ThinkAchieve: Connecting the Classroom and the Community
Workshops & Seminars
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The following seminars are offered through the Walker Center for Teaching & Learning. If you don't see what you need, please contact the Walker Center for Teaching & Learning to arrange the sessions you'd like.
If you require accommodations for any of these events or seminars, please contact Kellie Karaky at 425-4188 (Kellie-Karaky@utc.edu) prior to the event.
Library Seminars: See http://www.lib.utc.edu/about-instruction.html
Orientation Sessions
Think Achieve Seminars
- How To Design Effective Multiple Choice Tests That Assess Student Learning
- How To Use ePortfolios To Improve Teaching, Learning, And Assessment
- Instructional Excellence Retreat 2012
- Reflective Judgment: Teaching Students To Think Critically In A Time Of Information Overload
- Teach Students How To Learn: Metacognition Is The Key!
- Team-Based Learning
- The Dreaded Discussion: Tips and techniques for improved discussion-based activities in the classroom
- ThinkAchieve Faculty Learning Community
- Thinking Critically About The Teaching Of Critical Thinking
Blackboard Training
- Blackboard Basics
- Blackboard Open Lab
- Blackboard: Course Organization
- Blackboard: Online Assessment Strategies
- Blackboard: Strategies in Online Engagement
Software and Hardware Training
- Adobe Captivate
- Banner Training (Student Information System)
- Basic Fireworks
- Basic HTML Web Page Creation
- Camtasia
- Computer & Data Security
- Creating electronic dialogue in documents
- Creating Online Surveys
- Email at UTC, On your computer, on your phone, on the web
- Excel: Formulas for Gradebooks
- Immediate Classroom Feedback with iClicker (Student Response Systems)
- iSpring
- Lecture Capture with Mediasite
- Making Podcasts
- Microsoft Windows 7: What is different?
- MS Office 2010: An overview
- Navigating Podium and Server Space
- New Tech: Google Forms, Office 2007, MS PDF creator
- Ovation
- PDF Creation
- Photoshop: Educational Image Creation-- Basic
- Photoshop: Educational Image Creation--Advanced
- PowerPoint Teaching
- Qualitative Research Software: NVivo 8/HyperTranscribe/HyperResearch/Transana, MA
- Respondus--Test Creation Software
- Spreadsheet Formulas: Seeing the information in the data
- SPSS: An Introduction
- TaskStream
- TaskStream- Reviewer Training
- Technology Literacy
- Understanding Video File Differences
- Using Digital Media in Online Classes
- Using Sharepoint for Collaboration
- Using the classroom podiums and the Sharepoint storage space
- Using the UTC Web Page Templates
- Video Editing with Windows Live Movie Maker 2011
- Wimba Create
Teaching & Learning
- Academic Integrity & Plagiarism: The Problem and Possible Solutions
- Advisement Skills
- Asking Questions the Right Way: How to design test questions that require students to think critically
- Assessing Learning Outcomes (Writing Clear Outcomes for Students)
- Dealing with Disruptive Students
- Designing Engaging Content (Learning Modules)
- Determining YOUR Teaching Philosophy using the Teaching Perspectives Inventory
- Electronic Portfolios
- Engaging Students - Active Learning Techniques
- Evaluating Group Projects Fairly
- Get Student Feedback When It Matters Most: Using classroom assessment techniques to inform your teaching
- Implementing Collaborative Learning in YOUR Classroom
- Incorporating Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum
- Incorporating Service & Applied Learning
- Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright and Fair Use in Higher Education
- Interpreting Student Evaluations To Improve Teaching
- Introduction to Critical Thinking - Concepts and Strategies
- Learner-centered Teaching
- Meaningful Online Discussions (Facilitating and Evaluating)
- Measuring Student Outcomes
- Microlearning: Good things in small packages
- Online Experience for Faculty
- Online Teaching Techniques
- Preparing Promotion & Tenure Portfolios
- Retention & Engagement: Seven Principles of Undergraduate Education
- Rubrics and Learning Taxonomies: Development & Use
- Scholarship: Boyer's Model
- Seven Principles of Undergraduate Education/Active learning Strategies
- Strategies for Engaging Millennial Students in the Classroom
- Student Reflective Practice: Assigning & Assessing
- Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
- Teaching for Significant Learning: Deep vs. Surface Learning
- Teaching for Significant Learning: General Concepts
- Teaching Strategies for Critical Thinking
- Teaching Students How To Learn
- Time Management: Juggling Teaching, Scholarship & Service
- Using Research on Learning to Guide Our Teaching
- Writing Clear Outcomes for Administrative Units
- WTRC Tricks & Treats
Book Clubs
- Book Club: Academically Adrift
- Book Club: Deadly Professors
- Book Club: How Learning Works
- Book Club: The Courage to Teach
- Book Club: Thinking about teaching and learning: Developing habits of learning with first year college and university students
- Book Club: Creating Significant Learning Experiences
- Book Club: Making thinking visible: How to promote engagement, understanding and independence for all learners
- Book Club: Teaching for critical thinking: Tools and techniques to help students question their assumptions
- Book Club: Teaching with Your Mouth Shut
