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If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob of children of tomorrow.
- John Dewey
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NEWS & EVENTS
Summer 2012 Workshops
May 11, 2012
Our summer workshop program, "The Interactive Classroom in the Digital Age," is a series of workshops on teaching and learning. The format, which includes breakfast and lunch on all three days, allows faculty to immerse themselves in a survey of teaching strategies that can help increase interactivity and student engagement in their courses. Participants may sign up for all three days or choose "a la carte" which workshops to attend.
Spring 2012 Faculty Teaching and Research Forum
April 13, 2012
Welcome to the Spring 2012 issue of the Faculty Teaching and Research Forum. This issue focuses on hybrid and online teaching at Adelphi University. Inside, you will read articles written by faculty at Adelphi who are teaching in these modalities. We hope the insights shared by your colleagues will spark discussions and inspire you to try something new in your own courses.
TOOL OF THE WEEK
Adobe Connect
Acrobat Connect is a flash based application that allows you to have real-time, multi-point meetings and class sessions that participants can access through a web browser. With Connect, you can share files, conduct polls, use a whiteboard, chat, and communicate using audio and video. Click here for more information.
FCPE BLOG
Diffusing the Panic over Digital Distraction
March 12, 2012
The New Everyday: A Media Commons Project is a collaboratively authored web publication edited by Nick Mirzoeff, professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU. The format is described as something "between a blog and a journal" and contributors are encouraged to propose curated "clusters" of conversation around a single topic. The title, "The New Everyday," draws attention to the fact that what the editor calls "the era of globalized digital media" is so fully upon us as to be considered mundane. Read More »
