WTRC Workshops & Seminars
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The following seminars are offered through the Walker Teaching Resource Center. If you don't see what you need, please contact the Walker Teaching Resource Center to arrange the sessions you'd like.
Library Seminars: Emailing Articles from Library Databases • Research Alerts from Library Databases • Designing Effective Library Research Assignments • Multisubject Databases at the Lupton Library
Orientations: New Faculty Orientation / Adjunct Orientation
Software and Hardware Training
- Basic HTML Web Page Creation
- Blackboard:
- Computer & Data Security (also see: http://www.utc.edu/Research/Cisa/secawareness.php)
- Camtasia
- Using Digital Media in Online Classes
- Electronic Portfolios
- Excel: Formulas for Grade Books
- Fireworks: The Basics
- Classroom Feedback Using iClickers
- Impatica
- iSpring
- Navigating Podium and Server Space
- New Technologies to Teach: Wikipedia, Office 2007, Vista, PDF Creator
- Creating Electronic Dialogue on Paper: Using Track Changes in MS Word and on PDFs
- E-mail Filters in Eudora or Outlook
- PDF Creation
- Photoshop I: Educational Image Creation--Basic
- Photoshop II: Educational Image Creation--Advanced
- Making Podcasts
- Teaching with PowerPoint
- Respondus: Test Creation Software
- SPSS: An Introduction
- Using the UTC Web Page Templates
- Video Editing with MS Movie Maker
- WebASIS Basic and Advanced (includes FERPA training) Registration & Records is now offering this training. See http://www.utc.edu/Administration/Records-Registration/ferpa-webasistraining.php
- iClickers - Student Response Systems
- Creating Online Surveys
- Ovation
- Wimba Create
- Qualitative Research Software: Nudist/HyperTranscribe/HyperResearch/Transana, MAXQDA2007
Teaching & Learning
- Academic Integrity & Plagiarism: The Problem & Possible Solutions
- Advisement Skills
- Best Practices for Online Teaching
- Copyright and Fair Use in Higher Education
- Teaching Critical Thinking
- Dealing with Disruptive Students
- Deep vs. Surface Learning
- Determining Your Teaching Philosophy Using the Teaching Perspectives Inventory
- Designing Meaningful Online Discussions
- Evaluating Group Projects Fairly
- Faculty Development & Instructional Excellence Grants: Increase YOUR Chance for Funding
- Helping Students: UTC Student Support Services
- Instructional Excellence Retreat
- Interpreting Student Evaluations to Improve Teaching
- Grants and Faculty Development Opportunities
- Learner-centered Teaching
- Measuring Student Outcomes
- An Online Learning Experience - An online course for faculty!
- Online Teaching Techniques
- Preparing Promotion & Tenure Portfolios
- Provost Talks about Promotion & Tenure
- Retention & Engagement: Seven Principles of Undergraduate Education
- Scholarship: Boyer's Model
- Selecting Assessments that Match Course Objectives
- Incorporating Service Learning
- Time Management for Faculty
- Book Club: The Courage to Teach (Parker Palmer)
- Instructional Excellence Retreat - May 14 - 16, 2009
REQUIRED Academic Advising Seminar (sponsored by Academic Affairs)
Library Seminars
- Finding Full Text Articles
- Google and Google Scholar
- Citations Made Easy
- Cut & Paste: Avoiding Plagiarism
