Enriching Scholarship 2011
Where: Various locations on campus
When: May 2-6
Cost: Free
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The Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) has begun registering participants in Enriching Scholarship 2011, a weeklong conference that runs from May 2-6 and features sessions designed to help faculty and instructional staff integrate technology into their teaching and research.
This year’s keynote speaker is Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist who studies the effects of new media on society and culture, and who has been called “the explainer” by Wired Magazine. Millions of people around the world have viewed his videos on culture, technology, education and information, and National Geographic recently named him an Emerging Explorer.
Wesch will speak from 10 a.m.-noon May 2 in Stamps Auditorium at the Walgreen Drama Center. A poster fair that highlights the five projects receiving the annual Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize, as well as the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching’s Investigating Student Learning Grant teams, precedes the keynote address. The poster fair will be held in the Duderstadt Center Gallery from 9-10 a.m.
All sessions are free to the university community, though registration with a U-M uniqname is required.
The TTC is a grassroots effort composed of staff from the University Library, the Science Learning Center, the Medical School Learning Resource Center, LSA Instructional Support Services, the Language Resource Center, ITS Education Services, the Faculty Exploratory, the Digital Media Commons and CRLT. The TTC has sponsored Enriching Scholarship since 1997.
Enriching Scholarship 2011 offers more than 110 sessions, including seminars, hands-on workshops, demonstrations and other events, all focused on the effective integration of information and technology with teaching, learning and research. The sessions target skill levels from beginner to advanced, and participants come from every school and college on the Ann Arbor campus, as well as from UM-Flint and UM-Dearborn, says Laurie Sutch, U-M librarian and academic learning facilities coordinator.
Paul Courant, university librarian and dean of libraries, views Enriching Scholarship as an exemplar of the kind of cross-campus collaboration that is essential to the mission of the university. “The expertise is here, in the library and in the various other units that make up the TTC,” he says. “Enriching Scholarship shines a light on that expertise, and provides opportunities for faculty and staff looking to enhance their teaching and research.”
Session registration is underway and continues throughout the conference. For more information and to register, go to teachtech.umich.edu/ES2011.
