Creativity and Innovation

What do we want students to remember from our courses? This interactive webinar prepares us to think about our goals for the last class of the semester. Perhaps we want to reinforce the course goals, create opportunities for reflection, connect student learning to future classes or employment, affirm the value of continuous learning, or inspire our students. Join this webinar to share and to learn about purposeful strategies to wrap up our last class in a meaningful way for ourselves and our students.

Participants in this webinar will identify ways to introduce and sequence activities in the first week of class that preview what students can expect throughout the semester. Participants in this webinar will identify and share approaches and activities that set the stage for the semester. Possible topics include setting ground rules, establishing an inclusive classroom climate, using content-based strategies to provoke student curiosity, and goal-setting for student success. Let’s get started in purposeful and productive ways!

Narrative is often overlooked as a pedagogical approach. This webinar explores the use of narrative to introduce a lesson, bridge a case study activity, illustrate a concept, reinforce a teaching principle, and create classroom community. Participants will reflect upon and create purposeful narratives to enhance undergraduate teaching in all disciplines.

Laura Rendon's book Sentipensante (sensing/thinking) pedagogy offers a holistic approach to teaching in higher education. Rendon's hybrid memoir and research study proposes a vision of higher education that balances the relationship between intuition and intellectualism. Described as "a pedagogy that embraces wholeness, social justice, and liberation," Rendon describes how to integrate a consonant pedagogy that prepares students for civic action, sustainability, and community building.

If you think you’re “not creative” or creativity is just for the artsy types, then this set is designed for you. During these four sessions aspects of the creative process will be explored, expanded, and deconstructed to give you a chance to connect and discover the creative within. Each session will be geared to self-discovery, group interaction, and connection to theory.

Sessions may be skipped, taken individually, or as a series.
All sessions are 11:00am-12:30pm.

02/05/14 - Create/Destroy/Recreate
02/12/14 - 10 Ways to Increase Creativity
02/26/14 - Drawing 101: Step-by-Step
03/05/14 - Mandalas for Self-Discovery and Creativity