Monday, 11 Nov 2024
Workshop: Intro to AI Tools for Starting a Literature Review
Part one of a two-part series: "AI-Facilitated Analysis and Interpretation of Scholarly Literature." Try out two artificial intelligence (AI) research tools to assist in the first stage of a literature review. Please bring your laptop. Registration required.
Tuesday, 12 Nov 2024
Workshop: Build a quick website using Google Sites
Creating a simple website can be overwhelming, especially if you have little or no web design or coding experience. To quickly create a website with no coding or design experience, but with the ability to collaborate with others in real time, try Google Sites -- a free web-based web creation tool that will get your website up and running. Registration required.
Thursday, 14 Nov 2024
Systems Thinking in Higher Education: Defining Mental Models to Shift Perspective
Mental models are assumptions and beliefs people develop over time based on their lived experiences. Systems thinkers actively strive to understand the implicit and explicit mental models at play in a system.
Workshop: Escape from Spreadsheet Hell
This workshop introduces ways to structure your research data so it's both computer and human friendly, practices for documenting your work, and functions for simple data processing and quality control. This is a beginner-level workshop that covers how to format and organize data in a spreadsheet program such as Excel. Bring your laptop for hands-on practice. Registration required.
Friday, 15 Nov 2024
Data Viz 101: Effective Design
This seminar focuses on creating effective and appealing data visualizations. Participants will learn how design choices can make or break a data viz and how simple changes can lead to big improvements. We'll cover topics such as text and fonts, color, layout, and labels. Registration required.