Files for DPA Faculty

Physics & Astronomy Professor Orientation Letter—Fall 2014

University Level Resources

• Provost-Registrar web site
• Faculty and Professional Staff Handbook
• HR
• New Employee Orientation for Adjunct Faculty
• New Employee Orientation for Faculty and Staff
• Preventing Employment Discrimination mandatory online training

Class Planning

• Subject Matter Topics for Introductory Physics—a list of topics to cover in each course
• Subject Matter Topics Outline for Introductory Physics—as above but with suggested outline of order and amount of time per topic
• Course Syllabi Archive—sorted into folders by course, named by course-year+sem-professor (in PDF format)
• University Syllabus Policy from the Provost's web site
• Mastering instructor access code: UEMPEM-GRILL-TREND-POWAN-RETOT-TIRES

Labs and Demos

• Lab/Demo Request Form (web form)—fill out and submit at least one week before you want to run the lab in order to ensure equipment is pulled, carted, and ready for you
• List of Demos
• Lab manual for Introductory Physics
• Five labs from a less "cookbook" point of view—connect to the openarea and go to the 'chemphys\klassen labs' directory. Includes: Experimental Error, Modeling Motion, Projectile Motion, Centripetal Force, and Atwood's Machine; they are each only two-pages long
• Lab manual for Modern Physics
• See the Study Area of Mastering
• PhET—A site full of demo/lab computer sims

Assessment

• Content Assessment Pre-Test Instructions—Fall 2013
• Physics B.S. Program Assessment Framework: PDF, XLSX

Running "Lecture"

• General information
• Peer Learning in Introductory Astronomy
• The Physics Source—searchable site of resources (problems, demos, labs, clicker questions, etc.)
• Compadre (explore under the Faculty tabs)—searchable site of resources (problems, demos, labs, clicker questions, etc.)
• Clicker-style questions
• In the Instructors Resources area of Mastering
• the OSU PER group
• the CWSEI
• The Physics Suite
• smartPhysics
• Context Rich Problems
• A series of worksheets and in-class exerciese—connect to the openarea and go to the 'chemphys\Maureen worksheets et al' directory (Includes Velocity & Acceleration, Circular Motion, Rotation & Rolling, Forces, Momentum, One and Two Dimensional Motion, Work & Energy, and some sample exams and quizzes)
• UMPRED site (University of Minnesota)
• New York Times Physics
• Video lecture resources (for "classroom flipping")
• MIT Open Courseware
• Physics I: Classical Mechanics
• Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism
• Physics III: Vibrations and Waves
• HippoCampus
• KhanAcademy

Tech Help

• Rowan Technology Toolbox—Your first stop for all you tech help
• Technology Enhanced Classrooms information
• BlackBoard 9.1 information
• Technology training—they have classes/info for BlackBoard, Banner, GRAD, and so much more
• Rowan Faculty Center—resources for general faculty support and development
• lynda.com—an online trainer for lots of software packages (see the IR website for login information)

Advising

• NJ Transfer—all kinds of info for advising transfer students; you can click the Find Course Equivalencies link to help students see if a course will transfer
• CollegeSource Online—enter a school name and get their catalog, a transcript key, a profile, link to web site, and even find it on a map

Recontracting, Tenure, Promotion

• Physics & Astronomy T&R Guidlines (PDF format; last updated Sep 2015)
• Physics & Astronomy Promotion Guidlines (PDF format; last updated Aug 2011) [also in DOCX format]