The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program provides UC Davis faculty an opportunity to mentor and to learn from other faculty interested in instructional technology. Participants will learn about tools such as Macromedia Breeze and Almagest, and about the UC Davis Learning Environment powered by Sakai, the new suite of web-based course management tools that will improve upon and eventually replace the current (MyUCDavis) tools faculty use to instruct and communicate with their students. The mentoring program's success will depend upon participants sharing their discoveries and expertise with fellow faculty and with the program manager, and upon their building formal and informal networks with faculty who seek effective and innovative ways to meet their teaching goals.
Managed by Andy Jones, a longtime user of instructional technology at UC Davis, the Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program will guide faculty through the technical and pedagogical opportunities offered by the many tools within the new course management tools, including the new lesson builder, the digital drop box, the integrated calendar, the wiki, and the improved assessment tools, among many others. The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program will also serve as a conduit of information and ideas about teaching and instructional technology among UC Davis faculty, The Teaching Resources Center, and Mediaworks, the Instructional Technology and Digital Media Center at UC Davis.
Beginning in 2006, faculty mentors have tested the new course management tools with the assistance of the Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program manager, the Faculty Training Coordinator, and student ET Partners. Together they will discover the early challenges and continuing opportunities offered by the expanding array of course management tools that will soon be available to all UC Davis Faculty.
Faculty interested in becoming mentors should contact Andy Jones, Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program Manager, at aojones@ucdavis.edu , 752-4080, or 752-3408.