Cultivating a Taste for MERLOT: How to Enhance Faculty Development on Your Campus Idana Hamilton (Southwest Virginia CC) & John Prusch (Excelsior College) MERLOT Faculty Development Editorial Board

Today’s Agenda Here’s what we have in mind: Let’s get acquainted Overview of MERLOT Join MERLOT or Take a Break (or both) Get the Most of MERLOT Wrap Up

Workshop Outcomes At the end of this workshop you should be able to : 1. Identify and briefly describe 5-7 advantages MERLOT offers for Faculty Development 2. Browse and explore the collection and website, including the portals, without getting lost ;-) 3. Complete a successful search, advanced search, and federated search for resources 4. Create and share your own Personal Collection 5. Add a comment or assignment for a learning material 6. Contribute a new resource to the MERLOT collection 7. Locate a Guest Expert and/or join the Virtual Speakers Bureau 8. Know where & how to Jumpstart Your CV 9. Discuss a Peer Review and its process 10. Hold your own workshop, mini-workshop, presentation or informal panel talk about MERLOT on your campus MERLOT Offers More… …for Faculty Development

Your Name, Title, Campus & MERLOT Affiliation What do you expect to get out of this workshop?

Overview of MERLOT What is MERLOT? Take a Guided Tour of MERLOT Let’s Look at an Example Resource

What is MERLOT? A Collection of Resources: repository, digital library, learning materials & objects, comments, assignments, snap shots, online journal, peer reviews A Community: Members, Partners, Boards & Disciplines, Workforce Development, ePortfolio, GLOBE, CATS, MIC A Cooperative of Services: Teaching Commons, 15% Solution, Virtual Speakers Bureau, Jumpstart Your CV, Personal Collections, Portals, Campus Workshops

What is MERLOT?---A Collection of Resources Browse the Collection Search Materials Learn about the MERLOT International Conference View the Subject Categories Index Visit a Discipline or Program Community Portal Browse Learning Materials Find Expert Colleagues View Personal Collections Get Assignments Locate Guest Experts Read Comments and Peer Reviews Become a Member Contribute Learning Materials Create a Personal Collection Develop a Personal Profile Make Comments Submit Assignments & Snapshots Join the Virtual Speakers Bureau Become a Peer Reviewer Share Your Online Expertise Receive Peer Recognition A Place Where You Can:Also an Opportunity to

What is MERLOT?---A Community plus Members Dozens of Partners 15–plus Editorial Boards, an Editors Council; Discipline, Workforce, and Special Interest Communities, Project Directors, and Advisory Board A couple handfuls of MERLOT Staff

Personal Collections: can be easily created & accessed by any MERLOT Member to use for specific purposes, classes or topics. 15% Solution: certifies the Academic Technology Competencies of MERLOT Members What is MERLOT? --- A Cooperative of Services Teaching Commons for Partners: provides faculty a discipline-based, institutionally contextualized professional development program Portals: Discipline Specific Workforce Development Special Interest Campus Workshops MERLOT Technologies Virtual Speakers Bureau: where you search for, locate, and invite guest speakers to your courses, professional development workshops, and special online events. Jumpstart Your CV

Take a Guided Tour of MERLOT

Let’s Look at an Example Resource MERLOT Classics Award Winner 2006 Faculty Development Free Resource for Assessment Simple to Use and Effective

Join MERLOT, Take a Break---or Do Both! It’s Your Choice.

Get the Most from MERLOT Now it’s your turn to Browse the collection and website Complete a successful search, advanced search, and federated search Create and share your own Personal Collection Add a comment or assignment for a learning material Contribute a new resource to the MERLOT collection Locate a Guest Expert and/or join the Virtual Speakers Bureau Know where & how to Jumpstart Your CV Discuss a Peer Review and its process Photo : net_efektnet_efekt

The Art of Browsing One way to discover MERLOT is to browse the collection and website. photo: Stuart YeatesStuart Yeates

Searching Successfully Another way for you to get the most of MERLOT is to try out the search, advanced search, and federated search features of the website.

Personal & Department Collections Create collections of resources for yourself and others photo: ImipolexG ImipolexG

Adding Your Own 2¢ and Learning Assignments A couple ways you can personally contribute to MERLOT photo: jcolman jcolman

Contributing to the Collection It’s easy and rewarding to participate in MERLOT. What materials do you already have on hand to share?

Contact Expert Colleagues or Invite a Guest Speaker

The Peer Review Process Peer Reviews are designed to help faculty determine the quality of the learning materials in the MERLOT collection and their relevance and applicability to the courses they teach. ******Reviewer Training Workshop (Wed 10-12, Bourgne) Presenters: Nancy Konigsberg Kerner, William Paquette

MERLOT Treasure Hunt To begin, go to the Faculty Development Portal: Welcome New Peer Reviewers pageWelcome New Peer Reviewers Photo: jody9jody9

Wrap Up and Next Steps Photo : Steven Parker Steven Parker MERLOT 101

Thank You For Attending Our Workshop!