Archive for the ‘Instructional Portfolios’ Category

Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

December 9, 2008

Met with Janice, Lynn, Jesse, Maggie and Gail.

ePortfolio
Janice met with Ken Pereira on 12/2. Ken is planning to activate ePortfolio for the Fall 2009 semester with the ANGEL 7.3 upgrade. The ePortfolio will be activated for the ANGEL 7.3 pilot during Spring 2009 so that Alan Shapiro and others can investigate its capabilities. Janice is still seeking clarification on this and will keep us updated.

Faculty Champion Guide
Karen H. will be meeting with Janice on 12/16 to discuss the creation of the Faculty Champion Guide (course) in ANGEL.

Critical Thinking Resources Meeting

July 2, 2008

Regarding the Summer Critical Thinking Institute, positive feedback continues regarding the technology session presented by Karen Hesting and Nancy Doolittle. On June 26, Lynn reported, “I just analyzed the end-of-workshop surveys from last Friday, and 28 out of 33 said the most important or valuable thing they learned had to do with technology. Nineteen want more hands-on-workshops in using technology.”

Karen and Nancy are going to provide the next article for the QEP e-Newsletter. They are going to write a brief summary of the technology piece they did for the Summer Critical Thinking Institute, perhaps including a couple tangible ideas for faculty. Lynn would like to have this by Monday, if possible.

Nancy is going to work with Lynn on turning the Lesson Plan template into a PDF form. Nancy is acting as Lynn’s IT on this one – teaching her how to do it. Nancy will also work on the blog which will an informal RLO repository.

Lynn and Donna will be making modifications to the gateway Web site as well as including 2nd level pages for many of the links off of the Web site. It was felt that these 2nd level pages were good areas for expanding on information before sending folks into ANGEL for the Instructional Portfolio component of this project. An Instructional Portfolio will be a folder that members of the Academic Round Table will maintain in ANGELtraining containing critical thinking activities, assessments, course syllabi, etc.

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