QUICKLINKS
The fall Faculty Learning Community will use Ishmael Beh’s bestseller, A Long Way Gone to talk about a number of issues related to teaching and learning, civic responsibility and the writer’s “compact” with readers. Among the issues we will discuss
- Should civic engagement be taught? If so, how?
- Is there a learning purpose to reading the same text with peers and community members?
- Does it matter if nonfiction writing is partly fictionalized if it makes important points about “big issues”? What do we want our students to understand about the truth/fiction line?
Open to all tenured, tenure-track, clinical, and adjunct faculty members.
Teaching, Learning, and FaceBook
You may not have taken the plunge into FaceBook, but you can bet many of your students (and colleagues) have. Join us in a discussion led by President and Provost Teaching Award winner William Buss as we consider:
- The value and risks of using social networking sites for teaching purposes;
- Whether universities should monitor students’ social networking sites; and
- How universities use social networking sites to connect with students and alumni about admissions, campus events, and fundraising.