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
You'd like to harness the computational power of your desktop computer but you and it just don't seem to speak the same language. Join us for a conversation with your computer using the language of Microsoft Excel. The following areas are included: the syntax and built-in functions available within Excel to solve real world problems such as how to get Excel to change numerical scores to letter grades, summarize multiple sheets onto one, identify the needed GPA to bring a current GPA up to a certain level, and strip a formula from a page while leaving the results. To arrange a special session, e-mail Charles Hart - 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
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 3:00 - 4:00 pm in 341 Library
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 2:00 - 3:00 pm in 341 Library
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
