Friday, December 4, 2009

Institute and Learning Community Ning Sites.

Learning communities may opt to use the customizable social networking site Ning. The already-created Ning network for the institute is

wcgstem.ning.com

while the network for this learning community is

http://wcgstem.ning.com/group/peerinstruction

Enjoy!

Posting Privileges

If you are a member of this WCG STEM Institute Learning Community and would like posting privileges on this blog, please email Jon Ernstberger to be granted that access.

Be prepared to use an existing Google, LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad, AIM or OpenID to log in. If you have none of these, you will need to create a login.

Links

This blog post is to create a central area where use hyperlinks can be posted that are beneficial to this learning community.

Feel free to contribute hyperlinks via comments.

Introduction

In this learning community, STEM faculty discuss the impact and strategies utilized in peer-led teaching as well as cooperative and collaborative learning.

Facilitator: Katey Hughes - Assistant Professor of Biology, CSU

Panelists:
  • Julie Beier - Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Mercer University
  • Brian Mumma - Associate Professor of Secondary Education, GCSU
  • Amy Schabel - Student, CSU