Category: professional development

Presentations

Campus Presentation. “Is Second Life Still Good for Teaching Simulations?” Barbara L. Pittman and E. Scott Rhoten. Cuyahoga Community College Faculty Service Day. January 11, 2013.

Campus Presentation. “The Letters Project: Documenting and Preserving the Past with Mobile and Web-Based Technologies.” Barbara L. Pittman. Cuyahoga Community College Faculty Colloquium. January 8, 2013.

Campus Presentation. “Reaching Across the Divide: Hands-On Collaboration in an Online Writing Course.” Barbara L. Pittman. Cuyahoga Community College Faculty Colloquium. January 2011.

Campus Presentation. “The Adaptable Wiki: How Can I, You, We Use Wikis in Higher Education.” Barbara L. Pittman and Kevin Dranuski. Cuyahoga Community College Faculty Colloquium. January 2010.

Conference presentation: “A Team Approach to Multi-Campus Academic Excellence Centers.” Barbara L. Pittman, Lindsay English, Cynthia Potteiger, and William Fogarty. SEED 2009: Beyond Teaching and Technology: Growth and Change at Faculty Support Centers. University of Findlay. May7-8, 2009.

Poster presentation. “Building a Second Life on a Shoestring.” CIT 2008: Conference on Instructional Technologies. SUNY Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY. 27-30 May 2008.

Faculty/Student presentation: “Researching American Labor Crises: Determining the Social Ethics of Work in America.” Barbara L. Pittman, Rebecca Hammer, Jennifer Helbig, Lindsay Peters, and Amy Truxal. Right, Wrong, and Grey: Ethical Boundaries for the 21st Century. Mercyhurst College Academic Celebration. March 28-31, 2004. Presented Web site built by writing students. https://sites.google.com/site/americanlaborcrises/

Faculty presentation: “Cognitive Flexibility, Case Studies, and Hypertext: Creating a Teaching Web Site.” Technology Buffet Faculty Presentation. Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania. 5 September 2002. Presented course project design and implementation in faculty workshops. https://sites.google.com/site/approachestoreadingliterature/

Conference presentation: “Beyond the Writing Classroom: A Collaborative Annotated Bibliography in an Introductory Literature Course.” 4th Annual Teaching of Writing Colloquia. Kent State University Stark Campus, Canton, Ohio. 29 April 2000.

Public lecture: “The Hero in Literature: Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts.” Butterfield Trail Retirement Village Lecture Series, Fayetteville, Arkansas. April 1994.

Academic Recognition

Online Learning Consortium (formerly Sloan-C) Effective Practice. 2011. “Engaging Faculty in Teaching and Learning: Pedagogy Flyer Series.” Online Learning Consortium (formerly Sloan-C) Effective Practices. September 2011. http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/effective_practices/engaging-faculty-teaching- and-learning-pedagogy-fyer-series

Faculty Grant. 2001.  Faculty grant from the Education Division at Mercyhurst College through their Links to the Future Grant, a federally-funded grant to increase the use of technology in teaching. Grant awarded to infuse course syllabus with technology.

Award. 1993.  Ben Drew Kimpel Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, University of Arkansas.