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Virtual Faculty Writing Retreat
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Set aside time for yourself and your writing by joining a facilitated writing retreat with OAI. This virtual three-hour retreat provides faculty the opportunity to focus on their writing projects while gaining inspiration and support from fellow academic authors. With guidance from Dannelle Stevens, OAI's Faculty in Residence for Academic Writing, participants will begin by setting realistic goals and warm up with a focused freewrite. Danelle will facilitate group discussion, small group breakouts, and dedicated writing sessions throughout the day.
During these retreat, participants will learn practical, focused writing strategies to enhance their writing practice, make meaningful progress on their writing project during three focused writing sessions, and benefit from the fellowship and support of a community of like-minded scholars.
This retreat is offered twice, on February 4th and March 4th, 2021. Please register to attend. Our events seek to be inclusive, and all are welcome. If you have accessibility requests, please reach out to oai@pdx.edu prior to the event and we will do our best to accommodate them.
About the Facilitator
Danelle Stevens, OAI Faculty in Residence
Dannelle D. Stevens, Ph.D., has co-authored four books and numerous articles, framed around different ways to assist faculty in their complex roles as writers, scholars and teachers. She has crystallized her many years of experience into assisting graduate students, faculty and other professionals in creating a productive and satisfying professional life. Danelle consults both nationally and internationally on strategies that improve faculty writing and publishing, and promote positive classroom assessment practices as well as infuse their work with creative insights. Her fourth book, Write More, Publish More, Stress Less!, was released January 2019.
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Set aside time for yourself and your writing by joining a facilitated writing retreat with OAI. This virtual three-hour retreat provides faculty the opportunity to focus on their writing projects while gaining inspiration and support from fellow academic authors. With guidance from Dannelle Stevens, OAI's Faculty in Residence for Academic Writing, participants will begin by setting realistic goals and warm up with a focused freewrite. Danelle will facilitate group discussion, small group breakouts, and dedicated writing sessions throughout the day.
During these retreat, participants will learn practical, focused writing strategies to enhance their writing practice, make meaningful progress on their writing project during three focused writing sessions, and benefit from the fellowship and support of a community of like-minded scholars.
This retreat is offered twice, on February 4th and March 4th, 2021. Please register to attend. Our events seek to be inclusive, and all are welcome. If you have accessibility requests, please reach out to oai@pdx.edu prior to the event and we will do our best to accommodate them.
About the Facilitator
Danelle Stevens, OAI Faculty in Residence
Dannelle D. Stevens, Ph.D., has co-authored four books and numerous articles, framed around different ways to assist faculty in their complex roles as writers, scholars and teachers. She has crystallized her many years of experience into assisting graduate students, faculty and other professionals in creating a productive and satisfying professional life. Danelle consults both nationally and internationally on strategies that improve faculty writing and publishing, and promote positive classroom assessment practices as well as infuse their work with creative insights. Her fourth book, Write More, Publish More, Stress Less!, was released January 2019.
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Faculty Book Group
This winter, the Faculty Book Group will be diving into James Lang's…
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2021-02-26 12:00:00
2021-02-26 13:00:00
Faculty Book Group
This winter, the Faculty Book Group will be diving into James Lang's timely read, "Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It."
The group meets five times throughout winter term on January 15th, 29th, February 12th, 26th, and March 12th. We will meet to discuss the Introduction and Chapter 1 on January 15th.
About The Book
Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. But acclaimed educator James M. Lang argues that this solution obscures a deeper problem: how we teach is often at odds with how students learn. Classrooms are designed to force students into long periods of intense focus, but emerging science reveals that the brain is wired for distraction. We learn best when able to actively seek and synthesize new information.
In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students' attention. Brimming with ideas and grounded in new research, Distracted offers an innovative plan for the most important lesson of all: how to learn.
Watch our events page for future announcements to join the Faculty Book Group in Spring.
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Open Ed Week Keynote Address: Achieving a Socially Just Open…
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Jasmine Roberts is a renowned Open Education leader and…
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2021-03-01 11:00:00
2021-03-01 12:00:00
Open Ed Week Keynote Address: Achieving a Socially Just Open Education during the COVID-19 Era
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Jasmine Roberts is a renowned Open Education leader and professor of communications at The Ohio State University. She advocates for education ecosystems that are accessible, affordable, equitable, and inclusive to everyone regardless of their background. In this keynote, she will focus on how Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices encourage more equitable, inclusive, and diverse classrooms.
Founded in 2013 by Open Education Global, the goal of Open Education Week is to raise awareness and showcase impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide. Open Education Week has become one of the most foremost global events recognizing high achievement and excellence in open education.
Keynote Facilitator
Jasmine Roberts
Keynote Speaker, Open Education Leader
Jasmine Roberts is a lecturer in the School of Communication at the Ohio State University, where she teaches in the areas of public relations writing, digital activism and campaign strategy. Roberts’ advocacy work centers on the experiences of people of color, women and queer communities. Along with her communication expertise, Roberts is also a renowned open education leader. She has delivered numerous keynote presentations across the country on the topics of inclusion in open education. She is the author of the highly-rated, openly-licensed book "Writing for Strategic Communication Industries." In her spare time, she loves to connect with her green babies (52 plants total), fur babies (2 dogs), and loving fiancé.
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Open Education Week: How does OER meet our Diversity, Equity,…
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How does OER meet our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Goals?
Eliminating textbook costs through the use of Open Educational Resources may…
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2021-03-02 10:00:00
2021-03-02 12:00:00
Open Education Week: How does OER meet our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Goals?
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How does OER meet our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Goals?
Eliminating textbook costs through the use of Open Educational Resources may seem like a simple change, but it's one that can have a big impact. Research has shown that using OER in place of traditional textbooks helps to create more equitable and inclusive learning experiences for marginalized students. In this workshop, learn more about how OER is a DEI tool and how PSU faculty are using OER in their courses.
Facilitators:
Jenny Ceciliano - M.A. Spanish 2009, M.A. Educational Leadership and Policy 2015
Jenny is a Senior Instructor II of Spanish and the Coordinator of First-year Spanish at Portland State University. She has developed and implemented an OER program for Beginning Spanish at PSU, centering the student experience, and informed by principles of Adult Education as well as Second Language Acquisition.
Lisa Notman - M.A. Spanish, M.S. Educational Leadership and Policy
Lisa is an adjunct senior instructor of Spanish at Portland State University and an instructor of Spanish at Northwest Academy. As co-author of a forthcoming Spanish OER, she is interested in using OER's as a tool for advancing social justice pedagogy goals.
Karen Bjork - M.A. in History and a Master of Library and Information Science, 2005
Karen is the Head of Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Publishing at Portland State University. She manages the Digital Initiatives Unit, which provides services that support the changing landscape of digital publishing, including the management of PDXScholar, a digital repository that provides online open access to scholarship and research produced by Portland State University faculty and students. She is also the project lead for the open access textbook publishing initiative, PDXOpen.
Jaime Wood - UDL, Program Manager for Educational Initiatives
Jaime is the Program Manager for Educational Initiatives in the Office of Academic Innovation at PS. She has an MA in English education from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, and an MFA in creative writing, poetry from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Washington. Her career in education began as a language arts and math teacher in an Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound middle school where she used service learning, adventure trips, and community-based curriculum to engage sixth and seventh graders. Since 2003, she has worked in universities and community colleges both in the classroom and as a faculty developer and assessment coordinator. She is fascinated by the relationship between learners and teachers and how these roles overlap. When she’s not reading about pedagogy, Jaime enjoys writing poetry and songs, camping on the coast, and exploring the unadvertised beauties of Portland.
Scott Robison - Associate Director, Digital Learning and Design
After completing his Ph.D. in Instructional Technology at Ohio University, Scott was Director of Distance Education and Online Resources at Ohio University, Director of Learning Technologies and Online Education at Plymouth State University, and most recently the Co-Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Plymouth State University. He is very interested in how technology can be used to expand access to education and enhance teaching and learning experiences. Scott is also very interested in Open Education practices and the transformative role they can play in education.
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Open Education Week: Open Pedagogy and Student Content Creation
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Open Pedagogy is the practice of engaging students in content creation through "renewable assignments" so that their work lives on…
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2021-03-05 13:00:00
2021-03-05 15:00:00
Open Education Week: Open Pedagogy and Student Content Creation
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Open Pedagogy is the practice of engaging students in content creation through "renewable assignments" so that their work lives on beyond the course and has an authentic audience. In this workshop, you will learn about how to structure an Open Pedagogy assignment and will see examples from faculty who have designed their own renewable assignments.
What is Open Education Week?
Founded in 2013 by Open Education Global, the goal of Open Education Week is to raise awareness and showcase impact of open education on teaching and learning worldwide. Open Education Week has become one of the most foremost global events recognizing high achievement and excellence in open education.
Facilitators:
Shane Abrams
Shane is currently a high school English Language Arts and Social Studies teacher in Ashland, Oregon. After cutting his teeth at a high school for at-risk youth in Colorado, he taught literature & composition at Portland State University and Portland Community College for four years, where he authored a writing textbook and loudly advocated for adjunct rights through union organizing. Amid teaching essential academic and socioemotional skills, he aims to cultivate activism and agency among young people.
Frank Granshaw
Frank currently works at the Department of Geology, Portland State University. Frank does research in Educational Technology, Glacial Geology, and Remote Sensing. Their most recent publication is 'The 'benchmark glacier' concept - Does it work? Lessons from the North Cascade Range, USA'.
Veronica Hotton
Veronica is an Instructor at Portland State University in the University Studies program. Veronica received a Ph.D. in Education from Simon Fraser University that focused on Curriculum Theory and Implementation, Philosophy of Education. She has an M.A. in Geography from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Veronica also has a B.S. in Environmental Studies & Music, and a B.M. in Orchestral Instruments, which are both from Central Michigan University.
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