The Institute for Teaching & Learning will be offering 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.
A boxed lunch will be provided. If you have special dietary needs (vegetarian, gluten free, or both) please e-mail Stacey Valliere.
The seminars are available to faculty, graduate students, and professional staff. Reservations are required and are accepted on a first-come-first serve basis. If you have signed up and are not able to attend, your colleagues would appreciate it if you unregistered, as we often have others who would like to register. Feedback from you is also important. It will help us focus as well as plan a more diverse program.
Fall 2014
Mediasite Showcase
Tim MacEldowny, Sonic Foundry and Steven Fletcher & Keith Park, ITL-iTV
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
The iTV department at UConn and Tim MacEldowney from Sonic Founder will be demonstrating some of the features Mediasite can offer inside and out of the classroom.
Designing Better Writing Assignments
Tom Deans, English and CETL-ITL – University Writing Center & Melissa Bugdal, Assistant Director, Writing Center
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Some assessment we’ve done right here at UConn shows a strong correlation between the quality of instructor assignments with the quality of student writing–that is, better assignments can lead to better student writing. But what makes a good writing assignment? There is no single answer but there are some general principles for crafting assignments that productively steer students toward the kinds of intellectual work you want them to do. Join Tom Deans, Melissa Budgal and tutors from the Writing Center (who every day see writing assignments from across the disciplines, ranging in quality from excellent to puzzling). We encourage you to bring an assignment that you are using or the draft of an assignment you are considering using in the future.
Responding to Student Writing: Are There Better Ways to Grade?
Tom Deans, English and CETL-ITL – University Writing Center
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Responding to drafts and grading student papers are among the most time-consuming things we do in writing-intensive courses across the disciplines. In this session we’ll debunk some common grading practices that research suggests simply don’t result in much learning (like copy-editing student drafts); we’ll also explore pragmatic strategies that work better. Responding to student writing will always take time and care, but it need not involve endless hours of correcting and suffering.
Ebooks, journals & videos for Class Use
Jo Ann Reynolds, Library
Monday, November 3, 2014
Learn how to find and link to ebooks, ejournals, and streaming video from the Library’s website.
To Register please go to http://itl.uconn.edu/seminars/
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu