Online Professional Development

Reading Shakespeare: A Focus on Student-Centered Learning and Production

DATE | Thursday, March 11, 2010
TIME | 05:00–06:00 pm EST

This Web seminar picks up where the first Web seminar left off, with strategies that enable the teacher to hand off Shakespeare’s seventeenth century text to twenty-first century readers. Modeling strategies adapted from reciprocal teaching, literature circles, visual and media literacy, and other innovative approaches to reading, writing about, speaking, viewing, and producing Shakespeare using traditional and digital tools, participants will come away with research-based and classroom-tested methods for teaching all our students how to effectively engage in the collaboration that William Shakespeare required of his own company of players.

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Easing Your Transition to Teaching Writing Online

DATE | Thursday, April 08, 2010
TIME | 04:00–05:00 pm EST

Many instructors freeze at the prospect of teaching online, thinking of it as a vast, unknowable digital space requiring specialized tools and, worse, specialized pedagogy. Not true. Writing teaches can move into an online course by drawing from that most familiar of places: Their own teaching experience. This, the first of three Webinars about teaching writing online, will provide instructors with strategies for reflecting on one’s teaching strengths and then converting those strengths into an online course experience. Outcomes: Audience members will learn

• To self-assess their own teaching strategies, developing a list of teaching strengths and interests.
• About the various electronic tools and options.
• To find and use the right technology tools for their teaching style.

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