CTL Happenings - Message #513

Do you feel like you’re in a Zoom slump? Class sessions on Zoom can be engaging and even invigorating, but it doesn’t “just happen” on its own - it needs you. Experience active learning in Zoom first-hand and leave with engagement activities you can immediately implement in your class in this mash-up of Zoom features and IU’s technology smorgasbord. Engage in Zoom alchemy - turning Zoom plumbum into active learning aurum. If you are unfamiliar with the basic features of Zoom meetings, please review the following resources prior to this webinar: (1)  UITS Knowledgebase article on Using Zoom (2) Zoom: The Basics screencast (3) Keep Teaching: Zoom for Instructors webinar recording This webinar will be held May 13, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon. Go here to register.

• Plater Institute session recordings and resources focused on antiracism in the classroom
• Strategies and Guidance for Teaching During Politically Divisive Times
• Anti-Asian Racism Resources and Support

Check out the CTL's latest teaching resource - a collection of short video clips that cover some of the most popular topics from our workshops and webinars! If you’re short on time and looking for answers to specific questions about a teaching strategy or technology, start with these video guides. Explore the videos.

Teach, Play, Learn (TPL) is IU's annual conference on game-based teaching and learning. This year's presentations will focus on real-life usage, empirical studies, and theoretical discussions. We're particularly interested in interactive workshops involving best practices for teaching with games or playful elements in the classroom. For discussion topics and other details, visit the TPL website.

Want ideas to improve your online or hybrid course? Join us for this one-day workshop to learn about the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric, about the QM process of continuous improvement, and to join the QM community! Attendees may use the workshop as step to becoming a certified Quality Matters peer reviewer. 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.

This webinar is part of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s 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. Sessions are scheduled with the time of semester in mind, to keep topics relevant for faculty needs at that time.

Each semester, the Faculty Forum offers writing groups that provide encouragement, accountability, and a sense of community for faculty and staff. There are three ways to participate: Hybrid Writing Group, Online Writing Group and At-Your-Pace. Click here for more information and registration or contact us at: faccross@iupui.edu.

SAVI:  Digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis Being Developed 

The Polis Center at IUPUI - in collaboration with The Indianapolis Public Library and several major Indianapolis cultural and heritage institutions and organizations - is developing a bicentennial legacy project: a digital version of the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Building on the 1994 print version, the free, web-based resource is expected to launch in early summer 2021. Click for more information or to Subscribe to its public newsletter 

Mini-grants ranging from $250 and $750 are available through the Center for Service and Learning to support dissemination and practitioner-scholar participation in external learning opportunities and networks that advance professional growth and which can further evidence base and scholarly profile of IUPUI in public and community-engaged scholarship in and across the domains of teaching, research and service. The application deadline is April 30, 2021. Click for application and deadline information.

With in-person education returning in the fall, we are taking time to reflect on what we learned during a 2020 -2021 experiment, and how this new knowledge will improve our courses moving forward. In this STEM Shares event, you will hear from a panel of IU instructors who will discuss different ideas for adapting their fall courses based on their online teaching experiences. Click for more information and to register for this event.

On May 12, The Center for Service and Learning (CSL) Coffee Chat will feature The Jury’s in: Online teaching strategies that have enhanced student learning in my community-engaged courses. After a year’s experience of learning to navigate academic-community partnerships as part of online and hybrid courses, we each have myriad lessons learned. In what ways has your view of the [in]compatibility of community-engaged teaching and learning shifted over this past year? Which strategies have been most effective in supporting students learning with and from communities? Click to register for this event.

DeCuir, A. (2021, Mar 24). Advice for humanizing classrooms and practicing antiracist pedagogy, Inside Higher Ed.

Although often narrowly defined to teaching issues of race and inequality, antiracist pedagogy itself is grounded in the work of humanizing one another. Humanizing validates students’ right to show up as they are and to claim their lived experiences as meaningful, and it recognizes them as the deeply complex individuals they are. The author shares 10 habits to humanize the online classroom to embody antiracist pedagogy.