Travel Grant Reports

The contributions on these pages are the reports from those awarded Scholarship of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (SoTLA) grants.

Please email tla@csumb.edu if you'd like any corrections, revisions, additions, links, photos, or other content added to your page.

For Fall of the 2012-13 Academic Year, the TLA has approved funding for the following proposals:

Judith Canner, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, to the Joint Mathematics Meeting sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America with her presentation: Teaching Introductory Statistics Concepts using Resampling Methods in R.

Michael Scott, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, also to the Joint Mathematics Meeting sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America with his presentation: Using Online Homework and Data Mining to Asess Student Learing in Mathematics Courses.

Aimee Suzara,Lecturer, Humanities and Communication, to the Association of Writers and Wrting Programs Annual Conference, presenting: Baring/Bearing Race in the Creative Writing Classroom.

Natalie Zays, Lecturer, Science and Environmental Policy, for the Turning Technologies User Conference presenting: Yes, Professor, You Can Achieve Student Participation, Excitement, and Retention in a Non-majors Course!

SoTLA Grant Reports

Rebecca Bales, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Indian Removal: A Teaching Unit 2009 Travel Grant Summary - Indian Removal Spreadsheet
Brad Barbeau, Assistant Professor, School of Business Freedonia - Bringing Economics Alive SoTLA Travel Grant Summary (opens .pdf) (opens powerpoint show)
John Berteaux, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Communications The Place of Self-Respect in a Theory of Justice SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
YoungJoon Byun, Assistant Professor, Information Technology & Communications Design An International e-Learning Program with Korean Universities SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Denise Castro, Lecturer, Kinesiology Click this link to Denise's video presentation Engaging Students through Tchnology and Interactive Group Activities at the 2012 On Course National Conference, Long Beach, CA.
Karen Davis, Lecturer, Teledramatic Arts & Technology Strains of Resistance: Strategies for Writing Instruction in the Visual/Media Arts SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Mark DeBeliso, Associate Professor, Kinesiology Department "The Metabolic Stress Experienced by Agricultural Workers During a Typical Day of Labor" SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Kathryn England-Aytes, Lecturer, Social Behavioral, and Global Studies Parenting the Child of Historical Trauma: Cultural Competency for Foster and Adoptive Parents of Native American Children SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Kathryn England-Aytes, Lecturer, Social Behavioral, and Global Studies Proposal for the Institute of American Indian Leadership Studies SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Stephanie Anne Johnson, Associate Professor, Visual and Public Arts" Introduction to Theater of The Oppressed: Theater Techniques to Address Issues of Equity and Social Justice in the Classroom SoTLA Research Grant Summary
Kim Judson, Associate Professor, Health, Human Services & Public Policy Creating a 21st Century MSW Program Using Community-Based Participatory Research Method SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Lopez, MIguel, Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies Department Awarded at the The 3rd International Conference on Service-Learning in Teacher Education June 2012 at Duke University Complete details at this link.
Nick Meier, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education; Carolina Serna, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education Preparing Pre-service Teachers to work with English Language Learners SoTLA Travel & Research Grant Summary
Amalia Mesa-Bains, Chair, Visual and Public Art The Latino Cabinet of Curiosity: A Post-Colonial Interrogation SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Murray Millson, Associate Professor, School of Business Market Dynamism & Competition as NPD Speed/Success Mediators SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Sandra Pacheco, Coordinator of Introduction to Service Learning Transforming Students' Conceptions of Feminism: The use of service learning to promote social responsibility SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Frances Payne-Adler, Professor, Division of Humanities and Communications Breaking Down Walls/Bridging Communities: Social Action Writing, A Collaboration SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Barbara Sayad, Lecturer, Kinesiology Department Teaching towards Sexual Self-Esteem and Healing SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Michael B. Scott, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics A preliminary report from a paper titled, "The Effectiveness of Intensive Workshops in Developmental Mathematics", by Michael B. Scott and Alysia Walther.
Shigeko Sekine, Assistant Professor, World Languages & Culture Pronunciation Matters, but Can We Teach Them? SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Daniel Shapiro, Associate Professor, Science and Environmental Policy with Iris Peppard, Salinas Marina Community Food Project Developing and Assessing Rigorous Course-Community Partnerships SoTLA Travel Grant Summary For the pdf of their powerpoint presentation, please email the tla@csumb.edu.
Carolina Serna, Lecturer, Teacher Education Metacognitive Strategies that Enhance Student Learning SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Will Shephard, Professor, Teledramatic Arts & Technology Department Summer in Bulgaria SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Robert Strayer, Lecturer, Division of Social, Behavioral, & Global Studies Teaching the Twentieth Century in World History SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Bude Su, Assistant Professor, School of Information Technology & Communications Design Learner-Learner Interaction in Online Learning Environment SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Pat Tinsley, Associate Professor, School of Business A Motivational Model for Rapid Writing Improvement in Any Discipline SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Umi Vaughan, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities and Communications Conducted five sessions of master-class/interviews with veteran Cuban musician Carlos Aldama. SoTLA Research Grant Summary
María Villaseñor, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities and Communications ‘She's white: I guarantee it': Teaching and Learning About Race in Higher Education SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Maria Villaseñor, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Communication Panelist: Mujerista Mentoring for Chicanas in Higher Education SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Scott Waltz, Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies Students Writing Themselves into Social-Cultural Awareness, Identity and Action: Teaching practices for the Social Foundations classroom SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Drew Waters, Assistant Professor, Music and Performing Arts Department CROSS-DISCIPLINE_COLLABORATIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING EXPLORATIONS IN A PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Rob Weisskirch, Associate Professor, Liberal Studies Co-presented with student, Daniel Romero at the Western Psychological Association SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Patricia Whang, Professor, Liberal Studies Education Majors reSEARCHing and reACTing for Social Action SoTLA Travel Grant Summary
Maria Zielina, Professor and Chair, School of World Languages & Culture Coordintated panel for: Conferencia Estudios Afrodescendientes SoTLA Travel Grant Summary

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