WTRC Workshops & Seminars
(click to view the calendar of classes by month.)
Click on the seminar title for more information and to register.
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
- 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
UTC has purchased an outcomes management system, TaskStream, to help collect accreditation and strategic planning documentation from departments and areas across the UTC campus.All 2008 - 2009 data should be entered into the system by September 30, 2009.
The system is hosted off site on the TaskStream server http://www.taskstream.com/.
Training on the TaskStream software is scheduled for the following days and times. There is limited seating in the training room. PLEASE pre-register for the class by clicking on the day and time listed below.
PLEASE BRING TO TRAINING: A Word or text file of your area's mission, outcomes or goals, etc. for any year. If you have outcomes findings and results to enter, bring that info as well.
Please contact the Teaching Resource Center for more information at (423) 425-4188 - 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, September 4, 2009 - 10:30 - 12:00 pm in 341 Library
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 10:30 - 12:00 pm in 341 Library
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 1:30 - 3:00 pm in 341 Library
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 1:00 - 2:30 pm in 341 Library
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 10:30 - 12:00 pm in 341 Library
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 3:30 - 5:00 pm in 341 Library
Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:00 - 10:30 am in 341 Library
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 2:45 - 4:15 pm in 341 Lupton Library
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 10:30 - 12:00 pm in 341 Library
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 10:30 - 12:00 pm in 341 Library
Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 1:30 - 3:00 pm in 341 Library
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 1:30 - 3:00 pm in 341 Library
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 1:30 - 3:00 pm in 341 Library
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 9:30 - 11:00 am in 341 Library
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 10:00 - 11:30 am in 341 Library
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 9:30 - 11:00 am in 341 Library
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 11:00 - 12:30 am in 341 Library
Friday, October 23, 2009 - 9:30 - 11:00 am in 341 Library
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 1:30 - 3:00 pm in 341 Library
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 2:00 - 3:30 pm in 341 Library
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 10:00 - 11:30 am in 341 Library
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 10:00 – 11:30 am in various
Monday, November 16, 2009 - 10:00 - 11:30am in HR Training Lab
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 9:00 - 10:30am in HR Training Lab
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
