Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014
Service-Learning Faculty/Staff/Graduate Student Learning Community
Are you interested in developing, or enhancing, a service-learning component within your course? You are invited to join this dynamic, interdisciplinary group as we walk-through the process of integrating service-learning into the curriculum. These interactive sessions will include topical discussions, readings, and sharing of best practices.
Strategies for obtaining tenure: panel discussion for new tenure-eligible faculty
Senior faculty members share their best tips and strategies for obtaining tenure with new tenure-eligible faculty
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).