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The Academic (Technology) Roundtable lunch series is designed to promote conversation, cooperation and the sharing of information, ideas and resources among faculty members, librarians, graduate students and staff. Meetings take place at noon in Olin Library's Develin Room (unless specified otherwise) and include a buffet lunch.

A(T)R Calendar
Spring 2009

Date Topic
Tuesday January 27
College in Prison Initiative with Russell Perkins, College of Letters, '09; Lori Gruen, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ron Jenkins, Professor of Theater; and guests Max Kenner, Director of the College in Prison Initiative at Bard College; Robert Cadigan, Director of the Prison Education Program, Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences at Boston University; and Daniel Karpowitz, Bard Prison Initiative Director of Policy and Academics, Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College. http://www.bard.edu/bpi/ This A(T)R will be held in Russell House.
Monday February 2
Teaching With Video/Youtube with Doug Foyle, Marcela Oteíza, Octavio Flores, Vacek Miglus, and student presenters
Thursday February 12
Visiting Faculty at Wesleyan with Démian Pritchard, Peter LeTourneau, and Andy Lewis
Monday February 16
Kevin Smith, IP Attorney and Director of Scholarly Communication at Duke, will lead a discussion on Scholarly Communications Issues.
Thursday
February 26
Evaluating Teaching, an open discussion led by Sean McCann
Monday
March 2
*Postponed* Virginia Maurer, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Virginia is a integral part of the CFCD's video-taping program (http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfcd/). Join this discussion about analyzing and improving teaching using video tape and a mentor.
Monday
March 23
Reflective Writing with Carrie Williams Howe, Associate Director Community-University Partnerships & Service Learning at the University of Vermont
http://www.uvm.edu/partnerships/
Monday
March 30
Enhancing Student Motivation through Active Learning Strategies with James Zimmerman, Associate Director, Research Academy on University Learning, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Montclair State University
http://www.montclair.edu/academy/zimmerman.html
Thursday
April 9
Writing Letters Of Recommendation with Elise Springer, Anne Greene, Peggy Carey-Best and Krishna Winston
Monday
April 13
Instruction with Tablets (Fund for Innovation) with Phil Resor
Thursday
April 23
Publishing in Journals An informal discussion of these ambivalent questions: How do I get my article published? What are my rights as an author? What is a "reputable journal?" with John Bonin, Ethan Kleinberg, Ishita Mukerji and Khachig Tölölyan
Monday
April 27
Digital Images and Teaching Without a Slide Projector with Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor History of Art, Yale

A(T)Rs are sponsored by the CFCD, ITS, and the Library

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