Room: Healey Library, 4th floor, CLI (Center for Library Instruction)

Empowering and Supporting Faculty in Learner-Centered Teaching
This interactive session will facilitate participants’ learning and sharing about current practices related to supporting learner-centered teaching among faculty at their institution. Faculty will be encouraged to reflect on their own teaching and discuss what has (or has not) influenced them to move towards a learner-centered model in their practice.

Presenter: Emilie Clucas (Nursing)

Promoting Student Collaboration Online
This presentation will demonstrate various methodologies for promoting student collaboration online. Participants will learn how to take any assignment and convert it into a collaborative one.

Presenter: Bob Schoenberg (Critical Thinking Program)

Watch Video:

https://vpc1.umb.edu:8443/ess/echo/presentation/a7dcf6b3-62e7-4fba-80a1-b6de46c491fa

Room: Healey Library, LL, ITC
The opportunity to collaboratively construct academic benchmarks allows educators—teachers and students—to actively recognize student success. Although this practice is already embedded in the longitudinal-writing process, this interactive workshop encourages participants to think about how to employ techniques and achieve greater results.

Presenters: Katie Raddatz, Meesh McCarthy, Ian Drinkwater (Graduate Writing Center and Critical Thinking, Academic Support Programs)

Room: Healey Library, LL, P1

This panel will discuss the integrated use of digital technologies, including mobile apps and social media, in history classes. Panelists will share their individual experiences working collaboratively as students, teachers, researchers, and archivists, using tools like Evernote, WordPress, Omeka, social media, and other digital tools to preserve, interpret, and promote history and create a collective digital archive documenting controversial local history.

Presenters: Marilyn Morgan (History), Marta Crilly (Archivist, Boston City Archives), Claudia Heske, Ashley Kennedy-MacDougall, Laura Kintz, and Daniel Morast (students)

Watch Video:

https://vpc1.umb.edu:8443/ess/echo/presentation/90bbcf64-6f16-45dc-80b8-e8dd30a356d4

Room: Healey Library, LL, P2

Teaching and Learning in the Time of Ferguson
The death of Michael Brown and the events that followed, and continue to follow, in Ferguson, Missouri make it clear that any talk of a “post-racial America” is, to put it politely, premature. How, then, might Ferguson and its unfolding effects affect our pedagogy, affect what we teach in the composition classroom and how we teach it? How might it affect learning, since this situation provides teachers with an extraordinary opportunity to learn from students? Using their experiences in the classroom, the panelists will explore these and related questions, hopefully provoking those who attend to share their thoughts and experiences with each other.

Presenters: John Hess (English), Joseph Ramsey (American Studies), Alyssa Mazzarella (Academic Support Programs) Mitch Manning, Hallima Ibrahim, Janice DaSilva, and Marissa Fragoso (students)

Surmounting the “White Looming Mountain of Hate:” Teaching Empathy Through Intersectional Pedagogy
The presenter investigates the potential of postsecondary literary instruction to encourage and cultivate empathy in college students; informed by the works of Paulo Freire, Gloria Anzaldua, and Richard Wright.

Presenter: Sarah Kinne (English)

Watch Video:

https://vpc1.umb.edu:8443/ess/echo/presentation/84df96b1-1568-4516-87ae-1fbd0e7db82f

Room: Healey Library, 4th floor, CLI (Center for Library Instruction)

The presenters will share their experiences designing and implementing a series of mobile research workshops for the English Composition Classroom highlighting the co-learning taking place among teacher, librarian, and students as they explore metaliteracy together.

Presenters: Teresa Maceira (Librarian, Healey Library), Victoria Kingsley (English)