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• APR 05
• Fri 12:20pm - 1:10pm
• Center for Teaching Excellence
• Thomas Cooper Library,
  Room L511
  

This workshop is sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence.

Description

There are a myriad of ways to engage students by creatively connecting classroom content to beyond and within the classroom experiences. This session will focus on two such strategies: assigning projects outside of the classroom, and using ePortfolios in Blackboard. Breaking the traditional classroom experience has been proven to enhance student learning and interest. Karen Heid initiated a project that involved taking her students to an old art theater now owned by USC Salkehatchie. Her students were given projects that helped the restoration of the old theater while accomplishing learning outcomes. She will discuss this project as an example of making connections between community work and classroom content. Blackboard 9.1 offers ePortfolios as a way for students to create personalized collections of many types: video, photos, audio, text, and documents. Sara Corwin has incorporated ePortfolios into two public health undergraduate majors' courses (i.e., UNIV 101 and capstone/senior seminar). Feedback from students regarding their experiences creating ePortfolios will be shared, and instructor tips and lessons learned will also be presented. 

About the Facilitators

Karen Heid is an Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of South Carolina. Heid’s scholarship pursues contemporary curricular art education issues for students in higher, secondary, and elementary art education. Specifically, her research stresses interdisciplinary learning in art and literacy, and creative and aesthetic development for the K-12 art classroom. Heid is a community-engaged scholar, and often ties research and service into her classes. By implementing service and integrative learning in and out of the classroom, she is able to develop experiential learning that is vital for teaching and learning strategies.

Sara Corwin is Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Student Services and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Public Health. Her research interests include Health Promotion Program Evaluation and Health Education Curricular Development and Evaluation. In these roles she continually looks for ways to improve student learning and to evaluate in her discipline. Her current interest in e-portfolios addresses both student learning through reflection and evaluation for improved, comprehensive strategies.

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