Faculty Center for Innovation

Innovation Exchange

Presented by Erica Jansen

March 25th (Monday) from 1:30-2:00pm, CST

Onsite = Gibson (Third floor Thompson Commons)

Offsite = https://zoom.us/j/890254447

More and more, we're experiencing a need to host meeting virtually with our students and faculty. How can we ensure those meetings feel as engaging, productive, and seamless as those we hold face-to-face? Join me as we explore best practices for hosting dynamic and effective Zoom meetings!

Special Interest Group

Presented by Tami Radohl

March 26th (Tuesday) from 12:00-1:00pm, CST

Onsite = Gibson (Third floor Thompson Commons)

Offsite = https://parkuniversity.zoom.us/j/992306328   

Simulated and active learning strategies demonstrate knowledge
attainment in safe, controlled academic environments. These
approaches showcase higher-order thinking, increase student
engagement, and bolster confidence in knowledge. Join us in
exploring ways to replicate the real world in our face-to-face and
online classrooms.

Deep Dive

Presented by FCI Team

March 27th (Wednesday) from 12:00-1:00pm, CST

Onsite = Norrington Learning Lab

Offsite = https://zoom.us/j/112606114

Join the Faculty Center for Innovation (FCI) and colleagues for an opportunity to get together to discuss your potential ideas and find collaborators. This is a chance for you and your team to win up to $5,000 to fund your teaching and learning project! For more information on Spark Tank, visit http://www.innovatepark.org/spark-tank.

New Faculty Reconvene

March 27th (Wednesday) from 3:00-4:00pm, CST

Onsite = Norrington Learning Lab

Offsite = https://zoom.us/j/594275756

Deep Dive

Presented by Emily Sallee and Megan Holder

March 29th (Friday) from 1:00-2:00pm, CST

Onsite = Norrington Learning Lab

Offsite = https://zoom.us/j/143103804

Starting this academic year, Park began using Faculty180 for full-time faculty APRs and PDPs. There will be several learning opportunities during the spring semester to learn more about the new system. The first of these sessions will be a Deep Dive hosted by FCI on Friday, March 29^th.

The session will cover:

• How to add activities for AY 2018-19 to generate the annual accomplishments report;
• How to access and complete the self-assessment; and
• How to access and complete the PDP.

Please contact faculty180@park.edu with any questions on the new system. We hope you will be able to join us.

Special Interest Group

Presented by Brant Winn

April 3rd (Wednesday) from 12:00-1:00pm, CST

Onsite = Gibson (3rd floor of Thompson Commons)

Offsite = https://parkuniversity.zoom.us/j/716658958

Join us as we explore together to find answers to the following questions: What is trauma? What is resilience? How does trauma and resilience impact learning? Who is resilient and what makes them so? How can resilience be fostered in the wake of trauma? What can we learn from highly resilient individuals that will help inform our work with students?

Special Interest Group

Presented by Brant Winn

April 3rd (Wednesday) from 7:00-8:00pm, CST

Onsite = Gibson (3rd floor of Thompson Commons)

Offsite = https://parkuniversity.zoom.us/j/716658958

Join us as we explore together to find answers to the following questions: What is trauma? What is resilience? How does trauma and resilience impact learning? Who is resilient and what makes them so? How can resilience be fostered in the wake of trauma? What can we learn from highly resilient individuals that will help inform our work with students?

Deep Dive

Presented by Gary Bachman

April 10th (Friday) from 12:30-1:30pm, CST

Onsite = Norrington Learning Lab

Offsite = https://zoom.us/j/148480252 

The story of my sabbatical: an inconvenience rightly considered: (AKA "Passport: Beyond the Adventure" – A Forty Year Reflective on "At-Risk" Youth & Families in a Therapeutic Wilderness Program.)

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. - G.K. Chesterton

“Passport for Adventure” was a therapeutic wilderness program for “pre-delinquent” and “at risk youth” that ran from 1972 through 1993. Early in my social work career I had been a senior guide / counselor in this program. In 2017 I learned that all of the original program files, including initial screening assessments of all participants, as well as of control groups still existed. This created an almost unheard of opportunity to conduct a 40 year follow-up / outcomes study of programs participants.

In the first week of the sabbatical study, a significant “inconvenience” to the completion of this project emerged. You’re invited to come along for the adventure, as I discuss an inconvenience, rightly considered.

New Faculty Reconvene

April 17th (Wednesday) from 3:00-4:00pm, CST

Onsite = Norrington Learning Lab

Offsite = https://zoom.us/j/594275756

Academic Leadership Collaborative

Presented by Emily Sallee and Megan Holder

April 26th (Friday) from 3:00-4:00pm, CST

Onsite = Norrington Learning Lab

Offsite = https://zoom.us/j/940866872

The session will cover:

• How to access faculty accomplishments reports;
• How to access the self-assessment and PDP; and
• How to complete your portion of the APR process.