The Faculty Development Speaker Series continues this Friday, April 15 with the visit of Dr. Rebecca Cox of Seton Hall University. The faculty session, Understanding The New Student Learning Paradigm: How to Help your Students Succeed, occurs at 9:05 a.m. in the John Gray Center Seminar Rooms A&B. Registration is requested to help us with the food and beverage needs. The session will be followed by a book signing as well and B&N Bookstore will have copies of The College Fear Factor: how students and professors misunderstand one another for sale. We urge you to encourage your students to attend the student-only session, Secrets Revealed: What Your Professors May Be Thinking About You, set for 12:30 p.m. in 206 Setzer Center. Linda Adler-Kassner, professor of writing at the University of California at Santa Barbara and president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, announced the release of the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing guidebook for faculty members who teach composition and writing. Probing the uses of nine different types of social media among professors, a recently released study found that professors consider YouTube the most useful tool by far -- for both teaching and non-classroom professional use. Nearly a third of respondents said they instructed students to watch online videos as homework, and about 73 percent said they thought YouTube videos were either somewhat or very valuable for classroom use, regardless of whether they use them currently. If you teach a core or developmental course at LU, we are hoping you are planning to submit an application for the 2011 ACES Fellows program. You should attend one of the two orientation sessions set for April 18, at 1:00 p.m. in room 101A Education Building and April 19, at 9:30 a.m. in room 204 Social and Behavioral Sciences Building. You can download a copy of the Request for Application now.