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: See http://www.lib.utc.edu/about-instruction.html
Orientation Sessions
Software and Hardware Training
- Basic Fireworks
- Basic HTML Web Page Creation
- Blackboard Open Lab & Online Strategies
- Blackboard: Add ons
- Blackboard: Assignments and Safe Assign
- Blackboard: Basics
- Blackboard: Beyond the Basics
- Blackboard: Discussion Forums
- Blackboard: Export, Import, Archive & Copy
- Blackboard: Grade Center
- Blackboard: Groups
- Blackboard: Test and Surveys
- Camtasia
- Computer & Data Security
- Creating Electronic Dialogue on Paper: Using Track Changes in Word and on PDFs
- Creating Online Surveys
- Excel: Formulas for Gradebooks
- Immediate Classroom Feedback with iClicker (Student Response Systems)
- Impatica
- iSpring
- Making Podcasts
- Microsoft Vista: First Look
- Navigating Podium and Server Space
- New Technologies to Teach: Wikipedia, Office 2007, Vista, PDF Creator
- Ovation
Ovation software is a Windows-only product used to improve the look of your PowerPoint presentations. Ovation can add motion, high-resolution text and seamless transitions to PowerPoint presentations. This software is easy to use. Bring a PowerPoint presentation with you to the seminar. Ovation software is available in the WTRC lab. Note: Ovation can only be used with Windows; however, it is not compatible with Vista or MS Office 2007. To arrange a special session, email Jennifer Ellis. - PDF Creation
- Photoshop: Educational Image Creation --Basic
- Photoshop: Educational Image Creation--Advanced
- PowerPoint Teaching
- Qualitative Research Software: Nudist/HyperTranscribe/HyperResearch/Transana, MA
- Respondus--Test Creation Software
- Setting up Email Filters for Eudora and Outlook
- SPSS: An Introduction
- TaskStream
- TaskStream- Reviewer Training
- Understanding Video File Differences
- Using Digital Media in Online Classes
- Using the UTC Web Page Templates
- Video Editing with MS Movie Maker
- WebASIS
- Wimba Create
- WTRC Tricks & Treats
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm in 401 Hunter
Teaching & Learning
- 7 Principles of UG Education/Active learning Strategies
- Academic Integrity & Plagiarism: The Problem and Possible Solutions
- Advisement Skills
- Assessing Learning Outcomes (Writing Clear Outcomes for Students)
- Book Club: Teaching with Your Mouth Shut
- Dealing with Disruptive Students
- Determining YOUR Teaching Philosophy using the Teaching Perspectives Inventory
- Electronic Portfolios
- Engaging Students - Active Learning Techniques
- Evaluating Group Projects Fairly
- Faculty Development Grants Pre-proposal How-tos
- Grants and Faculty Development Opportunities
- 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
- Learner-centered Teaching
- Meaningful Online Discussions (Facilitating and Evaluating)
- Measuring Student Outcomes
- Online Experience 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
- Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
- Teaching for Significant Learning: Deep vs. Surface Learning
- Teaching Skills for GAs and TAs
- Time Management: Juggling Teaching, Scholarship & Service
- Using Research on Learning to Guide Our Teaching
- Rubrics and Learning Taxonomies
