Faculty Development 2015
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DatePresenter(s)TopicContentApril 16

Anderson
PassosDatabase &MIC DB

This session will introduce various Database and MIC DB functions.
Faculty will learn how to:1) enter and update syllabi2) manage schedules
3) update faculty profiles
4) enter mid-term reports, grades, and senior thesis grades.

June 4

Dean Thompsonet al.

Senior Thesis

On July 1, senior thesis tutors are assigned. This FD session aims togive an overview of the senior thesis process a nd give faculty achance to share effective practices. The session will cover features
such as:1) tutor/second reader selection & responsibilities
2) submissions to Academic Affairs & the point system
3) the intranet webpage4) ST1
5) TRAC application

July 16

Yuko
Matsumoto,
Satoko Shibao,
and JIttima
Tongurai,

Faculty
ResearchIn this session faculty members will introduce theirresearch/research interests. The purpose of the session is to:1) inform faculty of ongoing research being conducted at MIC
2) provide a forum for researchers to receive feedback on
their work

Oct 22

Iain StanleyMoodle

This session will introduce additional concepts of MIC’s LMS Moodle
in order for faculty to:1) gain a more thorough understanding of Moodle2) find new ways to enhance their teaching

Nov 12Anderson
Google Drive
Passos &Monica Hamciuc

Google drive offers a number of useful applications. This session will
provide an overview of how to use them:
1) administrative purposes2) classroom purposes

Dec. 10

CT Working
Group

CAT test andapplications
for theclassroom

The AP Program's Critical Thinking Working Group will introduce theCritical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT) to faculty and discuss itsapplication in the classroom through active learning. Topics will include
an overview of the contents of the CAT, an explanation of theassessment of the CAT using rubrics, the results of the CAT for 2015, andsuggestions for incorporating the CAT model in the classroom topromote critical thinking through active learning.

cancelled

Monica Hamciuc& external
collaborators

Englishmedium
instruction

English medium instruction is becoming a hot topic in Japan, but
institutions, teachers and students involved are facing many
challenges. Content and language faculty from Ritsumeikan APU(Oita) & Doshisha University (Kyoto) will observe classes at MIC (Novthth27 ) and end their visit with an FD round table discussion (Nov. 28 )1

to share concerns & ideas related to teaching content in English inJapanese universities.
January
14Jeniece Lusk,Jonathan
Parker, and Jong
Chul Choi

Faculty
Research

In this session faculty members will introduce theirresearch/research interests. The purpose of the session is to:1) inform faculty of ongoing research conducted at MIC
2) provide a forum for researchers to receive feedback ontheir workFebruary
22Benjamin Peters

About the CAT

The Critical Thinking Assessment Test: What is it and what can welearn from it?

March 9Jeniece Lusk,
Debra Occhi ???

Rubrics
Workshop

Provide practical tools that will assist our faculty in a campus -wide
implementation of rubrics in their syllabi and classrooms

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Session Feedback Form
1. The objectives of the session were clearly defined
2. Participation and interaction were encouraged.
3. The topics covered were relevant to me.
4. The content was organized and easy to follow.
5. The session experience will be useful in my work.
6. The presenter was knowledgeable about the training topics.
7. The session length and pace were appropriate.
8. The session room and facilities were appropriate.
9. The materials distributed were helpful.
10. What aspects of this session could be improved?
11. How do you plan to apply the contents of this session to your work?
12. Additional comments.

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Individual Research Presentation OR Workshop (Anderson Passos)
Date: April 16, 2015
Session Start/End Time: 16:00 ~ 17:00
Summary:
Title: Database and MICDB Extras
This session will introduce various Database and MIC DB functions. Faculty will learn how to:1) enter and update syllabi2) manage schedules
3) update faculty profiles
4) enter mid-term reports, class grades, and senior thesis grades.
Attendance is highly recommended, as the explanations of this session have to be used by all
faculty members on a daily-basis .

Participants:
Satoko Kimpara
Debra Occhi
Cathrine Mork
Futoshi Kobayashi
Jason Adachi
Katherine Bishop

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Google Drive (Anderson Passos & Monica Hamciuc)Date: November 12, 2015
Session Start/End Time: 16:00 ~ 17:00Summary:
Google Drive is essentially an online USB; a repository of files based in the cloud that allows for thecreation and manipulation of documents, spreadsheets, and polling tools. This session went overthe potential uses for Google Drive in general, as well as specific examples of how the tool can beused administratively pedagogically at MIC.
Features/Uses:
1) Uploads and storage (not ideal for tablets unless in desktop mode)2) Synching files in cloud with local files (download Google drive for this) and to multiple devices
3) Asynchronous access4) Preview and download files without opening them5) Share and collaborate – auto-save, share with any Gmail user, simultaneous editing, live changes,
snapshots saved to return to older versions.
5) Can monitor student activities and actions in a document, as long as document is initially createdby teacher
6) Advanced search and sort functions
Uses in four previous courses and projects were presented as examples of how the tool can beeffectively utilized for course work and research. Included were a literature course, an English
Language course, and a collaborative research project.

Participants:
Aya Kasai
Satoko Kimpara
Jason Adachi
Katherine Bishop
Hitoshi Kobayashi
Debora Occhi
Cathrine Mork5

Google Drive (Anderson Passos & Monica Hamciuc) - Session Feedback
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Plan to use it for student groupprojects, cutting down on printedpaper.
Yes! It was very helpful. Thankyou.
(These comments have nothing to dowith the session itself)
It's a pity attendance was so low; I wish
we could get staff involved in using GD
more rather than the endless stream of
Word attachments (which I save as GDanyway) or at least Google calendar.
The presentation was wonderful... We
really need to follow up as a team.
Then, we can make some difference!

I'm already a Google Docs user,
but the additional informationfrom the session will help me bea better one (let's hope)

It was really interesting anduseful to see how other facultyare using Google Docs forteaching and research.
Big thanks to everyone involvedin making this happen.

Whenever I have a time during
spring break, I will follow up thematerials.

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Individual Research Presentations (Jong Chul Choi)
Date: January 14, 2016
Session Start/End Time: 16:00 ~ 17:00
Summary 1:
Title: When ‘the Representation of disaster’ becomes ‘a Disaster of Representation’: The Cultural
Politics of the Unrepresentation
By Dr. Jong Chul Choi
My recent paper explores the notion of ‘the unrepresentation’ that had once outlined art’s ethicalrole in times of disaster, and how this unrepresentation has influenced our understanding ofcontemporary art dealing with disasters of our own time.
As Adorno summarizes in his famous account (“to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric and …
impossible”), the unrepresentation in art always brings forth the renouncement of representational
images as an ethical gesture. This gesture becomes more vital when a disaster in question appears
too monstrous to comprehend, to speak of, or to represent – the sublime events that cannot beunderstood in any means of art. However, on a flip side of this ethical gesture, it creates a dilemma,
given that the unrepresentation may destroy the foundation of visual art that hinges on the visual.
Many arts and visual products bear the dilemma: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985) - a nine hourlong Holocaust documentary that contains no visual image of Jewish victims, Susan Sontag’s claimon prohibiting images of others in pain, and post-9/11 American anxiety to the media spectacles of
the terrorism, etc. As these examples suggest, the proponents of unrepresentation found theimages of disaster unethical and abominable, and it ended up with a sharp decline of contemporary
visual culture.
This paper delves into this dilemma with some questions that can give us a chance to rethink thisage-old moral trap of unrepresentation.

Participants:
Aya Kasa
Christopher Johnston
Debora Occhi
Satoko Kimpira
Cathrine Mork7

Individual Research Presentations (Jong Chul Choi) - Session Feedback
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I can't think about anything to improve. The scope waswell defined and the presenters clearly knew what they
were talking about.

Create new and challenging
badges, find easier ways toevaluate journal entries... andfinally finish our rubric
visualization tool.

I would like to see moresessions like that where faculty
share their classexperience/methodologies withall. We can always learnsomething from our peers.

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I think that the room should be ready before the session
starts (PC, projector, cables, etc.) Maybe doing ICT
related stuff in a CCR would make things easier...

Don't know yet, but I am willingto give it some thought.

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I will use the online tools
introduced in my class.

Thank you!

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Critical Thinking Workshop (Benjamin Peters)
Date: February 22, 2016
Session Start/End Time: 16:00 ~ 17:00
Summary:
Title: The Critical Thinking Assessment Test: What is it and what can we learn from it?
By Benjamin Peters (Critical Thinking Working Group)
Through AP grant funding, MIC became the first college in Japan to use the Critical Thinking
Assessment Test (CAT). This has been MIC’s first use of a standardized critical thinking test toevaluate our students, and by the end of this academic year approximately 130 or our students will
have taken the test. In this FD session faculty will learn more about the test we have asked ourstudents to take, the past year’s CAT results, and how to use the CAT assessment experience toimprove the teaching of critical thinking in the classroom.

Participants:
Julia Christma
Monica Hamciuc
Yuko Matsumoto
Edward Rummel
Debra Occhi,Lloyd Walker
Futoshi Kobayashi

9Faculty Development Session ReportWorkshop (Rubrics Working Group)
Date: March 9th , 2016
Session Start/End Time: 13:00 ~ 15:00
Summary:
Title: Rubrics and Assessment at MIC
By Katherine Bishop, Jeniece Lusk, Debra Occhi, and Lloyd Walker
We will be leading three workshops to provide practical tools that will assist our faculty in a
campus-wide implementation of rubrics in their syllabi and classrooms. The workshops will cover
how to tailor the institutional rubric for syllabi, how to make rubrics for specific assignments, andhow to make and use rubrics in the Mahara/Moodle platform.

Participants:
Trine Mork
Julia Christmas
Satoko Kimpara
Aya Kasai
Jason Adachi
Benjamin Peters
Monica Hamciuc
Yukiko Ikeda

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The new chairs are highly
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55555555Q12I will create my own rubrics for use inMoodle.

Create a teacher resources
page for rubrics on Moodle, in
addition to sharing faculty
examples on google drive!

Projection of the materials so thateveryone can see which document isbeing explained/discussed.
I was active so I asked somequestions or asked Debra to show me
the materials during the sessions. It
made me understand the points
clearly.

Yes

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I already changed my rubric regarding thisworkshop although I need to consider mycontents and the class structure.
Now, I have different perspectives about
rubric than before and it will continue toimprove gradually.
It was nice to hear what colleagues are
doing in thier research. Topic shared in thisFD was relevant to my own research. I
imagineed possible collaborations between
faculties to teach some classes and also
invinting each other as a guest speaker inour classes.

Thank you so much, Trine andthree presenters, Lloyd,
Katherine, and Debra

Thank you for sharing theknowledge. I hope we have
many more opportunities likethis.

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