ThinkAchieve: Connecting the Classroom & 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) a week prior to the event. You can also contact the Disability Resource Center at 423-425-4006 (V/TTY), http://www.utc.edu/Administration/DisabilityResourceCenter/ or email Michelle-Rigler@utc.edu.
Library Seminars: See http://blog.lib.utc.edu/instruction/
Orientation Sessions
- Adjunct Orientation
- New Faculty Orientation
- UTC departmental website/OU Campus training
- Web Reboot Open Lab
Think Achieve Seminars
- Course Design for Team-Based Learning
- Engaging Students - Active Learning Techniques
- Flipped Classroom Faculty Learning Community
- Incorporating Service & Applied Learning
- Online Discussions for Critical Thinking
- Team-Based Learning Faculty Learning Community
- Understanding Team-Based Learning from the Inside Out
- UTC-IER Cultivating Critical Thinking through Critical Reflection on Experience Within and Beyond the Classroom, Dr. Patti Clayton
- UTC-IER Speaker Reception at Mayors Mansion
- UTC-IER Workshop 1: Cheryl Robinson - Problem-based learning
- UTC-IER Workshop 2: Ralph Covino - Pop Culture in the Classroom
- Webinar: Focus On Instructional Strategies That Promote Critical Thought
- Webinar: Foundational Critical Thinking Concepts & Principles
- Webinar: Question-Generating Concepts
Blackboard Training
- Best Practices for Moving Lab-Based Science Courses Online
- Blackboard Basics
- Blackboard Course Development: Teaching Online Boot Camp
- Blackboard Grade Center: For you and Your Students
- Blackboard has Gone Mobile: Here is What You Need to Know
- Blackboard: Course Structure and Organization
- Collaboration Tools for Online Student Projects
- Creating and Interpreting Blackboard SafeAssignments
- Design It Once: ADA Best Practices in Distance Courses
- Enhancing Interactivity with Blackboard Discussions, Blogs, Journals, and Wikis
- Online Assessment Strategies
- Online Technology Resources You Can Use at a Distance
- Rubrics: Take the Guess Work out of Grading
- Webinar: How Recent Copyright Court Cases Affect Distance Education
- What is New in Blackboard Service Pack 9?
- Who is the Center for Online and Distance Learning?
Software and Hardware Training
- Banner Training (Student Information System)
- Basic Fireworks
- Camtasia
- Creating electronic dialogue in documents
- Creating Online Surveys
- Email at UTC, On your computer, on your phone, on the web
- Immediate Classroom Feedback with iClicker (Student Response Systems)
- Lecture Capture with Mediasite
- Making Podcasts
- Microsoft Windows 7: Advanced Secrets
- MS Office 2010: An overview
- Online Classes with Adobe Connect
- Photoshop: Educational Image Creation-- Basic
- Photoshop: Educational Image Creation--Advanced
- PowerPoint for Teaching
- 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 Skype for Online Meetings and Discussions
- Using the classroom podiums and the Sharepoint storage space
- Using the UTC Web Page Templates
- Video Editing with Windows Live Movie Maker
Teaching & Learning
- Advisement Skills
- Dealing with Disruptive Students
- Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright and Fair Use in Higher Education
- Measuring Student Outcomes
- Online Experience for Faculty
- Presentations with Pizazz
- Student Reflective Practice: Assigning & Assessing
- Teaching and Learning Seminars
- Teaching for Significant Learning: Deep vs. Surface Learning
- Teaching for Significant Learning: General Concepts
- Using Research on Learning to Guide Our Teaching
- Writing Clear Outcomes for Administrative Units
Book Clubs
- Book Club: Classroom Assessment Techniques
- Book Club: Creating Significant Learning Experiences
- Book Club: Teaching what you don`t know
- Book Club: The Fall of Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
Previous Seminars, Available on Request
- Academic Integrity & Plagiarism: The Problem and Possible Solutions
- Adobe Captivate
- Asking Questions the Right Way: How to design test questions that require students to think critically
- Assessing Learning Outcomes (Writing Clear Outcomes for Students)
- Basic HTML Web Page Creation
- 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: Making thinking visible: How to promote engagement, understanding and independence for all learners
- Book Club: Now you see it: How the brain science of attention will transform the way we live, work, and learn. New York: Viking Press.
- Book Club: Teaching with Your Mouth Shut
- Book Club: What the Best College Teachers Do
- Book Club: Academically Adrift
- Book Club: Academically Adrift
- Book Club: Academically Adrift
- Book Club: Decoding the Disciplines
- Book Club: How Learning Works
- Book Club: What the Best College Students Do
- Computer & Data Security
- Designing Engaging Content (Learning Modules)
- Determining YOUR Teaching Philosophy using the Teaching Perspectives Inventory
- Electronic Portfolios
- Evaluating Group Projects Fairly
- Excel: Formulas for Gradebooks
- Faculty Learning Community: Issues in Online Teaching
- Flipped Classroom Mini-Workshop
- Get Student Feedback When It Matters Most: Using classroom assessment techniques to inform your teaching
- Getting the Message Delivered: Quality Assurance in Distance Courses
- How To Design Effective Multiple Choice Tests That Assess Student Learning WEBINAR
- How To Use ePortfolios To Improve Teaching, Learning, And Assessment WEBINAR
- Implementing Collaborative Learning in YOUR Classroom
- Incorporating Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum
- Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright and Fair Use in Higher Education
- Interpreting Student Evaluations To Improve Teaching
- iSpring
- Learner-centered Teaching
- Learning from the Pros - How to Manage Large Classes with Ease
- Meaningful Online Discussions (Facilitating and Evaluating)
- Microlearning: Good things in small packages
- Navigating Podium and Server Space
- New Tech: Google Forms, Office 2007, MS PDF creator
- Online Teaching Techniques
- PDF Creation
- Preparing Promotion & Tenure Portfolios
- QEP Assessment Seminar
- QEP Basics Seminar
- QEP Experiential Learning Seminar
- QEP ThinkAchieve Grants Information Session
- Qualitative Research Software: NVivo 8/HyperTranscribe/HyperResearch/Transana, MA
- Reflective Judgment: Teaching Students To Think Critically In A Time Of Information Overload WEBINAR
- 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 Learning Outcomes
- Teach Students How To Learn: Metacognition Is The Key! WEBINAR
- Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
- Teaching Strategies for Critical Thinking
- Teaching Students How To Learn
- Team-Based Learning Seminar
- The Dreaded Discussion - Tips and techniques for improved discussion-based activities in the classroom
- Time Management: Juggling Teaching, Scholarship & Service
- Using Sharepoint for Collaboration
- UTC Early Adopter website/OU Campus training
- Webinar: Experiential Learning Inside the Classroom
- WTRC Tricks & Treats
