SUNY Potsdam

A Faculty Seminar

Coordinated by Sergei Abramovich, Curriculum & Instruction

Secretarial support: Dayna Cole

Schedule of Presentations for Fall 2013

All seminar meetings will be at the Literacy Center Balcony,Wednesday, from Noon to 1 p.m.

•  9/4/13: Associate Provost Gerald Ratliff
    Topic: TBA
•   9/18/13  Sheryl Scales (Literacy Dept)
    Topic: TBA
•   10/9/13  Eileen Raymond (Prof. Emerita, Special Education)
    Topic: TBA
•   10/23/13  Sharon Williams (SOE&PS)
    Topic: TBA
•   11/20/13 Don Straight (Secondary Education)
    Topic: "Regents" -- The Fourth R?
  

Schedule of Presentations for Spring 2013

• 2/6/13: Dean Sitton (Crane)
  Topic: Lessons from the Pedagogy of Practice: Reflections of a Piano Teacher.

     Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E).

• 2/20/13: Lynn Hall (Literacy) The presentation has been cancelled
  Topic: A History of Parental Participation in Literacy Education, Part II: Family Values, Personal Responsibility, and the "Mother as Teacher" Motif in Ladies Home Journal and Parents' Magazine, 1980-2000.
  
• 3/6/13: Don Straight (Secondary Ed)
  Topic: "Regents" -- The Fourth R?  The presentation has been cancelled and replaced by: An Open Discussion about Teaching, Research, and Service: How Can We Commit to "Doing It All"?
  

  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E)

• 4/3/13: Maya Kalyanpur (Special Ed)
  Topic: Cultural Reciprocity in International Special Education.
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D)
  
• 4/24/13: Ron Bretsch (Secondary Ed) Note: Room Change to the Balcony of the Literacy Center
  Topic: An American Social Studies Teacher Educator Let Loose in Central Europe.
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E)
  

Schedule of Presentations for Fall 2012

• 9/5/12: Dean Marqusee
  Topic: Do We Really Need to Plan for the Next Semester?:  Mayan Mathematics, Calendrics, and the End of the World
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L)
  Newspaper article about the meeting
  
• 9/19/12: Sergei Abramovich
  Topic: Visiting Serbia on a Fulbright Specialist Grant: Education, Culture, Collaboration
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C)
  
• 10/3/12: Sharon Williams
  Topic: Outsider Teacher/ Insider Knowledge: Fostering Mohawk Cultural Competency for Non-Native Teachers
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F)
  
• 10/24/12: Tony Betrus
  Topic: Navigation in Virtual Space
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M)
  
• 11/14/12: Shalu Wunnava
  Topic: Application of Protection Motivation Theory to Study the Factors that Influence Disaster Recovery Planning: An Empirical Investigation
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F)
  

   
  

Schedule of Presentations for Spring 2012

• 2/8/12: Dean Brouwer
  Topic: The Perry Model: A framework for understanding student intellectual development in college  
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I)
  
• 2/22/12: Tony Betrus
  Topic: Introduction to Gamification in Education
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O)
  
• 3/23/12: Nancy Dodge-Reyome
  Topic: Research and Grant services available at SUNY Potsdam
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F)
  
• 4/11/12: Ronald Bretsch
  Topic: History or Social Studies?  From Disciplines to Inter-disciplinary in the N.Y.S. Elementary and Secondary Schools
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D)
  
• 4/25/12: Lynn Hall
  Topic:  A History of Parental Participation Expectations in Literacy Education: Inequality and the “Mother as Teacher” Motif in Ladies Home Journal and Parents’ Magazines, 1940-1960.
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D)

Schedule of Presentations for Fall 2011

• 9/14/11: Provost Madden
  Topic: Education in Psychology and Psychology in Education
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E).
• 9/28/11: Fadi Bou-Abdallah, Chemistry Department
  Topic: Bridging the Gap in the Chemical Sciences
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N)
• 10/12/11: Ronald Bretsch, Secondary Education
  Topic: Concepts and Conceptual Learning
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D)
• 10/26/11: Dennis Conrad, Special Education
  Topic: Exploring the Transition into Online and Hybrid Teaching Through Collaborative Self-Study

      Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D)

• 11/9/11: Sergei Abramovich, Curriculum & Instruction
  Jonathan Easton, MST student
  Victoria O. Hayes, Curriculum & Instruction
  Topic: Parallel Structures of Computer-Assisted Signature Pedagogy
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I)
• 12/7/11 Michelle Pinard, Curriculum & Instruction
  Topic: Pushing Boundaries - Researching and Alternatively Assessing One Teacher's Competency
  Pictures from the meeting (A, B, C, D, E, F, G)