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SLRLN members: This announcement, concluding with a description, may interest
you. On Wed., Apr. 9 from 3:30-5:00 p.m. Anne Womack from Vanderbilt University
Divinity Library will be doing a highly informative, practical, and entertaining
presentation entitled "An Approach to Creative Teaching." In February her
presentation was featured at the Lilly Foundation's Conference on Technology and
Teaching, held in Indianapolis. Her appearance in St. Louis on Apr. 9 is
sponsored by the St. Louis Theological Consortium through an ATLA grant, and is
free to librarians, professors, systems persons, and other interested parties.
The location of her presentation on April 9 is Edwards Hall on the campus
of Covenant Theological
Seminary, which is on the NW "corner" of I-270 and Route 40 (basically west
across I-270 from St. John's Mercy Hospital). From 40 get off at Ballas Road
and proceed a few hundred yards north to Conway Road; go west and, just beyond
the underpass of 270, turn left onto North Outer 40 Drive and then right into
the Covenant Seminary campus. Edwards Hall will be to your left when you enter
a parking area.
Description of "An Approach to Creative Teaching":
Two years ago, the Vanderbilt Divinity School, in conjuction with the library,
received a small University grant to develop technological applications for
improving teaching. As word of this effort spread among our faculty, several of
them began to request assistance as well to use technology in their courses.
Students became involved as well. Today one-third of our faculty use electronic
media in their classrooms, and the number is growing steadily.
Our library and faculty members have learned of others in schools
throughout our country and other parts of the world who have embarked upon the
same process. The presentation, "An Approach to Creative Teaching: Examples
from Theological Education," includes many instances of these efforts, from
Vanderbilt and from around the world. The examples are brief, but many, so that
the participant might experience a wide variety of samples. This presentation
underscores the importance of integrating a variety of learning styles into the
process of teaching and learning. It also underscores the crucial element of
cooperation among faculty, librarians, students, and colleagues in the scholarly
community.
The presentation provides an introductory framework for conceiving of and
implementing creative teaching efforts that use technology. Included are
descriptions of uses for email, CD-ROMs, the World Wide Web, images, voice
recordings, music and video, all developed for classroom application. Toward
the end of the presentation, a brief introduction to more complex, integrated
applications of technology such as courseware are summarized. In the
presentation at St. Louis a panel discussion will occur during the last half
hour (April 9, 1997, 3:30-5:00 p.m.). No reservations required. Points of
contact: Library Directors at Covenant (434-4044), Eden-Webster (968-7152),
Concordia (505-7030) , or Kenrick (644-0266).
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