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September Workshops
CELT events are open to IPFW and Ivy Tech staff, full and part-time faculty, and graduate students.
Take Five. A “Take Five” workshop can be arranged for anyone who has at least five people who are interested in a workshop on a particular topic. Like an improvised jazz arrangement, we can begin the planning when our office is notified and together create a time, place, and activities customized to your interests and needs.
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ITS conducts training in a wide variety of software, including Blackboard Vista. Register for ITS workshops by clicking here. CELT’s workshops will help you apply the software to support specific teaching and learning opportunities.
Excellent Blackboard Tutorials are available from the elearning.ipfw.edu page.
Online tutorials in all of the software you want to use are now available by clicking on this special link to Lynda.com . CELT also provides “how-to” information about instructional software such as Safe Assign, ScreenCorder, Adobe Connect and others on its "Instructional Software” page.
12 O'clock Scholars Brown Bag series: Promotion and Tenure - "Going Up" on Teaching
Facilitators: Jane Leatherman, EDUC and David Lindquist, EDUC
Thursday, September 1, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in the Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Helmke Library. *Please note the change in location from what was previously publicized.
The promotion and tenure process is the subject of CELT's brown bag discussion series during the fall 2011 semester. Bring your lunch, your questions, and your own experience to this freely flowing discussion facilitated by CELT Board members. Offered twice a month at noon on a Monday and a Thursday. Registration is required.
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Online Teaching Interest Group (OTIG)
Facilitators: Faculty members of the Online Course Design Review Team and Ludy Goodson, CELT
Thursday, September 8, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
This group will also meet on:
Tuesday, October 4, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
Friday, November 4, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT 243
Wednesday, November 30, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT G20
Join us to share ideas, talk about what works, or solve problems of student engagement in online learning. Although our discussion may involve some talk about how to use online tools, we will focus on how to make the technology work for you to express your model of teaching, and to improve student learning and excitement about participating in your online courses. Registration is required.
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Introducing IPFW's Media Vault
(a pilot project for streaming media)
Facilitators: Samantha Birk, CELT and Mike Phillips, ITS
Friday, September 9, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm in KT 205B (ITS training room)
A repeat of this session will be offered again on:
Tuesday, September 20, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm in KT 205B
Tuesday, October 4, 9:00 am - 10:00 am, in KT 205B
Friday, October 14, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in KT 205B
Wednesday, November 9, 10:00 am - 11:00 am in KT 205B
Thursday, November 17, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in KT 205B
Got Media? From audio to video, IPFW's Media Vault is the campus solution for housing and making available to your students media via the Internet. In this session you will be introduced to IPFW's Media Vault and shown how it can be used to distribute media to your students. Participants will see how easy it is upload media, do simple edits to create clips, create play-lists and how to integrate them into your Blackboard course or into a web page. Registration is required.
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Re-visioning Course Design I: Re-visioning the Course Syllabus
This session is offered twice. Please select one session.
Tuesday, September 13, 12:00 pm- 1:15 pm in KT G20 with facilitators Ludy Goodson, CELT and Peter Schnellenberger, IPFW Junior, Media & Public Communication/Interpersonal and Organizational Communication
Offered again on
Monday, October 3, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT 243 with facilitators: Ludy Goodson, CELT and Linda Lolkus, CFS
Does a syllabus just provide information to comply with departmental guidelines, or is it also a message for students? Could it express a vision of how course objectives relate to content and sequence? We will discuss answers to these questions and how to transform a syllabus. Registration is required.
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Re-visioning Assessments I: Plagiarism-Proofing Online Course Assignments
Facilitator: Ludy Goodson, CELT
This session is offered twice. Please select one session.
Wednesday, September 14, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm and Thursday, October 6, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm. Both sessions will take place in KT G20.
This workshop focuses on the design of assignments in online courses. It will include discussion of ways to support student behaviors of academic integrity. We'll discuss concerns about plagiarism, how students plagiarize, reasons that they do so, research on practices to minimize plagiarism, and examples of assignments. Registration is required.
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Faculty Writing Circle
Facilitators: Martha Coussement, CFS and Ludy Goodson, CELT
Friday, September 16, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in ET 206
If you would like to exchange and review manuscripts prepared for publication in journals, then we invite you to join this group. We will set up our own protocols and schedules for exchange and review of our writing projects. In this process, we'll also look at and use the criteria by which journals evaluate manuscripts for publication. If you're interested in attending but cannot make this date, please contact the facilitators at goodsonl@ipfw.edu or coussemm@ipfw.edu. Registration is required.
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Re-visioning Course Design II: How the ARCS Model Can Help to Increase Student Motivation
Facilitators: Ludy Goodson, CELT; Deb Huffman, ENGL and Gail Rathbun, CELT
This session is offered twice. Please select one session.
Tuesday, September 20, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm and Wednesday, October 12, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm. Both sessions will take place in KT G20.
What is Keller's ARCS model? How does it work? What are the applications in individual courses, in the classroom, or online? We will review examples in actual teaching practice and discuss how purposeful presentation and facilitation can gain and sustain student attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. Registration is required.
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Introducing IPFW's Media Vault
(a pilot project for streaming media)
Facilitators: Samantha Birk, CELT and Mike Phillips, ITS
Tuesday, September 20, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm in KT 205B (ITS training room)
A repeat of this session will be offered again on:
Tuesday, October 4, 9:00 am - 10:00 am, in KT 205B
Friday, October 14, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in KT 205B
Wednesday, November 9, 10:00 am - 11:00 am in KT 205B
Thursday, November 17, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in KT 205B
Got Media? From audio to video, IPFW's Media Vault is the campus solution for housing and making available to your students media via the Internet. In this session you will be introduced to IPFW's Media Vault and shown how it can be used to distribute media to your students. Participants will see how easy it is upload media, do simple edits to create clips, create play-lists and how to integrate them into your Blackboard course or into a web page. Registration is required.
Click here to fill out the online evaluation for this session>>
Re-visioning Assessments II: Rubrics for Learning and Grading
Facilitator: Gail Rathbun, CELT
This session is offered twice. Please select one session.
Wednesday, September 21, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm and Thursday, October 13, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm. Both sessions will take place in KT G20.
Well-constructed rubrics help your students better understand what you expect of them and provide scaffolding for their learning, while reducing the amount of time you spend grading, and making it more consistent. In this workshop you will learn to build rubrics for different types of assignments and learning objectives. Common problems in developing and using rubrics will be addressed. Participants may bring their own rubrics to work on. Registration is required.
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STEM Reading Circle: The Power of Interactive Engagement Methods in Teaching Physics
Facilitator: David Maloney, PHYS/FACET Member
This workshop has been rescheduled for November 2, from 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT 119. If you would like to attend, please contact the CELT office or check back at a later date for more information and to register. Thank you.
12 O'clock Scholars Brown Bag series: Promotion and Tenure - Documenting Teaching Effectiveness
Monday, September 26, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm and Thursday, September 29, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm. Both sessions will be held in the Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Helmke Library. *Please note the change in location from what was previously publicized. Participants are welcome to attend both sessions.
Facilitator: Gary Steffen, Chair, CEIT
The promotion and tenure process is the subject of CELT's brown bag discussion series during the fall 2011 semester. Bring your lunch, your questions, and your own experience to this freely flowing discussion facilitated by CELT Board members. Offered twice a month at noon on a Monday and a Thursday. Registration is required.
Click here to fill out the online evaluation for this session>>
Re-visioning Course Design III: Content, Presentation and Learning
Facilitators: Ludy Goodson, CELT and Debrah Huffman, ENGL
This session is offered twice. Please select one session.
Tuesday, September 27, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm and Wednesday, October 26, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm. Both sessions will take place in KT G20.
What does research tell us about the three priorities for effective instructional materials: (1) content, (2) presentation, and (3) learning and assessment strategies? We will compare examples in each priority area and discuss how different teaching models change the standards. We will discuss and give examples of how previews, overviews, transitions, and course welcomes can be used to enhance content, presentation, and learning. Registration is required.
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Re-visioning Assessments III: Making Evaluation Easier with Rubrics in Blackboard Learn
Facilitator: Samantha Birk, CELT
This session is offered twice. Please select one session.
Wednesday, September 28, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm and Thursday, October 27, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm. Both sessions will take place in KT G20.
Do you hesitate to include writing assignments in your courses because of the workload they create? Are you tired of writing the same thing on every paper you read? Do you want to return papers to students more quickly? Facilitator will demonstrate how a good rubric applied to assignments via the Blackboard Vista Grading Form can streamline the feedback and grading process. Registration is required.
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12 O'clock Scholars Brown Bag series: Promotion and Tenure - Documenting Teaching Effectiveness
Thursday, September 29, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in the Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Helmke Library. *Please note the change in location from what was previously publicized.
Facilitator: Gary Steffen, Chair, CEIT
The promotion and tenure process is the subject of CELT's brown bag discussion series during the fall 2011 semester. Bring your lunch, your questions, and your own experience to this freely flowing discussion facilitated by CELT Board members. Offered twice a month at noon on a Monday and a Thursday. Registration is required.
Click here to fill out the online evaluation for this session>>
Making it Count: A Workshop for Prospective SoTL Authors
Facilitators: Yvonne Zubovic, SoTL Fellow and members CASTL Committee
September 30, 12:00 pm - 1:15 in KT 243
This workshop is for anyone thinking about doing classroom research, or preparing such research for publication. Activities will include a review of what journal editors and reviewers consider when they evaluate prospective manuscript submissions, and a critique of sample manuscripts. Participants also will discuss ideas for developing a manuscript and will receive a list of journals that accept publications on classroom research. Registration is required.
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