CTL Happenings - Message #467

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 is now  available. Successful participation includes completing the in-person training and the online course. Registration and details

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.

Thinking about flipping part of your class but you're not sure where to start? Join us for a 4-session bootcamp and jumpstart your progress! You will learn about flipped course design and practice with a variety of content creation tools and active learning strategies. The Bootcamp is structured as a flipped class so you experience being a student in the style of course you are developing. For more information and registration

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Want to learn more about efforts to develop students' intercultural competence at IUPUI? Join us for the Intercultural Engagement Symposium at IUPUI on September 6, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Hine Hall.

Sessions are applied and interactive, examining intercultural competence and engagement, inclusive/culturally-sensitive teaching, and internationalization. Stephanie Doscher, co-author of Making Global Learning Universal (2018), will give a plenary address titled, Connecting the Dots: Intercultural Competence, Local Engagement, and Global Learning. Register

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 Workshop: 

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.

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.

• Tell Stories with Data |  September 5, 9-11:00 a.m.  - Register
• Frame the Problem |  September 19, 8:30-10:30 a.m. - Register
• Find Existing Data |  September 19, 10:30 am-12:30 p.m. - Register

Thomas Holme, Iowa State University, Morrill Professor of Chemistry will be presenting Gauging chemistry learning by measuring more then the final answer.  This event will be Wednesday, September 18, 2019.  Registration and more information.

Lang, J. M. (2019, January 4) How to teach a good first day of class. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

The first day of class is crucial both for your students and for you. This guide will help you make opening day as effective as possible.