CTL Happenings - Message #495

You and your students may have navigated many unprecedented teaching and learning challenges this year due to the pandemic. We invite you to submit a proposal for a short (10-minute) virtual presentation focused on what you learned about your own teaching practices and your impact on students’ learning during the pandemic. The goal of these presentations is to bring forth promising practices and enable our campus community to develop a common understanding of challenges and solutions in the changed teaching and learning circumstances. Proposals are due on August 31, 2020.  View the call for proposals for more information.

The October 9th Scholarly Teaching Symposium is an annual half-day event that fosters a culture of scholarly teaching and supports the scholarship of teaching and learning. It provides faculty with a venue to share their promising teaching practices and disseminate results of scholarly teaching interventions, such as the work of the Curriculum Enhancement Grant awardees.

Will you be a new graduate teaching assistant (TA) in fall 2020 and/or spring 2021? Register for the 2020 TA Orientation, to learn about the expectations and responsibilities of your new position, and develop strategies to confidently and effectively interact with faculty and undergraduate students in face-to-face and online classes. Click here for more information and registration details.

Feeling anxious about preparing your fall course in a new format? The Just-In-Time Course Design: A Faculty Learning Experience is for you! This is a badged professional development opportunity for faculty interested in learning more about teaching online, in-person with physical distancing, or a mix of online and in-person as they prepare for Fall 2020. Participants will select from a variety of learning experiences which will be completed independently and include activities such as live and recorded webinars, online resources, readings, and application assignments in a Canvas site. Application assignments will require creating materials for their own courses and completing a reflection on their work.

IUPUI, IUPUC, and IU Fort Wayne instructors are eligible for the badge and $500 in professional development funds. Participants may work through the learning experience at their own pace, but they must submit all materials by August 31 to earn the badge and the associated funds.

For more information and to register.

Join a panel of faculty, staff and administrators as we overview policy considerations for experiential and community-based learning experiences this fall. Beyond the policies, we will explore situations and ways to respond that that align with university policy as well as how to integrate risk and safety considerations into the classroom as teachable moments.

Creating accessible course materials is critical to support all students, particularly those with visual or audio impairments. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to tools, resources, and best practices for developing accessible course materials.

Looking for a way to build your Canvas course without starting from scratch? The IU Course Template for Canvas is now available to use in all Fall 2020 courses. 

This optional template includes suggestions for how to use Modules, Syllabus, and other frequently-used Canvas tools to build your course in Canvas. During this workshop, plan to learn more about what the template offers you, how to apply the template to your course, and receive answers to your questions about how to individualize the template to your personal teaching style.

Join this webinar to learn how to use CourseNetworking (CN Post) to add social discussion to your online class. The CN Post provides a very easy to use, Facebook like, student-driven discussion space for you and your students. Using the tool, students can freely talk to each other, share learning resources, and answer each other’s questions. CN Post can be a replacement or complement to the Canvas Discussions tool.

This webinar will show you how to set up CN Post in your Canvas course, facilitate student discussion, and easily track participation from both desktop and mobile devices. 

Critical Reflection is a key tenet of all High Impact Practices that, when designed well, allows students to make meaning of their experiences in light of particular frames of reference (e.g., a course concept, disciplinary knowledge, skill, or value).  This process not only helps students deepen their knowledge but also provides an opportunity to document their learning.  In our time together, we will discuss key design principles and a helpful reflective framework, offer tips on designing reflection for distance-learning, and provide you with a helpful way to utilize reflection products as a means of learning assessment.

This session is part of the Tips and Strategies to Promote Student Learning and Engagement During COVID-19 Professional Development Series sponsored by the Institute for Engaged Learning, IUPUI.

A syllabus is often the first impression that students form of a course, and it serves both faculty and student as a guide to and contract for the semester. A well-designed and personalized syllabus can help faculty set the proper tone while simultaneously helping them avoid having to repeatedly answer basic student questions about expectations, policies, and deadlines. This webinar will offer tips and considerations for effective syllabus design and show examples of syllabi from various disciplines in face-to-face and online classes. 

This webinar will introduce the newly created “ePortfolio at IUPUI” Canvas Expand site full of ready-to-use ePortfolio activities, guides, and assignment templates. Designed to be user-friendly, flexible, and available to all IUPUI instructors, each resource can be used as-is or modified to support the learning goals of your program, course, and curriculum.

The IUPUI CyberLab team will give you an in-depth look into the CourseNetworking (CN) ePortfolio platform. Whether you are teaching with ePortfolio in a single course or are incorporating ePortfolio into your degree program or co-curricular program, you will find helpful information and resources through this session to implement ePortfolio, and there will be plenty of time to ask questions.

This 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. Eventually, many online courses within the IU system will undergo the QM Process with the goal of achieving national QM recognition. Faculty may also use the QM Rubric as a guide to design online courses. And, for faculty who are interested, this course serves as a pre-requisite for QM's Peer Reviewer Course, which is a required course for faculty who seek certification as a QM Peer Reviewer, allowing them to participate in QM course reviews for courses created here at IU and at other universities.

The workshop is offered at IUPUI as a one-day synchronous Zoom workshop from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.with a one hour break for lunch. To receive the QM certificate of completion for this workshop, participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop. 

Join this webinar to learn how to use CourseNetworking (CN Post) to add social discussion to your online class. The CN Post provides a very easy to use, Facebook like, student-driven discussion space for you and your students. Using the tool, students can freely talk to each other, share learning resources, and answer each other’s questions. CN Post can be a replacement or complement to the Canvas Discussions tool.

This webinar will show you how to set up CN Post in your Canvas course, facilitate student discussion, and easily track participation from both desktop and mobile devices. 

This webinar will introduce the newly created “ePortfolio at IUPUI” Canvas Expand site full of ready-to-use ePortfolio activities, guides, and assignment templates. Designed to be user-friendly, flexible, and available to all IUPUI instructors, each resource can be used as-is or modified to support the learning goals of your program, course, and curriculum.

The IUPUI CyberLab team will give you an in-depth look into the CourseNetworking (CN) ePortfolio platform. Whether you are teaching with ePortfolio in a single course or are incorporating ePortfolio into your degree program or co-curricular program, you will find helpful information and resources through this session to implement ePortfolio, and there will be plenty of time to ask questions.

The SEA Change Institute will be hosting five, short online learning events with the authors of Talking about Leaving Revisited. Each event will focus on specific implications of TALR, and the authors of will provide an overview of their findings and answer questions from participants. Registration for the TALR events is open to all who are interested – SEA Change Membership is not required to participate in this SEA Change Institute offering.

Please follow the links below for to register for each event individually. 

Webinar 3: STEM learning experiences and their consequences
Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 11:00 a.m. -12 p.m. EST

Webinar 4: Dysfunctions of the STEM weed-out system
Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 11 a.m. -12:15 p.m. EST

Webinar 5: Dimensions of STEM persistence
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 11 a.m. -12:15 p.m. EST

Data & Drafts: Impacts of COVID-19 on population needs and housing equity

Which areas of Central Indiana have experienced an increase in calls for help? Which populations have experienced a higher increase in needs? What needs have increased the most? Which neighborhoods are most susceptible to housing instability as a result of COVID-19? On August 20, during our virtual presentation from 6-7:30 p.m., we will look at predicted eviction levels due to rising unemployment, as well as the amount of funding it would take to support renters who have lost their jobs. In March, SAVI created the Coronavirus Data Hub to help practitioners and policy makers during the COVID-19 public health crisis and to provide Central Indiana residents with data about the spread and effect of the virus. The Coronavirus Data Hub includes several dashboards, data, and maps about Indiana’s situation and its information is updated regularly. This event is made possible by the partnership of The Indianapolis Public Library, WFYI Public Media, and SAVI, with support from the Civic Switchboard and Sun King Brewing. Our friends at Sun King Brewing will be providing drawing prizes for early registrants and engaged participants, 21 years and older, during the event.

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Upcoming SAVI Data Literacy Skills Training:  SAVI data literacy training empowers you to find, use, and understand data. Classes are as follows:

• Create and Use Survey Data | August 13, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. - Register
• Avoid Data Pitfalls  |  August 27, 10 a.m.-12 p .m. - Register

Wong, C. (2020, August 5). A four-step plan: The first day of class on Zoom. Faculty Focus. 

Will you be meeting your students on Zoom on your first day of class? This article provides a four-step plan with examples that you can try to get you and your students started off to a positive and welcoming first day of class!