ISSUE
03
Spring
2009
NTLC Reports
Nakatani
Teaching &
Learning Center
at UW-Stout
this issue
OPID Project on Critical Thinking P.1
NTLC MayDay P.1
Faculty College P.2
NTLC Vision
Statement . . .
The Nakatani Teaching and
Learning Center nourishes a
campus culture of learning and
teaching characterized by
discovery, curiosity, innovation,
collaboration and research.
NTLC Mission
Statement . . .
The mission of the Nakatani
Teaching and Learning Center
is to share and value teaching
and learning. Programs
sponsored by the NTLC will
especially support the
university’s priorities, its
Enduring Goals, and the
mission of the NTLC.
To accomplish this mission,
NTLC will:
• Foster collaboration in
teaching and learning,
• Create programs for faculty
development,
• Facilitate the use of
technology in teaching and
learning.
Meet Doc . . . Page 2
Sharing Communities P.2
Iraq Vets Discussion; Meet Doc P.2
Emerging Leaders P.2
The Interview Project P.3
Summer Institutes P.3
OPID Project on Critical
Thinking
NTLC director, Dan Riordan, has secured a $38K
grant from the UW System Office of Professional
and Instructional Development (OPID) to study
critical thinking in your course. If you would like to
apply to be part of the project, contact him at
riordand@uwstout.edu.
Building on the successes of UW-Stout’s earlier
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project and
the Engagement Project, this project will ask 10
faculty members to assess the relationship of
teaching methods to growth in critical thinking of
their students.
The program has some unique features. During fall
2009, participants will read some material on critical
thinking (not too long, says Riordan), create a
course plan for a series of assignments that will
develop critical thinking, and create an instrument to
evaluate critical thinking. In the spring, participants
will teach the courses and assess the students’
growth. In the summer, participants will be paid to
write up their results. “The summer workshop on
writing is new to this project. In past projects our
participants urged us to include this feature because
finishing a manuscript is too difficult in May. We are
happy to provide this opportunity,” said Riordan.
Of special interest is that each participant will create
a national panel to evaluate the course plans and
assessment instruments that they develop. Riordan
said, “This feature will prevent us from being
parochial in our judgments. We will have to satisfy
not just ourselves, but these outside experts.”
NTLC MayDay
Mark your calendars! The time to ‘gather ye
rosebuds’ this year is Tuesday, May 19—MayDay.
Sponsored by the Nakatani Teaching and Learning
Center and Learning Technology Services, MayDay
is a half-day (9 a.m. – 1p.m.) teaching and learning
conference. Eighteen of our colleagues will present
their work this year. You can hear how colleagues
have used Web 2.0 applications such as Jing,
YouTube, Twitter, and Ubiquitous Presenter. You can
hear about the perplexing problem of student reading
and what you can do to enhance it. You can hear
about online teaching, conducting grounded theory
projects, digital storytelling, free audio programs you
can use to create podcasts, digital storytelling, and
creating student-centered courses. One of our
presenters will be from California discussing Diigo,
an interactive web authoring tool.
Who are the presenters? Leni Marshall (AH&SS),
Daisy Pignetti (AH&SS), Wendy Dittmann (O&M),
Dennis O’Connor (EH&HS), John Kirk (STEM), Kim
Martinez (EH&HS), Ruth Nyland (EH&HS), Michael
Martin (AH&SS), Sheri Klein (EH&HS), Georgios
Loizides (AH&SS), Mark Fenton (COM), Juli Taylor
(EH&HS), Paul Stauffacher (AH&SS), Andrea
Muldoon (AH&SS), Joy Becker (MS&CS), Bill Wikrent
(LTS), Jeanne Rothaupt (HD&FS), Quan Zhou
(AH&SS).
All the sessions will be in the Cedarwood,
Maplewood and Oakwood rooms. Refreshments will
be available. There will be two sessions each hour.
For the MayDay schedule, go to:
http://www3.uwstout.edu/ntlc/upload/MayDay.pdf
2009 Spring Newsletter
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Faculty College
Meet Doc
UW-Stout will be represented at Faculty college
this year by four instructors—Jean-Marie Dauplais (AH&SS),
David Ding (COM) Sue Hunt (AH&SS), and Jeff Sweat
(AH&SS). During the final week of May the four will attend
sessions that focus on teaching about diversity, finding out
what students think as they work to learn, aligning student
learning with course objectives, and systemically inquiring
into student learning. Along with nearly 100 participants from
throughout the UW System, they will spend three days in
these intensive, interdisciplinary seminars. This type of
experience contributes to a system-wide network of
instructors committed to educational excellence.
Thanks to the efforts of our student assistant, Katie
Washburn, we now have Doc, a cartoon character created
in ToonDoo. Doc will populate our soon-to-be-online
comic strips introducing you to our Web 2.0 series. And
we hope he shows up in other situations as well.
The four instructors will be joined by UW-Stout’s 2009-2010
Wisconsin Teaching Fellows, Quan Zhou (AH&SS) and
Damian Hanft (COM). Both Zhou and Hanft will conduct
studies throughout next academic year based on what they
learn at the College.
Sharing Communities Bring
People Together
During the spring 2009 semester, a number of people have
been working with NTLC to facilitate “Sharing Communities,”
groups that meet four times during the semester to explore a
topic. Mark Fenton (COM) led “Online Teaching,” Glendali
Rodriguez (O&M) led “New Instructors: Semester 2,” Adel
Mekraz (COM) led “Team Teaching,” Dan Riordan (NTLC) led
“Theorizing for the Classroom” and “Second Life in the
Classroom,” Jeanne Rothaupt (HD&FS) and Quan Zhou
(AH&SS) led “Student Centered Teaching,” Pete Schlosser
(STEM) led “DocTalk,” a series of sessions for instructors
working on an advanced degree. In addition, Juli Taylor
(EH&HS) led the Online Community of Practice and has
developed a survey of instructors in order to determine their
needs for an Online Teaching Handbook, which her CoP will
develop during the fall 2010 semester. “These communities
provide an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues on
significant topics with a minimal commitment of time. I am
especially grateful to our facilitators for their excellent work,”
said Dan Riordan, Director of NTLC.
NTLC Sponsors Iraq Vets
Discussion
NTLC Board Member Brian Beamer facilitated a
panel/open discussion concerning the needs of
veterans returning to classes after service in a combat
nd
zone. Captain Lee Esser, 2 Lieutenant Richard
Lofthouse (Military Science), John Achter (Counseling
Center) and Jackie Daniel (UW-Stout Veterans
Certifying Official) spoke briefly about their
experiences with returning veterans. A spirited
discussion followed during which helpful suggestions
were made. NTLC plans to hold more such sessions
in the fall.
What is the Web 2.0 series? NTLC and Learning
Technology Services (LTS) have cooperated this spring to
investigate the many new applications emerging on the
web. We have studied many “apps” with an eye to
selecting ones that will help you with your teaching. In our
first batch of four is information about Jing, Google Docs,
Twitter, and TeacherTube.
These applications allow you to
record your screen and grade
online, to post papers that groups
can easily work on, to post brief
messages, and to post class-made
videos.
NTLC plans more in the future,
including work on calendars, on
making your own cartoons, and on
other helpful applications. If you
have ideas for an application you
would like us to consider, contact
Dan Riordan (NTLC) or Jamison
Olson (LTS).
riordand@uwstout.edu;
olsonja@uwstout.edu
Emerging Leaders
The NTLC is committed to creating a culture of
Communities of Practice (CoP) on campus. To assist with
that development the NTLC Board of Advisors
recommended that the NTLC fund five people to attend the
th
10 Annual Faculty Learning Community Developers’ and
Facilitators’ Summer Institute & Conference on June 17-20,
2009 in Claremont, California. Dubbed our “Emerging
Leaders,” the five are Jill Klefstad (EH&HS), Anne Hoel
(COM), Juli Taylor (EH&HS), Joy Becker (MS&CS) and
Carolyn Barnhart (EH&HS). Sponsored by the International
Alliance of Teacher Scholars, our emerging leaders will
learn successful strategies and methods for designing,
implementing, and facilitating Communities of Practice.
Each of the five will offer a Community of Practice project
for UW-Stout instructors during the 2009-2010 academic
year. To find out more, go to:
http://www3.uwstout.edu/ntlc/OnCampusOpportunities/com
munitypractice.cfm .
2009 Spring Newsletter
The Interview Project
NTLC Council
These faculty and staff
volunteer their time and
expertise to keep the NTLC
focused on significant
issues:
Bryan Beamer, O&M
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Summer Institutes
The NTLC and LTS are happy to announce that
the Interview Project is online. We think it is pretty
neat, and hope you will check it out. During the fall
semester our people interviewed 52 instructors!
They talked about what they teach, their favorite
courses, and their innovations. Some of the
innovations were so interesting that we added a
second set of interviews—we videoed them talking
about what they do. We then had Dan Krueger
(EIS), one of our web design gurus, create a
knock-it-out-of-the-park website, based on a
Wordle “Word Cloud,”
http://www3.uwstout.edu/ntlc/showcase/
This summer the NTLC, Learning Technology
Services and Title III will sponsor a plethora of
institutes. Something is available for everyone
during June. For institute descriptions, go to:
http://www3.uwstout.edu/ntlc/OnCampusOpportuniti
es/customizedworkshops.cfm
•
Second Life Institute
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
•
Scholarly Writing Institute
June 3-4, 2009
Wed., 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Thurs., 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
You can go to the NTLC website to the Showcase
List page, click on ‘Showcase’ then click on a word
in the “Word cloud” and all the interviews related
to that word appear. In a number of them you will
find video interviews—Amy Fichter (AH&SS) talks
about “Noticing,” Diane Olson (O&M) talks about
using clickers in class, Wan Bae (Mathematics)
talks about learning to create digital games, Mark
Fenton (COM) discusses using PowerPoints to
engage students. More video interviews will be
posted as we develop them. Additionally, we have
four other veteran teachers talking about
classroom management, including what they do to
handle the laptop management problem—Jill
Klefstad (EH&HS), Peter Galante (A&C Tech),
Bob Peters (EHHS), and Anne Hoel (COM).
•
Teaching First Year Students Workshop
Friday, June 5, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
•
Online Teaching Institute
Tuesday, June 9, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(June 9 is full, but due to popular demand a
second is scheduled June 11, 2009.)
•
Course Assessment Institute - Assignments,
Tests, and Grades: More Learning, Less Time
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
•
Student Success Institute
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Go online to see what your colleagues do at:
Enrollment is limited. To enroll contact: Millie
Kotulek (Title III Admin) kotulekm@uwstout.edu.
Joy Becker, MS&CS
Amanda Brown, AH&SS
Jane Henderson, LTS Dir.;
Title III Dir.; NTLC Co-Dir.;
E-Scholar Dir.
Anne Kelly Hoel, COM
Millie Kotulek, Title III
Jeanne Rothaupt, HD&FS
Laura Schmidt, MS&CS
Juli Taylor, EH&HS
Joan Thomas, Dean of
Students
Julie Watts, AH&SS
Meridith Wentz, BPA Dir.
Dan Riordan, NTLC Dir.
http://www3.uwstout.edu/ntlc/showcase/resources.cfm
Free Webinar to Faculty & Instructional Staff
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Nakatani Teaching & Learning Center
Millennium Hall 104
Menomonie, WI 54751
Web: http://www.uwstout.edu/tlc
Phone: 715-232-1131 or 715-232-5196
Email: tlcenter@uwstout.edu
The Nakatani Teaching and Learning Center invites all faculty and instructional
staff to attend:
Learning Styles: Fact and Folklore for eLearning
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Millennium Hall, Room 207
This free webinar explores the question, “Do learning styles really matter?” and
draws on more than 30 years of empirical research to separate fact from folklore
in applying learning styles to the design of e-learning courses and other
instructional materials.
Please RSVP to Millie Kotulek by Monday, May 4.
(kotulekm@uwstout.edu; x-1131)