Fall 2014 - Trainings and Events
August 2014
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19 Blackboard Essentials Training @ Olive-Harvey – Click title to register
Blackboard Essentials Training @ OHC (11:00-12:00pm) Room 3307
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19 Blackboard Grade Center Training @ Olive-Harvey – Click title to register
Blackboard Grade Center Training @ OHC (2:00-3:30pm) Room 3307
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20 Office 2013 New Features Training @ Olive-Harvey – Click title to register
What's New in Office 2013 Training @ OHC (10:30-11:30am) Room 3307
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20 SMART Classroom Training @ Olive-Harvey – Click title to register
SMART Classroom Tips and Tricks @ OHC (2:30-3:30pm) Room 3319
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21 NetSupport School – Click title to register
Manage your Students in the Lab with NetSupport School @ OHC (2:30-3:30pm) Room 3307
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22 iRespond Clickers for Biology Dept. – Click title to register
Biology iRespond Clickers @ OHC (11:00-12:00pm) Room 3307
Next Week:
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26 Office 2013 New Features Training @ Olive-Harvey – Click title to register
What's New in Office 2013 Training @ OHC (5:00-6:00pm) Room 3307
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27 Office 2013 New Features Training @ Olive-Harvey – Click title to register
What's New in Office 2013 Training @ OHC (5:00-6:00pm) Room 3307
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29 Blackboard Assignments, Tests, and Online Grading @ Olive-Harvey – Click title to register
Blackboard Assignments, Tests, and Online Grading @ OHC (10:00-12:00pm) Room 3307
STEM CTL WILL BE OPEN ALL WEEK FOR WALK-IN SUPPORT, COLLABORATION, AND INDEPENDENT WORK
We will be holding open-hours for The STEM Center for Teaching and Learning all week for drop-in Blackboard or Technology help, Instructional Design support, or to use for collaboration or personal work space. You may bring your own laptops, or laptops are available to use in the center. |
Training: Blackboard Basics
Monday January 13 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Room 3307 Are you new to Blackboard? Or are you interested in learning new ways to present content and utilize Blackboard effectively? The Blackboard Basics workshop is a hands-on session intended to introduce you to Blackboard, provide you with the essential skills to fulfill the Blackboard requirements, review the most common tools, and to identify best practices. Objectives: At the end of this training you will be able to log into Blackboard, personalize your homepage, manage your courses, upload your syllabus, make your course available, add various content items (including announcements, text, files, links, media), understand the various options when posting content, and be able to identify the most commonly used tools. Intended Audience: New faculty and staff, Faculty and staff new to Blackboard, or those who would like a refresher on the required Blackboard uses (uploading your syllabus and making your course available). Prerequisite: none. This is an introductory training applicable to all instructor levels. Agenda
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Training: Blackboard Intermediate
Monday January 13 @ 4:00-5:00pm, Room 3307 In this follow-up to Blackboard Basics, we build upon the foundations and incorporate your usage of Blackboard's commonly used tools, including Assignments, Turnitin, Tests & Quizzes, and the Grade Center. We will also introduce best practices for designing your course, using rubrics, and building the grade center. Objectives: At the end of this training you will be able to create assignments that integrate directly with the Grade Center (using Assignments, Turnitin, Discussions, Tests, Surveys, and Quizzes), incorporate rubrics into your Blackboard assignments, and learn Grade Center Basics. Intended Audience: Faculty and staff who have mastered the Blackboard basics and are looking to expand their use of Blackboard tools. Prerequisite: Blackboard Basics, or equivalent experience. Prior to attending this course, you should be familiar with navigating the Blackboard homepage, courses, and basic tools. You should have experience adding and editing content and customizing your course. Agenda
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Training: Using your SMART Classroom to the Fullest
Wednesday January 15 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Room TBD Are you using your SMART Classroom to its fullest potential? In this training, we will cover the basic how-to's as well as review tips and tricks for engaging students with the classroom tools. This training is intended for new full-time and part-time faculty, or those who want a refresher on the SMART Classroom tools. |
Collaboration: Learning Community Faculty Collaboration
Wednesday January 15 @ 2:00-5:00pm, Room 3307 To facilitate faculty collaborations for paired Learning Communities, the STEM Center for Teaching and Learning, Room 3307 has been reserved on a monthly basis (every 3rd Wednesday) throughout the entire semester, beginning on Wednesday, January 15 through Wednesday April 16, 2014. In order to derive the greatest benefit from your Learning Community experience, the STEM CTL encourages each Learning Community faculty to utilize this time for curriculum alignment and to plan the integration of your lessons and activities. |
Training: Blackboard Basics
Thursday January 16 @ 3:00-4:00pm, Room 3307 Are you new to Blackboard? Or are you interested in learning new ways to present content and utilize Blackboard effectively? The Blackboard Basics workshop is a hands-on session intended to introduce you to Blackboard, provide you with the essential skills to fulfill the Blackboard requirements, review the most common tools, and to identify best practices. Objectives: At the end of this training you will be able to log into Blackboard, personalize your homepage, manage your courses, upload your syllabus, make your course available, add various content items (including announcements, text, files, links, media), understand the various options when posting content, and be able to identify the most commonly used tools. Intended Audience: New faculty and staff, Faculty and staff new to Blackboard, or those who would like a refresher on the required Blackboard uses (uploading your syllabus and making your course available). Prerequisite: none. This is an introductory training applicable to all instructor levels. Agenda
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Training: Blackboard Intermediate
Thursday January 16 @ 4:00-5:00pm, Room 3307 In this follow-up to Blackboard Basics, we build upon the foundations and incorporate your usage of Blackboard's commonly used tools, including Assignments, Turnitin, Tests & Quizzes, and the Grade Center. We will also introduce best practices for designing your course, using rubrics, and building the grade center. Objectives: At the end of this training you will be able to create assignments that integrate directly with the Grade Center (using Assignments, Turnitin, Discussions, Tests, Surveys, and Quizzes), incorporate rubrics into your Blackboard assignments, and learn Grade Center Basics. Intended Audience: Faculty and staff who have mastered the Blackboard basics and are looking to expand their use of Blackboard tools. Prerequisite: Blackboard Basics, or equivalent experience. Prior to attending this course, you should be familiar with navigating the Blackboard homepage, courses, and basic tools. You should have experience adding and editing content and customizing your course. Agenda
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Training: Blackboard Intermediate
Tuesday January 21 @ 10:00-11:00am, Room 3307 In this follow-up to Blackboard Basics, we build upon the foundations and incorporate your usage of Blackboard's commonly used tools, including Assignments, Turnitin, Tests & Quizzes, and the Grade Center. We will also introduce best practices for designing your course, using rubrics, and building the grade center. Objectives: At the end of this training you will be able to create assignments that integrate directly with the Grade Center (using Assignments, Turnitin, Discussions, Tests, Surveys, and Quizzes), incorporate rubrics into your Blackboard assignments, and learn Grade Center Basics. Intended Audience: Faculty and staff who have mastered the Blackboard basics and are looking to expand their use of Blackboard tools. Prerequisite: Blackboard Basics, or equivalent experience. Prior to attending this course, you should be familiar with navigating the Blackboard homepage, courses, and basic tools. You should have experience adding and editing content and customizing your course. Agenda
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Training: Using your SMART Classroom to the Fullest
Tuesday January 21 @ 4:00-5:00pm, Room TBD Are you using your SMART Classroom to its fullest potential? In this training, we will cover the basic how-to's as well as review tips and tricks for engaging students with the classroom tools. This training is intended for new full-time and part-time faculty, or those who want a refresher on the SMART Classroom tools. |
Brown Bag Series: Ted Talks: Facilitating Educational Innovation Through Ideas and Discourse - M.C. Carr
Wednesday January 22 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Room 3307 As part of the efforts to bring intellectual life and discourse to the faculty and staff, Professor Carr will host a series on Ted Talks. It is an opportunity to facilitate innovation through ideas and discourse. When we enrich ourselves personally, we also collaborate professionally, and integrate that knowledge in the classroom. The conclusion of each Ted Talk event can close the information loop among professionals. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. |
Training: Using your SMART Classroom to the Fullest
Thursday January 23 @ 3:30-4:30pm, Room TBD Are you using your SMART Classroom to its fullest potential? In this training, we will cover the basic how-to's as well as review tips and tricks for engaging students with the classroom tools. This training is intended for new full-time and part-time faculty, or those who want a refresher on the SMART Classroom tools. |
Training: Blackboard Assignments, Tests & Quizzes
Monday January 27 @ 6:00-7:00pm, Room 3307 In this training, the focus is on maximizing instructor efficiency through Blackboard. By creating assignments and tests/quizzes in Blackboard, students are able to submit work directly to Blackboard without the hassle of hard copies. Assignments can be graded directly in the website, and Tests and Quizzes are automatically graded, saving you time, and getting results to students faster and more reliably. Objectives: At the end of this training you will be able to create Assignments (that integrate directly with the Grade Center), be able to train students on submitting those assignments, create Tests that allow for automatic feedback, experience how students take those tests, and understand how those assignments and tests integrate with the Grade Center. Intended Audience: Faculty and staff who have mastered the Blackboard basics and are looking to expand their use of Blackboard tools. Prerequisite: Blackboard Basics, or equivalent experience. Prior to attending this course, you should be familiar with navigating the Blackboard homepage, courses, and basic tools. You should have experience adding and editing content and customizing your course. Agenda
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Meeting: STEM CTL Committee Monthly Meeting
Tuesday January 28 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Rm 3319 The STEM CTL Committee meets monthly. |
Presentation: The Syllabus as Classroom Management - Prof. Jacqueline Johnson
Wednesday January 29 @ 4:00-5:00pm, Room 3307 The well-crafted syllabus is critical to the maintenance of order and discipline in the classroom. This workshop is designed to demonstrate the tools for building just such a syllabus, especially for our population. Workshop Objectives
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Training: Blackboard Assignments, Tests & Quizzes
Thursday January 30 @ 6:00-7:00pm, Room 3307 In this training, the focus is on maximizing instructor efficiency through Blackboard. By creating assignments and tests/quizzes in Blackboard, students are able to submit work directly to Blackboard without the hassle of hard copies. Assignments can be graded directly in the website, and Tests and Quizzes are automatically graded, saving you time, and getting results to students faster and more reliably. Objectives: At the end of this training you will be able to create Assignments (that integrate directly with the Grade Center), be able to train students on submitting those assignments, create Tests that allow for automatic feedback, experience how students take those tests, and understand how those assignments and tests integrate with the Grade Center. Intended Audience: Faculty and staff who have mastered the Blackboard basics and are looking to expand their use of Blackboard tools. Prerequisite: Blackboard Basics, or equivalent experience. Prior to attending this course, you should be familiar with navigating the Blackboard homepage, courses, and basic tools. You should have experience adding and editing content and customizing your course. Agenda
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September 2014
Training: Blackboard Assignments, Tests & Quizzes
Monday February 3 @ 3:00-4:00pm, Room 3307 In this training, the focus is on maximizing instructor efficiency through Blackboard. By creating assignments and tests/quizzes in Blackboard, students are able to submit work directly to Blackboard without the hassle of hard copies. Assignments can be graded directly in the website, and Tests and Quizzes are automatically graded, saving you time, and getting results to students faster and more reliably. Objectives: At the end of this training you will be able to create Assignments (that integrate directly with the Grade Center), be able to train students on submitting those assignments, create Tests that allow for automatic feedback, experience how students take those tests, and understand how those assignments and tests integrate with the Grade Center. Intended Audience: Faculty and staff who have mastered the Blackboard basics and are looking to expand their use of Blackboard tools. Prerequisite: Blackboard Basics, or equivalent experience. Prior to attending this course, you should be familiar with navigating the Blackboard homepage, courses, and basic tools. You should have experience adding and editing content and customizing your course. Agenda
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Training: Blackboard Assignments, Tests & Quizzes
Tuesday February 4 @ 5:00-6:00pm, Room 3307 In this training, the focus is on maximizing instructor efficiency through Blackboard. By creating assignments and tests/quizzes in Blackboard, students are able to submit work directly to Blackboard without the hassle of hard copies. Assignments can be graded directly in the website, and Tests and Quizzes are automatically graded, saving you time, and getting results to students faster and more reliably. Objectives: At the end of this training you will be able to create Assignments (that integrate directly with the Grade Center), be able to train students on submitting those assignments, create Tests that allow for automatic feedback, experience how students take those tests, and understand how those assignments and tests integrate with the Grade Center. Intended Audience: Faculty and staff who have mastered the Blackboard basics and are looking to expand their use of Blackboard tools. Prerequisite: Blackboard Basics, or equivalent experience. Prior to attending this course, you should be familiar with navigating the Blackboard homepage, courses, and basic tools. You should have experience adding and editing content and customizing your course. Agenda
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Training: Recording Lectures Over PowerPoint - Michelle Ferguson / Elissa Tobin
Wednesday February 5 @ 11:00-12:00pm, Room 3307 In this 1 hour hands-on-training, you will learn how to record your voice over a PowerPoint Presentation so students can view it at their own leisure. This technique can be used for making up missed lectures, or can be used to provide supplemental resources for students. It is also a useful technique if you are currently or are considering teaching hybrid courses. Objectives: At the end of the training you will be able to create a recorded lecture over PowerPoint using your office laptop, and will be able to upload that recording to Blackboard for student access. Agenda:
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Brown Bag Series: Writing Across the Curriculum - Dr. K. Watson
Wednesday February 5 @ 2:00-3:00pm, Room 3319 The Writing Across the Curriculum Brown Bag Series continues with Dr. Khalilah Watson every 1st Wednesday of the month. WAC Goals
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Training: Recording Lectures Over PowerPoint - Michelle Ferguson / Elissa Tobin
Wednesday February 5 @ 4:00-5:00pm, Room 3307 In this 1 hour hands-on-training, you will learn how to record your voice over a PowerPoint Presentation so students can view it at their own leisure. This technique can be used for making up missed lectures, or can be used to provide supplemental resources for students. It is also a useful technique if you are currently or are considering teaching hybrid courses. Objectives: At the end of the training you will be able to create a recorded lecture over PowerPoint using your office laptop, and will be able to upload that recording to Blackboard for student access. Agenda:
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Training: Recording Lectures Over PowerPoint - Michelle Ferguson / Elissa Tobin
Thursday February 6 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Room 3307 In this 1 hour hands-on-training, you will learn how to record your voice over a PowerPoint Presentation so students can view it at their own leisure. This technique can be used for making up missed lectures, or can be used to provide supplemental resources for students. It is also a useful technique if you are currently or are considering teaching hybrid courses. Objectives: At the end of the training you will be able to create a recorded lecture over PowerPoint using your office laptop, and will be able to upload that recording to Blackboard for student access. Agenda:
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Training: Recording Lectures Over PowerPoint - Michelle Ferguson / Elissa Tobin
Thursday February 6 @ 5:30-6:30pm, Room 3307 In this 1 hour hands-on-training, you will learn how to record your voice over a PowerPoint Presentation so students can view it at their own leisure. This technique can be used for making up missed lectures, or can be used to provide supplemental resources for students. It is also a useful technique if you are currently or are considering teaching hybrid courses. Objectives: At the end of the training you will be able to create a recorded lecture over PowerPoint using your office laptop, and will be able to upload that recording to Blackboard for student access. Agenda:
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Webinar: Supporting The Engagement, Learning & Success of Students At-Risk (Part 1) - Felicia Spaulding
Tuesday February 11 @ 12:00-1:30pm, Room 3307 This intensive three-hour workshop (two 90-minute sessions) will identify the characteristics, challenges, and strengths of students whose backgrounds and experiences often put them at greater risk for not achieving their full potential and/or for leaving college. Participants will also consider how at-risk students often confront multiple challenges due to overlapping issues such as first-generation and first-year, multicultural, underprepared, and LGBT. At-risk cohorts covered in these sessions include:
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CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER (PRESENTER) Webinar: Teach Students How to Learn: Metacognition is the Key
Wednesday February 12 @ 2:00-3:30pm, Room 3307 This webinar is designed to help faculty, learning center professionals, and student affairs personnel develop strategies to help students become independent, self-directed learners. A discussion of the characteristics of today’s students will help participants understand why many students lack effective learning strategies when they enroll in college, and how simple it is to teach them strategies for successful learning. Reflection and think-pair-share activities will introduce participants to cognitive science research-based methods that can be used to improve teaching and learning. The session will provide a variety of strategies that have proven successful in helping students experience meaningful, transferable learning. |
PD Workshop: A Learning Community Workshop: Designing Integrated Learning for Students
Wednesday February 12 @ 2:00-4:00pm, Room 3307 This workshop explores possibilities for integrating student learning in your classrooms with the aim of discovering what is doable. After setting the groundwork for collaboration, from what matters most to us as educators to our expectations for student learning, we will work to create enriched learning opportunities for students enrolled in two or more classes. From designing a shared activity/assignment, the emphasis is on how to work in ways so that new opportunities for learning can be integrated in the Fall 2014 semester |
Webinar: The "L" Word: Including Literacy in All Disciplines - LaTanja Moody
Thursday February 13 @ 12:00-1:00pm, Room 3307 Engage in a webinar about the language of literacy across the disciplines. Discover ways of engaging students in reading, writing, and thinking in your classroom no matter what you teach. The "L" word will soon leave a good taste in your students' mouths! |
PD Workshop: A Learning Community Workshop: Designing Integrated Learning for Students
Thursday February 13 @ 3:00-5:00pm, Room 3307 This workshop explores possibilities for integrating student learning in your classrooms with the aim of discovering what is doable. After setting the groundwork for collaboration, from what matters most to us as educators to our expectations for student learning, we will work to create enriched learning opportunities for students enrolled in two or more classes. From designing a shared activity/assignment, the emphasis is on how to work in ways so that new opportunities for learning can be integrated in the Fall 2014 semester |
Brown Bag Series: Classroom Assessment Techniques - Dr. V. Fullard
Friday February 14 @ 10:00-11:00 am, Room 3307 Please join Dr. Vera Fullard in the Brown Bag Series on Classroom Assessment Techniques held on the second Tuesday of each month. Each month, we will discuss 3 chapters of the Classroom Assessment Techniques, 2nd Edition by Angelo and Cross. This text was distributed by the President during Faculty Development Week. |
Webinar: Supporting The Engagement, Learning & Success of Students At-Risk (Part 2) - Felicia Spaulding
Wednesday February 19 @ 12:00-1:30pm, Room 3307 This intensive three-hour workshop (two 90-minute sessions) will identify the characteristics, challenges, and strengths of students whose backgrounds and experiences often put them at greater risk for not achieving their full potential and/or for leaving college. Participants will also consider how at-risk students often confront multiple challenges due to overlapping issues such as first-generation and first-year, multicultural, underprepared, and LGBT. At-risk cohorts covered in these sessions include:
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Collaboration: Learning Community Faculty Collaboration
Wednesday February 19 @ 2:00-5:00pm, Room 3307 To facilitate faculty collaborations for paired Learning Communities, the STEM Center for Teaching and Learning, Room 3307 has been reserved on a monthly basis (every 3rd Wednesday) throughout the entire semester, beginning on Wednesday, January 15 through Wednesday April 16, 2014. In order to derive the greatest benefit from your Learning Community experience, the STEM CTL encourages each Learning Community faculty to utilize this time for curriculum alignment and to plan the integration of your lessons and activities. |
Brown Bag Series: Ted Talks: Facilitating Educational Innovation Through Ideas and Discourse - M.C. Carr
Wednesday February 26 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Room 3307 As part of the efforts to bring intellectual life and discourse to the faculty and staff, Professor Carr will host a series on Ted Talks. It is an opportunity to facilitate innovation through ideas and discourse. When we enrich ourselves personally, we also collaborate professionally, and integrate that knowledge in the classroom. The conclusion of each Ted Talk event can close the information loop among professionals. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. |
October 2014
Brown Bag Series: Writing Across the Curriculum - Dr. K. Watson
Wednesday March 5 @ 2:00-3:00pm, Room 3319 The Writing Across the Curriculum Brown Bag Series continues with Dr. Khalilah Watson every 1st Wednesday of the month. WAC Goals
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Brown Bag Series: Classroom Assessment Techniques - Dr. V. Fullard
Tuesday March 11 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Room 3319 Please join Dr. Vera Fullard in the Brown Bag Series on Classroom Assessment Techniques held on the second Tuesday of each month. Each month, we will discuss 3 chapters of the Classroom Assessment Techniques, 2nd Edition by Angelo and Cross. This text was distributed by the President during Faculty Development Week. |
Workshop: Engaging and Educational Apps for Instructors and Students
Thursday March 13 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Room 3307 This workshop is designed to introduce faculty to engaging and educational apps to help them and their students in the classroom. The featured aps include a screen capture, concept mapping, study cards, student polling and response, and personal web magazine creation. We will be exploring free apps that are available on ipads, iphones, and android phones. Objectives:
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Presentation: The Syllabus as Classroom Management - Prof. Jacqueline Johnson
Wednesday March 19 @ 4:00-5:00pm, Room 3319 The well-crafted syllabus is critical to the maintenance of order and discipline in the classroom. This workshop is designed to demonstrate the tools for building just such a syllabus, especially for our population. Workshop Objectives
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Collaboration: Learning Community Faculty Collaboration
Wednesday March 19 @ 2:00-5:00pm, Room 3307 To facilitate faculty collaborations for paired Learning Communities, the STEM Center for Teaching and Learning, Room 3307 has been reserved on a monthly basis (every 3rd Wednesday) throughout the entire semester, beginning on Wednesday, January 15 through Wednesday April 16, 2014. In order to derive the greatest benefit from your Learning Community experience, the STEM CTL encourages each Learning Community faculty to utilize this time for curriculum alignment and to plan the integration of your lessons and activities. |
Brown Bag Series: Ted Talks: Facilitating Educational Innovation Through Ideas and Discourse - M.C. Carr
Wednesday March 26 @ 3:15-4:15pm, Bruce Cherry Theater As part of the efforts to bring intellectual life and discourse to the faculty and staff, Professor Carr will host a series on Ted Talks. It is an opportunity to facilitate innovation through ideas and discourse. When we enrich ourselves personally, we also collaborate professionally, and integrate that knowledge in the classroom. The conclusion of each Ted Talk event can close the information loop among professionals. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. |
November 2014
Brown Bag Series: Writing Across the Curriculum - Dr. K. Watson
Wednesday April 2 @ 2:00-3:00pm, Room 3319 The Writing Across the Curriculum Brown Bag Series continues with Dr. Khalilah Watson every 1st Wednesday of the month. WAC Goals
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Brown Bag Series: Classroom Assessment Techniques - Dr. V. Fullard
Tuesday April 8 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Room 3319 Please join Dr. Vera Fullard in the Brown Bag Series on Classroom Assessment Techniques held on the second Tuesday of each month. Each month, we will discuss 3 chapters of the Classroom Assessment Techniques, 2nd Edition by Angelo and Cross. This text was distributed by the President during Faculty Development Week. |
Speaker Series: Conservation Genetics and Phylogenetics - Dr. Mary Ashley, Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Ecology and Evolution within Biological Sciences
TENTATIVE: Thursday April 10 @ 2:30-4:00pm, Bruce Cherry Theater Guest Lecturer: Dr. Mary Ashley, Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Ecology and Evolution within Biological Sciences.
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Collaboration: Learning Community Faculty Collaboration
Wednesday April 16 @ 2:00-5:00pm, Room 3307 To facilitate faculty collaborations for paired Learning Communities, the STEM Center for Teaching and Learning, Room 3307 has been reserved on a monthly basis (every 3rd Wednesday) throughout the entire semester, beginning on Wednesday, January 15 through Wednesday April 16, 2014. In order to derive the greatest benefit from your Learning Community experience, the STEM CTL encourages each Learning Community faculty to utilize this time for curriculum alignment and to plan the integration of your lessons and activities. |
Speaker Series: Foraging Behavior and Evolutionary Ecology - Dr. Joel Brown, Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Ecology and Evolution within Biological Sciences
TENTATIVE: Thursday April 17 @ 2:30-4:00pm, Bruce Cherry Theater Guest Lecturer: Dr. Joel Brown, Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Ecology and Evolution within Biological Sciences.
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Brown Bag Series: Ted Talks: Facilitating Educational Innovation Through Ideas and Discourse - M.C. Carr
Wednesday April 23 @ 2:30-3:30pm, Bruce Cherry Theater As part of the efforts to bring intellectual life and discourse to the faculty and staff, Professor Carr will host a series on Ted Talks. It is an opportunity to facilitate innovation through ideas and discourse. When we enrich ourselves personally, we also collaborate professionally, and integrate that knowledge in the classroom. The conclusion of each Ted Talk event can close the information loop among professionals. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. |
Speaker Series: People's Changing Relationship with Nature - Dr. Patricia Zaradic, Director of the Red Rock Institute
TENTATIVE: Thursday April 24 @ 2:30-4:00pm, Bruce Cherry Theater Guest Lecturer: Dr. Patricia Zaradic, Director of the Red Rock Institute.
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MAY 2014
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Brown Bag Series: Writing Across the Curriculum - Dr. K. Watson
Wednesday May 7 @ 2:00-3:00pm, Room 3319 The Writing Across the Curriculum Brown Bag Series continues with Dr. Khalilah Watson every 1st Wednesday of the month. WAC Goals
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Blackboard in a Day (Crash Course - 3 sessions: attend 1 or all)
New to Blackboard or looking for a refresher? Take this crash course to get up to speed. We will cover everything you need to know. Beginner Basics – 10:00 to 11:30am, Rm 3307
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Using your SMART Classroom to the Fullest
As you may know, additional Smart Classrooms (CR1’s) have been implemented which means you may encounter some new technology in your classroom. Attend this training to ensure you are prepared and comfortable with the new technology.
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Using your SMART Classroom to the Fullest
As you may know, additional Smart Classrooms (CR1’s) have been implemented which means you may encounter some new technology in your classroom. Attend this training to ensure you are prepared and comfortable with the new technology.
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Blackboard in a Day (Crash Course - 3 sessions: attend 1 or all)
New to Blackboard or looking for a refresher? Take this crash course to get up to speed. We will cover everything you need to know. Beginner Basics – 10:00 to 11:30am, Rm 3307
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Blackboard - Grade Center
Grade Center Basics (4:00-4:45pm)
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For more information about Olive-Harvey's STEM-Center for Teaching and Learning visit us at http://www.ccc.edu/colleges/olive-harvey/departments/Pages/STEM-Center-for-Teaching-and-Learning.aspx