Faculty Development Events

Throughout the year, the CTL sponsors and facilitates numerous events including guest lectures, workshops, colleague teas, learning communities, brown bag lunch presentations, day-long clinics, book groups, and panel discussions.

We welcome suggestions for programming, so please let us know, using the form at the bottom of this page, if there’s an event that you would like to see presented at the CTL.

» View a complete archive of past CTL events

• BlackBoard Grade Center for Large Enrollment Classes
• Bridging the Gaps: Creating More Inclusive Teaching Environments - Part 1
• Using Screencasts in Your Teaching
• "Engaging Your Students" Workshop with Paul Rogat Loeb
• "My Word: Plagiarism and College Culture" book group
• (Re)organize and Enrich Your Online Course
• From Brain to Mind (James Zull Book Group)
• A Digital Image is Worth 1,000 Words!
• Advanced Zotero Workshop
• Advising: Current Best Practices and Strategies
• Application deadline for the WID Mini Institute on Writing in Large Classes
• Avoiding the "PowerPoint to Death" Syndrome
• Beginning the Dialogue: Constructing a Meaningful Syllabus
• Blackboard (and Other) Tools for Writing and Collaborative Work
• Blackboard 9.1 Demo/Clinic
• Blackboard 9.1 is Coming: What's New?
• Blackboard Assessment Tools
• Blackboard Communication Tools and Student Groups
• Blackboard Grade Center
• Blackboard Grade Center for Large Enrollment Classes
• Blackboard Grade Center: Basic and Intermediate
• Blackboard Intermediate
• Blackboard Learn (Bb9) Walk-in Clinic
• Blackboard Summer Camp
• Blackboard Tools for Intermediate Users
• Blackboard Tools for Student Work: Blogs, Wikis, Assignments and Discussions
• Blackboard Walk-in Clinic
• Blackboard Wikis and Blogs
• Blackboard: Introduction to Assessment Tools
• Blackboard: Assessing Learning
• Blackboard: Communicating and Collaborating
• Blackboard: Getting Started
• Blackboard: Grade Center
• Blackboard: Introduction to Assessment Tools
• Blackboard: Introduction to Communication and Collaboration Tools
• Blackboard: Quick Start
• Blackboard: Student Work: Blogs, Wikis, Assignments
• Blackboard: Teaching Strategies
• Blackboard: Tests and Surveys
• Blackboard: The New Update (SP 9)
• Blackboard: The Next Update (SP 9)
• Blackboard: Tools for Student Work
• Blackboard: Understanding and Building Your Course
• Blogging with UVM's WordPress
• Blogging with WordPress
• Blogging Your Course
• Blogs and Wikis in the Classroom and Beyond
• Book Discussion: "The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning
• Book Discussion: The Art of Changing the Brain
• Book Discussion: The Art of Changing the Brain - Part 2
• Book Discussion: The Art of Changing the Brain - Part 3
• Book Group for Spring 2013!
• Book Group: "From Brain to Mind" (James Zull Bookgroup)
• Book Group: "From Brain to Mind" (James Zull Bookgroup) -2nd session of 3 sessions
• Bridging the Gaps: Creating More Inclusive Teaching Environments - Part 2
• Brownbag: Blackboard Overview
• Building your Stress Toolbox: Minimizing the Impact of Stress on your Life and on You
• Case Study Teaching in the Sciences
• Clinic: Blackboard Grade Center HELP!
• Clinic: Create your Blackboard Grade Book for the Fall
• Clinic: Preparing for Upcoming Blackboard Course Deletions
• Clinic: Set up your Blackboard Courses for Fall Semester
• Clinic: Uploading Content to Blackboard Courses
• Clinic: Using Respondus to Move WebCT Quizzes to Blackboard
• Colleague Tea: Blogs in the Classroom
• Colleague Tea: iPads
• Colleague Tea: MOOCs, Flipped, and Hybrids: What, Why, How
• Colleague Tea: Podcasting as a Teaching Tool
• Colleague Tea: Student Projects in Web 2.0
• Colleague Tea: Teaching with Second Life (Virtual Worlds) in Higher Education
• Community-Based Research Institute
• Compose & Edit Audio Files for the Web
• Concept Mapping Tools
• Creating a Respectful Classroom and Dealing with Classroom Issues
• Creating Conditions for Dialogue across Difference - Black Board Jungle workshop
• Creating Online Quizzes and Exams
• Creative, Conversational Writing: Alternative Assignments to Help Students Learn: A WID EVENT
• Culture’s Role in Computer Mediated Communication: Checklist for Culturally Competence Perspectives
• CUPS EVENT: Small Scale Service-Learning: Building Student Capacity to Work in the Community
• Dealing with End of Semester Stress: Students' and Your Own
• Demo: New Blackboard version 9
• Designing Assignments
• Designing Assignments that Work For All
• Designing Assignments You'll Want to Read: a WID workshop
• Designing Assignments: A Writing in the Disciplines Program Workshop
• Designing Formal Writing Assignments
• Designing Great Collaborative Assignments (Group Work)
• Designing Rubrics
• Designing Writing Assignments that Work for Everyone
• Difficult Conversations in the Classroom
• Disability Awareness Month: ACCESS Office Open House
• Discussion and Webinar: Clickers and Peer Instruction
• Distressed and Disruptive Students: Strategies for a Successful Classroom Climate
• Diverse Learners? Diverse Teaching! (Faculty Session)
• Diverse Learners? Diverse Teaching! (GTA/GTF Session)
• Do-It-Yourself: Course Media Workshop
• Do-It-Yourself: Podcasting 101
• Do-It-Yourself: Screencasting 101
• Ease Into eBooks
• eBooks and eReaders
• Effective Lecturing: Finding the Right Balance
• Effective Peer Review: Helping Students Talk with Each Other About Their Work
• Effectively Managing Disruptive and Distressed Students
• Effectively Managing Stressed Out Students and Your Own End of Semester Stress
• Emerging Challenges: Distressed and Disruptive Students; Psychiatric Disability and 504 Accommodation
• EndNote Help Session
• EndNote Workshop
• Engaging Students in Large Enrollment Classes
• Eureka Moments in Teaching Diversity
• Excellence in Teaching: A Discussion with the Kroepsch-Maurice Award Recepients
• Excellence in Teaching: A Discussion with the Kroepsch-Maurice Award Recipients
• Exercising More of Blackboard's Muscle in Your Online Teaching
• Facilitating Reflective Dialogue: An Essential Component of Experiential Learning
• Faculty Learning Community - The Neuroscience of Teaching and Learning
• Faculty Writing Retreat
• Faculty-to-Faculty Conversations About Online Teaching
• Film & Discussion Series: Shaped by Writing
• Film & Discussion Series: Writing Across Borders
• Film & Discussion: Beyond the Red Ink: Students Talk about Teachers' Comments
• Finding Your Balance Learning Community Event for Junior Faculty
• First Fridays- Responding to Writing: a WID workshop
• First Fridays: Plagiarism, Source Use, and Writing Ethics (a Writing in the Disciplines Program workshop)
• First Graduate Teaching Program Meeting
• First Year Writing Institute
• Getting Better Writing from Our Students: Reconsidering Traditional Assignment Design with Dr. Paul Hanstedt, Roanoke College
• Getting started with Blackboard
• Google Earth Colleague Tea
• Google Earth Workshop
• Google Your Way to Web 2.0
• Grading and Responding to Student writing
• Grading and Responding to Writing - A WID Event
• Grading Cafe
• Graduate Student Workshop: Creating a Blog
• GTA Grading and Responding to Writing
• GTA Workshop Series - Workshop II: Responding To Student Writing
• GTA Workshop Series - Workshop III: Creating a Respectful Classroom and Dealing with Classroom Issues
• GTA Workshop Series-Workshop I: Facilitating Classroom Discussion and Groups
• GTA workshop series: Entering and Editing Student Grades in Blackboard
• Hands-on Digital Storytelling
• Hunting, Gathering, and Editing Digital Images
• iClickers in the classroom
• Image Collections for Teaching and Learning
• Intoduction to Live Online: Horizon Wimba
• Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Introduction to EndNote
• Introduction to Experiential Education and Service Learning: A Workshop for Graduate Students
• Introduction to Experiential Education and Service-Learning: A Workshop for Graduate Students - A CUPS Event
• Introduction to Live Online: Horizon Wimba
• Introduction to Service Learning
• Introduction to Service-Learning
• Introduction to the Assessment Tools in Blackboard:
• Introduction to Zotero
• iPads for Scholars
• iPads in Scholarship and Teaching
• Junior Faculty Learning Community: "Balanced Grading: Giving Good Feedback in the Time You Do Have"
• Junior Faculty Learning Community: Finding a Balance between Research and Teaching
• Just the Basics: Choosing Between WebCT, Blogs, and Web Sites
• Just the Basics: EndNote and Word Bibliographies
• Just the Basics: Scanning Pictures and Text
• Just the Basics: What’s Web 2.0 All About?
• Just the Basics: Word Tips for Academic Writers
• Large Classes: Explore Blackboard's Tools for Teaching and Course Management
• Learning in Large Classes: Designing Outcomes, Supporting Engagement, and Assigning and Responding to Student Work
• Learning in Large Classes: Student Interaction
• Learning Styles
• Lights, Camera, Learn!
• Lights, Cameras, Learn!
• Lunchtime Learning: Google Tools for Scholarship
• Making Writing Assignments Work for Everyone: Universal Design for Writing
• Managing Stressful Situations in the Classroom
• Managing the WebCT Gradebook
• Multicultural Education at UVM: Dialogue on Dimensions
• Multilingual Writers, Multiliterate Lives
• New Date: Film & Discussion Series: Across the Drafts
• Open Clinic
• Open Courseware, Copyright, and the Creative Commons
• Open House - Meet the New CTL Director
• Peer Review-Student Conversations about Writing: a WID workshop
• Plagiarism I-Source Use and Writing Ethics: a WID workshop
• Plagiarism II-Practical Strategies to Help Students Work with Sources: a WID workshop
• Plagiarism II: Practical Strategies to Help Students Work with Sources: A WID EVENT
• Podcasting 101
• Podcasting and Teaching with Audio Files
• Postponed, watch for new date: Easing into eBooks
• POSTPONED: Film & Discussion Series: Across the Drafts
• Practices for Engaging Students: "From Question to Concepts"
• Practices for Engaging Students: Just-in-Time Teaching and Peer Instruction
• Practices for Engaging Students: Technology that Supports the Flipped Classroom
• Project Management for Academic Courses
• Psychology TA Training
• Q and A session with our iClicker Rep.
• Quantitative Literacy and Writing Series: Assignment Design and Quantitative Reasoning - A WID Event
• Quantitative Literacy and Writing Series: Quantitative Reasoning, Writing, and Assessment - A WID Event
• Quantitative Literacy and Writing Series: Writing to Learn, By the Numbers - A WID Event
• Raise Your Awareness of Copyright and FERPA Issues (Faculty and GTA session)
• Reaching All Students: Universal Design Teaching Strategies
• Rebuilding your WebCT course in Blackboard
• Reflection in Action: Strategies for Supporting Experiential Learning through Writing
• Reluctance and Conflict: Navigating Discussions on Diversity
• Research Computing Services @ UVM
• Residential Learning Communities Tea
• Responding to and Evaluating Writing by ELL Students
• Responding to Writing: a WID workshop
• Responding to Writing: A Writing in the Disciplines Program Workshop
• Restart your Writing: A December writing retreat
• Screencasting 101
• Second Graduate Teaching Program Meeting
• Service-Learning 101
• Service-Learning and Technology
• Set-up your Blackboard Grade Center
• Short and Easy Writing Assignments to Promote Information Literacy
• Short and Easy Writing Assignments to Promote Information Literacy (JAD; SMH; Libs) 2/3 and 4/2
• Short and Easy Writing Assignments to Promote Information Literacy - A WID Event
• Social Networking Tea
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Cultural Diversity in Learning
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: From DVD to Blackboard
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Getting Students In Gear
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: iClickers
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: iClickers in the Classroom
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Peer Review: Make it Work!
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Saving Time While Grading
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Service Learning in Unexpected Places
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Service-Learning in Unexpected Places
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Short Assignments to Support Information Literacy
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Student Engagement Through Digital Projects
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Teaching with Streaming Media
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Tips for Great Class Discussion
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Universal Design for Learning - Quick Teaching Tips
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Universal Design for Learning and Assessment Strategies
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Using The Fleming Museum Resources in Your Teaching
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Webinars and Synchronous Learning with BigBlueButton
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: When the Classroom Gets Odd: Suggestions for Difficult Classroom Moments
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Wrap that Exam! Encouraging Student Self-Assessment of Performance
• Sound (Teaching) Bite: Writing Learning Objectives that Work
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Beyond the Library Class Session-Working with Your Liaison Librarian
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Beyond the Library Class Session: Working with Your Liaison Librarian
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Course Objectives that Work
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Early Warning Systems for Students in Trouble
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Experiential Learning: Getting Students Out of the Classroom (without going out of your mind!)
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Faculty Involvement in Residential Learning Communities
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: iClickers
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Innovative ways to use the Fleming Museum's collections in teaching
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Managing the Ups and Downs of Group Projects
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Saving Time While Grading
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Tips for Great Class Discussions
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Using the Fleming Museum's Resources
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: Using the Rubric Tool in Blackboard
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: When the Classroom Gets Odd: Suggestions for Difficult Classroom Moments
• Sound (Teaching) Bites: When the Classroom Gets Odd: Suggestions for Difficult Teaching Moments
• Spring 2008 Course Tune Ups
• Spring Semester Kick Off: Faculty Writing Retreat
• SRC Pre-Conference Prep. Workshop
• SRC Workshop: Writing your Abstract for the Student Research Conference
• Strategies for Effective Group Work
• Student Multimedia Projects and Assessment
• Student Research Conference Abstract Writing Workshop
• Student Research Conference Prep Workshop for Presenters
• Student Research Conference: Abstract Workshop for Students
• Student Research Conference: Abstract Writing Workshop
• Student Research Conference: Prep Workshop for Presenters
• Student Response Systems: Clickers in the Classroom
• Summer Faculty Writing Retreat
• Supercharge Your Research
• Syllabus Boot Camp
• Syllabus Bootcamp
• Syllabus Bootcamp: Course Objectives that Work
• Syllabus Bootcamp: Designing Assignments to promote Information Literacy
• Syllabus Clinic
• Tablet PC Workshop and Luncheon with Dr. Joe Tront from Virginia Tech
• Teaching and Learning with Blackboard
• Teaching Critical Thinking with Burack Lecturer Dr. Stephen Brookfield
• Teaching First Year Students: A Workshop on Course Design
• Teaching for Critical Thinking Book Group
• Teaching for Critical Thinking: A Faculty Book Group Spring 2012
• Teaching In Higher Education
• Teaching in Higher Education - GTP workshop
• Teaching with Blackboard
• Teaching with Blackboard (and Bb 9)
• Teaching with Blackboard (and Bb9)
• Teaching with Blackboard: Strategies and Methods
• Teaching with Google Earth
• Teaching with Web Tools
• Tech Dim Sum
• Tech Dim Sum for Summer
• Telling Stories the Digital Way
• Test
• The Art of Changing the Brain - Book Discussion Group
• The Brain, Learning, and Teaching : Representation of Course Content
• The Brain, Learning, and Teaching : Student Engagement
• The Brain, Learning, and Teaching : Students' Expression of Learning
• The Brain, Learning, and Teaching: Representation of Course Content
• The Brain, Learning, and Teaching: Student Engagement
• The Brain, Learning, and Teaching: Students' Expression of Learning
• The Fleming Museum as a Teaching Resource
• Third Annual WID Institute
• Third Graduate Teaching Program Meeting
• Tools for Student Writing
• TurningPoint Clicker Demonstration
• UDL in Action
• Understanding Intercultural Issues Online: Working with Culturally Diverse Audiences in the Online Environment
• Universal Design and Learning
• Universal Design and Syllabus Development
• Universal Design for Learning
• Universal Design For Learning in the 21st Century
• UNIVERSAL DESIGN: INCLUSION FOR ALL
• Upgrading to Blackboard "Learn" (Bb 9)
• Upgrading to Blackboard Learn (Bb9)
• Using Critical Reflection
• Using Google Earth in Your Teaching
• Using iClickers to Enhance Student Interaction
• UVM Class of 2014: Traits and Trends
• Web Media Primer
• WebCT 101
• WEBCT BASICS
• Webinar: Advancing Pedagogy with Clickers
• Webinar: Research on Teaching and Learning with Clickers
• Weekly Writing: a faculty writing retreat
• What Students Do With Sources: Plagiarism and Teaching
• WID National Day on Writing Open House
• WID New Faculty Tea
• Work on your Spring Blackboard Course Space
• Writing Across Borders-Writing and Culture at UVM: a WID event
• Writing Across Borders: Writing and Culture: A WID EVENT
• Writing Across Borders: Writing, Culture, and Diversity
• Writing in Large Classes? Seriously?
• Writing to Learn
• Writing Wednesdays: A Faculty Writing Retreat
• Writing with Sources: Promoting Ethics, Avoiding Plagiarism
• Writing Your Teaching Philosophy