IJ-SoTL: Current Issue: Volumn 5, Number 1 - January 2011

Readers,

I am excited to announce that the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning just released their FIRST issue for 2011! This issue is their fifth anniversary issue! Congratulations on such a great issue IJ-SoTL - LINK!

Here is a list of the articles featured in this issue:

*Thanks IJ-SoTL!


Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Feature Essays

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Personal Account and Reflection
Lee Shulman (Consultant)

Getting There: An Integrative Vision of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Pat Hutchings (Carnegie Foundation), Mary Taylor Huber (Carnegie Foundation) & Tony Ciccone (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Invited Essays on SoTL

Invited Essays on SoTL Scholarship of Teaching and Teachers' Understanding of Subject Matter
Keith Trigwell (University of Sydney)

Current Perspectives on SoTL
Lorraine Stefani (University of Auckland)

Keeping the Scholarship in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Heather Kanuka (University of Alberta)

The Unscholarly Use of Numbers in Our Assessment Practices: What Will Make Us Change?
Chris Rust (Oxford Brookes University)

Making Your Case: Ten Questions for Departments and Individuals Building an Argument for Work in Discipline-Centered Education
Brian Coppola (University of Michigan) Research Articles

Know Thy Audience: Helping Students Engage a Threshold Concept Using Audience-Based Pedagogy
Rebecca Pope-Ruark (Elon University)

In-class Reflective Group Discussion as a Strategy for the Development of Students as Evolving Professionals
Annetta K. L. Tsang (University of Queensland)

Improving Group Functioning in Solving Realistic Problems
Sassan Asgari & Gloria Dall'Alba (University of Queensland)

What's Stalling Learning? Using a Formative Assessment Tool to Address Critical Incidents in Class
H. Brooke Hessler (Oklahoma City University) & Amy Rupiper Taggart (North Dakota State University)

Inquiry Learning: Level, Discipline, Class Size, What Matters?
Susan Vajoczki, Susan Watt & Michelle M. Vine (McMaster University), Xueqing (Rose) Liao (University of Toronto)

Developing a Statistically Valid AND Practically Useful Student Evaluation Instrument
Jeff Skowronek, Bruce Friesen, & Heather Masonjones (University of Tampa)

The Influence of Tech-Savvyness and Clicker Use on Student Learning
Jennifer A. Zapf & Adolfo J. Garcia (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)

Exploring the Variation in First Year Undergraduates' Induction into Their Academic Disciplines
Min Yang, Beverley Joyce & Michael Prosser (University of Hong Kong)

The Potential for Teaching Quantitative Reasoning across the Curriculum
Nathan Grawe (Carleton College)

Business as Usual: Business Students' Conceptions of Ethics
Anna Reid (University of Sydney), Paul Taylor & Peter Petocz (Macquarie University)

The Power of Fiction: Reading Stories in Abnormal Psychology
Adrian S. Janit, Georgina S. Hammock & Deborah S. Richardson (Augusta State University)

What Really Matters: Assessing Individual Problem-Solving Performance in the Context of Biological Sciences
William L. Anderson, Cheryl A. Sensibaugh, Marcy P. Osgood & Steven M. Mitchell (University of New Mexico)

Preparing Medical Students to Undertake a Cultural Immersion Experience: Introducing Frameworks for Preparatory and Post-immersion Activities
Donna Mak, Rashmi Watson & John Hadden (University of Notre Dame, AU)

Engineering Research Teams: The Role of Social Networks in the Formation of Research Skills for Postgraduate Students
Kaylene Sampson & Keith Comer (University of Canterbury)

Impact of Giving Students a Choice of Homework Assignments in an Introductory Computer Science Class
Steven Fulton & Dino Schweitzer (United States Air Force Academy)

Examining Classroom Negotiation Strategies of International Teaching Assistants
Gwendolyn M. Williams (University of Nevada, Reno)

Essays About SoTL

Which Way to SoTL Utopia?
John Draeger (Buffalo State College) & Linda Price (Open University, UK)

The Relationship between Scholarly Teaching and SoTL: Models, Distinctions, and Clarifications
Michael K. Potter & Erika Kustra (University of Windsor)

Lighting Up the Mind: Transforming Learning Through the Applied Scholarship of Cognitive Neuroscience
Daniel J. Glisczinski (University of Minnesota-Duluth)

Broadening Conceptions of What Constitutes Knowledge and Evidence in SoTL
Sharon Thomas (University of Tasmania)

Window Shopping: Fashioning a Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning
Colleen M. Tremonte (Michigan State University)

Bridging the Gap from Skills Assessment and Problem-Based Learning: Lessons from the Coalface of Scholarly Engagement with Curriculum Development
Bill Boyd (Southern Cross University)

Going to the Balcony: Two Professors Reflect and Examine Their Pedagogy
Linda J. Searby (University of Alabama at Birmingham) & Jenny S. Tripses (Bradley University)

Mapping the Field of Statistics Education Research in Search of Scholarship
Linda van der Merwe & Annette Wilkinson (University of the Free state)

IJ-SoTL Reviewers: Getting SoTL Articles Published

On Publishing SoTL Articles
Trent Maurer (Georgia Southern University)

What Makes a Great Article for IJ-SoTL
Patricia Rogers (Bemidji State University)

What Makes for a High Quality SoTL Research Article?
John Tagg (Consultant)

Exemplary Dissemination: Sowing Seed in IJ-SoTL
Nicola Simmons (University of Waterloo)

What Makes for a High Quality IJ-SoTL Research Article?
Lorraine Stefani (University of Auckland)

Identifying High Quality SoTL Research
Jeffrey L. Bernstein (Eastern Michigan University)

A Great Resource - "Welcome to Teaching Media" Website

Readers,

If you teach media courses or if you integrate media literacy in any of your courses, here is a great website for you - "Welcome to Teaching Media". This website is a collaborative resources that facilitates the exchange of college teaching resources among faculty and those interested in media.

What a great resource!

Sincerely,

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

» Blog Archive » Texas A&M Launches Social Media Scavenger Hunt Texas A&M News & Information Services

Readers,

This should be VERY interesting! Texas A&M University is launching a campus-wide scavenger hunt! According to the A&M News and Information Services website (LINK):

Texas A&M University is teaming up with The Collegiate Licensing Company to launch a first-of-its-kind campus-wide social media scavenger hunt using smart phones. The scavenger hunt, scheduled for Jan. 25-26, is designed to encourage the university’s nearly 50,000 students to explore their 5,200-acre campus as never before—and reward those checking into campus destinations using their smart phones.

What a great idea! Recently, I started using Four Square and I plan to visit each of the locations on the TAMU campus very soon!

Does your university have a similar program?

Sincerely,

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011

Readers,

I love the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies website, because they feature A LOT of great ideas (which are released on a daily basis). Today's great idea was the "Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 List".

Check it out!

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Freebie Wednesday! - Save Money on Post-It Notes for Class!

Readers,

I love purchasing items for my students to use in the classroom. This includes candy, school supplies, and other motivational giveaways. One giveaway that works very well for college students is Post-It notes! We use them for activities and the college students use them for labeling their book chapters! I wait until these items go on sale and I purchase them with coupons (like the one in the link below).

Save $1.00 Off Any Post-It Super Sticky Notes Purchase of $2.00 Or More - http://www.3m.com/us/office/postit/promos/201007_ss/supersticky_coupon.pdf?WT.mc_ev=clickthrough&WT.tsrc=email&&WT.mc_ID=6370556-18044590

Enjoy!

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

New Issue Released - International Journal on Multicultural Education

Readers,

I am on the board for the International Journal on Multicultural Education and we just released a new issue! Here's a letter from our editor...

Dear IJME Readers:

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Fall 20010 issue (Vol.
12, No. 2) of the International Journal of Multicultural Education. We
invite you to review the Table of Contents here and visit the journal site
(www.ijme-journal.edu) for full text free of charge.

We ask you to spread the news to others who may be interested in using the
content or submitting their work to this free online publication. We would
also like to invite you and your colleagues to volunteer as reviewers. If
you have not registered yourself as a reviewer, you may update your profile
once you log in to the journal.

Thanks for your continuous interest in and support of our work.

Respectfully,

IJME Editors and Heewon Chang, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief, IJME

International journal of multicultural education
Vol 12, No 2 (2010): Open Theme Issue
Table of Contents
http://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/issue/current

Articles (Peer-reviewed)
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Biculturalism and Multiculturalism: Competing Tensions in Visual Arts
Education in Aotearoa-New Zealand
        Jill Elizabeth Smith

"He said it all in Navajo!": Indigenous Language Immersion in Early
Childhood Education
        Louise Lockard

Teaching Practices in Mexico: A Way to Understand Mexican English Learners
in the United States
        Marcela de Souza

The Scholarship Informing the Practice:  Multicultural Teacher Education
Philosophy and Practice in the U.S.
        Paul Cameron Gorski


Praxis Articles (Peer-reviewed)
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Immersion and Identity: Experiences of an African American Preschool Child
        Ruanda Garth McCullough,        Sharon Adelman Reyes

Whose immigration story?: Attending to hidden messages of material in
social studies
        Eleni Oikonomidoy,      Gwendolyn Williams

Culturally Relevant Teaching in Science Classrooms: Addressing Academic
Achievement, Cultural Competence, and Critical Consciousness
        Gloria Boutte,  Charlease Kelly-Jackson,        George Lee Johnson


Professional Book Reviews (Section Editor: Carol Kennett)
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 Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited: China, Japan, and the United States
 by J. Tobin, Y. Hsueh, and M. Karasawa
        Eric J Johnson

 Dreams Deferred: Dropping out and struggling forward  by C. Carger
        Brandon E Lewis

 Interrogating Privilege: Reflections of a Second Language Educator  by S.
Vandrick
        Hoi Yuen Chan

 Teaching Adolescents Religious Literacy in a Post-9/11 World  by R. Nash
and P. Bishop
        Matthew W. Peterson


Art Review (Section Editor: Hwa Young Choi Caruso)
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Photos Cartographic Imagery in Contemporary Art
        Dr. Hwa Young Caruso


Multimedia Reviews (Section Editor: John Caruso, Jr.)
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Film Reviews Fall 2010 Caruso
        Dr. John Caruso, Jr.

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.