CTL Happenings - Message #359

The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Graduate Office will conduct the 2017 IUPUI TA Orientation on Thursday, August 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. at the IT Building. Graduate students anticipating to be first-time teaching assistants in Fall 2017 or Spring 2018 are encouraged to register for and attend the TA Orientation. Attendees will learn more about IUPUI policies and procedures and be equipped with basic tools and strategies to successfully start their teaching responsibilities at IUPUI. Click here to view the schedule and register for the 2017 IUPUI TA Orientation.

Are you a new or returning Associate Faculty member at IUPUI or IUPUC? (Sometimes Associate Faculty are called part-time faculty or part-time lecturers.) If so, you are invited to the Associate Faculty Teaching Forum. This event provides an opportunity to engage in forum-style conversations with your associate faculty colleagues and consultants at the Center for Teaching Learning (CTL) about teaching and technology challenges encountered in the classroom or online. The event will be held at IUPUI's CTL. Read more..

The CTL can now provide support for migrating Adobe Presenter files off of the Adobe Connect server. There are a few different options on how to migrate the content. Learn more about the Adobe Connect Retirement.  

Click here to fill out a form and we can see how best to help.

The QM workshop introduces faculty and staff to the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric and to the QM Process. Quality Matters is a nationally recognized quality assurance organization for online course design, and the QM Process is a faculty-led peer review process that uses the research-based standards (criteria) of the QM Rubric to certify online courses.

In-person QM workshops will be offered on the following dates.  Each workshop will be from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  To register for an event or for more information, click on the dates listed below.

Note:  Participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop to receive QM certificate.

This webinar is provided by IU Top Hat representative, Sarah Hammond, in partnership with IT Training.

After a university-wide pilot, Top Hat has been selected as Indiana University’s new student response system. TurningPoint Cloud will continue to be available for Spring and Summer 2017 terms, but will no longer be supported in Fall 2017.

Top Hat is an interactive, cloud-based teaching platform that enables instructors to engage students both inside and outside the classroom with compelling content and activities.

Note to Instructors: Prior to this session, please prepare by taking the steps below:

1. Review this provided Top Hat Overview page
2. Create your account by following the steps on this provided Indiana University - Single Sign-On Account Setup page

If questions, please contact Sarah Hammond (sarah.hammond@tophatmonocle.com)

What you'll learn:

• Use Top Hat to take attendance
• Use Top Hat to ask interactive questions with automated grading
• Use Top Hat to facilitate open-ended discussions and activities
• Use Top Hat's seamless integration with Canvas to update Top Hat rosters and send Top Hat grades to the Canvas gradebook

The Center for Teaching and Learning offers an Online mini-workshop series focused on foundational teaching skills, Teaching@IUPUI. Designed for new faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students, and those looking for a refresher on good teaching practices, the webinars are short, with a brief presentation interspersed with opportunities for interaction and questions. Grounded in current research, the workshops address various teaching topics and provide participants with strategies and resources to make instruction more effective, efficient, and enjoyable.

Click on the webinar titles below for more information and registration details.  

As IUPUI begins 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, a review of course portfolio requirements, the process for assembling and submitting the portfolio, and the rubric that will be used to review the course portfolios. Examples from existing course portfolios will be incorporated into the workshop. Questions and discussion will be encouraged. 

Note:  This workshop is also offered on the following dates.  For more information and to register, click on any of the dates listed below.

• The Teaching@IUPUI webinar on Writing a Teaching Philosophy/Statement will be held on Thursday, July 13, 2017, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Click here to learn more and register for this webinar.

• The Teaching@IUPUI webinar on Documenting Your Teaching Success  will be held on Thursday, July 20, 2017, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Click here to learn more and register for this webinar.

Making Academic Change Happen is an interactive, participant-focused workshop to explore the processes and approaches necessary to introduce, promote and implement innovative programs.

This COLLABORATIVE retreat will help you communicate your good work, garner support for your academic ideas, and provide tools to make an impact on your program, school, and campus!

Bring a team! Build solutions!  Workshop facilitators are from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  

For more information, contact Kate Thedwall, kthedwal@iupui.edu 

Seidel, S. B., & Tanner, K. D. (2013). “What if students revolt?”—considering student resistance: origins, options, and opportunities for investigation. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 12(4), 586-595. https://goo.gl/bEJjyP