CTL Happenings - Message #468

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.

Ribbon cutting and remarks by Chancellor Paydar at 12:15 p.m.,with remarks by others including Executive Vice Chancellor Kathy Johnson, and Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Margie Ferguson, at 1, 2, and 3:00 p.m.  RSVP by August 29, 2019.

The Center for Teaching and Learning invites faculty and instructional staff of all ranks and appointment types to Scholars Teaching for Student Success: What Works, What’s Next  featuring Dr. Kimberly Tanner, a nationally recognized biology education researcher at San Francisco State University and the 2018 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) scholars presenting posters on their results. For event registration and schedule.

Applications are being accepted through August 30, 2019, for teaching in these rooms during the Spring 2020 semester: Hine Hall 118 (IP118), Lecture Hall 104 (LE104), and University Hall 1000 (AD1000). Use the Mosaic Active Learning Classroom Request form to apply to teach in one of those classrooms.

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.

Getting ready for the start of the new semester and wondering what your classroom looks like or what type of technology may be available to you and your students? UITS Classroom Technologies has several resources available to assist you.  Faculty can check out their classrooms ahead of time virtually through the Classroom Database.  If you would like an overview of the technology available in your classroom, you can schedule a time to meet with someone in your classroom by filling out the Learning Spaces Contact Form.

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. 

Are you tired of watching your students’ eyes glaze over? Are you interested in knowing more about what your students know (or don’t know)? In this webinar, Top Hat trainers will share everything you need to know in order to implement basic active learning into the classroom. 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.

At Indiana University, an enterprise license agreement allows all students to use Top Hat free of charge.

Join us on select Thursdays in September and October for casual conversations, brainstorming, and a little exercise at Wood Fountain, just south of the IUPUI Library. All you need is your ideas, questions...and maybe a pair of walking shoes.

Each week we'll have CTL consultants eager to chat with you about your ideas for effective teaching and learning with technology. Come for a few laps, or stay the whole time!  Learn more about weekly topics and register.

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. For more information and to register.  

Get fall semester off to a great start by registering for the IU Online Conference to be held October 30.  Registration deadline is September 27. 

This year's conference will feature panel discussion by chief online officers from large public institutions who will discuss various aspects of online education at their respective universities, as well as their perspectives on the future of online education.

These innovative leaders include: 
• Adam Fein, Vice President for Digital Strategy and Innovation, University of North Texas 
• Robert Griffiths, Associate Vice President, Office of Distance Education and eLearning, The Ohio State University 
• Mary Niemiec, Associate Vice President for Distance Education, Director of University of Nebraska Online, University of Nebraska 

For more information and registration.

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.

All science faculty members at Indiana University (all campuses) are invited, on behalf of University Academic Affairs, to the 2019 Indiana University Science Symposium. Registration is free, but limited to the first 120 people. You may register online until noon on September 13, 2019.

This year’s Science Symposium is pleased to welcome guest speaker, Sara Brownell, from Arizona State University. Sara will be presenting on “Assessing Your CURE: A Practical Guide for Instructors of Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences.” See the symposium website for more information and to register.

Dian Schaffhauser, D. (2019, July 10), Video use in education evolving beyond the classroom. Campus Technology.  

How do you use video in your teaching? Compare your experience (and what barriers you may encounter) with Kaltura’s survey. Recording lectures and getting them captioned, for example, can help reach international students as well as those who need accommodations. One of the most under-used tools is Kaltura analytics – come see us in the CTL to learn more.