Introduction


 * What is the Faculty Certificate Program (FCP)?**
 * The FCP is a 5 day intro to the “fun”damentals of teaching; each component could in itself be at least one semester long.
 * The FCP culminates with a special lunch—we need to know if you are able to come and if there are any dietary needs
 * The afternoon is optional but we have planned some exciting activities for you and would really like you to be a part of them. We need to know now if you can come in the afternoons.
 * We would like to take digital pictures throughout the week; please let us know if you object to that.
 * There are teaching quotes posted around the room.Read them during the week and on Friday you will write your own quote.


 * Ice Breaker Activity**
 * Getting to know each other—what we have taught someone else to do.
 * **Introduction Activity by Participants**
 * Each person will introduce someone else to the group (that means you have to quickly ‘interview’ someone in the room, possibly write some notes, and be ready in 10 minutes to talk about that person).
 * What kind of information do we want to know—name, faculty, one teaching goal/dream/hope/aspiration for the coming year (something you would like to learn about/be better at in teaching).
 * Vi will take notes on all of these short presentations and will highlight the contributions and nature of participants—(e.g., brand new faculty, more seasoned, different faculties, different teaching portfolios, different interests, etc).
 * **Outline of Topics, Presentation Style**
 * Agenda for the week: we will go through the FCP outline—topics in this FCP are similar to sections of a teaching dossier—or similar to parts of a course outline.
 * You will each get a laptop for use in this room for the FCP. Please note the number on your laptop and make sure you take the same one each day. [Also, make sure at the end of each morning that you return your laptop to the charging station and **plug it in**]. Create a desktop folder with your name on it so that anything you create can be saved to it. You will also each get an //empty// flash drive, the idea being that during this week, and on into the future, you will create materials for your classes and use this flash drive to save and store your teaching and learning activities. Anything you save to your desktop folder can of course be saved to your flash drive at the end of each day or at the end of the week.
 * We will go through the agenda again, this time indicating where on the CTL site you need to go to locate the resources for each topic area. Take a few minutes to explore the CTL site.
 * The brand new CTL site has a "Talk Back" (BLOG) feature. We want/need your feedback on this site so please post your comments about the site under the first posting.
 * This wiki, which may change/evolve as the week progresses, can be used by you as an online worksheet, sort of like an online scavenger hunt to take you immediately to different websites. At the end of each day on this wiki is a section where you can enter your reflections on the day. I think this will work quite well so long as you don't all save your work at the same time. If you prefer not to enter your daily reflections on the wiki there will be papers available for you to use.
 * Topic presentation--we used to devote about half a day to the use of technology, but just as it’s difficult to examine teaching strategies in isolation of content it’s also difficult to teach about technology in isolation of content. As we take a look at different topics this week I will engage you in different teaching strategies and I will try to use technology in different ways—that are appropriate to the content being addressed.