Wednesday, 16 Apr 2014
Workshop: PowerPoint: Beyond Bullets: Being Creative in the Classroom
Learn how to plan, create, and deliver classroom presentations using PowerPoint's visual tools. Topics include classroom strategies for using PowerPoint to deliver content and manage classroom activities. Design slides using graphics, photos, and multimedia and insert sounds, and video clips. Learn to guide viewers' attention with graphs, transitions and animations.
Online Tele-Workshop: Know your audiences, know your readers: How to market your book from Day One
It's important for authors to be active promoters of their own work, and most scholars understand the need to publicize their books after publication. But what about before publication? How should marketing considerations inform the entire publication process?
Friday, 18 Apr 2014
Symposium: Research Writing for Publishing in Journals
Editors of respected journals (for example, Evolution, Journal of Biological Chemistry and others) will speak about the conventions of writing for publication in their disciplines.
Monday, 21 Apr 2014
Roundtable: The Blended Learning Brown-bag*: Implementation of Hybrid Course Design
Hybrid instruction is an educational approach that combines traditional face-to-face instruction and online instruction with the premise of providing the benefits of the two formats (Lamport & Hill, 2012). When executed correctly, hybrid learning has been proven to increase efficiency for the institution and learning for the students (Mitchell & Honore, 2007).
Wednesday, 23 Apr 2014
Online Teleworkshop: How to Master Academic Time Management
This workshop is designed to provide participants with concrete skills to transition from graduate student to professor.