CSU Faculty Development Institute |
8:00 Refreshments--outside North Education 60
Light refreshment for those who come early. Follow the signs from Parking Structure I, Level 1 (see map).
9:00 Keynote presentation -- Dr. Bernie Dodge--North Education 60
Dr. Dodge will discuss "Active Learning on the World Wide Web." This presentation will kick off the conference by detailing some exceptional ways in which you can use the World Wide Web to entice your students into actively and collaboratively solving problems relevant to your curriculum. Dr. Dodge will also preview some new techniques the Web is now offering to enhance student learning.
10:00 PBL Web Quest--North Education 271, 275, and 278a
You and your colleagues will team up on a WebQuest to explore problem based learning. In this activity you will be interacting with people and data, both locally and at a distance, to complete your WebQuest. Please meet with your colleagues in the following rooms:
| Room 71 Fullerton Sonoma Stanislaus San Luis Obispo San Diego COE1 |
Room 271 Bakersfield Fresno Hayward Sacramento San Marcos/San Jose |
Room 275 Chico Los Angeles Northridge Pomona San Bernadino San Diego COE2 |
Room 278a Dominquez Hills Humbolt 1 Long Beach Monterey/Humbolt 2 San Diego San Diego COE 3 |
12:30 Lunch
Options for lunch are detailed in your conference packet.
1:30 Classroom WebQuest
Your campus group will meet to debrief what you discovered during your WebQuest and critique its applicability for use in your classroom. Meet your teams in the following rooms:
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Room 71 Bakersfield San Diego COE1 San Marcos/San Jose Sonoma |
Room 173 Chico Los Angeles Northridge |
Room 271 Fresno Pomona San Bernadino Stanislaus |
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Room 273 Dominquez Hills Hayward San Diego COE2 San Luis Obispo |
Room 275 Fullerton Humboldt 1 Monterey/Humboldt 2 |
Room 278a Long Beach Sacramento San Diego San Diego COE 3 |
Ideas to consider include:Would a WebQuest work in your course? Why or why not? What type activities could be included in a WebQuest for your discipline?
2:00 First Concurrent Session
Choose one of the following activities to explore. (Before you choose, you may want to look at the topics offered during the Second Session at 3:00 today, and the Third Session at 1:00 tomorrow to plan the best use of your time, based on your knowledge, skills, and interests.) All sessions will include both conceptual strategies and hands-on experiences.
Learn how to guide your students to find the information they need in the vast and growing reaches of the World Wide Web. Includes the basics of Web browsing and how to use some of the popular search engines. A discussion of the Web and its many uses will help new users become more familiar with practical classroom strategies.
What can you provide for your students on the World Wide Web that will help them succeed in your course? What tools are available, how do you use them, and how do you "serve" them to your students? Try some basic Web page authoring using two popular software programs: Web Weaver and PageMill. You'll get a peek at basic document linking and formatting and explore strategies to ensure students can find and extract relevant information from your pages.
"Best practices" and strategies for facilitating problem based learning with E-mail. Relevant information for both new and intermediate users of Eudora, a popular E-mail software program. Topics include signatures, mailboxes, filters, distribution lists, and mail merge.
Each CSU campus has the hardware and software available to send and receive direct video through phone lines. Practitioners will share what they have learned to help ensure their programs are educational and relevant for their audience.
Creating a relevant problem is only the beginning of a successful problem based learning course or activity. Additional resources, mentoring, and tutoring are also important. This session explores and offers tips to those who wish to get started using PBL in their courses.
The roundtable allows participants the chance to share their ideas, successes, and failures in the use of problem based learning and/or distributed course delivery. Run your ideas by similarly inclined colleagues or just "lurk and listen."
3:00 Second Concurrent Session
Choose one of the following activities to explore for the next hour.
Hear and see how experienced instructors at secondary and junior college levels are using problem based learning in their classrooms--what works and what has been problematic.
Come hear how a team of geologists use distributed course delivery in a PBL classroom--what works and what could work better.
Newsgroups allow multiple individuals to contribute to a running dialogue (you might have used the PBL/DCD newsgroup we called the Forum). Listserves automatically copy and send mail to all subscribers to the service. Find out why you may want to create this service and how to establish either type for your classes.
This session will be a repeat of the 2:00 session.
This session will be a repeat of the 2:00 session.
This session will be a reprise of the 2:00 session.
4:00 Participant Team meetings
Each campus team will meet to brainstorm and discuss how they use problem based learning and distributed course delivery for their individual courses. Please report to the following rooms:
| Room 60 Bakersfield Fresno Hayward Sacramento |
Room 173 San Diego COE1 San Marcos/San Jose Sonoma |
Room 175 Chico Los Angeles Northridge |
Room 271 Pomona San Bernadino San Diego COE2 |
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Room 273 Dominquez Hills San Luis Obispo Stanislaus |
Room 275 Fullerton Humbolt 1 Monterey/Humbolt 2 |
Room 278a Long Beach San Diego San Diego COE 3 |
The question to consider is:
In what ways would you use the different types of distributed course delivery to enhance problem based learning?
4:30 Organizing for Day 2--North Education 60--Hoffman and Ritchie
We will offer a quick review of today's major ideas and themes, then present an overview of tomorrow's activities.
5:00 Dinner
Maps to local restaurants are provided in your conference packet. Take the time to explore some fine ethnic or traditional dining with colleagues and friends.
6:30 Open Lab and Exhibit Hall--North Education 271, 273, 275, and 278a
This unstructured time in the open lab will allow you to practice what you learned during Day 1. The Exhibit Hall will showcase some of the unique projects from among Institute participants.
9:30 Lab closes.
8:00 Refreshments--outside North Education 60
Light refreshment for those who come early.
9:00 Keynote presentation--North Education 60--Brock Allen
Dr. Brock Allen will discuss Weaving the Tapestry : From Problems to Projects . This presentation will lead participants through a series of ideas to help us organize, manage, and integrate the many components of problem based learning and distributed course delivery into a rich, educational environment.
10:30 Course Brainstorming/Planning
Participants will meet within discipline groups (not campus participant teams) to share strategies and insights and discuss how problem based learning and distributed course delivery can be used within their subject domain. Please report to the following rooms:
| Room 173 Education Language Communication |
Room 175 Psychology Human Resources Counseling Sociology Child Family |
Room 271 Computer Science Engineering Instructional Media |
| Room 273 Business Economics Management Administration |
Room 275 Architecture Art Kinesiology Leisure Studies Dance |
Room 278a Political Science History Nursing Health Science |
Issues to consider include:
What sort of problems can you have your students tackle? Can you make the problem reflect what they will do in life after school? How will you evaluate their learning?
12:00 Lunch
Options for lunch are detailed in your conference packet.
1:00 Third Concurrent Session:
Choose one of the following activities to explore.
2:00 Campus Dissemination Plans
Meet with your campus team to generate ideas as to how your knowledge and skills of problem based learning and distributed course delivery can be shared with the faculty on your campus. Your ideas will be developed as action plans throughout the afternoon. A software template will be available to walk you through the steps for developing an action plan for your home campus. Campus team members will answer prompts, and complete the plan as required by the Chancellor's office. Meet with your teams in the following rooms:
| Room 71 Fullerton Sonoma Stanislaus San Luis Obispo |
Room 271 Bakersfield Fresno Hayward Sacramento San Marcos/San Jose |
Room 275 Chico Los Angeles Northridge Pomona San Bernardino |
Room 278a Dominquez Hills Humboldt 1 Long Beach Monterey/Humboldt 2 San Diego |
Yvonne Andres presents "Preparing for the Future." Ms. Andres, director of the Global Schoolhouse Foundation, will describe how students in public schools are currently interacting over the Internet with text, graphics, audio, and video. The knowledge and skill level of these students demand a more constructivist, technologically rich environment as they reach university level. Ms. Andres will offer strategies and insights to help us prepare for the "next wave" of students.
4:30 Sharing--North Education 60
Campuses will be asked to share a brief description of their campus plan for dissemination of their knowledge and skills.
4:45 Evaluation--North Education 60
Please complete the evaluation form in your conference packet.
5:00 Closure--North Education 60
The summer institute draws to a close. We will contact you August 23rd in a video conference to follow-up on your campus's progress on disseminating information on distributed course delivery for problem based learning, and on the implementation of DCD/PBL in your own course.