IUPUI Adobe Day Faculty Focus Panel
Friday, February 15, 2013 | Campus Center 148 | 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Each year IUPUI celebrates Adobe Day. This event is full of activities designed to encourage faculty, staff and students to take advantage of freely available Adobe software titles. The Center for Teaching and Learning participates in Adobe Day, namely, by hosting a faculty focus session. This session highlights Adobe software that assist faculty make the most of their work.
This year, come hear three dynamic panelists from our IUPUI community talk about how they use Adobe products to support their work in and out of the classroom. There will be a question and answer time after the panelists have provided an overview of their work.
Professor Brian Krohn (Tourism, Convention and Event Management) will highlight his approach to teaching online using Captivate and Adobe Connect’s training and curriculum components. In particular, he will discuss how Captivate can be used in to promote learning through self-assessment with directed feedback and added engagement; and how Captivate and Connect training together can manage learner progress.
Professor Mary Ann Frank (Design and Communication Technology) will show how the PDF Portfolio utility within Adobe Acrobat Pro provides a convenient method for organizing and distributing a collection of documentation. Furthermore, she will demonstrate how to create and maintain a dossier package for promotion and tenure requirements using Adobe Acrobat Pro.
Andrew Headrick is the Super Leader for Chemistry's cyber Peer-Led Team Learning (cPLTL) implementation. Andrew will discuss how Adobe Connect, with careful use of microphones, web and document cams can be used within the Adobe Connect web conferencing environment to promote deeper learning.
Attendees have the choice of attending either in person in Campus Center room 148 or online via Adobe Connect. At light lunch will be provided for face-to-face attendees. See below for registration options.
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Register» | Organizer and Presenter: Lorie Shuck
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Effective Information Graphics
Part 1:
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Register» | Organizer & Presenter: Isaac Wilson
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Part 2:
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | University Library 1125M | 2 -4 p.m.
Register» | Organizer & Presenter: Isaac Wilson
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Discovering the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 | University Library 1125M | 2 - 3:30 p.m. |
Register» | Organizer: Terri Tarr | Presenters: Bill Orme, associate dean, IUPUI University Library, Mary Fisher, professor, Department of Environments for Health and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Kimberly Olivares, managing editor, Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology
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Information Literacy Workshop
Friday, February 22, 2013 | UC 104 | 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Register»
Anne E. Zald is the Head of the Instruction Department, University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where efforts to embed information literacy learning across the curriculum are her primary responsibility.
Currently serving as the Head of Educational Initiatives at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries, Anne's experience over the last 30 years includes coordinating instruction and the creation of new courses, developing outreach projects and expanding educational roles for academic librarians, and providing professional development on pedagogy, assessment, and curricular integration of information literacy. She has been a faculty member for the Institute of Information Literacy for the Association of College and Research Libraries since 1999, where Anne's work with librarians and library administrators have helped to shape information literacy, instruction, and assessment projects and initiatives in institutions around the country. Her position as the Information Literacy Coordinator and lecturer at the University of Washington included a statewide task-force created to assess the information and technology literacy of baccalaureate degree recipients of the public four-year institutions. She has also served on the AAC&U VALUE Information Literacy Rubric team, as well as in librarian positions with Wayne State, Oberlin College, and the University of Michigan.
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New Faculty Mid-Year Gathering
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | Campus Center 405 | 4 - 6 p.m. | Register»
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If you were not able to attend the New Faculty Welcome this past August, please take this opportunity to introduce yourself and meet other new faculty and planning committee members. We would like to hear how you are getting along.
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This year's speaker is Stephen Brookfield, a distinguished university professor of the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He has written and edited fifteen books on adult learning, teaching, leadership, critical theory, and critical thinking, five of which have won the World Award for Literature in Adult Education (in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2005 and 2011). He has also authored over 100 chapters in edited books, published over 70 articles in refereed journals, and delivered over 40 papers that were published in juried conference proceedings.
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