Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

Met with Lynn, Gail, Jesse, and Tonjua (via SPOC). The QEP e-Newsletter will wait until fall to go out to faculty. This is the one with Karen and Nancy’s article about their presentation at the Summer Critical Thinking Institute. Janice and Karen are still planning to write an article for the following e-newsletter on the “clicker” technology. Nancy is planning to meet with Lynn on Thursday to discuss the RLO Repository.

Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

Met with Lynn, Gail, Donna Kelly, and Jesse Coraggio.

The next montly eLetter will be September 1. Karen Hesting and Janice will write an article about using the TurningPoint “clicker” technology to promote critical thinking.

Next year’s Narrowing the Gulf conference will include a track for critical thinking. It is scheduled for March 26-27 at the EpiCenter. Recommendations for critical thinking expert presenters are being collected. There might be an opportunity for a presentation by WITS, perhaps a repeat of this summer’s session and/or an expansion of those topics. This is not definite yet, but Lynn will let us know.

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Critical Thinking Resources Meeting

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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Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

Met with Lynn and Gail. The date for the summer Critical Thinking Institute is still yet to be decided, since June 20 conflicts with Online Accessibility Training. The following dates are now being considered: June 13, June 27 or July 11. Janice will let the other Instructional Technologists know as soon as this date is settled. In the meantime, Janice, Nancy, and Karen are meeting with Lynn on Wednesday afternoon to pin down the topic(s) and other details for this presentation. It is possible that the venue for the event will not have Internet access.

Janice will provide Lynn an article for the first QEP e-letter about the books that are available to instructors in the campus Faculty Development Center. Instructional Technologists will take turns submitting articles about once a month. Email article ideas to Janice.

The notes from Gerald Nosich’s Critical Thinking Institute are now published in the QEP group on ANGELtraining. Lynn is working on obtaining funds to pay to have these notes fleshed out into “courselets.”

Lynn is meeting with Nancy tomorrow to review the blog for RLO’s. At that time, Lynn will approach the topic of using a blog for the instructional portfolios.

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