Resources for Faculty

Quick Links

• CTL First Friday Resources
• College Teaching
• Peer Review of Teaching
• Podcasts
• Improving PowerPoints
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
• UNC Asheville Information and CTL Reports

CTL First Friday Resources (Slides and Handouts from Selected Presentations)

• Technology and Teaching: Mahara, Tablet PCs, and Notebook Programs (4.5.12)
  • John Myers: Mahara presentation
  • Greg Boudreaux, information on Notebook programs for PCs and Macs: http://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-onenote and http://www.wickedblog.com/2007/04/12/onenote-replacement-a-few-options/ 
• Top Tips for Effective Presentations (Laura Bond, 3.1.12)
  • Oral competency at UNC Asheville
  • Basic outline for presentations
  • TIPS: Techniques and information for structuring presentations
  • Assessment of presentations form
• Peer Review of Student Writing (Deaver Traywick, 9.9.11)
  • Examples of more and less useful student comments in peer reviewing
  • Sample peer reviewing guidelines used by Deaver in Language 120
  • Sample peer reviewing guidelines used by Ana Teixiera in an ILS 379 class
  • Sample peer reviewer response sheets and questions from St. Martin's Manual and the TA Handbook
  • Model peer review memo, with comments, from Deaver's Language 120 class
  • Model peer-reviewed paper from Deaver's Language 120 class
• Teaching Large Classes Effectively (Mike Ruiz, 3.3.11) 
• Writing Assignments That Won't Bury You in Paperwork (Deaver Traywick, 2.4.11)

College Teaching (general)

• Grading student work
• Journals about college teaching
• Motivating college students (a compilation of ideas from the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College)
• National teaching and learning forum
• Quotations about college teaching (searchable data base)
• Teaching strategies (links to online resources on wide variety of teaching topics, e.g., teaching methods, course design, evaluation, diversity)
• Teaching tips index (more links to a wide variety of articles on practical topics, e.g., first day of class, dealing with disruptive students, managing stress)

Peer Review of Teaching

• Recommended practices for peer review of teaching (developed by CTL learning circle)
• Peer review tools

Podcasts!

• "Don't lecture me" from the Tomorrow's College lecture series, produced by American Radio Works.  From the website: "College students spend a lot of time listening to lectures. But research shows there are better ways to learn" (originally aired September, 2011).
• "Who needs an English major?" from the Tomorrow's College lecture series, produced by American Radio Works.  From the website: "The most popular college major in America these days is business. Some students think it doesn't pay to study philosophy or history. But advocates of liberal arts programs say their graduates are still among the most likely to become leaders, and that a healthy democracy depends on citizens with a broad and deep education" (originally aired September, 2011).
• "Teaching and Learning Matters," a series of short podcasts (4-16 minutes) from the UNC Charlotte Center for Teaching & Learning.

Power Point Strategies: Improving Multimedia Presentations

• Top Ten Slide Tips (very helpful ideas for improving slide quality, and a good resource for students, from Garr Reynolds, Kansai Gaidai University [author of Presentation Zen])
• How Can I Use Power Point More Effectively? (thoughts about productive use of Power Point in teaching, from David Forrest, Texas Tech University)
• Learning Design Principles for Power Point Presentations (handout on integration of learning principles with Power Point slide development, from Patricia McGee, UT San Antonio)
• Research about Student Preferences for Power Point (synopsis of research from the Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University)
• The Surprising Uses of Power Point to Increase Student Engagement (presentation by Klaus Woelk, Chemistry professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology, posted to Youtube)
• Active Learning with Powerpoint (tutorial on engaging student interest with Power Point, from the Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota)

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

• List of journals publishing SoTL research
• List of teaching conferences, 2011-2012 
• Annual Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching (Greensboro, NC)
• Recent UNC Asheville SoTL publications (more coming soon!)

Wingert, J. R., Wasileski, S. A., Peterson, K., Mathews, L. G., Lanou, A. J., Clarke, D. (2011), Enhancing integrative experiences: Evidence of student perceptions of learning gains from cross-course interactions. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 11 (3), 34-57.

UNC Asheville Information and CTL Reports 

• Fact Book, 2010-2011 (statistical information about students and enrollment)
• Faculty Handbook
• Faculty record form (used in annual evaluations)
• Needs assessment, 2010
• Survey of faculty preferences regarding teaching presentations, December, 2011
• University Teaching Council travel grants (next deadline: February 15, 2012)