The Institute for Teaching & Learning will be offering the following Lunchtime seminars and presentations on topics to enhance teaching and learning. The seminars provide an opportunity to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, comment, interact, and reflect on a number of topics. They are organized on a first-come, first-serve basis. Seminars are from 11:15 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. All seminars will be held in the John W. Rowe Center for Undergraduate Education (ROWE), Room 321.
Sept. 17 - Mediasite Showcase
Sept. 24 - Designing Better Writing Assignments
Oct. 1 - Presenting with Prezi
Oct. 6 - Adding Instructional Design to Your Toolbox
Oct. 8 - Responding to Student Writing: Are There Better Ways to Grade?
Oct. 15 - Classroom Discussions Aren't Just for English Class: Conducting Discussions in your Discipline
Oct. 17 - Teaching Reading in a Writing Course
Oct. 20 - Provost Annual Report and HuskyDM System
Oct. 24 - Teaching Students to Think-Critical and Creative Thinking in the Classroom
Nov. 3 - Ebooks, journals & videos for Class Use
Nov. 10 - Essential Questions: Springboards to Critical & Creative Thinking within Disciplines
Nov. 12 - Providing Access to Students with Disabilities in Online and Blended Courses
Nov. 19 - An Introduction to Classroom Response Systems (Clickers)
For more information and to register please visit http://itl.uconn.edu/seminars/
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu