Tuesday, 04 Nov 2014
Insights into Advising: Teaching and Learning Circle
This Teaching and Learning Circle will focus on insights into the conceptual, informational and relational components of advising including readings from prominent authors in the field of advising. Join our facilitators in discussing your foundation in advising, advising as teaching, coaching strategies, and relational advising and communication with students.
Roundtable: Blended Learning Brown-Bag: Improving your Blended/Online Course with Quality Matters
Quality Matters is a research-based initiative aimed at improving student learning experiences in online programs and courses. The Quality Matters curriculum introduces faculty and instructional staff to best practices in instructional design, provides a rubric for assessing online course design and outlines a process for continuous improvement of online and hybrid courses.
Workshop: Tips and Tricks for Shooting and Editing Your Own Video for Classroom or Online Presentation
If you are shooting a video for your online class introduction, or for a mini video lecture, or you plan for your students to submit video assignments, then these tips will help you create a quality and educational multi-media product.
Thursday, 06 Nov 2014
Learning Community: Engaging Students through Writing
While the possibilities for incorporating writing into a course are endless, these choices can also be overwhelming. What types of assignments will work in my course? How can I respond efficiently to student writing? Join the director of the Writing & Media Center for an in-depth, cross-disciplinary conversation on incorporating writing into courses across the curriculum.
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
Tuesday, 18 Nov 2014
Game Based Learning: Redesigning an Engineering Large Lecture Course
Special Guests: Dr. Koray Celik, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Pinar Arpaci, School of Education, will share their experiences and methods used to redesign a large lecture course.
Wednesday, 19 Nov 2014
Seminar: Empowering At-Risk and Marginalized Students
This presentation will focus on academic coaching and intervention strategies for students on probation, first-generation students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, underrepresented students, and students who engage in high-risk behavior. The presenter identifies as all of the above, and will reference his own struggles as a student who abused drugs and alcohol before stopping out.
Thursday, 20 Nov 2014
Webinar: Thriving vs. Surviving: A Four-Frame Model for Creating Inclusive Learning Environments
The Engineering Inclusive Teaching (EIT) project offers this FREE, highly interactive webinar on how to craft an equitable and inclusive learning environment. You are sure to come way with practical strategies and tips to apply to your own teaching.