Computing Technology Venture Fund 2008
The Computing Technology Venture Fund (VF) announces its 2008 Request for
Proposals. VF grants support curricular initiatives that propose to use IT to
achieve well-defined and innovative curricular goals. Proposals must be from a
regular member of the Dartmouth teaching faculty. The deadline is
May 15, 2008.
More information: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~vfund/
Sample proposal: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~vfund/application.html
Download the RFP: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~vfund/rfp.html
Active Learning Institute (ALI) 2008
The third annual Active Learning Institute (ALI) will be held on August 28
and 29. ALI helps faculty develop and refine skills for student-centered
teaching in their courses. Once again this year Professor Chris Jernstedt (PBS)
will open the institute with a presentation on how people learn. Additional
topics include setting course goals, designing effective assessments, promoting
collaborative learning and using technology to enable learning.
Participants in the 2008 ALI will receive a $500 stipend for full
participation in the two-day institute and $100 for a follow-up meeting in
winter or spring 2009. Anyone holding a faculty teaching appointment at
Dartmouth at any rank (Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Tuck and DMS) is
eligible to apply. To apply for the institute, please submit the following to
DCAL at DCAL@Dartmouth.Edu by June 16, 2008:
- A brief statement (800 words or less) of the specific teaching challenges
you wish to address over the two-day institute. Please identify the Dartmouth
course you regularly teach or plan to teach in which these challenges arise and
for which you plan to adopt new tools and techniques.
- Your current CV, including name, address, phone number and e-mail
address.
- Please submit all application materials as e-mail file attachments
Feedback from 2007 Participants
“You did a very good job of allowing participant process/dialogue yet still
getting a lot of content covered. Effective teaching! I learned from each
and every faculty member.”
“Great workshop. I was dreading coming because I am so swamped right now
with grant and paper deadlines, but it was very useful. I was so inspired
yesterday that I went to the Dartmouth Bookstore for a couple of hours after
class and reworked my syllabus—adding unit goals, active learning activities to
the schedule, and rewriting the main assessment projects to be more
active.”
“I was pleasantly surprised with just how incredibly useful it was.”
ALI 2007 Participants
Colleen Boggs (English)
Leslie Butler (History)
Nancy Canepa (Italian)
Parama Chaudhury (Economics)
Mark Detzer (PBS)
James Dorsey (Japanese)
Don Likosky (Epidemiology)
Jonna Mackin (Writing)
Sharon McDonnell (Public Health)
Ana Merino (Spanish)
Stephanie Treneer (Math)
Thalia Wheatley (PBS)
(ALI is jointly sponsored by DCAL, Academic Computing, The Library and the
Institute for Writing and Rhetoric)
DCAL Fellowship for 2008-2009
 Lorie Loeb, Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science,
has been awarded the DCAL Teaching Fellowship for 2008- 2009. Professor Loeb
will use the course relief and technical support provided by the fellowship to
adapt Dartmouth's recently acquired motion capture hardware and software for
use in Computer Science 12—Motion Study: Using Motion Analysis for Science, Art
and Medicine. Having taught CS 12 twice before, Professor Loeb's students have
used a loaner system to help design an ergonomically correct kayak seat, study
the causes of ACL injuries and evaluate sports bra designs, and they did this
with only a few weeks' access to the system. Now that Dartmouth has its own
motion capture system, Prof. Loeb plans to design procedures for simplifying
the collection and analysis of motion data and write software that will make it
easier to understand the data collected. She also wants to create a forum on
the use of motion capture systems in other courses and projects. Last fall
Professor Loeb led a team of students that won Google Earth's Build Your Campus
in 3D contest. For more information on DCAL teaching Fellowships and
application procedures, see the DCAL website at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dcal/fellowships/.
DCAL Partners with Rassias Foundation and Worldfund to Help Mexican English
Teachers
The DCAL Teaching Center hosted twenty teachers from Mexico's Universidad Pedagógica Nacional from June 25
until July 6. Sponsored by the Rassias Foundation and Worldfund, the twenty
Mexican teachers of English spent their mornings learning the Rassias method of
foreign language teaching from John Rassias and their afternoons with visiting
presenters including Cheheyl professor and DCAL Director Tom Luxon,
Writing Program executive director Karen Gocsik, English Professor Ivy
Schweitzer, and visiting professor Douglas Moody. This is the first
collaboration between the Rassias Foundation and DCAL and we hope that it will
become an annual event.
 
For more information about this event, please see the Dartmouth News
release.
New Books on Teaching and Learning
Have a look at the recommended books page on the DCAL website at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dcal/resources/books.html.
Books recently added to our collection include Peter Filene's The
Joy of Teaching, Eric Mazur's Peer Instruction: A User's Manual,
and Academic Dishonesty: An Educator's Guide by Bernard. E. Whitley,
Jr. and Patricia Keith-Spiegel. Also featured is a new edition
of Teaching American Students: A Guide for International Faculty and
Teaching Assistants in Colleges and Universities by Ellen Sarkisian of the
Derek Bok Center of Harvard University.
Look for this OCTOBER 7, 2008 if you missed it in January 2008!
Read the article in The Dartmouth.
DCAL Teaching & Learning Fair '08
Many may be surprised to learn that more than 20 offices at Dartmouth exist
to support teaching and learning. The library and study skills center are
obvious to almost everyone, but did you know about RWIT, the Tutoring
Clearinghouse, Service Learning programs at the Tucker Foundation, Rauner
Special Collections and Jones Media Center, to name just a few? DCAL is proud
to host the first annual Learning Fair on January 8 in the main Baker corridor
of the Baker-Berry Library. From Noon until 3 PM representatives of offices on
campus that support teaching and learning will show off what they do and
provide detailed information on how to access their services. We hope faculty
and students will drop by and chat. Faculty are invited to stop by for lunch in
DCAL (102 Baker-Berry).
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