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I am interested in 1) developing appropriate formative course design assessments and 2) redesigning HONR 103 in response to existing student performance and feedback. Goals: look at program assessment documentation at other CSU campuses Keep in mind new BLGs for the 21st century and student learning outcomes - value Rubrics: http://www.aacu.org/value/metarubrics.cfm

Here are copies of all value rubrics in both doc and pdf form:



Sac State does not have a platform for e-folios. TaskStream (currently piloting this semester) will not work. Minnesota efolio: __ [] __ Wed, Dec. 1 from 11-12//. Honors International Leadership Forum // Honors 103 students, who studied abroad, will present their work on community engagement. //QUESTION: How can students who study abroad use an efolio?//
 * LOCAL Problems: Nov. 2010**

**High Impact Practices Webinar**- December 2, 2010 from 9:00 to 10:00AM, the Chancellor’s Office is putting together a webinar about high-impact practices – service learning, learning communities, first year experience, undergraduate research, capstone courses. I'll be listening! Let me know if you want to join us! Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010 Time: 9:00am – 10:00am URL: __https://csuelm.calstate.edu:443/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1265231554410__ Phone: 866-213-2185 code: 8002243# Here is the PPT presentation:

GE READ's- //The Experimental Classroom: First-Year College Reading Behaviors//

Project #2 1) a few sentences that describe the essential principles that seem to drive the approach you examined; 2) a brief example that could be hypothetical or drawn from your work; 3) A paragraph that critiques the approach—a strength or limitation; whatever you wish to say about it “editorially.” Please post on the wiki page titled, Design Approaches.

Here's an example of the effectiveness of a First-Year Learning Community! The note below is from the prof (Beth Strasser) who teaches Physical Anthropology (LC with First-Year Seminar):
 * High-Impact Practices: **

Hey Vanessa, Just wanted to share how your students did compared to those in the section they were embedded in (coupled with) as well as the other section. Clearly, once again, your students out-performed the others – congrats!!!!!


 * ||  ||   ||   || Exam 3 || Final Grade ||
 * Section coupled with: || Mean || 78 || 77 ||
 * ||  || Median || 78 || 79 ||
 * Freshmen Seminar: || Mean || 80 || 82 ||
 * ||  || Median || 83 || 82 ||
 * Independent section: || Mean || 80 || 79 ||
 * ||  || Median || 80 || 79 ||   ||   ||
 * Project #3** Review the literature on high-impact teaching practices. Identify specific strategies to be implemented into a selected course. Have a conversation with a fellow FLC member about the rationale for selected teaching practices and specific ways to implement these practices. Share the conversation with the FLC group and explain how the process helped transform their thinking about teaching. (Related to goal #3)
 * ||  || Median || 80 || 79 ||   ||   ||
 * Project #3** Review the literature on high-impact teaching practices. Identify specific strategies to be implemented into a selected course. Have a conversation with a fellow FLC member about the rationale for selected teaching practices and specific ways to implement these practices. Share the conversation with the FLC group and explain how the process helped transform their thinking about teaching. (Related to goal #3)
 * Project #3** Review the literature on high-impact teaching practices. Identify specific strategies to be implemented into a selected course. Have a conversation with a fellow FLC member about the rationale for selected teaching practices and specific ways to implement these practices. Share the conversation with the FLC group and explain how the process helped transform their thinking about teaching. (Related to goal #3)

I just presented a paper about service learning and literature at the Modern Language Association Convention in Los Angeles two weeks ago.

I am working with an English Professor on the following project. I'd like to share our conversation through Roberta Rosenberg's letter to the MLA editor:

During the last MLA convention, I and 5 other professors participated in a special session on teaching literature through service learning and civic engagement. We did a roundtable with 4 presenters from universities around the country. Alice Villasenor (USC) and professors from Stony Brook, UCLA and other schools presented the latest pedagogy and theory for teaching literature through service learning. The session's presentations were met with both enthusiasm and a desire on the part of the audience members to continue the discussion.

There are a few essays on this subject, one by Laurie Grobman in the 2005 Professions and one on poetry in the 2010 Professions. Although the academe has adopted service learning as a tested and true pedagogy (recently AACU did sessions on "High Impact Roles for Faculty"), literature professors have come quite late to the subject and, as a result, there are few available books. The only current one that I have found is Susan Danielson and Ann Marie Fallon's edited collection //Community Based Learning and the Work of Literature (2007).//.

Aside from the Danielson and Fallon text, most of the material that is available is often quite rudimentary and written more for K-12 teachers. It tends to be heavy on social action/service and light on the pedagogy and complexity.

Our MLA session has created an email discussion list with the sole purpose of (1) proposing a permanent discussion group on service learning and literature and (2) creating an Options for Teaching Literature through Service Learning and Civic Engagement.

<span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Do you think that MLA might be open to such a proposal? If so, I and several other professors from across the country would be interested in creating such a volume.

<span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Thank you very much for your advice.

<span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Best wishes, <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Roberta Rosenberg <span style="color: #888888; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Professor of English <span style="color: #888888; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Director, Center for Service Learning & Social Entrepreneurship <span style="color: #888888; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Christopher Newport University <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__[|http://service.cnu.edu]__

- Interesting articles/books on service learning and literature: 1. <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Gregory Jay, "Service Learning, Multiculturalism and the Pedagogies of Difference" //Pedagogy// 2008 <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">2. Laurie Grobman, "Is there a Place for Service Learning in Literary Studies," //Professions// 2005. <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">3. Leslie Wheeler, "On Capstones, Service Learning & Poetry," and Sidonie Smith "The English Major as Social Action" //Professions// 2010 <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">4. Susan Danielson & Ann Marie Fallon editors, //Community Based Learning and the Work of Literature// (2007)

<span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Presentation March 18, 2011: Service Learning in Literature Courses

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AAC&U- HIPs: []

[|Civic Engagement as High Impact Practice]

GE- Ken O'Donnell Presentation



April 16, 2011: Final Presentation: e-folio World: http://vanessaarnaud.efolioworld.com/Owner/ + PPT presentation on E-folio for Student Learning