Center for Teaching and Learning

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What's Coming Up at the CTL and Elsewhere?

November 19-22: The 29th International Lilly Conference on College Teaching

"Evidence-Based Learning and Teaching"
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio
November 19-22, 2009

The Center for Teaching and Learning has joined CELTUA in co-sponsoring the Lilly Conference keynote speaker, Dr. Michael Wesch, the 2008 CASE Professor of the Year and a distinguished scholar of digital anthropology. He will deliver his Bicentennial Event presentation, The Art of Loving and Learning in New Media Environments, on November 20, from 10:50-noon in Room 1000 of the Farmer School of Business.

Because of our sponsorship, the faculty and staff of the Middletown campus and our CTL friends are welcome to attend the Wesch presentation at no charge. The CTL hopes you will take advantage of this opportunity.

The video designed and produced by Wesch and his class on YouTube,"A Vision of Students Today," has received acclaim and millions of hits. You can view it on the Lilly Conference homepage at http://www.units.muohio.edu/lillycon/ and find links to his other videos such as "The Machine is (Changing) Us"; "A Portal to Media Literacy"; "Twitter and the World Simulation" and "Information R/evolution." I've copied his brief bio below.

More about Michael Wesch:

Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, MICHAEL WESCH is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated into over 15 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.