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604 Bryant Place

This presentation will provide you with resources to deal with built in obstacles to our course management system, namely duplicate work across multiple sections of the same course. Free online tools for calendaring, class organization, sharing work, and cooperative learning will be explored.

This session will introduce faculty to the WV DELI, the library's new digital download kiosk for audiobooks, movies, games and more. The WV DELI is a consortia of WV's largest north-central public libraries and two academic libraries, Fairmont State University and Glenville State University.

Learning Community Experiences Panel Discussion

Barbara Fallon, Ironda Campbell, and Sandra Woods

310 Eng. Tech. Building

Professors who have engaged in Learning Community courses have been selected to present at both State and National Conferences. At this session, these professors will present abstracts of their conference presentations. A panel discussion will follow. Questions from the audience will be welcomed.

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This session will address opportunities for affordable study abroad, the ISEP exchange program, which is relevant for disciplines across campus, and ideas to encourage and advise student participation.

303 Education Building

The College Music Society has launched a natioinal discussion of academic citizenship among its members, and musicians think the discussion should be shared. Focus has shifted from the individual academic, creating a private niche, to a collaborative effort throughout the organism of the university. Some departments are more fully integrated members of the institutional community than others. This session will draw on their experiences, sharing techniques for the community-building needed to bring academic citizens together to produce a sense of investment, responsibility, and accountability within and beyond out institution - in short, the "good practices" that make us effective.

Skylab, 3rd Floor of Library

Do your students spend hours on Facebook and MySpace instead of doing their homework? Do they complain about group projects because not everyone shares the workload? The FSU Wiki lends itself to the online creation and publication of projects that allow students to work collectively while tracking each individual's effort. In this workshop, participants will create a Wiki page that can be used to create or document classroom or campus organization projects. Sample projects and suggestions for practical application will be provided.

Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom: Understanding Actions and Interactions

Nancy McClure

We faculty typically consider our students' cognitive abilities as the single most important factor contributing to their success in the classroom. According to recent research, however, students' emotional intelligence, or their "soft skills" may be more important in determining their ability to copy with the demands of school and life. Through analysis of case studies, participants will be able to form hypotheses about students' classroom actions and interactions based upon their own understanding of the five realms and 15 abilities in the Bar-On Model of emotional intelligence.

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Community Beautification Panel Discussion

Donna Yergovich Nuzum and Barbara Fallon

Multi-Media B, Library

Many professors contemplate incorporating service learning into their classes but may not know where to begin. The Service Learning Advisory board has been working to develop a partnership between the university, community and technical college, and the city of Fairmont. The intention of this partnership is to make service learning more available to more classes while creating a broad based academic learning community around a more common theme that brings the schools and the community together. The theme for 2008-2009 is Community Beautification.

Microsoft Outlook Functions for Faculty – Simple Tools that Save Time

Amanda Barber

Skylab, 3^rd Floor of Library

This session demonstrates several Microsoft Outlook tools for improving faculty efficiency in office management. Participants will learn to save significant time and effort through better management of information, enhanced communication, and improved organization resulting in automatic documentation for end-of-year evaluations. Activities in which session attendees will participate include electronic scheduling of meetings and tracking of attendees, creation of distribution lists of those people with whom participants communicate regularly, and converting e-mailed requests into scheduled electronic tasks. Other skills participants will practice are calendaring and scheduling, utilization of public folders, task and contacts management, and mail organization. Handouts will be available.

Copyright Compliance: Rules for Course Design

Richard Harvey

427, Eng. Tech. Building

Copyright Compliance: Rules for Course Design will distill the complexities of copyright law into its basics. The rules are organized around the central issues of copyright law as they arise in designing and delivering academic courses. Who owns the copyright? Who owns the copy of the copyrighted work? How was it acquired or accessed? What is a user allowed to do? Under what circumstances does a user need permission?

The Fairmont State Foundation: A Partner in Teaching and Learning

Amantha Cole and Anne Patterson

310 Eng. Tech. Building

When state funding is not adequate to facilitate the highest levels of teaching and learning, then the Fairmont State Foundation, Inc., can be a resource to help acquire additional sources of financial support. This session will highlight ways the Foundation can work with faculty to help fund teaching and learning opportunities. Topics of discussion will include grantsmanship and mini-campaigns for special initiatives. Special focus will be placed on the Foundation's role in grant writing and the proposal submission process.