http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 21:00:11 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 21:00:11 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=574561 An author's Snapshot for The Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier material found in MERLOT at http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79493. This material is a MERLOT classic award winner and an Editors choice winner. This snapshot shows an overview of the material. This was created in the MERLOT Content Builder. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=566237 The CSU Directors of Academic Technology have organized a collection of resources to support campuses developing and implementing policies and practices for faculty selecting and students using a standardized “clicker” to reduce the costs and increase the usability of the devices for students. This effort was in response to the California State Students Association resolution for campuses to take action to improve the affordability of clickers through strandarization of practices.This website is open for all to review and is designed to facilitate the sharing of polices, practices, analyses, strategies, and issues so members of the CSU community can leverage exemplary practices and support campus planning for implementing their policies and practices on clickers. It provides campus methodologies and findings for evaluating and selecting clickers, including the accessiblity of the devices and software. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=580230 The Course in College Teaching is a graduate level course designed as part of the College Teacing Certificate Program at the University of Oklahoma. The College Teaching Certificate Program was designed by Dee Fink and has been a graduate level certificate program at OU for over 10 years. I redesigned the foundation course in 2006 to focus more on course design leading to classroom teaching strategies that are practiced in graduate teaching assignments. While we continued some teaching exercises in the course, the emphasis in the course was critically examining how to design a course that draws from literature on effective teaching and learning. To facilitate learning, students designed courses in their discipline over the course of the semester. The course design is "inquiry based" and is easily replicable. While Dr. Fink's book is not necessarily designed as a "text״, it provides a great foundation for thinking about how to design courses and served this course quite well. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=733151 My professional ePortfolio created on Google Sites. I am a Psychology major attending the University of Alaska Anchorage. This is a self-initiated project; this ePortfolio is a process that I've committed myself to outside of the curriculum of the university. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=642217 Dr. Morton was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on July 4th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviewsTimothy Morton is a Professor of English at UC Davis, where he teaches literature and ecology, Romantic-period literature, and literary theory. Dr. Morton’s interests include literature and the environment, ecotheory, philosophy, biology, physical sciences, literary theory, food studies, sound and music, materialism, poetics, Romanticism, Buddhism, and the eighteenth century. In addition to being a well-known blogger, he has published nine books and sixty essays – most notably The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, April 2010) and Ecology Without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007; paperback 2009). Dr. Morton is part of the movement known as Object-Oriented Ontology. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643518 Dr. Briggle was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on February 4th, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Dr. Adam Briggle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas, where he specializes and teaches courses in Bioethics, Environmental Studies and the Philosophy of Technology. His areas of research interest and expertise are reflected in his book, A Rich Bioethics Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=707229 © Agnes Heller and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Heller was interviewed by Andrew Hines on October 19th, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground scholarly interview series: http://figureground.ca/interviews/agnes-heller/Ágnes Heller is a Hungarian philosopher. A prominent Marxist thinker at first, she moved onto a liberal, social-democratic position later in her career. Dr. Heller was the student of Georg Lukacs and a prominent member of the Budapest School until she went into exile in 1977 after many waves of political persecution. Since 1986 she has taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City and currently holds the post of Hannah Arendt Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Political Science. Dr. Heller has published widely on a number of subjects in Philosophy of History, Political Science and Ethics, and is the recipient of numerous awards for her writings and service to education and society. Her more recent work has been concerned with aesthetics. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643647 Dr. Borgmann was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 16th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/ Albert Borgmann is an American philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of technology. He was born in Freiburg, Germany, and is a professor of philosophy at the University of Montana. He has an MA in literature from the University of Illinois (Urbana) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Munich (Germany). Since 1970 he has taught at the University of Montana. His special area is the philosophy of society and culture with particular emphasis on technology. Among his publications are Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life (University of Chicago Press, 1984), Crossing the Postmodern Divide (University of Chicago Press, 1992), Holding on to Reality: the Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Power Failure (2003), and Real American Ethics (2006). http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=694561 © Alex Reid and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Reid was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on September 20th, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground scholarly interview series: http://figureground.ca/interviews/scholarly-series/Dr. Alex Reid earned hi PhD from SUNY Albany in Writing, Teaching, and Criticism in 1997. Since then he’s taught at Georgia Tech, Penn State, SUNY Cortland, and now at the University of Buffalo. He studies digital media networks with a particular interest in their operation within humanities pedagogy and scholarship. His book, The Two Virtuals: Composition and New Media, examines the intersection of technologies of virtual reality with philosophies of the virtual and considers how bringing these two discourses together offers insight into teaching writing. He is co-editor of Design Discourse, a collection of essays on the construction of technical and professional writing curriculum. He has also published articles in several journals and book collections. His primary blog, Digital Digs (www.alex-reid.net), deals with developments in new media, rhetoric, and higher education. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=715292 © Alphonso Lingis and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Lingis was interviewed by Edyta Niemyjska on November 23rd, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/alphonso-lingis/Alphonso Lingis is an American philosopher, writer and translator, currently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in phenomenology, existentialism, and ethics. Lingis attended Loyola University in Chicago, then pursued graduate study at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. His doctoral dissertation, written under scholar Alphonse de Waelhens, was a discussion of the French phenomenologists Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. Returning to the United States, Lingis joined the faculty at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, quickly gaining a reputation as the preeminent English translator of Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas. In the mid-1960s he moved to Penn State University, where he worked diligently at his translation projects and published numerous scholarly articles on the history of philosophy. During this period, he also began the habit of wide-ranging world travel that leaves a deep stamp on all of his work. His latest books are The First Person Singular (2007), Violence and Splendor (2010) and Contact (2011).