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
A basic introduction to language of the Web, HTML, plus a guided exploration of various programs that are available for you to create web pages. Participants should gain an understanding of the options they have and the requirements they face when beginning the process of creating a web page. Basic web functions that will be included are: creating e-mail links, choosing background color and fonts, inserting images, linking to other pages and uploading the files to the server. To arrange a special session, e-mail Charles Hart - 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
- 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
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 1:30 - 2:30 pm in 401 Hunter
Friday, December 11, 2009 - 9:00 - 10:00 am 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
