The Walker Teaching Resource Center's
Faculty Curriculum Computer Integration Lab
Welcome to you! I hope you are doing well.
to all faculty and staff wanting to expand their knowledge of technology and teaching!
The faculty lab is a service provided by academic affairs to help faculty achieve their full potential with instructional delivery. By keeping the latest technology, the lab is a breeding ground for new ideas and methods of fostering excellence in education.
Please explore the links located on the left of this page and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to call me. Charles Hart at 423 425-4002.
Library Seminars: See http://www.lib.utc.edu/about-instruction.html
Orientation Sessions
Blackboard Training
- Blackboard Basics
- Blackboard Open Lab
- Blackboard: Course Organization
- Blackboard: Online Assessment Strategies
- Blackboard: Strategies in Online Engagement
Software and Hardware Training
- Adobe Captivate
- Banner Training (Student Information System)
- Basic Fireworks
- Basic HTML Web Page Creation
- Camtasia
- Computer & Data Security
- Creating electronic dialogue in documents
- Creating Online Surveys
- Email at UTC, On your computer, on your phone, on the web
- Excel: Formulas for Gradebooks
- Immediate Classroom Feedback with iClicker (Student Response Systems)
- iSpring
- Lecture Capture with Mediasite
- Making Podcasts
- Microsoft Windows 7: What is different?
- MS Office 2010: An overview
- Navigating Podium and Server Space
- New Tech: Google Forms, Office 2007, MS PDF creator
- Ovation
- PDF Creation
- Photoshop: Educational Image Creation-- Basic
- Photoshop: Educational Image Creation--Advanced
- PowerPoint Teaching
- Qualitative Research Software: NVivo 8/HyperTranscribe/HyperResearch/Transana, MA
- 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 Sharepoint for Collaboration
- Using the classroom podiums and the Sharepoint storage space
- Using the UTC Web Page Templates
- Video Editing with Windows Live Movie Maker 2011
- Wimba Create
Teaching & Learning
- Academic Integrity & Plagiarism: The Problem and Possible Solutions
- Advisement Skills
- Asking Questions the Right Way: How to design test questions that require students to think critically
- Assessing Learning Outcomes (Writing Clear Outcomes for Students)
- Book Club: Academically Adrift
- Book Club: Deadly Professors
- Book Club: How Learning Works
- 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: Creating Significant Learning Experiences
- Book Club: Making thinking visible: How to promote engagement, understanding and independence for all learners
- Book Club: Teaching for critical thinking: Tools and techniques to help students question their assumptions
- Book Club: Teaching with Your Mouth Shut
- Dealing with Disruptive Students
- Designing Engaging Content (Learning Modules)
- Determining YOUR Teaching Philosophy using the Teaching Perspectives Inventory
- Electronic Portfolios
- Engaging Students - Active Learning Techniques
- Evaluating Group Projects Fairly
- Get Student Feedback When It Matters Most: Using classroom assessment techniques to inform your teaching
- How To Design Effective Multiple Choice Tests That Assess Student Learning
- 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
- Introduction to Critical Thinking - Concepts and Strategies
- Learner-centered Teaching
- Meaningful Online Discussions (Facilitating and Evaluating)
- Measuring Student Outcomes
- Microlearning: Good things in small packages
- Online Experience for Faculty
- Online Teaching Techniques
- Preparing Promotion & Tenure Portfolios
- Reflective Judgment: Teaching Students To Think Critically In A Time Of Information Overload
- Retention & Engagement: Seven Principles of Undergraduate Education
- 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 Reflective Practice: Assigning & Assessing
- Teach Students How To Learn: Metacognition Is The Key!
- Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
- Teaching for Significant Learning: Deep vs. Surface Learning
- Teaching for Significant Learning: General Concepts
- Teaching Strategies for Critical Thinking
- Teaching Students How To Learn
- The Dreaded Discussion: Tips and techniques for improved discussion-based activities in the classroom
- Time Management: Juggling Teaching, Scholarship & Service
- Using Research on Learning to Guide Our Teaching
- Writing Clear Outcomes for Administrative Units
- WTRC Tricks & Treats
