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New graduate student teaching assistants (TA) for the 2019 - 2020 academic year are invited to participate in the 2019 IUPUI TA Orientation to learn more about their new position and develop strategies to confidently and effectively interact with faculty and undergraduate students. The in-person training session is scheduled for Thursday, August 22, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and the online Canvas course will be available from August 1. Successful participation includes completing the in-person training and the online course. Click here for more information and registration details.
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Friday, August 30 | 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. | University Library UL 1125
You are invited to the grand opening of the Faculty Crossing and CTL 2.0! Part workroom, part café, the Faculty Crossing is a technology-rich collaboration space for faculty and teaching staff of all appointments. Featuring welcoming spaces and a virtual reality innovation center, CTL 2.0 offers opportunities for all instructors to practice, experiment, and play with various teaching and technology solutions.
Remarks by Chancellor Paydar, Executive Vice Chancellor Kathy Johnson, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Margie Ferguson, and others will take place during the event. RSVP by August 27, 2019.
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Organized as a series of discussions, the Associate Faculty Teaching Forum offers an opportunity to join your colleagues from many departments to discuss and to explore approaches to commonly encountered teaching issues at IUPUI.
Jay Gladden, Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education, will give this year’s keynote address, "Importance of Faculty in Student Persistence and Success." The AFTF takes place Wednesday, September 18, 2019 from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Food and coffee included. For registration and more information.
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The ATLT Symposium brings the higher education community together to examine and showcase both existing, and emerging instructional technologies, and their pedagogical application across a variety of disciplines.
Our keynote speaker, Open Education Librarian Michelle Reed at the University of Texas Arlington, will share her perspective on OER in higher education. We will also reprise our popular "technology playground" to provide some hands-on experience. Join us November 8, for the 2019 Advancing Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium.
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Indiana University has developed an award-winning smartphone app to help students stay on top of their schoolwork in Canvas. The app is called “Boost,” it is available for free to all IU students, and it integrates with Canvas to provide reminders about deadlines and other helpful notifications. For more information, see https://kb.iu.edu/d/atud.
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Faculty have access to so many teaching and learning technologies at IU, it can be overwhelming to figure out the right tool for the job. The Technology Tool Finder is here to help, providing faculty with a one-stop portal for IU-supported teaching and learning technologies. Search for tools by category and learn how colleagues are using them. Access Tool Finder at toolfinder.iu.edu.
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CTL Workshops and Webinars
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Wednesday, August 21 | 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer(s): Andi Strackeljahn and Presenter(s): Quintin Peirce, Top Hat
Are your students coming prepared to class? Would you like to know how well they are comprehending the course readings? Accountability is key in active learning and flipped classrooms. In this webinar, Top Hat trainers will demonstrate how Top Hat Classroom and Assignments can be leveraged to help ensure your students arrive prepared for face-to-face meetings. Instructors from all IU campuses are invited to participate in this webinar.
Top Hat is a student response system and comprehensive teaching platform that instructors can use to engage students both within and outside of the classroom with interactive slides, graded questions, customized content, videos, discussions, and polls. Students use smartphones, tablets, laptops, or ordinary cell phones to participate in Top Hat activities.
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Wednesday, September 4 | 12 noon - 1:00 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer(s): Anusha S Rao and Presenter(s): Douglas Jerolimov, Anusha S Rao
How and when should you address disruptive student behaviors? Disruptive student behaviors are those behaviors which impede learning and teaching, and have the potential to escalate or spread if left unchecked. This webinar will present examples of disruptive student behaviors and participants will engage in discussions about how to prevent and manage such common disruptions in both the face-to-face and online teaching contexts.
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Thursday, September 5 | 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon | UL 2115E
Register » Organizer(s): Terri Tarr and Presenter(s): Debora Herold, Terri Tarr
As IUPUI continues the process of reviewing general education courses, course coordinators or faculty responsible for preparing course portfolios for review may have questions about the information and materials that need to go into the portfolios. This workshop will provide an overview of the course review process, course portfolio requirements, and the rubric that will be used to review the course portfolios. It will also introduce a new option for preparing a simplified course portfolio based on using a Mile Marker assignment. Examples from existing course portfolios will be incorporated into the workshop. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.
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Thursday, September 5 | 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer(s): Kimmaree Murday and Presenter(s): Madeleine Gonin and Kimmaree Murday
Are you interested in having online office hours? Holding class while you are out of town? Inviting a guest speaker from anywhere in the world? Have students record their group meetings or dialogues? Zoom might be just the tool for you. IU faculty, staff, and students can use Zoom, a video conferencing and online collaboration tool, to host meetings that anyone can join. In this workshop, we will learn how users access their account, schedule, manage and record meetings, as well as how to use Zoom as an effective conferencing tool.
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Come and learn about the two UITS supported ePortfolio tools at IUPUI - Google Sites and the Course Networking ePortfolio. See what is possible with each tool, including some of the most common options students use along with ideas for including images, embedded PowerPoint, video, and other digital media. Each tool has unique features, come and see which will be the best fit for your teaching.
ePortfolio Workshops:
Tues., Aug. 20, 2019 , 10:30-11:45 a.m., University Library, Ashby Browsing Rm. - Register: Note: Session is full and has a wait-list, if you can no longer attend please cancel your registration online or send me an email to cancel to allow folks on the waitlist to attend, thanks!
Thurs., Sept. 12, 2019 , 10:30-11:45 a.m., University Library, UL 0110 - Register
Presenters are Mengyuan Zhao, Carrie Hansel, Sean Winningham, and Amy Powell.
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The Polis Center at IUPUI is offering a series of free workshops to build data literacy skills and use the SAVI community information system as a resource. SAVI Training is a hands-on curriculum focused on data literacy from end to end. It features four groups of modules that teach one to ask the right questions, find the right data, find meaning in the data, and then use the data to make and communicate decisions.Workshops are offered every other week.
- Find Meaning in the Data | August 22, 8:30-11:30 a.m. - Register
- Tell Stories with Data | September 5, 9-11 a.m. - Register
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Tuesday, August 20 | 8:30 a.m. - 2:05 p.m. | Indiana University Southeast
| Organizer(s): Institute for Learning and Teaching Excellence
Dr. Dee Fink, professional and international consultant on college teaching and faculty development, and author of Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses will be the keynote speaker at the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, at IU Southeast.
Concurrent sessions include:
- 12 Practical Steps to Practicing Cultural Humility
- Effective Lecturing: Lessons from the Fall 2018 Learning Community
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines: The Full Dose
The conference will be September 20, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. Click here for more information and registration.
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