import data and
produce visualizations in a hands-on lab. They will create
dashboards and upload them to the cloud, then view and
interact with the data on their mobile devices.
Presented by: Kathy Daily and Yolanda Wilson
Room: WCLIBA 102
Through an interactive discussion, participants will learn
strategies to aid in addressing the needs of students with
disabilities encountered on campus, in the classroom, or
attending TCC events. As a model, the partnership
between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs will also be
highlighted.
Presented by: Chris Perkins
Room: WCLIBA 136
This presentation will address active learning, faculty
research, and innovations in teaching by reporting on the
service-learning project that I undertook as recipient of a
2018 Service-Learning Research Fellowship. The
presentation will summarize a civic engagement project
completed by students in Fall 2018 and the results of
surveys and other data that demonstrate a clear connection
between active learning practices like service-learning and
improvement in students' composition abilities and general
civic awareness.
Presented by: Douglas Price, Thomas Wallis, and
Gary Young-Allen
Room: WCLIBA 140
This session considers the notion of intercultural spaces
found in our TCC classrooms by exploring the global
complexity and diversity of our student body. Consideration
of "what is a global citizen?" will help shape the
conversation. How can we leverage these intercultural
spaces in our teaching & learning to develop local and
international sensibilities?
Presented by: Kirk Brewer
Room: WCLIBA 236
I will profile my flipped classroom approach where students
take personal responsibility for their own learning and for
helping develop community in and out of the classroom
through collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.
I'll explain what a flipped classroom looks like and how you
can actually cover more material more efficiently and
effectively than traditional lecture.
Presented by: Lynnda Brown
Room: WCLIBA 240
What professor wouldn't love to reduce their grading time
and have students submit quality assignments?
Specifications grading allows just that. As the professor,
you provide the specific criteria for successful completion of
an assignment - something many of us do right now. The
difference is that students earn all the points or none of the
points on the assignment. You no longer have to
painstakingly determine points, A, B, C grades on each
assignment? That's right. Specification grading can reduce
grading time, and believe it or not, increase the quality of
student work.
Presented by: Glenn Jones, Susan Hoggard, and
Sabrina Ripp
Room: WCINFO 136
Organizations must analyze data in order to identify
business trends and make data-driven decisions.
Participants will actively learn how to import data and
produce visualizations in a hands-on lab. They will create
dashboards and upload them to the cloud, then view and
interact with the data on their mobile devices.
Presented by: Jacalyn Swicegood and Jennifer Beatie
Room: WCLIBA 102
Jackie's Statistics class partnered with Jenny to collect data
on a Student Affairs initiative. We will cover the logistics of
the Service Learning Project, group dynamics, importance
of the surveys, and how the results will be used. Two
students from the class will also share their perspective
and insight.
Presented by: John Tanzey
Room: WCLIBA 136
The presentation will begin by providing a backdrop: why
our students need to distinguish between lies and truth in
their research, and one idea about why that is so
challenging. Then, I will briefly share how I teach argument
and its very real-world application to student academic
writing and speaking. This will incorporate activities of
application.
Presented by: Amy Lagers, Liz Binger, Jennifer Hulsey-
Campbell, Lisa Haldeman, and Jamie Holmes
Room: WCLIBA 140
Join TCC Librarians for an overview of Open Education
Resources. Learn what OER is and what it is not. Discover
tips for finding OER resources. Find out about library
resources including ebooks and Films on Demand. See
how the library can help you and your students with
affordable textbook alternatives.
Presented by: Jennifer Kneafsey, Melissa Masse, and
Mary Phillips
Room: WCLIBA 236
During TCC's Design Institute (DI), we explored strategies
associated with positive learning outcomes. By attending
this session, you'll take away specific examples of ways
we've applied DI principles in our classrooms and labs.
We'll discuss challenges and possible solutions to DI ideas
in biology courses followed by a question-and-answer
session.
Presented by: Diana Spencer, Kristen Marangoni,
and Douglas Price
Room: WCLIBA 240
Key faculty in the high impact practices of global education,
service learning, and undergraduate research will describe
potential areas of faculty involvement. Student activities,
workshops, learning communities, and conferences for
students and faculty will be described.
Presented by: Austin Walden
Room: WCINFO 136
Discussion board formats continue to remain a popular
instructional tool for online instructors. However, in 2019,
there are newer ways to interact with student populations
and create an academically fruitful classroom dynamic.
This interactive hands-on session will show you how to set
up online chatrooms that will encourage a community of
scholars.
Presented by: Allen Culpepper and members of TCC Pride
student organization
Room: WCLIBA 102
Remember when there were two genders, male and
female, and two orientations, straight and not? Maybe you
do, but your students don’t! Learn how to sort the
categories, get the pronouns right, and avoid discriminatory
and alienating assumptions.
Presented by: Chandra Carpenter
Room: WCLIBA 136
Activities involving manipulatives can be designed to help
improve students' abilities to meet learning outcomes
related to molecular biology. In this presentation, I will
demonstrate how LEGO bricks and images can be used to
help students learn the process of cellular respiration.
Presented by: Sloan Davis
Room: WCLIBA 140
Presentation will cover the impact of geography, history,
and politics on Irish culture. I will use my presentation as a
means to help other TCC faculty build teaching and
research ideas with our Fall 2019 visiting Fulbright Scholar
and Professor from Ireland, Dr. Stephen Butler.
Presented by: Cathy Bankston
Room: WCLIBA 236
This session will model a Freirian Circle of Learning
approach (heavy on discussion) as we consider how
"affirmative cultures" can quickly "fall into a rapid and steep
decline" (Petersonand Deal, Shaping School Culture). How
might out current larger contemporary society be affecting
our own classrooms and college work? We will look at
some research and discuss our own experiences in terms
of agency and empowerment rather than negativity and
defeat.
Presented by: Diane Potts
Room: WCLIBA 240
The first day of class is critical for creating an optimal
learning environment. This session will emphasize a variety
of methodologies for engaging students from the first day.
Participants are invited to bring examples or share ideas
about how they make the first day of class a meaningful
experience.
Presented by: Wilmon Brown III
Room: WCLIBA 136
Quality, ethical research is essential to society. The IRB is
concerned with protecting the welfare, rights, and privacy of
human subjects by reviewing prospective research
projects. The TCC IRB has created new tools to better
support faculty and students who wish to investigate their
academic interests.
Presented by: Kara Ryan-Johnson, Cindy Shanks, Lori
Coggins, Darin Combs, DeAnna Cooper, and Vickie Robison
Room: WCLIBA 140
Core faculty team members responsible for designing the
new common book program will present ideas for
incorporating the book into a variety of courses across
multiple disciplines. Discover engaging ways to involve
your students in college-wide program events. Get ideas
for infusing this innovative program into your course.
Presented by: Jeremy Kuzmarov
Room: WCLIBA 102
The United States currently has military troops in 170
different nations, according to the New York Times, and is
fighting various wars simultaneously. There appears to be
near bipartisan consensus in Congress in favor of these
wars. Yet, many in the US public are weary and want the
troops to come home. This talk will discuss strategies for
teaching about America's wars in an age of permanent war
and the approach pioneered in a new peace history
website that examines every war in US history from a just
war perspective and is designed to encourage critical
thinking about war and society.
Please join us back in the West Campus Gallery for the final
wrap-up / evaluation session.
A huge thanks from the Stayonference Team,
TCC Faculty Association, and the Engaged Learning Division
TCC West Campus, L-244
7505 W 41st Street S
Tulsa, OK
Phone: (918) 595-8045
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.tulsacc.edu/engagedlearning
2019 Stayonference Team:
David Ruskoski
Debbie Hendryx
Susan Kamphaus