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Nursing's Kay Palmer will lead the 4/18 Provost's Conversation: From the Chalkboard to the Web - Forty Years of Creativity in Teaching. You're invited!

<p align="center"> The Center for Learning and Teaching<br /> invites you to participate in<br /> &nbsp;<br /> <strong>The Provost&rsquo;s Conversations on</strong><br /> <strong>Teaching and Learning</strong><br /> &nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;<br /> These conversations are intended to gather faculty members<br /> from all across the campus to share, to think,<br /> and to reflect on a wide range of teaching and learning issues.<br /> &nbsp;<br /> Come join the final conversation in this semester&rsquo;s series:<br /> &nbsp;<br /> <strong>From the Chalkboard to the Web:<br /> Forty Years of Creativity in Teaching</strong><br /> &nbsp;<br /> led by<br /> <strong>Kay Palmer</strong><br /> <strong>Associate Professor<br /> Undergraduate Program Director,<br /> Nursing</strong></p> <p align="center"> <br /> <strong>Thursday, April 18&nbsp; &nbsp;12:30-1:30pm<br /> Learning Commons Conference Room<br /> Perry Library</strong><br /> &nbsp;</p> <p align="center"> <em>Presented by the Center for Learning and Teaching, the Office of Distance Learning,<br /> and the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Carol Simpson</em></p> <p align="center"> For more information:&nbsp; <a href="http://clt.odu.edu/">http://clt.odu.edu</a></p> <p align="center"> Questions?&nbsp; e-mail <a href="mailto:clt@odu.edu">clt@odu.edu</a> or phone 683-4252</p> <p> The Provost&rsquo;s Conversations on Teaching and Learning are open to all faculty members, and offer the opportunity to reflect and share about the teaching and learning process.</p> <p> On Thursday, April 18, Kay Palmer will lead a Conversation entitled &ldquo;From the Chalkboard to the Web: Forty Years of Creativity in Teaching.&rdquo;</p> <p> Kay Palmer, a Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse, has presented nationally and internationally and has published in her areas of expertise: nursing care of a rehabilitation patient, culturally competent nursing care, and the use of technology to teach.&nbsp;</p> <p> In her 40 years of teaching, massive changes have occurred -- in teaching strategies, in the learners, and in the science of nursing.&nbsp; Palmer has been responsive, and has revised her teaching strategies and course materials to suit the changing environment.&nbsp; During this process, she has challenged the technology available and has moved from lecturer to avatar and from teaching in a classroom to teaching a televised course to teaching in the online environment.&nbsp;</p> <p> Kay will share her teaching philosophy: she identifies the challenges to her students&rsquo; learning and then &ldquo;designs a better mousetrap&rdquo; [a better way to solve those students&rsquo; learning issues].&nbsp;&nbsp; And she will help us learn to better understand our own students, in the process.</p> <p> For more information about the Provost&rsquo;s Conversations on Teaching and Learning series, including highlights from past years&rsquo; Conversations and a calendar of upcoming Conversation dates, visit the Conversations&rsquo; website at <a href="http://clt.odu.edu/pctl">http://clt.odu.edu/pctl</a>.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> &nbsp;</p>

Posted By: Alison Schoew
Date: Thu Apr 11 09:10:29 EDT 2013

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