"Tracing the Experience: From Inquiry to Integration"

Eighth Annual Conference

March 21-23, 2012

Denver, Colorado

 

Pre-Conference Workshop Schedule

 

Please note that the video and/or audio recording of Pre-Conference Workshops is NOT permitted.

 

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

 

Full-Day Workshops 8am-12pm, 1:30-4:30pm

 

Digital Storytelling & Study Abroad: Reflection, Articulation and Integration

Doug Reilly (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Tom D'Agostino (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Marie Bongiovanni (Lebanon Valley College)

This workshop introduces study abroad practitioners to the powerful integrative pedagogy of digital storytelling, in which images, words and music are combined into short films that are easy to disseminate. Participants will make their own digital stories and share them at the follow-up general session open to all Forum members.

 

Training for Holistic Transitions Abroad: The Emotional and Physical Dimensions of Intercultural Experience

Michael VandeBerg (CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange), Lilli Engle (American University Center of Provence)

Education abroad orientation and training programs often focus more on transmitting knowledge to students than on enhancing their intercultural competence. This full-day, train-the-trainer workshop offers a holistic approach to intervening in student intercultural development, focusing on the emotional and physical, as well as the intellectual, dimensions of the experience abroad.

 

Morning Workshops 8:30am-12pm

 

Challenging the Lens: Examining Symbolism and Meaning in the Promotion of Education Abroad

Bradley Rink (CIEE), Martha Johnson (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Laurie Black (SIT Study Abroad)

This workshop is intended to elicit self-reflection by education professionals in how we represent the education abroad experience through promotional materials & program design. The lenses that help to shape the experience for prospective participants (visual discourses from the camera and narrative discourses from texts) are the source of multiple views of the world, including the romanticized, the terrorized or the colonized. Through analysis of narrative and visual texts, this half-day workshop challenges these discourses in order to reflect on the state of the field. The workshop format will allow participants to directly apply assessments of their own program promotional materials and program design–examples of which they will be invited to bring to the workshop.

 

Implementing a High-Impact, Technology-Supported Intercultural Course Abroad

Kris Lou (Willamette University), Gabriele Bosley (Bellarmine University)

Facilitators present the effectiveness of combining theory, research and curriculum design in delivering an on-line intercultural course that connects both US students across the globe and international students in the US around common intercultural challenges, but from the vantage points of many different cultural contexts. Participants work hands-on and interactively with this self-paced/instructor-guided course model which integrates the “laboratory” of cultural immersion with the home-campus curriculum.

 

Afternoon Workshops 1-4:30pm

 

Balancing the Art and Practicality of Education Abroad Leadership in Times of Resource Constraint

Sarah E. Spencer (University of St. Thomas), Lisa Donatelli (Georgetown University), Martin Hogan (CIEE), Malene Torp (DIS: Danish Institute for Study Abroad), Joel Gallegos (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

This workshop will guide participants through building and making the case for new resources, in addition to addressing alternatives such as reorganization and virtual assets. Participants will learn strategies on building alliances, when and how to use data and how to persuade decision-makers who are often not international educators.

 

Experiential Learning Doesn’t Just Happen: Designing Effective Experiential Learning Programs

Mark A. Ritchie (International Sustainable Development Studies Institute), Paul Robinson (HNGR, Wheaton College), Mark Seifert (School for Field Studies), Sarah Schmidt (University of Denver)

Using case studies from a diverse set of education abroad programs in developing countries, this workshop focuses on helping participants design and assess effective experiential learning programs. We will examine experiential learning in both the natural and social sciences, and focus on developing practical steps to improving experiential study abroad.

 

An Introduction to the Forum's Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad

Kim Kreutzer (University of Colorado, Boulder), Irene Gawel (GlobaLinks Learning Abroad)

Through group exercises and roundtable work, areas that will be addressed in this workshop include: the context for the Standards; the structure and content of the Standards; what the Standards of Good Practice encompass; and an opportunity to apply the Standards in real-word situations.

 

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