Expanding Horizons

Last week, my co-instructor and I distributed a “first look” topic proposal worksheet to our Education 1210 (Seminar on Urban Education – Policy and Practice) students. Using the form, students identified broad areas of interest for their final research projects and a rationale for their selections. Students were asked to bring the proposals to our hands-on library research session led by Benjamin Harris.

New Paper Proposal Themes for 2010: Using a working-group model, this meeting is a forum for interested individuals to develop models on teaching and learning as well as to discuss broad themes and values affecting political science education. The meeting will be constructed around such themes as:
• Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Equality
• Core Curriculum/General Education
• Integrating Technology into the Classroom
• Internationalizing the Curriculum
• Program Assessment
• Simulations and Role Playing
• Civic Engagement
• Graduate Education & Professional Development

Leader: Ben Newhouse, Campus and Community Involvement

Attending: Library faculty & staff, Career Services, Student Life staff.

Check out the results of the 2008-2009 Research Practices Survey Analysis, presented at the May 18-20 Information Literacy Workshops at Trinity University by Jessica Larsen, M. Ed.

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, a librarian at Yale University outlines ways to guide students in research education.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/05/2009051401c.htm

1:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m., Holt Center, Trinity University

Focusing on Common Curriculum and Courses or Courses in the Major
8:30 a.m., May 19 - 1:00 p.m., May 20
Holt Center, Trinity University

Follow-up workshop for 2008-2009 grant recipients.
9:15 a.m.- 2 p.m., Holt Center, Trinity University

Georgia Conference on Information Literacy
http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/infolit.html
Sept 25-26, 2009, Savannah, GA

Teaching Professor Conference
June 5-7, 2009, Washington, DC