Monday, December 21, 2015
Final Self-Appriasal
The Division
of Continuing Studies Transformative Teaching and Learning Initiative
Final Self-Appraisal
Choose one
of the courses you teach.
Course Name: Social Problems
Course Format (please circle): online hybrid face-to-face
Please
rank your course/instruction using the following scale:
1 = needs
significant improvement
2 = below
average
3 =
average
4 = above
average
5 =
exceptional
Organization of the course
1 2
3 4
5
Navigation of the course facilitates ease
of use
1 2
3 4
5
Course learning objectives are clear
1 2
3 4
5
Communication of expectations to students
1 2
3 4
5
Types/variety of student-to-student interaction
opportunities and activities
1 2
3 4
5
Types/variety of student-to-instructor
interaction opportunities and activities
1 2
3 4
5
Assessments that are appropriate, timely,
varied
1 2
3 4
5
Ensuring academic integrity (testing
strategies, screening for plagiarism)
1 2
3 4
5
Providing feedback to students (timely,
appropriate, helpful, personal)
1 2
3 4 5
Integration of technology
1 2
3 4
5
Creative design/presentation features
1 2
3 4
5
Instruction strategies that assist a
variety of learning styles/abilities
1 2
3 4
5
Awareness/utilization of student support
services on campus
1 2
3 4
5
Awareness/utilization of instructor support
services on campus (within DCS)
1 2
3 4
5
Awareness/utilization of instructor support
services on campus (outside DCS)
1 2
3 4
5
Date
Completed: 12-21-2015
Learning Module October
October
Learning Modules Summary
In October 2015, I completed the following
learning modules:
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Learning
Module Title / Topic
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Developing Presence as an Instructor
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X
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Building Community Among Students
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X
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Managing Discussion Boards
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Name of First Module Completed: Building Community Among Students
Summary/Reflection:
It is possible (and important) to develop a
sense of community in one’s classroom; this is no less possible in an online
classroom as compared to a brick-and-mortar classroom. Distance learning
instructors can do this by attending to things like their transactional
distance, social presence, social equality, offering small group activities,
facilitating group discussions, attention to teaching style and limiting the
size of the classroom.
Name of Second Module Completed: Managing Discussion Boards
Summary/Reflection:
Some advice and tips and “best-practices”
for facilitating asynchronous class discussions using discussion boards. A lot
of this I have learned through experience.
Learning Module September
The UNO
Division of Continuing Studies Transformative Teaching and Learning Initiative
September
Learning Modules Summary
In September 2015, I completed the
following learning modules:
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Learning
Module Title / Topic
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Mental Health / Behavioral Review Team
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Deployments and Military Friendliness
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X
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Students with Disabilities
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X
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Multicultural Competency
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Service Learning
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Name of First Module Completed: Students with Disabilities
Summary/Reflection:
Importance of attention to accessibility
when teaching. Information on disability services at UNO.
Name of Second Module Completed: Multicultural Competency
Summary/Reflection:
Importance of teaching without
discrimination and prejudice and information on support for faculty in their
teaching of a culturally diverse student body as well as support for students.
Learning Module August
The UNO
Division of Continuing Studies Transformative Teaching and Learning Initiative
August
Learning Modules Summary
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Learning
Module Title / Topic
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AdobeConnect
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X
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Voice Over PowerPoint
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X
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YouTube and TED Talks
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UNO’s Library and Resources
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Copyright and Interlibrary Loan
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Respondus
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Name of First Module Completed: YouTube and TED Talks
Summary/Reflection:
A primer on reasons to include videos in
one’s courses; including some links to interesting TED talks. I’ve been including
multi-media in my online courses for a few years now, including TED Talks. So
this is old-hat here.
Name of Second Module Completed: Voice Over PowerPoint
Summary/Reflection:
A basic ‘how-to’ on voice over PowerPoint
with some tips. To be honest, I am moving away from this format as it produces
large files and I think is not as handy as an mp3 podcast which students can
listen to more easily on mobile devices.
Learning Technologies Summary
I have for several years now incorporated not only power point lecture slides with audio narration into my online courses, but have also recorded podcasts for my students to listen to. I use these formats to expound on additional material or thoughts I have had when reading student work or assigned/optional texts. I have also incorporated videos from YouTube and TED Talks and make an effort to have at least one such video and/or podcast per week for my online courses, and often have more.
Here I paste the ´table of contents´ from one of my online courses (SOC 4200 Sociology of the Body) as an example.
Here I paste the ´table of contents´ from one of my online courses (SOC 4200 Sociology of the Body) as an example.
Syllabus and Orientation
This folder contains:
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Syllabus and appendices
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Lecture slides contextualising this course
Chapter 1: Introduction
This folder contains:
- Lecture Slides: Chapter 1
- Podcast: The Bathroom Sociologist
- Video: 2010 - Body and State - The "Normal" Body, Pt 1
- Lecture Slides: Chapter 2 from Chris Shilling The Body and Social Theory + vittles from Sociology of the Body: A Reader
- Book Chapter: Fraser and Greco (2008) 'Introduction', from The Body: A Reader
- Article: Young, Katharine (2002) The Family Body in Somatic Psychology
- Link to discussion board
Chapters 2 & 3: Genes & Cells and
Tissues
This folder contains:
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Lecture
Slides: Chapters 2 & 3
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Podcast:
Bathroom Sociologist (Forthcoming)
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Lecture
Slides: Part IV Sociology of the Body: A
Reader
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Video:
War on the Weak: Eugenics in America
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Book:
Rose, Nikolas (2007) The Politics of Life
Itself
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Article:
Bauman, Zygmut (1988). 'Sociology After the Holocaust'
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URL:
Eugenics Archive
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URL:
Controlling Heredity
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Link
to Discussion Board
Chapters 4 & 5: Organs & Fluids
This folder contains:
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Old Business:
o
Article:
Weiss, N. (1998) conditions of mothering: The Bio-Politics of Falling in Love
with Your Child
o
McKeever,
P. et al (2004) - Mothering children who have disabilities: A Bourdieusian
interpretation of maternal practices
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Lecture
Slides: Chapter 5
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Podcast:
Bathroom Sociologist (Forthcoming)
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Lecture
Slides: Part 2 from Sociology of the
Body: a Reader, Bodies in Historical Context
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Chapter: Mary Douglas (1966) Purity and Danger: An
analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo
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New Business
o
Article:
Turner, Bryan S. (2003) Social Fluids: Metaphors and Meanings of Society
o
Article:
Manning, Erin (2009) What if it Didn't All Begin and End with Containment:
Toward a Leaky Sense of Self
o
Article:
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (2002) ‘Commodity Fetishism and the Global Traffic in
Organs’
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Link to Discussion
Board (Forthcoming)
Chapter 6: Bones and Muscles
This folder contains:
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Lecture
Slides, Chapter 6
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Podcast:
Bathroom Sociologist (Forthcoming)
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Concepts
o
Cultural
Hegemony
§ Cultural
Hegemony by Antonio Gramsci
o
Hegemonic
Femininisty, Masculinity and the Feminine Apologetic
§ Video: Playing
Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete
§ Video: Masculinity in Disney
Cartoons (Sample)
§ Article: Jones, Adam (2010) Towards
a minoritarian framing of male experience
§ Video: I’m 80% Girl, 20% Boy
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Posthumanism/Technological
Enhancement/Cyborg
§ Essay: Haraway, Donna. ‘A Cyborg Manifesto Science,
Technology, and Socialist- Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century’ (The
Unabridged Version)
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Essay: Brendan Hokowhitu, 'Race Tactics: The Racialised Athletic Body'
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Chapter:
Horne and Manzenreiter (2006) 'Introduction: sport, sociology: sociology of
sport’
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Link
to Discussion
Chapters 7 & 8: Central Nervous System
& Circulation
This folder contains:
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Lecture
Slides, Chapter 7 & 8
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Podcast:
Bathroom Sociologist (Forthcoming)
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URL:
‘Understanding the Social Model of Disability’
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Editorial:
‘What is Neurodiversity’
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URL: Neurodiversity.com
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URL: What does inequality do to our bodies and minds? A social psychologist
and an epidemiologist discuss
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Video: ‘In My Language’
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Video:
"Poverty as Disability: Neuroscience, Poor Children and Special
Education"
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Chapter:
Carlson, Licia (2010). 'Gendered
Objects, Gendered Subjects', from The Faces of Intellectual
Disability
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Article:
Sass, L.A. (2000) Schizophrenia, modernism, and the creative imagination: On
creativity and psychopathology
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Article:
Sass, L.A. (2007) ‘Schizophrenic-person’ or ‘person with schizophrenia’ – An
essay on illness and the self
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Article:
Murphy, Dominic (2001) Hacking’s Reconciliation – Putting the Biological and
the Sociological Together
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Article:
Kelley, H. and Betsalel, K. (2005) - travels in stroke country
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Link
to Discussion (Forthcoming)
Chapters 9 & 10 Respiration & Endocrine
System and Metabolism
This folder contains:
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Lecture
Slides, Chapter 9 & 10
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Podcast:
Bathroom Sociologist (Forthcoming)
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Video:
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, Episode 4: The Sewer King
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URL:
Urban Metabolism
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Link
to Discussion
Chapters 11 & 12: Digestion &
Reproduction
This folder contains:
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Podcast:
Bathroom Sociologist (Forthcoming)
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Video:
The American Food Disparity: The Story of America’s 49 Million Food Insecure
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Book
Chapter: Nichols, John (2011). A short history of sewers and socialist in the
USA
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Essay:
Miller, Lisa (2013) ‘The Retro Wife’, from New
York magazine
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News:
‘Food Deserts Leave Many Americans High and Dry’ from Scientific American
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Book
Chapter: Lasch, Christopher (1991) On social class dimensions of the abortion debate
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Article:
Glennon, M.S. (2009), 'Making Social Cohesion or Marking the Human Security
Threat?'
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Article:
Heyman, Bob & Sarah Huckle (1995) Sexuality as a Perceived Hazard in the
Lives of Adults with Learning Difficulties
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Link
to Discussion (Forthcoming)
Chapters 13 & 14: Faces & Skin
This folder contains:
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Lecture
Slides, Chapter 13 & 14
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Podcast:
Bathroom Sociologist (Forthcoming)
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Lecture
Slides: Part III
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Video:
Erving Goffman - Interaction Ritual
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Article:
Black, Daniel (2011). What Is a Face?
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Article:
Wegenstein and Ruck (2011). Physiognomy, Reality Television and the Cosmetic
Gaze
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Article: Twine, Richard (2002) Physiognomy, Phrenology
and the Temporality of the Body
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Link to Discussion
Chapters 15 & 16: Hair & Breasts
This folder contains:
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Podcast:
Bathroom Sociologist (Forthcoming)
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Book:
Roland Barthes (1957) Mythologies
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Video:
Introduction to Discourse Analysis
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Video:
Don’t Be Late For Discourse
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Article:
Featherstone, Mike (2010) Body, Image and Affect in Consumer Culture
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Link
to Discussion
Chapters 17: Genitals
This folder contains:
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Lecture
Slides: ‘The Civilized Body’, Chapter 7 from Chris Shilling’s The Body and Social Theory
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Podcast:
Bathroom Sociologist (Forthcoming)
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Email:
My friend Ramsay’s somewhat cynical idea for an analysis of super crotches
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Link
to Discussion
Workshop C: Literature Review
This folder contains:
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URL:
On Writing Literature Reviews
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URL:
The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It
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Link
to assignment or discussion board
Workshop D: Methods & Operationalizing
Variables and Concepts
This folder contains:
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Video
Playlist: The Nature of Social Science Research and its Methods
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URL:
Web Center for Social Research Methods
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URL:
Social Science Research: Principles Methods, and Practices
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URL:
‘Constructs, Variables, and Operationalization
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URL:
‘Operationalization’
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URL:
‘Operationalizing Variables’
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Supplemental
Reading: Thacher, David (2006) The Normative Case Study
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Link
to assignment or discussion board
Writer’s Workshop (Optional) Rough Draft
This folder contains:
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Supplemental Reading: ‘Everything You Wanted to Know
About Writing Research Proposals But Were Afraid To Ask’
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URL:
‘Drafting a Research Proposal’
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URL:
Sample Research Proposals
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Link
to discussion board
Final Project
This folder contains:
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Link
to assignment
Residuals
This folder contains:
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Essay:
Foucault, M. et al (1995) - Madness, the Absence of Work.pdf
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Article:
Levinson, J. (2005) - The Group Home Workplace and the Work of Know-How.pdf
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Video: Ford and Taylor Scientific Management
o
Notes:
‘A Summary of Ulrich Beck (1992) - Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
o
Article:
Buchanan, Ian (1997). ‘The Problem of the Body in Deleuze and Guattari. Or,
What Can a Body Do?’
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