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Panopto is a lecture capture tool that allows for an enhanced student learning experience and increased instructional efficiency.  Record your screen, audio, and video content in the classroom or from your desktop, laptop, or iOS device.  Content is easily uploaded to your Blackboard course.  Students can pause, search, review, and add notes to lectures based on their individual learning needs.  Visit the CLEAR website for the upcoming presentation video which will be available on June 16th.  Then, please join Kathy Roberts and Heidi Ash for a live Q&A webinar on June 18th at 2:00pm (register for the Q&A at http://my.unt.edu)  EIS Course ID:  UO14LC  EIS Course Title:  Panopto Lecture Capture. 
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Strong alignment leads to a quality course that provides clear objectives and measurable results.  In this presentation, you will learn the basics for creating measurable objectives, supporting them with materials, activities, and technology, and ensuring that they are measured by your assessments.  Please join CLEAR for this webinar on July 9th at 2:00pm (register for the webinar at http://my.unt.edu)  EIS Course ID:  UO14L2   EIS Course Title:  Designing for Alignment. 
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This half-day seminar is mandatory for all new TAs and TFs.  New adjunct faculty, tenure track faculty, and lecturers are welcome and encouraged to attend - registration required.  Please contact Rena Mammen or Nancy Fire with your questions.

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This promises to be fun and enlightening!  Salute to Faculty Week 

The NextGen Course Redesign Grant Program is an annual, competitive award program sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and administered by CLEAR.  From June 16-20, 2014, Faculty Fellows will participate in the CLEAR Course Design Institute (Note: participants must complete approximately 10 hours of online work prior to attending.)  The CLEAR Course Design Institute (CCDI) is a course design training institute that provides faculty with the training, support, and space to design or redesign their courses. The institute consists of a multitude of instructional methods such as presentations, small group work, and individual work.  View NGEN Faculty Fellows List & More 

In light of the UNT commitment to Teaching Excellence, we are recruiting new participants for the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Program, G*STEP.  This program is jointly sponsored by the Toulouse Graduate School and CLEAR.  Upon completion of the G*STEP Program, participants will be able to effectively teach or support those who teach a university course; i.e. articulate their role and resources, organize and explain materials, establish and maintain an effective learning environment, and promote self-regulated learning.    More Information on G*STEP
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This year's TII program will emphasize learner-centered course design and instructional strategies for the implementation of this design. Instructors will be encouraged to develop and implement sound teaching and learning strategies that enrich and innovate the classroom for the overall benefit of students as befits the disciplinary perspective of the course.  Faculty Fellows will participate in the CLEAR Course Design Institute (CCDI) this summer.  See.   View TII Faculty Fellow List & More

 

 

 

Robby Petros, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, told Clifford Morrison that if his research didn't go the way he thought it would, he could learn from it. In fact, they may have stumbled on a molecule that could help develop other drugs.

 

"We just opened the door for something new and exciting," says Morrison, a senior majoring in chemistry and biochemistry.

 

Morrison and Petros were investigating a process for synthesizing a prodrug form of the molecule Sunitinib, which can keep pancreatic cancer tumors from easily bringing in new blood vessels to support their growth. Prodrugs are inactive compounds that, when introduced to the body, can turn into medicinal drugs.  But along the way, the researchers found a better way to synthesize another type of molecule, medium-ring diaza heterocycles, than had previously been reported.   Read More

 

Junior Psychology and Biology  major Alexandra Ruuska's thesis began with an email that "proved to be a golden ticket." Cox sent out a list of research opportunities that included a project with Victor Prybutok , Regents Professor of Decision Sciences, about how effective three videos with varying presentation styles - comic, serious and informational - were in persuading students not to engage in binge drinking. Ruuska was eager to work on a study from inception to publication."We don't just collect data," she says. "We participate in every step of the research process." 

 

The study, conducted under the guidance of Prybutok and his wife, Gayle Prybutok, a doctoral student in the College of Information, examined how likely students were to change their drinking behavior or share a particular video with friends. Read More 

 

CLEAR's Videoconference Team was recognized by the UNT System's IT Shared Services with the ITSS Partnership Award in appreciation for the stellar service provided by Brenda Ritz, Michael Washington, and all fo the student employees who support videoconferencing (along with Scott Windham at the System).   Information about ITSS

CLEAR was awarded the "On-campus Friend of Student Affairs" Award (out of seven nominees) due to extensive video production work Vishal and his team did for the Division of Student Affairs including finding a solution to stream their Distinguished Lecture Series (Rainn Wilson and Lt. Dan Choi).
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CLEAR's fearless leader, Patrick Pluscht, was the recipient of the UNT Staff Contribution Award presented at the Presiden't Sack Lunch on March 26th.  This award recognizes UNT staff members who have made outstanding contributions in helping the university fulfill its four bold goals.  Under Patrick's leadership, CLEAR has worked individually and collaboratively with faculty to support curricular innovation whether that is teeing up new pedagogical frames or exploring innovative learning technologies.  View The Full Award List 

Dr. Ron Carriveau recently presented a national webinar related to Outcomes Based Assessment that was attended by over 250 folks around the country. Presenting the three-level outcomes-based model within Connecting The Dots: Writing Student Learning Outcomes & Outcome Based Assessments (Carriveau, 2010), it was shown how the model is used in the NextGen Course Redesign Program at UNT and how data reports produced by Examsoft for the NextGen program provide all the learning outcome attainment-values and item statistics needed for making instructional course design decisions. 

Recently Ron also presented on Outcome Bassed Assessment and The NextGen Program to four colleges in the Dallas County Community College District, Hill College, and Parker University.  Attendance ranged from 30-110 participants and included two keynote speeches.  DCCD and Hill College have formally begun implementing the outcome based model within Ron's book.  Congratulations to a very busy Ron! 

Dr. Mike Simmons was co-author with Dr. Julie Glass on a poster presentation "Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Assessing General Education at UNT" for the spring AAC&U Academic Meeting in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Mike Simmons and Brett Kellerstedt of CLEAR joined NextGen faculty fellows Dr. Rob Petros and Dr. April Fehler in presenting a session at the UNT Student Portraits Symposium "Giving Students and Faculty Real-Time Assessment Information to Improve Instruction: ExamSoft and Other Tools for Outcomes Based Instruction"

Dr. Nancy Fire was an invited presenter at the University of Central Oklahoma Transformative Learning Conference.