Blackboard Upgrade and Changes for 2017
Tuesday, Oct. 18 | 10-11 a.m. | Sangamon 0119
Facilitator: Andy Mitkos, Learning Management System Coordinator
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We are pleased to announce exciting changes coming to our Blackboard system. Come hear about all of the things that you can expect to see in our Blackboard system this coming spring semester and hear how these updates and changes may impact you and your students. This session is highly recommended for faculty who use Blackboard regularly for online and face-to-face classes.
Encourage Student Engagement With Live Streaming
Wednesday, Oct. 19 | 11 a.m.-noon | Sangamon 0119
Facilitators: Barry Lamb, Director, Instructional Technology Services
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Recording and sharing video at any time is easier than ever! This workshop will feature demonstrations on how to stream video live and share information quickly and easily. Discussion will be focused on best practices to consider when live streaming. Facebook Live, YouTube, and Periscope will be demonstrated.
Experimentation In Teaching
Thursday, Oct. 20 | 2-3 p.m. | Sangamon 0120
Facilitator Jason Dockter, Ph.D, Professor, English
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Teaching is our first priority as faculty members of the college. We devise classroom activities, teaching methods, and instructional strategies all intended to help students learn the concepts of our courses. But it’s easy to become stuck in a rut, relying on the same activities, methods, and strategies semester after semester. This workshop is not a demonstration workshop – it’s a conversation workshop, mainly about you and what you do in your classroom to get out of those ruts. What out-of-the-box activities or approaches to teaching are you experimenting with? What do you do that you were a bit hesitant to try? What do you bring to your class that others might think is strange? weird? highly suspect? These are the sorts of things I want to hear about and share with other faculty. Your academic discipline doesn’t matter here – but your experimentation in teaching does. Bring your best to this workshop and share it with your peers — the weirder, the better!
Office of Academic Effectiveness Open Lab
Thursday, Oct. 20 | 2-4 p.m. | Sangamon 0119
Facilitator Elaine Guthals, Academic Effectiveness Manager
No registration is required.
Not sure how to get started with your mission statement? Have it developed; need to know what happens next? Still have questions on program review and assessment? Have curriculum development and maintenance questions? We have added additional Open Lab sessions to address these questions. These open-lab sessions will give you the opportunity to get individual help with any of your curriculum needs.