Upcoming Professional Development

 In-Service Activities and Workshops, September-December, 2008

Now Offering The Teaching Professor Newsletter

The Teaching Professor, edited by respected scholar and expert Dr. Maryellen Weimer of Penn State Berks Lehigh, is a forum for discussion of the best strategies supported by the latest research for effective teaching in the college classroom. From tips for class discussion to mentoring fellow faculty, the newsletter stretches from the theoretical to the highly specific. Typical topics include assessment and evaluation, engagement of student interest, faculty time management, and the learner-centered classroom.

To register for your free subscription, go to: http://www.magnapubs.com/licenses/subscribe.html

Enter your email address and password a long with other required information. Then, enter the following voucher code and PIN number where prompted:

VOUCHER CODE: PTC

PIN: 8038

Shortly after you register, you'll receive a confirming email.

Please note that PTC’s license is only for The Teaching Professor newsletter, so when you enter the general MagnaPubs site, you will need to click on Newsletters at the top left and go to The Teaching Professor link. Our code does not work for the other titles.  

Instructional Strategies to Facilitate Learning Course

This seminar course is offered at no charge to PTC faculty and no textbook is required. Teaching At A Distance (TAD) is a non-credit course that is six weeks long and mostly self-paced.  

Visit https://www.franklin.edu/forms/
TADreginfo.jsp?referer=alliance  to register for the course. Registration deadline is three weeks before the course begins.

Future Course Dates:

• August 18, 2008
• September 29, 2008
• November 10, 2008

LERN Free Faculty Club

Piedmont Technical College has acquired a faculty wide membership to LERN’s North American Faculty Club.  This gives you all access to the following benefits:

Access to the Faculty Club website.

www.lern.org
Username: ptc.edu
Password: facultyclub (all one word, all lower case)

Here is what you will find on the site:
Audio Presentations
Best Web Site Links
Consulting Suite – anyone may post a question and it will be answered here within 48 hrs
References
Teaching Tips
Virtual Tours

If you send an email to Tammyp@lern.org you will also begin receiving
the monthly Faculty Club eLERN newsletter.  This newsletter has an
article each month as well as new information regarding online teaching. They also offer a chat the third Thursday of each month right on the website. You would also receive email updates for the chat that include the date and the topic for each month.

All Faculty Club members are also eligible to attend four free online conferences per year and they are:

• Saving Faculty Time- October 29-30, 2008

• Fostering Online Discussion - February 2-6, 2009

• Multiple Assessments and New Ways of Grading - March 4-5, 2009

• June conference topic to be announced

If you send Tammy you e-mail address, you would also receive notice of these online conferences along with instructions on how to register at no cost.

Please e-mail Tammy at Tammy@lern.org to get on the eLERN list and you may also request previous issues of the Faculty Club eLERN. They all offer free reports so feel free to ask for those reports from the back issues of the newsletter. Any questions you might have may also be directed to Tammy.

Tap into LERN

The Learning Resources Network (LERN) is a leading organization in online learning that provides faculty practical, how-to information about teaching online, developing online courses, and strategic planning of online programs. Read more about LERN opportunities.

 

Upcoming LERN Events

If you would like to register for one of the LERN events listed below please contact Vernessia Wideman via e-mail, wideman.v@ptc.edu. For more information on each course please visit the LERN website http://www.teachingonthenet.org.

Generational Learning Styles, with Julie Coates, October 20 - 24. Register with Vernessia Wideman at wideman.v@ptc.edu by 12 noon Friday,  October 3, 2008.

Saving Faculty Time Conference, October 29 - 30. Register with Vernessia Wideman at wideman.v@ptc.edu by 12 noon Friday,  October 10, 2008.

Designing Online Instruction, with Dr. Rita-Marie Conrad, November 3 - 7. Register with Vernessia Wideman at wideman.v@ptc.edu by 12 noon Friday,  October 17, 2008.