CTL Happenings - Message #520

Do you know anyone who will be a new graduate teaching assistant (TA) in fall 2021 and/or spring 2022? Have them register for the 2021 TA Orientation, to learn about the expectations and responsibilities of their 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.

Are you Associate Faculty at IUPUI, IUPUC, or IU Fort Wayne? Join the conversation about teaching during the 2021 Associate Faculty Teaching Forum (AFTF). Save the Date of September 29, 2021, 5:15 - 8:15 p.m. in order to attend. Registration details will be coming soon. 

Ciubotariu, I. I. (2021). Embrace and celebrate diverse names in science. Nature.
Making the effort to learn our students’ names and pronouncing them correctly is an important first step in acknowledging their identity and creating a welcoming classroom. An international graduate student shares her experiences and provides strategies to guide others on how to pronounce your name and how you can learn to pronounce others’ names correctly.

At Indiana University, NameCoach is a tool in all officially provisioned classes in Canvas that is designed to help instructors and students learn how to pronounce the names of the people in their classes.  Learn more and record your name today!

Adobe Spark is an intuitive application that allows you to create multiple kinds of digital stories, and it’s available at no cost to all IU faculty, staff, and students. For example, you can create engaging graphics or simple narrated video presentations. This session will cover the basic functions and interface of Adobe Spark, and we’ll discuss applications for both your use in creating content for your courses as well as ideas for incorporating Spark digital story assignments into your curriculum. We’ll also discuss steps needed to make sure your graphics and videos created in Spark are accessible when using them in other tools like Canvas.

Well-organized Canvas modules provide an effective checklist for both instructors and students to ensure all content is being covered. This webinar, offered by the IU campus teaching and learning centers, will provide a basic understanding of how to setup a Canvas course using Modules to organize your assignments, discussions, files, and more. This webinar will be repeated on August 18, 2:00 - 2:45 p.m.

Decisions about course design, such as late policies, grading structure, learning activities, and assessments, significantly impact students’ learning experiences and outcomes. In this webinar, you will be introduced to evidence-based practices for equitable course design, reflect on the rationale for your course design, and articulate changes that consider your identities, teaching philosophy, and course context.

This workshop will show you how to use your smartphone, computer, and Adobe Premiere Rush (a tool available at no cost to all IU faculty, staff, and students) to create videos that can easily be integrated into courses. Premiere Rush can also be used to edit other video, such as screen captures or video lectures, and students have access to it, so they can use it for creative projects you might assign. This session will cover the basics of using Premiere Rush and will provide examples and ideas about how Premiere Rush can be useful in your teaching. We’ll also discuss steps needed to make sure videos you create are accessible to all learners.

As IUPUI continues the process of reviewing general education courses, course coordinators or faculty responsible for preparing course dossiers for review may have questions about the information and materials that need to go into the dossiers. This webinar will provide an overview of the course review process, course dossier requirements, and the rubric that will be used to review the course dossiers. It will also address the option for preparing a simplified course dossier based on using a Mile Marker assignment. Examples from existing course dossiers will be incorporated into the webinar. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.

You have your shiny new Canvas courses for fall semester, but you don't want to start from scratch! Learn how to import some or all of your content from a previous course and make Canvas do the bulk of the work for you. We'll also talk about important things that you need to check and do after importing and before giving students access to the course.

We'll have tips on:
1. automatically updating assignment due dates,
2. checking for dead links in your content, and
3. making sure students are seeing what you want them to see.

In addition, we'll cover some basic beginning-of-the-semester tasks to get your class started on a positive and welcoming note and to help make the rest of the semester easier for both you and your students.

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.

The Faculty Forum offers writing groups that provide encouragement, accountability, and a sense of community for faculty and staff. This summer, there is only one writing group that meets via Zoom on Tuesdays from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. The writing sessions ends Tuesday, August 10. There are no hybrid or at your pace groups. Click here for more information and registration or contact us at: faccross@iupui.edu. 

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