Destination Intersession 2014 and RIT’s Got Talent: A Faculty Showcase Program Summary Prepared by Faculty Career Development Services, The Wallace Center Anne Marie Canale, Cheryl Herdklotz, Lynn Wild February 14, 2014 OVERVIEW Destination Intersession was conceptualized by the Faculty Career Development team as a response to the Provost’s request to “redefine FITL.” During summer 2013, the team made the decision to collaborate/partner with others at RIT to offer a full series of workshops, presentations, and technology sessions for RIT faculty professional development. The idea of an intersession filled with activities that faculty could take advantage of during a time when for most, classes were not in session, was a unique opportunity. Faculty Getaway: Destination Intersession was born and slated for RIT’s first TigerTerm®. Destination Intersession was held from January 6-­‐24, 2014. The three weeks initially offered 22 opportunities for faculty development and included our inaugural RIT’s Got Talent: A Faculty Showcase. Faculty Career Development Services (FCDS) coordinated programming for the Innovative Learning Institute (ILI), AdvanceRIT (Connect@RIT), Human Resources (Center for Professional Development), Office of Sustainability, The Wallace Center’s RIT Libraries and Scholarly Publishing Studio (SPS), and Teach2Connect/Access Services. The Sponsored Research Services (SRS) Grant Writers’ Bootcamp was also advertised as part of Intersession, however, their office handled all details. FCDS developed and implemented a robust communication/marketing plan, coordinating all Intersession offerings, including registration and publicity to our target audience in one convenient place. The plan included: “Bravo to all involved!” • Two new websites for Destination Intersession events and the Faculty Showcase with online registration “Well organized and a good • The Showcase Call for Proposals for faculty presentations turnout for the first time out.” announced early and extended to early December resulting in 18 “I really appreciated all the faculty applications to present work that was done to put this • Weekly updates to academic leaders as FCDS monitored event together. Thanks!” registration numbers by faculty/college • Weekly email blasts announcing these opportunities to RIT “Thanks for your efforts to promote faculty faculty of all ranks and select staff development!” • Articles in University News and Provost’s Ezine • Upstarts @ RIT e-­‐newsletter promotion • Postcards hand-­‐delivered to all RIT faculty offices Registration was open to all RIT faculty including academic leaders. Many RIT professional staff were invited such as academic advisors, CPD, ILI, TWC, and Student Affairs. Faculty from neighboring regional campuses were also invited to partake in our faculty development sessions; University of Rochester and The College at Brockport took advantage of our offer. Faculty Career Development Services | rit.edu/facultydevelopment Page 1 DESTINATION INTERSESSION WORKSHOPS FCDS originally sponsored 14 events during Destination Intersession, including the Showcase; five sessions were cancelled due to low enrollment (see Table 1). The ILI team offered seven workshops for faculty with strong attendance; their program summary is available in Appendix A. The other partners’ sessions are included in Table 1. Approximately 70 faculty and 20 staff took advantage of the DI offerings. Overall, feedback from all Destination Intersession workshops was positive and will be used to guide next year’s programming. Several of our partners collected their own feedback (CPD, Advance, ILI), while the FCDS team focused on evaluating TWC sessions, including the Showcase. Table 1: FCDS-­‐sponsored Destination Intersession Events (excluding ILI and the Showcase) Workshop Partner RIT New Employee Orientation Total Faculty Staff CPD 6 5 1 Challenges & Rewards of Teaching Deaf and Hard-­‐of-­‐Hearing Students Access Services, Teach2Connect Cancelled Adjunct Faculty Orientation: Your Survival Kit ILI, RIT Libraries, Access Services 19 19 0 Stop and Ask Directions: Career Navigation for Academic Women AdvanceRIT 17 14 3 Sustainability 101: What it is, And How it Relates to your Discipline Office of Sustainability Cancelled Project Based Learning for Sustainability: Identifying Teachable Moments on Campus Office of Sustainability Cancelled Provost Cancelled How to Learn ASL and Assess Your Skill Level—RADSCC Can Help RADSCC Cancelled Who Cited Me? An Introduction to Citation Searching and Analysis RIT Libraries 9 6 3 Retrieving Impact Factors from Journal Citation Reports RIT Libraries 6 2 4 Do you need to assess how your students learn? Then discover the unexpected using Atlas.ti! RIT Libraries 15 11 4 Using Library E-­‐books For Your Courses RIT Libraries 11 9 2 Publishing with Digital Commons: Open Access Journals SPS 3 2 Grant Writers' Boot Camp at RIT Inn SRS 5 19 Tea & Talk” with the Provost (3) Faculty Career Development Services | rit.edu/facultydevelopment Page 2 RIT’S GOT TALENT: A FACULTY SHOWCASE The one-­‐day Faculty Showcase held January 8 was intended to provide a vehicle to recognize and highlight RIT faculty’s unique talents. Despite record-­‐cold temperatures and the campus closure due to weather the previous day, 18 faculty presented. The Showcase was clearly the most successful component of Destination Intersession with 190 attending one or more of the 19 unique and creative presentations (see Table 2). Table 2: Faculty Showcase Presentations/Attendance Presentation/Presenter Total Faculty Staff Learning by Making: It’s all fun and games, Elizabeth Goins (CLA) 9 6 3 Producing a Film on Lincoln's Balloon Corps, Malcolm Spaull (CIAS) 13 7 6 An Augmented Reality Elephant in the Room, Shaun Foster (CIAS) 11 6 5 From Kennel Days to Teaching Days: How my dog taught me to teach! Sandi Connelly (COS) 13 9 4 Hearing Backward, Hearing Forward: Creating Non-­‐existent Sound F/X for Film, David Sluberski (CIAS) 12 6 6 Better cooking through chemistry!, Jeff Mills (COS) 17 9 8 My Data are Non-­‐Linear, Non-­‐Normal, and Generally Not Well Behaved! What do I do?: Challenges and opportunities in interdisciplinary collaboration, David Messinger (COS) 13 10 3 Row, Row, Row Your Boat (No, Really!) or How I Spend My Summer Vacations, Elizabeth Perry (CHST) 8 4 4 Accessible Views: Seeing lectures through deaf students’ eyes, Raja Kushalnagar (NTID) 13 9 4 If we can see it, we can fix it! Biomedical imaging applications for minimally invasive therapy, Cristian Linte (KGCOE) 5 4 1 Killing one softly with PowerPoint: Use your creativity and imagination to reach beyond the default, Cristian Linte (KGCOE) 9 4 5 How I Overcame My Fear of Writing a Book, Tom Gasek (CIAS) 8 7 1 Why I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the MOOC, Stefi Baum (COS) 9 7 2 Book Review: Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge, Paul Craig (COS) 7 5 2 New Readings Between the Lines of History, Roger Easton (COS) 12 7 5 Whipping up a Great Team! Or if you are more daring … Whip your group into shape!, Ted Baumhauer (SCB) 8 1 7 Community-­‐Based Research and Scholarship -­‐ Experiential Learning for Faculty, Students and the Community, Ann Howard (CLA) 9 7 2 Can a female politician ever have her own sex scandal?, Hinda Mandell (CLA) 8 5 3 From Bathroom to Book! Productivity and the Work/Life Balance, Jessica Pardee (CLA) 6 4 2 Faculty Career Development Services | rit.edu/facultydevelopment Page 3 FACULTY SHOWCASE FEEDBACK Showcase feedback was obtained via a post-­‐event online survey; results will be used to guide the 2015 Faculty Showcase. Excerpts from the survey are listed below: § Nice break from the routine of the traditional presentations. Liked the short format but some of the presentations could have been longer. Unique variety. § It gave me more appreciation for the ingenuity of our faculty, “It was n ice to see other staff and students and the variety and depth of research. It's faculty's p erspectives on nice to see what can ultimately result from the support work & things and what I can learn resources of TWC. It renewed my pride in the university. from them to help my own teaching to be more § It was very helpful to understand the process in proposing and efficient and higher quality.” writing a book. 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had very little information about it. It is far better to learn from others than to learn from your own mistakes! It increased my awareness incrementally on topics I already knew something about and allowed me to network with colleagues. This showcase was perfect. Although I was able to attend only one of the several sessions I registered for, it was just right. The subject matter was interesting, the faculty member was engaging, and I came away feeling a little more energized and enthusiastic about my job, my own intellectual life, and RIT. I had a rare opportunity to interact with colleagues outside my department and college. The talks were interesting and different. Informative but at the same time entertaining, like having a conversation with a friend at times. I learned something at each of the programs I attended that I can use in my personal or professional life. Faculty Career Development Services | rit.edu/facultydevelopment Page 4 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DESTINATION 2015 FCDS will coordinate Destination Intersession (DI) programming in January 2015 with the following recommendations: § DI events will commence the week of January 12 and end January 23, 2015. This might encourage higher attendance as the week immediately after the holiday break seemed to pose a number of conflicts with administrative meetings. This may maximize participation from our faculty willing to present, as well as increase registration at events. § The team will reach out to college administrative staff to avoid conflicts with department meetings or other scheduling issues. § DI 2015 will kick off on Wednesday, January 15 with a larger and more robust Faculty Showcase. § Rather than offering programming the entire month of January, only two weeks of workshops, sessions, and events will be offered in addition to the Showcase. Sessions will be compressed into more offerings per day, allowing faculty to “come spend the day” rather than come to campus for one or two sessions. § Partnerships with ILI, AdvanceRIT, CPD, ILI, SRS, and TWC (RIT Libraries, SPS) will continue. It is to be determined whether the new compressed format will allow for offerings from others, and the team will need to reconsider offering those that were cancelled due to low enrollment. (Teach2Connect/Access Services, Sustainability). § The low attendance numbers and cancellations from the three-­‐week spread of DI offerings, feedback from participants, and results of our upcoming Faculty Needs Survey will be considered when planning DI 2015. § The team discovered in late January that NTID had similar offerings during this first Intersession. Many of them conflicted with our efforts. For 2015, we will connect with NTID to possibly partner with and collaborate on their offerings under the Destination Intersession umbrella. § All Showcase presentations/hospitality will be located in one central location (rather than three venues) for the convenience of attendees. Faculty Career Development Services | rit.edu/facultydevelopment Page 5 Appendix A: Destination Intersession 2014 Program Summary - ILI Report
TEACHING AND LEARNING SERVICES:
DESTINATION INTERSESSION EVENT SUMMARY
VERSION 1| JANUARY 29, 2014
PREPARED FOR
NEIL HAIR
INTERIM DIRECTOR, ILI
JANUARY 28, 2014
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OVERVIEW
From January 6 to January 23, 2014, Faculty Career Development Services (FCDS) at The Wallace Center organized
and hosted Destination Intersession as a vehicle to provide professional development opportunities to RIT faculty. As
another RIT group that works closely with faculty and hosts faculty events, FCDS asked Teaching and Learning Services
to identify workshops or other sessions to run during Destination Intersession.
TLS hosted seven events (some multi-session) for faculty:
Event
Date(s)
Registration
Attendance
(faculty/staff/other*)
Jan 6
18
13 (9/2/2)
Creating Effective Web-Based Resources (Flipped Classroom
Series)
Jan 6 & 20
14
11 (10/1)
Online Course Design and Technology Community of Practice
Jan 7, 9,
21 & 23
10
5 (4/0/1)
Conversations with Flippers (Flipped Classroom Series)
Jan 9
18
17 (10/5/2)
Getting Started in myCourses
Jan 14
15
12 (12/2/1)
myCourses Homepage Makeover
Jan 15
12
8 (5/1/2)
The Flipped Classroom Model (Flipped Classroom Series)
Jan 20
17
7 (4/3/0)
The Flipped Classroom Model (Flipped Classroom Series)
* “Other” includes students and faculty from other universities.
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Impressions
 TLS was able to use intersession as an impetus to design and pilot workshops that we had been planning.
 FCDS handled promotion and marketing well; TLS didn’t have to spend time trying to fill seats.
 Registration was successful, with a couple of TLS events generating waiting lists (extra participants were admitted).
 We purposefully kept events short—two hours or less—to reduce development time.
 We will probably use some of the development work on these sessions to create tools and/or web content.
 Faculty were particularly interested in Flipped Classroom and myCourses events.
 Some non-RIT participants had difficulty registering their computers to get onto the internet. At events with outside
participants, alert facilitators of this issue and provide them with instructions for participants.
 While there was the usual attrition between registration numbers and attendance, this wasn’t as great as we’ve
seen before. One event where attrition was bad can probably be attributed to a combination of scheduling on
January 20th without taking into account that it was MLK Day, coupled with poor travel weather.
Based on the success of individual sessions and the event as a whole, TLS would be happy to participate in a Faculty
Development series next year.
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EVALUATION SUMMARIES
Scores based on 5 = Excellent through 1 = Poor
INSPIRED
MET MY
ME TO
PRESENTER(S)
Event
EXPECTATIONS
TAKE
ACTION
MATERIALS
KEPT ME
ENGAGED
PROVIDED
USEFUL
INFORMATION
OVERALL
IMPRESSION
The Flipped
Classroom
Model (Jan 6)
4.11
4.11
4.33
3.56
4.44
4.22
4.22
Creating
Effective WebBased
Resources
4.00
4.40
4.40
4.00
4.40
4.80
4.40
Online Course
Design and
Technology
Community of
Practice
4.80
5.00
4.80
4.60
4.60
5.00
5.00
Conversations
with Flippers
4.56
4.69
4.75
4.43
4.69
4.69
4.75
Getting
Started in
myCourses
4.71
4.57
4.71
4.29
4.71
4.71
4.71
myCourses
Homepage
Makeover
4.25
4.63
4.75
4.25
4.43
4.88
4.38
The Flipped
Classroom
Model (Jan 20)
4.43
4.57
4.43
4.14
4.43
4.57
4.57
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Participant comments
Event
The Flipped Classroom
Model (Jan 6)
Creating Effective WebBased Resources
Online Course Design and
Technology Community of
Practice
Conversations with
Flippers
Getting Started in
myCourses
Comments
 Perhaps just give 1-minute overview of the method; Describe
advantages/disadvantages; where RIT is in using this learning method (in terms
of implementation; what indicators are used to measure success; how much time
to make one video?--I was happy I came. Thank you
 Would like to see more examples of what others have done, and would like to
know more about what students think of this model.
 Interesting viewpoints on flipped classrooms, but they raise difficult questions,
especially with balances students need for their academic/social lives
 Probably need more time… complex topic; would like to hear more about how to
create own videos
 Lots of good new resources to check out! Thanks!
 Lots of information to digest!
 Thanks!
 Maybe have a post-teaching workshop where the current participants come
together to discuss and reflect on the teaching/online course design -- what
worked, lessons learned.
 Great resources, great interactions w/ others and learning from each other.
[Under Inspired…] Yes,
[Under Presenter(s)] Very knowledgeable and good speakers
[Under Materials] Wish we referenced more in sessions.
 maybe more "take-home" materials… although myCourses is good (I forgot
about that)
 Both presenters were excellent, they offered different points of view, which was
useful.
 This was very inspiring. Scary in that I have a lot to do. Details like "mistake!
oops pause keep going" was helpful.
 Great event. Very informative. Two presenters was engaging and innovative.
 Thanks!
 Refreshments outstanding
 Now I need training on how all the software works!
 Hoping for more info on software, myCourses, etc. But liked the discussion
between people.
 Would like to see more future sessions on how to build a flipped classroom. So
much Technology out there is that I do not know where to start.
 Shaun + Gary were great!
 Ken did a great job of getting a ton of tools/info into a short workshop. I look
forward to putting it to work.
 Liked the reference guide very good quick intro
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Event
myCourses Homepage
Makeover
The Flipped Classroom
Model (Jan 20)
Comments
 Great info. Wish I had done this training years ago. Thanks!
 Would be good to give students time to try each concept. You won't be able to
cover as much but students will learn some more fundamental things to do.
 Good to pass out instruction sheets so we didn't have to write down the steps.
Instructor knows a lot and explain things well
 Great! More(?) tools to make things clearer! Thank you! :)
 Good presentation, casual settings. Nice to be able to use my own laptop to try
out changes. Please design and offer new segments on content and grading,
dropbox, etc.
 Topic was a good one and instructor was very knowledgeable. myCourses isn't
cheap, this workshop will get more faculty using more components of the
software.
 Very fruitful and inspiring session. Thanks.
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Want to explore this further
Great overview--thanks for your time!
I was surprised to find some ways to integrate flipping into my classes. [illegible]
I came in sold so jumped ahead to do what this presentation was designed for.
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