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The UM Teaching and Technology Collaborative is pleased to announce the annual event called Enriching Scholarship. Generally one week long in early May, Enriching Scholarship offers pedagogical and hands-on skill-building sessions for faculty and other University instructors.

Enriching Scholarship offers sessions exploring the effective integration of information and technology with teaching, learning and research. You may want to look at past Enriching Scholarships to see the types of classes typically offered during Enriching Scholarship.

Mimi Ito

Enriching Scholarship 2010 will be May 3-7, 2010.

Keynote Speaker

Mimi Ito, a research scientist at the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, will be our keynote speaker in 2010. She is an international expert on how people use mobile technologies and new digital media in their everyday lives. A cultural anthropologist of technology use, she also is a leading authority on how social network technologies are shaping society.

Dr. Ito's blog has more information about her other activities.

Other Sessions

While the exact sessions vary from year to year, typical topics include creating posters, CTools (basic use, interactivity, chat, etc.), finding funding, multimedia tools (creating movies and DVDs), podcasting, and using Office tools (such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel).

Past Enriching Scholarship Series

Enriching Scholarship 2009 was held on May 4-8, 2009. We are very excited about our 2009 keynote speaker, Jane McGonigal. Jane McGonigal takes play seriously. She is the Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, and is currently wJane McGonigalriting a book about how games can save the real world (Reality is Broken, Penguin Press, 2010). She is an award-wining gamedesigner, best known for directing and designing alternate reality games such as the Signtific Lab, Superstruct, The Lost Ring, World Without Oil, and Cruel 2 B Kind. She has a PhD. in performance studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

If you missed the 2009 keynote address by Jane Mcgonigal, you can watch it here! Use QuickTime Player - if you are having trouble, please read these instructions.

swirl image Full listing for Enriching Scholarship 2009
swirl imageEnriching Scholarship 2008 (PDF of all events)
swirl imageEnriching Scholarship 2007 (PDF of all events)

In addition to Enriching Scholarship, TTC units offer a variety of sessions throughout the year.


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