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In This IssueRussian Nesting Dolls Reveal the Artist Within Educational Technology Center: Infused with Technology Instructor Insights: Meet Nancy Toll Congratulations UWRF Graduates The UWRF Educator is published by the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Outreach and Graduate Studies. It is designed to provide continuing education and professional development information to practicing and aspiring educators and education administrators. Funding for the publication is provided through program revenue, not tax dollars. Directors: UWRF Outreach and Graduate Studies
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Growing Number of UWRF Educator E-Newsletter SubscribersThis is the second electronic issue of the UWRF Educator, a newsletter designed to bring timely information to practicing educators or admiinistrators. Since we launched the electronic version of this newsletter, our email subscription list has grown to nearly 600 teachers and education administrators. To promote the e-newsletter among area educators, we offered a prize drawing at various educator conferences last fall. Anyone with an interest in our educational offerings who was not yet admitted as a degree-seeking graduate student was eligible. Remember that UWRF Educator is also available in a printed format. If you prefer to receive the newsletter by mail, please send your address by email to the UWRF Outreach office. We hope you find the information in the newsletter to be easy to read and informative. Please let us know what you like and don't like by sending a comment using our Feedback Form.
Russian Nesting Dolls Reveal the Artist WithinInspired by love for her Russian born adopted daughter, Gina Pedriana-Basche created sculptures that inspired, in turn, her middle school art students and her peers at the 2007 Wisconsin Art Educators Association (WAEA) conference. Like the nesting dolls, she found that revealing the artist within empowered her as a teacher. The five-foot-high paper-mâché forms, which emulate traditional Russian nesting dolls, received recognition in the WAEA art show held on the UW-River Falls campus last October. Crafted in her classroom/studio at Meyer Middle School, the dolls offered these students a unique opportunity to observe and participate in their teacher’s artistic expression and process. Read More...
Educational Technology Center: Infused With TechnologyIt doesn’t look like any other computer lab on campus. And it shouldn’t. The Educational Technology Center (ETC) was meant to be different from the first architectural sketch. Situated at the heart of the Wyman Education Building, the ETC is the hub for emerging instructional and information technologies. When designing the building and the lab, architects set out to truly integrate technology with the actual structure, rather than add technology to a completed space, explained ETC Director Karen Ryan. Read More...
Instructor Insights: Meet Nancy TollUse technology as a tool rather than an outcome. This philosophy has guided Nancy Toll’s efforts in helping fellow educators integrate technology effectively in their classrooms. As the technology coordinator for the Hudson School District in Wisconsin, Nancy has many opportunities to demonstrate this philosophy. From her beginnings as a science teacher, she experienced the challenges teachers face in developing curriculum that covers all the important learning outcomes. Read More... News Items in This Issue:
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