{"id":23765,"date":"2016-01-21t11:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-21t16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=23765"},"modified":"2016-01-21t11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21t16:30:20","slug":"from-the-director-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2016\/01\/from-the-director-5\/","title":{"rendered":"from the director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by derek bruff, cft director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>happy new year! we\u2019re looking forward to another busy semester at the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分. a few highlights\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we are organizing several faculty <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/events\/teaching-visits\/\"><strong>teaching visits<\/strong><\/a> this spring. these visits provide instructors the opportunity to sit in on a colleague\u2019s class, then engage that colleague in conversation about teaching choices. doug clark, associate professor of teaching and learning, is hosting our first visit on february 1<sup>st<\/sup>. details below.<\/li>\n<li>the cft is hosting a number of <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/programs\/learning-communities-and-working-groups\/\"><strong>learning communities and working groups<\/strong><\/a> focused on various teaching and learning topics. if you\u2019re interested in teaching, gender, and sexuality; community engagement pedagogies; lab pedagogies; or educational technology, you\u2019re welcome to join one of our groups.<\/li>\n<li>our <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/services\/blackboard-support\/\"><strong>blackboard support team<\/strong><\/a>, led by cft assistant director <strong>stacey johnson<\/strong>, expands its offerings this spring with a series of drop-in support hours exploring blackboard\u2019s grade center. the team also has a number of blackboard workshops they can take on the road to your department, program, or school. for any of your blackboard needs, contact <a href=\"mailto:blackboard@vanderbilt.edu\">blackboard@vanderbilt.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>the cft\u2019s <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/programs\/\"><strong>graduate student programs<\/strong><\/a> continue this spring, including the blended and online learning design (bold) fellows program and the mellon certificate in humanities education. we have a few seats left in our certificate in college teaching program. thanks to cft assistant director <strong>vivian finch<\/strong> for her leadership of our graduate student programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>cft staff members continue serving on <strong>university-level committees<\/strong> as part of our work fostering institutional structures and resources that support effective teaching.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>joe bandy, cft assistant director, serves as executive chair of the chancellor\u2019s committee on diversity, inclusion, and community;<\/li>\n<li>cynthia brame, cft assistant director, serves on the immersion vanderbilt committee; and<\/li>\n<li>i serve on the immersion vanderbilt quality enhancement plan (qep) committee.<img data-attachment-id=\"23701\" data-permalink=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/students-as-producers\/sap2016blue\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09155304\/sap2016blue.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"295,295\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sap2016blue\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09155304\/sap2016blue.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09155304\/sap2016blue.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-23701 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09155304\/sap2016blue.jpg\" alt=\"sap2016blue\" width=\"167\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09155304\/sap2016blue.jpg 295w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09155304\/sap2016blue-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>looking ahead, this may the cft will launch a new <strong>course design institute<\/strong> for vanderbilt faculty on the theme of \u201cstudents as producers.\u201d during the three-day institute (may 9-11), cft staff will help participants design (or redesign) courses that engage students not only as consumers of information, but producers of knowledge. look for more information about the institute soon!<\/p>\n<p>finally, we want to say good-bye to <strong>melissa penix<\/strong>, cft administrative assistant, who retired in december after 27 years at vanderbilt\u2014and 22 years at the cft. melissa helped keep the cft on budget year after year, but it\u2019s her friendly presence that we\u2019ll miss most. melissa looks forward to spending more time with her family and traveling with her husband steve, and we wish her the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by derek bruff, cft director happy new year! we\u2019re looking forward to another busy semester at the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分. a few highlights\u2026 we are organizing several faculty teaching visits this spring. these visits provide instructors the opportunity to sit in on a colleague\u2019s class, then engage that colleague in conversation about teaching choices. doug&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":18781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[209,236,141,227,187],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154839\/derek1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23777,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765\/revisions\/23777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}