CLII Portal - Welcome Welcome to the CLII Community of Practice as we hope you will find many enjoyable paths for embracing in the scholarship of teaching and learning with others.
In joining the CLII community of practice in higher education; we encourage you to:
We hope the you will enjoy being a part of a community of practice and that through your involvement you will be able to enhance your professional development as it relates to teaching and learning efforts. We hope that you will be able to connect and communicate with others in a purposeful way and find others with shared interests to enable forming relationships, building neighborhoods, or even fostering a initiative of many groups of individual working together on common goals and objectives.
We wish you all the best in your endeavors as you embark on your journey within the CLII community.
Happy Trails......
Betty Stricker, Community Coordinator
Explore the portal GATEWAY (homepage) features
The Gateway (homepage) serves as the entry arch where: visitors may learn about upcoming events, read articles related on the scholarship of teaching learning and emerging community of practice efforts, enjoy the opportunity to learn about innovative efforts of others have undertaken.
Become a COMMUNITY Member
Join Now and receive access to CLII Portal tools and workspaces
Create a presense on the Innovation by Design Community Portal
Let others know you are a community member by posting a biography. Be sure to post your digital picture as we all enjoy seeing a familiar face; Have a Home page, but sure to include with your biography
Explore the COMMUNITY 'TOWN CENTER' tools and workspace
Getting familiar with navigating the website environment by reading through the Help (?) Guide. Obtain assistance and provide feedback through the Help (?) Feedback submission form
Explore Existing Profiles
Search for profiles to locate teaching and learning resources and practices from our extensive collection. Use the search features to make your search more precise. For example, if you are looking for materials suitable for a particular learning technology such use of a Personal Response System (PRS), you might include ‘prs’ in the search field. Or, you might want to find materials by a particular author or neighborhood, then you might Search by person and enter Author last name (and first name if known). To search by a neighborhood, simply go to ‘Community’ on the menu bar and click on neighborhoods for those groups of individuals who are a part of the community of practice with a particular purpose. For those groups who have two or more neighborhoods that have an affiliation with each other, you may simply go to “Community’ on the main menu and click on Regions. Region may want to be cross-references in many different repositories or Community of Practices efforts.
Build CONNECTIONS with others
Find out what others have posted by using the Search features; Share what you are doing with others by posting a profile; If you have a colleague who is a member, search to see their posted innovations.
Let others know about your Innovative T&L efforts
Profile your innovative teaching and learning efforts Keyword(s) perhaps terms most frequency used to describe activity or concepts of learning; Type of Learning resource (i.e. tutorial, case study, assessment, laboratory/experiment support, practice problems/exercises, etc.); Appropriate Grade level; Author / Creator; Region affiliation / Collection cross-references such as: (VaNTH ERC, NEEDS digital library; NLII; etc.); and Publication dates of profiled efforts.
Be an active COMMUNITY member
Town Center - features and functionality to support connection, communicating, and collaborating. Neighborhoods - multiple members for group with common focus for purposeful discussions or efforts. Regions - neighborhoods groups of two or more that have common affiliation and desire virtual workspaces to support collaborative efforts and exchange of ideas.
Engage in formal and informal COMMUNICATION with other members
Communication tools are available to facilitate open dialogue, discussions among groups of individuals, and getting to meet each other face-to-face IP video and realtime chat. Share with others about your interests and desired to learn from each others experiences.
Submit your suggestions and ideas
Help (?) Feedback.
