Thursday, 13 Nov 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. Basic skills with PowerPoint Office 2010 are required.
Friday, 14 Nov 2014
Meeting: Blackboard User Group (BUG)
Monthly meeting of BbLearn users discussing various topics related to the use of Blackboard Learn in teaching and learning.
Learning Community: Team-Based Learning
Graduates of the TBL Teaching and Learning Circles are invited to participate in the TBL Faculty/Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Learning Community. We work as teams to optimize application exercises, readiness assurance tests, peer evaluation, and other aspects of course design, and also invite speakers to facilitate discussions of TBL theory, research and classroom application. Facilitator: Lisa Orgler, Lecturer, Horticulture