Tuesday: Improving Student Participation

9:00 - 10:00	How do you encourage student participation in your courses? Here are some of the results of our discussion. Moderators: Hope Greenberg, Academic Computing; Sue Hill, Dental Hygiene
10:00 - 12:00	UVM Faculty Panel Presentation and Discussion: their use of web sites in teaching 1. Lou Izzo, Biomedical Technologies 2. Dave Howell, Psychology 3. Steve Pintauro, Nutrition and Food Sciences 4. Tom Visser, History Panel Moderator: Ellen Hall, Dana Medical Library Here are some notes drawn from the presentations.
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 3:30	Creating web sites and work on individual projects

Readings and resources associated with today's topics:
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• Chickering, Arthur W. and Ehrmann, Stephen C. 1997. Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever.
• Cottrell, Janet and Eisenberg, Michael B. 1997. Web Design for Information Problem-Solving: Maximizing Value for Users. Computers in Libraries, 17 (5), 52-57 [see notebook]
• Eisenberg, Michael B. and Johnson, Doug. 1996. Computer Skills for Information Problem-Solving: Learning and Teaching Technology in Context.
• Schneiderman, Ben. 1997. Relate-Create-Donate: A Teaching/Learning Philosophy for the Cyber-generation. draft of article to appear in Computers and Education.
• Shenker, Joel. Implementing Active Learning in the Classroom
• The Node, Learning Technologies Network: Synchronous and Asynchronous Technologies in Online Learning
• The Node, Learning Technologies Network: Web Authoring Primer (a look at web authoring applications and suites)
• The Yale C/AIM Style Guide, by Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton, a classic in designing effective web sites.
• Jacob Nielsen's Usable Information Technology website; see especially his usability columns, including "How people read on the web".
• Tips for successful use of listservs in the classroom.
• The UVM Web Guidelines (and Tips!)