Ohio Project NExT
Spring 2001

Ohio Project NExT An Ohio Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) workshop will be held Thursday evening and Friday morning, March 22-23, preceding the Ohio Section spring meeting at Bowling Green State University. This workshop will be the ninth since the founding of the Ohio Section's local version of national Project NExT for new faculty members. The Ohio Section will provide meals during the workshop for NExT Fellows during their first two years in the program. Others will be funded by their own local mathematics departments. The ÒheadquartersÓ hotel for NExTers in Bowling Green will be the Best Western Falcon Plaza at 1450 E. Wooster Street. Fellows should make their own reservations by calling 419-352-4671. Ask for the "Math. Assoc. of Amer." group rate to get the special room price. Activities begin with a banquet at 7:00 PM Thursday evening at Kaufman's at the Lodge restaurant, which is located at 1628 Wooster Street. Following the banquet, there will be a freewheeling discussion about issues in teaching and professional development.

Friday morning, after a continental breakfast beginning at 8:00 AM in the Bishop Room at the Best Western Falcon Plaza motel, workshop activities will begin at 8:45 AM in the same room. Leading off will be short "teaching vignettes" presented by Ohio NExT Fellows about experiences in teaching. Following the short talks, there will be two major workshop sessions.

Twenty-six NExT fellows and four mentors took part in the NExT workshop at last fall's meeting at Wittenberg University. Short Òteaching vignettesÓ were presented by three Fellows: Deborah Denvir (Marshall University) discussed "Ideas for Persuading Undergraduates to become Involved in Research Projects," Barbara Margolius (Cleveland State University) talked about "Homework and Quizzes over the Internet: WeBWorks and WebCT," and Judy Holdener (Kenyon College) described "Models of Life: a Mathematics Course for Nonmajors." There were two major workshop sessions. Tom Price (University of Akron) presented a workshop titled "Web Based Course Materials" and Ann Farrell (Wright State University) presented the second workshop on "Strategies for Using Learning Groups in Math Classes."

There are more than forty Ohio NExT Fellows, and about half are also national NExTers. To be eligible, the only requirements are that a faculty member be "new" (in his or her first four years of teaching in Ohio) and have a strong commitment to teaching undergraduates. Applications for Ohio Project NExT are now being accepted. Details and application materials can be found on the Ohio Section web page, or from John Holcomb (Cleveland State University), jph422@yahoo.com.

[Barbara Ashton]

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July 31, 2000