11th Annual Learning Communities Institute

Monday, May 11, 2009

Scheman Building

8:00 a.m.
Check-in & Continental Breakfast (2nd Floor Lobby)

8:30 – 10:30
Opening Session: Wake Up Your Creative Genius
William Boon
Rooms 220/230/240

10:30 – 10:45
Break

10:45 – 11:45 Concurrent Sessions A
Session A1 – Designing Learning Experiences to Achieve Outcomes additional PDF
Room 275

Session A2 – Integrating Career Self-Management Curriculum with Learning Communities additional PDF
Room 250

Session A3 – Learning Communities 101
Room 252

Session A4 – Millennials Leading Millennials additional PDF
Room 260

Session A5 – The Rules and Tools of Creative Thinking
Room 262

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch
Rooms 220/230/240

12:45 – 12:55
Break

12:55 – 1:55 Concurrent Sessions B
Session B1 – Creating Meaningful Relationships between Peer Mentors and Learning Community Coordinators
Room 250

Session B2 – Expectations
Room 275

Session B3 – Learning to be a Responsible Learner: Getting the Most Out of Learning Communities Room 262

Session B4 – Let’s Talk about Diversity. Let’s Talk about You and Me.
Room 252

Session B5 – Service-Learning and Your Learning Community
Room 260

1:55 – 2:05
Break

2:05 – 3:05 Concurrent Sessions C
Session C1 – Community-Building on a Budget
Room 260

Session C2 – Leadership in the Learning Community
Room 250

Session C3 – Learning Communities Q & A
Room 252

Session C4 – Transforming Peer Mentors into Facilitators of Academic Success
Room 262

Session C5 – Turning Learning Community Activities into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Room 275

3:05 – 3:45
Awards & Dessert
Rooms 220/230/240