AAC&U Pedagogies of Engagement Conference

Friday, 16 April 2004

10:30-Noon

Empire Seventh Floor

Concurrent 5: "Engaging Students in their own learning

Strategies for First-Year Seminars"

Pathway III: Pedagogies of Engagement in the First-Year Experience

and Beyond

The Idea Notebook

Professor Michael Steven Marx, English Department, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

e-mail: mmarx@skidmore.edu

Professor Catherine White Berheide, Sociology Department, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

e-mail: cberheid@skidmore.edu

To learn more about Skidmore College's required first-year course, Liberal Studies 1: Human Dilemmas, please visit the course website at

http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/ls1/portal.html

To learn more about the Idea Notebook and the course in which we piloted the Idea Notebook, please visit the website for ID 201H: LS 1 Tutoring Project at

http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/ls1tutors/portal.html

The Idea Notebook and its related research has been conducted with the support of the Carnegie Foundation,
Center for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning