Student engagement, engaged learning, community engagement, outreach and engagement…. Some form of the word “engagement” is all around us. It was the focus of the main speaker at OSU’s University Day 2010 with a topic entitled: Engaged Learning: Fostering Success for All Students. It was the topic at our recent annual NIEHS meetings with discussions […]
Archive for November, 2010
The Word of the Day is "Engagement"
Thursday, November 18th, 2010The Word of the Day is "Communication"
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010The word of the day is “C-o-m-m-u-n-i-c-a-t-i-o-n”. We think we know what it is, and sometimes we think we know how to do it. Communication can be even more challenging when working with partners. I compiled a list of communication reminders (especially for me) from the book, Harnessing Innovative Technology in Higher Education edited by […]
Organizing and Evaluating Professional Development Workshops
Monday, November 8th, 2010Earlier this year we piloted EH@Home in-person workshops. Creating a model for organization and evaluation was a very important part of this project. Organizing each workshop involved a series of cyclic steps outlined below. From each workshop came feedback that was incorporated in future workshops. This enabled us to have near real-time improvement and help […]
The New Lingo for Educators
Friday, November 5th, 2010We decided to create on-line learning for our audiences. What’s next? As I’m searching the web looking for “best practices”, I’m sensing that first we want to be clear about what we’re doing. There are many terms flying around out there, and I decided to get some definitions to make distinctions. Note that my chosen […]
Monday Gladness, Not Madness
Monday, November 1st, 2010It’s the day after Halloween. Raise your hand if you would rather have stayed home watching a movie cuddled up on the couch eating leftover candy. What would make today better than that here at work…..Sharing some cool ideas. I continually think about how our Community Outreach and Education Program can make a difference here […]
What's Next
Monday, November 1st, 2010I took a break from adding posts to this blog. Perhaps that was a mistake. As I look back on past posts, I’m empowered. I forget all what we have done and the unlimited number of possibilities of where we can go. The posts remind me of why I am working and how I can […]
