Ease Into eBooks

Wednesday, May 16 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

* How are eBooks made?
* Is there a guide to help you choose among the large number of formats and readers?
* Why should you (and your students) make your own eBooks?

If you are interested in the possibilities that eBooks provide and would like to know more, join us for this workshop. We'll start by giving you the lay of the land, help you understand the differences between print books and eBooks, and finish by helping you create your own simple eBook. We'll also briefly preview the summer course EDSS 197 Intro to Formatting iBooks (July 9-13).

Event details:

• Contact: Hope Greenberg, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, 802/656-1176
• Facilitated By: Mary Elizabeth, Continuing Ed - Operations
  
• Location: CTL, 303 Bailey/Howe

Tech Dim Sum for Summer

Tuesday, May 15 @ 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Event details:

• Contact: Hope Greenberg, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, 802/656-1176
• Location:

Grading Cafe

Wednesday, May 09 @ 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Gearing up for grading? Please join us for our open "Grading Cafe." Free tea and coffee, snacks, and a chance to break out of your office for a couple of hours!

Event details:

• Contact: Jennifer Dickinson, Jennifer.Dickinson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0837
• Location: 303 Bailey/Howe Library
• Refreshments will be served. 1

Supercharge Your Research

Tuesday, April 24 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

The Vermont Advanced Computing Core (VACC) welcomes faculty and graduate students to walk-in hours available to explore existing or potential advanced computational needs of your research. Discuss with VACC staff how Research Computing Services@ UVM can enhance existing work or add value to an upcoming proposal. We will help develop solutions for your computation needs. If you cannot make the walk-in hours, VACC also supports individual consultations.

Facilitated By: Bob Devins, VT Advanced Computing Core.

Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Andrea Elledge, Andrea.Elledge@uvm.edu, 802/656-8867
• Facilitated By: N/A , N/A
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

EndNote Help Session

Tuesday, April 24 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

If you can't make it this time, please contact Laruie Kutner. Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Laurie Kutner, Laurie.Kutner@uvm.edu, 802/656-2213; 802/734-0190
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 102 Bailey/Howe Library

Blackboard Grade Center: Basic and Intermediate

Monday, April 23 @ 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

This hands-on workshop demonstrates how to use Blackboard Grade Center to record student scores, calculate total grades and weighted grades, and provide student feedback. The workshop is divided into two parts. Attend either one or attend both.

Part 1: Basics (3:00-4:00)

• Your view of the Grade Center and your students’ view of MyGrades.
• Add, modify, and remove grade columns, and enter grades.
• Schemas, Total columns and Weighted columns.
• Export the Grade Center to keep a backup copy.
  

Part 2: Intermediate (4:15-5:30)

• Organize your Grade Center
• Hide columns from students
• Using Smart Views and Color Coding to better track student progress

  Event details:

  • Contact: Hope Greenberg, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, 802/656-1176
  • Facilitated By: Hope Greenberg, Computer Science; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
    
  • Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library
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Sound (Teaching) Bites: iClickers

Friday, April 20 @ 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

This session focuses on ways to use the iClicker response system to engage students in large lectures; as well as smaller seminars. We will cover the ways that clickers are used in the classroom, and participants will have a chance to test out the iClicker remotes themselves.
Facilitated by Holly Buckland Parker, the Center for Teaching and Learning

Each Sound (Teaching) Bite will start at noon and open with a 15 minute presentation highlighting best practices or research findings. Participants are welcome to stay for a brownbag lunch and follow-up conversation.

Event details:

• Contact: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Holly.Parker@uvm.edu, 802/656-1124
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Teaching for Critical Thinking: A Faculty Book Group Spring 2012

Thursday, April 19 @ 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Discussion 3: What can we do in our own classes to develop students's critical thinking skills? (Chapters to be determined by participatns' interests)

In October, 2011, Dr. Stephen Brookfield gave a well-received Burack Distinguished Lecture and workshop on teaching and critical thinking critical thinking. In order to continue that conversation, we are pleased to announce a book group series on Brookfield's recently released book Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question their Assumptions. Participants will be provided with a copy of the text, and will be expected to attend three discussion group meetings (breakfast provided).

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Writing in the Disciplines Program, and the Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning.

Participants must register for and attend the February 23 meeting to participate.

Event details:

• Contact: Jennifer Dickinson, Jennifer.Dickinson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0837
• Facilitated By: Jennifer Dickinson, Anthropology; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Google Earth Workshop

Wednesday, April 11 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This hands-on workshop is designed for faculty members interested in learning how to use Google Earth as a teaching tool. We'll explore the basics of creating maps within this easy to use software program, learn how to embed photos and videos, and spatially reference a variety of information from a range of disciplines. Participants will also gain experience uploading GPS data and importing GIS layers. No experience necessary. Just a willingness to look at your discipline and course content from a fresh angle!

This workshop will be taught by Walter Poleman and Inés Berrizbeitia.

Computers will be provided, but if you wish to use your own, please pre-install Google Earth before the workshop. (Download Google Earth here).

Event details:

• Contact: Ines Berrizbeitia, Ines.Berrizbeitia@uvm.edu, 802/656-0310
• Facilitated By: Ines Berrizbeitia, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  Walter Poleman, RSENR Dean's Ofc; Residential Learning Cmty
  
• Location: Bailey-Howe Library Room 303

Distressed and Disruptive Students: Strategies for a Successful Classroom Climate

Wednesday, April 11 @ 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

This session will provide faculty with information on how to address common issues facing our students today as it relates to classroom behavior and mental health. With a contextual overview of mental health at UVM and interactive scenarios, a panel of presenters will offer strategies to employ both in the classroom and during one on one interactions to best address students' needs and concerns. Panelists will include Dr. Annie Stevens, Associate VP for Student and Campus Life; Nick Negrete, Assistant Dean of Students; Patty Corcoran, Assistant Dean for Arts and Sciences; Lucy Singer, Legal Counsel; and Todd Weinman, Director of Counseling and Psychiatry Services.

Event details:

• Contact: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Holly.Parker@uvm.edu, 802/656-1124
• Facilitated By: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: Bailey-Howe Library Room 303

Film & Discussion Series: Writing Across Borders

Tuesday, April 10 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Writing Across Borders: Writing and Culture at UVM

Join us for a brownbag lunch (tea, coffee, and cookies provided) and lively discussion of the relationship between culture, writing, and faculty expectations. We'll view Writing Across Borders, a short film featuring international student writers and faculty across campus. Our conversation will explore how cultural expectations frame our writing expectations, and how assignments and assessments are also shaped by culture. This event is being offered in connection with Blackboard Jungle.

This is the last in a series of films about writing to be shown this semester.

Event details:

• Contact: Susan Harrington, Susan.Harrington@uvm.edu
• Facilitated By: Susan Harrington, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  
• Location: Fulwiler Rm., 302 Bailey/Howe Library

EndNote Help Session

Thursday, April 05 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

If you can't make it this time, please contact Laruie Kutner. Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Laurie Kutner, Laurie.Kutner@uvm.edu, 802/656-2213; 802/734-0190
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 102 Bailey/Howe Library

Designing Assignments that Work For All

Tuesday, April 03 @ 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

This workshop addresses principles of universal design for learning, by looking at ways assignments can be created for the diverse student population. Join with colleagues to explore the ways writing assignments can be constructed to enhance the learning of all students. Looking at some basic principles of curriculum and assignment design, we will identify ways that writing assignments can be supported with a range of flexible activities. Participants will have the chance to explore how writing assignments help students learn material as well as how writing assignments ask students to represent what they have already learned.

This event is a part of the 5th Annual BlackBoard Jungle Symposium and UVM Professional Development Series (http://www.uvm.edu/president/diversity/blackboardjungle/)

Event details:

• Contact: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Holly.Parker@uvm.edu, 802/656-1124
• Facilitated By: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  Susan Harrington, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  
• Location: WID, 302 Bailey/Howe Library

Sound (Teaching) Bites: Innovative ways to use the Fleming Museum's collections in teaching

Thursday, March 29 @ 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Learn how colleagues from across campus have used objects from the Fleming's cultural, historical, and art collections to support teaching across a wide range of disciplines, from mathematics and engineering to ecology, geography, anthropology, among others. We'll discuss how Fleming Museum staff can help you to enhance classroom teaching with object-based pedagogy in support of Gen Ed outcomes and diversity competencies.
Facilitated by Janie Cohen, the Fleming Museum

Each Sound (Teaching) Bite will start at noon and open with a 15 minute presentation highlighting best practices or research findings. Participants are welcome to stay for a brownbag lunch and follow-up conversation.

Event details:

• Contact: Janie Cohen, janie.cohen@uvm.edu, 802/656-0750
• Facilitated By: Janie Cohen
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Advanced Zotero Workshop

Thursday, March 29 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Expand the capabilities of Zotero by learning how to synch files to Zotero.org and create group folders for collaborative work. No registration is required for this event.

Event details:

• Contact: Daisy Benson, Daisy.Benson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0636
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey/Howe Library

Student Research Conference Prep Workshop for Presenters

Thursday, March 29 @ 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

This workshop is for students who will be presenting at the upcoming Student Research Conference. During this Pre-Conference Workshop you will learn to prepare and offer a professional conference presentation. The workshop will include information on preparing a conference-level PowerPoint presentation, information about how to present yourself professionally, and how to speak well. You will also learn what is required to prepare a conference poster and will have the chance to ask questions about how to proceed with your poster or presentation.

Event details:

• Contact: Hope Greenberg, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, 802/656-1176
• Facilitated By: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  Hope Greenberg, Computer Science; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Student Research Conference Prep Workshop for Presenters

Wednesday, March 28 @ 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

This workshop is for students who will be presenting at the upcoming Student Research Conference. During this Pre-Conference Workshop you will learn to prepare and offer a professional conference presentation. The workshop will include information on preparing a conference-level PowerPoint presentation, information about how to present yourself professionally, and how to speak well. You will also learn what is required to prepare a conference poster and will have the chance to ask questions about how to proceed with your poster or presentation.

Event details:

• Contact: Hope Greenberg, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, 802/656-1176
• Facilitated By: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  Hope Greenberg, Computer Science; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Film & Discussion Series: Shaped by Writing

Tuesday, March 27 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Shaped by Writing: The Undergraduate Writing Experience

Join us for a brownbag lunch (tea, coffee, and cookies provided) and lively discussion about the challenges and rewards of the undergraduate writing experience. Add after the sentence you have. We'll see a short film from the Harvard longitudinal writing study featuring students' discussions of how they navigate academic writing tasks.

This is the second in a series of films about writing to be shown this semester.

Event details:

• Contact: Susan Harrington, Susan.Harrington@uvm.edu
• Facilitated By: Susan Harrington, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  
• Location: Fulwiler Rm., 302 Bailey/Howe Library

Supercharge Your Research

Tuesday, March 27 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

The Vermont Advanced Computing Core (VACC) welcomes faculty and graduate students to walk-in hours available to explore existing or potential advanced computational needs of your research. Discuss with VACC staff how Research Computing Services@ UVM can enhance existing work or add value to an upcoming proposal. We will help develop solutions for your computation needs. If you cannot make the walk-in hours, VACC also supports individual consultations.

Facilitated By: Bob Devins, VT Advanced Computing Core.

Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Andrea Elledge, Andrea.Elledge@uvm.edu, 802/656-8867
• Facilitated By: N/A , N/A
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Introduction to Zotero

Tuesday, March 27 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Come and learn how to keep track of research materials, organize note taking, and format citations and bibliographies using this easy to master open source solution. No registration is required for this event.

Event details:

• Contact: Daisy Benson, Daisy.Benson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0636
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey/Howe Library

Introduction to Experiential Education and Service Learning: A Workshop for Graduate Students

Monday, March 26 @ 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

This workshop will introduce graduate students to the pedagogy of experiential education, with a focus on service learning as a specific practice. Geared towards graduate students who are either TAing or teaching a course, the information presented will provide participants with the tools and resources needed to incorporate the high impact practice of service learning into academic classes. Participants will leave this workshop with new ideas and tools for integrating service learning into their courses.

Event details:

• Contact: Elise Schadler, Elise.Schadler@uvm.edu, 802/656-5480
• Facilitated By: Elise Schadler, RSENR Dean's Ofc
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

EndNote Workshop

Wednesday, March 21 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Learn about this popular bibliography and citation software, which is available free to UVM faculty, staff and students. Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Laurie Kutner, Laurie.Kutner@uvm.edu, 802/656-2213; 802/734-0190
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey/Howe Library

Postponed, watch for new date: Easing into eBooks

Wednesday, March 21 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

• Have you ever wondered how eBooks are made?
• Did you ever wish you (and your students) could make your own eBooks?
• How do you get started creating eBooks?

If you are interested in creating and using eBooks, join us for this workshop. We'll start by considering what eBooks offer and how they differ from print books, then help you choose among the large number of formats and readers. We'll finish by creating an eBook, giving you a taste of the actual process. We'll also briefly preview the summer course EDSS 197 Intro to Formatting iBooks (July 9-13).

Event details:

• Contact: Hope Greenberg, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, 802/656-1176
• Facilitated By: Mary Elizabeth, Continuing Ed - Operations
  
• Location: CTL, 303 Bailey/Howe

Sound (Teaching) Bites: Tips for Great Class Discussions

Tuesday, March 20 @ 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

This session focuses on practical ways to think about, start, and run good class discussions that enhance student learning and create a sense of collaboration and connection among students in your courses.
Facilitated by J. Dickinson, Anthropology/the Center for Teaching and Learning

Each Sound (Teaching) Bite will start at noon and open with a 15 minute presentation highlighting best practices or research findings. Participants are welcome to stay for a brownbag lunch and follow-up conversation.

Event details:

• Contact: Jennifer Dickinson, Jennifer.Dickinson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0837
• Facilitated By: Jennifer Dickinson, Anthropology; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Teaching for Critical Thinking Book Group

Thursday, March 15 @ 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Discussion 2: How is critical thinking developed? (Chapters 3-5)

In October, 2011, Dr. Stephen Brookfield gave a well-received Burack Distinguished Lecture and workshop on teaching and critical thinking critical thinking. In order to continue that conversation, we are pleased to announce a book group series on Brookfield’s recently released book Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question their Assumptions. Participants will be provided with a copy of the text, and will be expected to attend three discussion group meetings (breakfast provided).

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Writing in the Disciplines Program, and the Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning.

Participants must register for and attend the February 23 meeting to participate.

Event details:

• Contact: Jennifer Dickinson, Jennifer.Dickinson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0837
• Facilitated By: Jennifer Dickinson, Anthropology; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

CANCELLED: Distressed and Disruptive Students: Strategies for a Successful Classroom Climate

Thursday, March 15 @ 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

This session will provide faculty with information on how to address common issues facing our students today as it relates to classroom behavior and mental health. With a contextual overview of mental health at UVM and interactive scenarios, a panel of presenters will offer strategies to employ both in the classroom and during one on one interactions to best address students' needs and concerns. Panelists will include Dr. Annie Stevens, Associate VP for Student and Campus Life; Nick Negrete, Assistant Dean of Students; Patty Corcoran, Assistant Dean for Arts and Sciences; Lucy Singer, Legal Counsel; and Todd Weinman, Director of Counseling and Psychiatry Services.

Event details:

• Contact: Wendy Berenback, Wendy.Verrei-Berenback@uvm.edu, 802/656-7992
• Facilitated By: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: Bailey-Howe Library Room 303

New Date: Film & Discussion Series: Across the Drafts

Wednesday, March 14 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Across the Drafts: The Role of Feedback in the Writing Process

Join us for a short film in which students and faculty talk candidly about the role that feedback plays in the writing process. This film, a production from Harvard's longitudinal study of student writing, should inspire good discussion afterwards. We'll provide drinks and snacks.

This is the first in a series of films about writing to be shown this semester.

Event details:

• Contact: Kristen Cameron, Kristen.Cameron@uvm.edu, 802/656-1958
• Facilitated By: Susan Harrington, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  
• Location: Fulwiler Rm, 302 Bailey/Howe Library

Endnote workshop

Tuesday, March 13 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Learn about this popular bibliography and citation software, which is available free to UVM faculty, staff and students. Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Laurie Kutner, Laurie.Kutner@uvm.edu, 802/656-2213; 802/734-0190
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey/Howe Library

Sound (Teaching) Bites: Beyond the Library Class Session-Working with Your Liaison Librarian

Tuesday, March 13 @ 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

This presentation will show how your liaison librarian can support many aspects of your research, course design, and assignment preparation, as well as promote general and discipline-specific information literacy goals.
Facilitated by Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe Library

Each Sound (Teaching) Bite will start at noon and open with a 15 minute presentation highlighting best practices or research findings. Participants are welcome to stay for a brownbag lunch and follow-up conversation.

Event details:

• Contact: Daisy Benson, Daisy.Benson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0636
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Blogging with WordPress

Wednesday, March 07 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

In this workshop, we'll get you up and running with WordPress, the new blogging software at UVM. We'll go over the first steps and recommended settings, how to select a design theme, and how to customize menus. We'll cover how to make pages and posts and how to organize them with categories and tags. We'll also cover some of the features of BuddyPress, for group blogging and networking with other bloggers on campus.

Event details:

• Contact: Ines Berrizbeitia, Ines.Berrizbeitia@uvm.edu, 802/656-0310
• Location: Bailey-Howe Room 303

Canceled - Teaching In Higher Education

Friday, March 02 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This workshop will help you reflect on your teaching practice and help create a peer network of graduate students interested in teaching. We will discuss the development of your teaching philosophy and we will share current research on teaching practices: High Impact and Universal Design for Learning. (This workshop is a requirement of the Graduate Teaching Program)

Event details:

• Contact: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Holly.Parker@uvm.edu, 802/656-1124
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Endnote workshop

Thursday, March 01 @ 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM

Learn about this popular bibliography and citation software, which is available free to UVM faculty, staff and students. Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Laurie Kutner, Laurie.Kutner@uvm.edu, 802/656-2213; 802/734-0190
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey/Howe Library

Advanced Zotero Workshop

Thursday, March 01 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Expand the capabilities of Zotero by learning how to synch files to Zotero.org and create group folders for collaborative work. No registration is required for this event.

Event details:

• Contact: Daisy Benson, Daisy.Benson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0636
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey/Howe Library

Sound (Teaching) Bites: When the Classroom Gets Odd: Suggestions for Difficult Teaching Moments

Wednesday, February 29 @ 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

In this session, Sherwood Smith will share 4 key points for transforming a difficult classroom moment to teachable moment. Session will present potential frameworks for engaging, mediating and deflecting these "odd" classroom events. Participants are welcome to bring examples for a facilitated group discussion after a short presentation.
Facilitated by Sherwood Smith, the Center for Cultural Pluralism

Each Sound (Teaching) Bite will start at noon and open with a 15 minute presentation highlighting best practices or research findings. Participants are welcome to stay for a brownbag lunch and follow-up conversation.

Event details:

• Contact: Sherwood Smith, Sherwood.Smith@uvm.edu, 802/656-8739; 802/922-5376
• Facilitated By: Sherwood Smith, Integrated Profsnl Studies; Cultural Pluralism
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Introduction to Zotero

Tuesday, February 28 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Come and learn how to keep track of research materials, organize note taking, and format citations and bibliographies using this easy to master open source solution. No registration is required for this event.

Event details:

• Contact: Daisy Benson, Daisy.Benson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0636
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey/Howe Library

Writing Your Teaching Philosophy

Friday, February 24 @ 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

During this workshop we discuss the value of articulating a personal teaching philosophy and important elements to include in your statement

Event details:

• Contact: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Holly.Parker@uvm.edu, 802/656-1124
• Facilitated By: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  Susan Harrington, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  
• Location: Bailey-Howe Library Room 303

Teaching for Critical Thinking: A Faculty Book Group Spring 2012

Thursday, February 23 @ 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Discussion 1: What is Critical Thinking? (Chapters 1-2)

In October, 2011, Dr. Stephen Brookfield gave a well-received Burack Distinguished Lecture and workshop on teaching and critical thinking critical thinking. In order to continue that conversation, we are pleased to announce a book group series on Brookfield’s recently released book Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question their Assumptions. Participants will be provided with a copy of the text, and will be expected to attend three discussion group meetings (breakfast provided).

Register by February 9th, Limit: 15

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Writing in the Disciplines Program, and the Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning.

Event details:

• Contact: Jennifer Dickinson, Jennifer.Dickinson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0837
• Facilitated By: Jennifer Dickinson, Anthropology; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

EndNote Workshop

Wednesday, February 22 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Learn about this popular bibliography and citation software, which is available free to UVM faculty, staff and students. Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Laurie Kutner, Laurie.Kutner@uvm.edu, 802/656-2213; 802/734-0190
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey/Howe Library

Canceled: Blackboard and Face-to-face Teaching

Wednesday, February 22 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Canceled
In this workshop we will consider some Blackboard and non-Blackboard tools for student writing that might best fit your teaching practice, connect with your course objectives or expand your classroom teaching in new ways. We will discuss:

• Blogs for communicating and sharing (Bb blog and the UVM blog)
• Journals for private writing
• Wikis for collaborative projects (Bb wiki and PBWorks wiki)
• Discussion Board for conversations
• Assignment tool for uploading assignments

Event details:

• Contact: Hope Greenberg, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, 802/656-1176
• Facilitated By: Hope Greenberg, Computer Science; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Supercharge Your Research

Tuesday, February 21 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

The Vermont Advanced Computing Core (VACC) welcomes faculty and graduate students to walk-in hours available to explore existing or potential advanced computational needs of your research. Discuss with VACC staff how Research Computing Services@ UVM can enhance existing work or add value to an upcoming proposal. We will help develop solutions for your computation needs. If you cannot make the walk-in hours, VACC also supports individual consultations.

Facilitated By: Bob Devins, VT Advanced Computing Core.

Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Andrea Elledge, Andrea.Elledge@uvm.edu, 802/656-8867
• Facilitated By: N/A , N/A
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Sound (Teaching) Bites: Saving Time While Grading

Tuesday, February 21 @ 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Is it possible to grade and respond to student papers effectively and efficiently? This Sound (Teaching) Bite will offer a few core strategies for maximizing the effect of the time spent grading and focusing feedback to students.
Facilitated by Susanmarie Harrington, English/Writing in the Disciplines

Each Sound (Teaching) Bite will start at noon and open with a 15 minute presentation highlighting best practices or research findings. Participants are welcome to stay for a brownbag lunch and follow-up conversation.

Event details:

• Contact: Susan Harrington, Susan.Harrington@uvm.edu
• Facilitated By: Susan Harrington, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Canceled - New Date: Teaching In Higher Education

Friday, February 17 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This workshop will help you reflect on your teaching practice and help create a peer network of graduate students interested in teaching. We will discuss the development of your teaching philosophy and we will share current research on teaching practices: High Impact and Universal Design for Learning. (This workshop is a requirement of the Graduate Teaching Program)

Event details:

• Contact: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Holly.Parker@uvm.edu, 802/656-1124
• Facilitated By: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

What Students Do With Sources: Plagiarism and Teaching

Friday, February 17 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Visiting scholar Sandra Jamieson, Professor of English at Drew University and co-PI of the Citation Project, a multi-institution study of students' practices when writing with sources, will present an interactive workshop on teaching and plagiarism.

Event details:

• Contact: Susan Harrington, Susan.Harrington@uvm.edu
• Facilitated By: Susan Harrington, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  
• Location: Fulwiler Rm, 302 Bailey/Howe Library

Sound (Teaching) Bites: Using the Rubric Tool in Blackboard

Thursday, February 16 @ 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

With the recent Blackboard update, the Rubric Tool became more useful and can now be shown to students as well as utilized for grading. This Sound (Teaching) Bite will show you how the tool works, help you set up a rubric you can use to help your students better understand your expectations on assignments, and help you grade.
Facilitated by J. Dickinson Anthropology/the Center for Teaching and Learning and Hope Greenberg, the Center for Teaching and Learning

Each Sound (Teaching) Bite will start at noon and open with a 15 minute presentation highlighting best practices or research findings. Participants are welcome to stay for a brownbag lunch and follow-up conversation.

Event details:

• Contact: Jennifer Dickinson, Jennifer.Dickinson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0837
• Facilitated By: Jennifer Dickinson, Anthropology; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

POSTPONED: Film & Discussion Series: Across the Drafts

Wednesday, February 15 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Across the Drafts: The Role of Feedback in the Writing Process

Join us for a short film in which students and faculty talk candidly about the role that feedback plays in the writing process. This film, a production from Harvard's longitudinal study of student writing, should inspire good discussion afterwards. We'll provide drinks and dessert.

This is the first in a series of films about writing to be shown this semester.

Event details:

• Contact: Susan Harrington, Susan.Harrington@uvm.edu
• Facilitated By: Susan Harrington, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  
• Location: Fulwiler Rm., 302 Bailey/Howe Library

Introduction to Zotero

Wednesday, February 15 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Come and learn how to keep track of research materials, organize note taking, and format citations and bibliographies using this easy to master open source solution. No registration is required for this event.

Event details:

• Contact: Daisy Benson, Daisy.Benson@uvm.edu, 802/656-0636
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey/Howe Library

EndNote Workshop

Tuesday, February 14 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Learn about this popular bibliography and citation software, which is available free to UVM faculty, staff and students. Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Laurie Kutner, Laurie.Kutner@uvm.edu, 802/656-2213; 802/734-0190
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey-Howe Library

iPads for Scholars

Monday, February 13 @ 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

If you have an iPad or are simply curious about it, attend this roundtable to explore the iPad’s potential as a tool for scholarship and education. Topics and Questions: * iPad apps that are useful for scholars: PDF readers, ebooks, annotation tools, ePub creators * Sharing useful iPad tips and applications * What are the iPads strengths and weaknesses? * What apps would you recommend to your colleagues?

Event details:

• Contact: Hope Greenberg, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, 802/656-1176
• Facilitated By: Hope Greenberg, Computer Science; Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Student Research Conference Abstract Writing Workshop

Thursday, February 09 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Co-sponsored by the Writing in the Disciplines Program, Bailey/Howe Library and the Center for Teaching and Learning

UVM hosts an annual Student Research Conference to showcase the research and scholarly activity of undergraduate, graduate and medical students across campus. In order to present at the conference you are required to submit an abstract or brief proposal of your research or creative project. This workshop will:

• help you learn more about the April conference and how you can participate
• show you how to write a brief, yet compelling and comprehensive, proposal
• provide hands-on help from Writing Center staff to help you get started

Pizza will be served. Please register so we know how many to order. Visit the Student Research Conference page for additional information about the conference.

Event details:

• Contact: Hope Greenberg, Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, 802/656-1176
• Facilitated By: Holly Buckland; Buckland Parker; Parker, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
  Susan Dinitz, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  Susan Harrington, English; Writing in the Disciplines
  
• Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

EndNote Workshop

Thursday, February 09 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Learn about this popular bibliography and citation software, which is available free to UVM faculty, staff and students. Registration is not required.

Event details:

• Contact: Laurie Kutner, Laurie.Kutner@uvm.edu, 802/656-2213; 802/734-0190
• Facilitated By: Daisy Benson, Bailey Howe-Info & Instruction
  
• Location: 123 Bailey-Howe Library