Monday, 08 Apr 2019
Workshop, Building a Canvas Course that Makes Sense to Your Students (Canvas Track 1)
Learn about the top five strategies to ensure that your Canvas course is navigable and user-friendly! Upon completion, participants will be able to do the following:
Wednesday, 10 Apr 2019
2-Part Series: Sketchnoting for Visual Note Taking and more
Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, Assistant Professor of Industrial Design will show you the essentials of Sketchnoting, a pattern-based notetaking strategy that actively engages learners.
Thursday, 11 Apr 2019
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Teaching Playful Communication
"Teaching Playful Communication: Inspiration from a visual studio classroom." In this interactive workshop, Morrill Professor April Katz, Art and Visual Culture, shares how she helps learners discover and explore their own unique artistic voices and evoke varied responses.
Friday, 12 Apr 2019
Discuss Published Education Research in Your Discipline (DBER Journal Club)
How do students learn best in your discipline? Where can you publish the way you solved instructional problems? You are invited to share and discuss DBER journal articles, seek feedback as you begin designing your own educational research projects, and form collaborations with participants from other disciplines.
Monday, 15 Apr 2019
Quality Matters Learning Community
The Quality Matters (QM) Learning Community is designed to help you improve your courses using the Quality Matters Standards. Members will have opportunities to hear about ways to meet the QM standards, as well as discussing best practices, experiences, and solutions to course design problems.
Tuesday, 16 Apr 2019
Workshop: Faculty with Multiple Identities as Strategic Agents to Institutional Change
Nancy "Rusty" Barceló, special assistant for diversity, equity and inclusion to the chancellor of the University of Illinois and an expert on institutional change, will share her professional journey as a Chicana administrator and change agent at the highest levels of academia. This workshop will be repeated today, 1-2:30 p.m. Registration requested.
Friday, 19 Apr 2019
Seminar, ISU Online Learning Community (ISU-OLC)
The purpose of the ISU-OLC is to share campus best practices to improve online teaching and learning; see how others are using the University Learning Management System (LMS) to create innovative learning experiences, inform the campus about existing and new web-based instructional technologies, participate in new technology testing and evaluation; as well as, to leverage LMS expertise, experience and training resources across campus.
Tuesday, 30 Apr 2019
Retirement reception: Chris Hurst
Chris Hurst, a record analyst in the office of admissions, is retiring.