Presenters: Jacqueline Blackwell, School of Education, and Lynn Ward, Center for Teaching and Learning

Adobe Acrobat Connect is the tool of choice at IU for live online collaboration and presentation. But while Connect is great for collaborating in small groups (2-10 people), it can be challenging to sustain high levels of interaction and engagement in classes with 20 or more students. In this session, Professor Jacqueline Blackwell, who uses Connect regularly in her graduate early childhood education courses, will describe and demonstrate specific strategies for encouraging active participation, collaboration, and exploration of key issues within a Connect virtual meeting room. In addition, co-presenter Lynn Ward will offer some tips for setting up and managing a Connect room and provide a brief overview of features to look for in the next Connect release.

This session is part of the Let's Talk Teaching Webinar series which will focus on a variety of teaching topics. The sessions will be facilitated by faculty with an emphasis on sharing examples, discussing ideas, and exploring questions.

The series will be offered online via Adobe Connect on the second Wednesday of the month from noon to 1 pm. The sessions will be recorded and also available online after the session.

In search of a place to meet and collaborate with faculty outside of your discipline? Then, join us for an afternoon to find out how you can get connected. Community faculty and instructional staff will be on hand to discuss the benefits of membership and introduce you to ongoing faculty projects and teaching resources.

Picture-Perfect Generation - Visually Stimulated or Visually Literate?

Today's youth are visually stimulated, but hardly literate, in engaging in a vocabulary of design and the language of images. To educate and engage this new breed of learners, institutions of higher education are revisiting and revising the basic tenants of a general education by asking, What does it mean to be literate in today's visually saturated society?

Presenter: Susan Metros, Deputy CIO, Associate Vice Provost for Technology-Enhanced Learning, and Professor of Design and Clinical Education

An Educause Learning Initiative web seminar.

This event is cosponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, University College and the Gateway to Graduation Program.