The Center for Excellence in Teaching and 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 318.
A boxed lunch will be provided. If you have special dietary needs (vegetarian, gluten free, or both) please e-mail Stacey Valliere. Requests made within 7 days of seminar will not be honored.
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 2015
Grading to Student Writing: Focus on Quick Conferences and Recorded Audio Responses
Tom Deans, English & ITL-Writing Center
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Responding to drafts and grading writing will always take time, but there are more and less effective ways to do it. This session will outline best practices and model 2 less common strategies that, when done well, tend to save time (plus make both faculty and students happier): quick individual conferences and recorded audio responses.
Clicking with Prezi
Jamie Kleinman, Psychological Science and Steven McDermott, CETL-IRC
Friday, September 25, 2015
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation system that allows users to create engaging multi-media presentations. Jamie Kleinman, recently selected to be a part of the Prezi Educators Society, will demonstrate how she uses Prezi to create dynamic learning experiences that utilize student poling systems. Participants will have an opportunity to use i<clickers first hand and discover how clicker systems facilitate the creation of an active, agile, and enhanced classroom environment.
Online Resources for Class Use
Jo Ann Reynolds, Library
Wed., October 28, 2015
Learn about the wealth of online resources the Library provides for your use – ebooks, ejournals, streaming video, images, maps, and more, including open access resources.
Using Pinterest in the Classroom
Betsy Guala and Timothy Stubbs, CETL-eCampus
Friday, November 13, 2015
Are you looking for a new way to foster social learning? Have you considered using social media tools in your classroom, but you’re not sure where to start?
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking site that allows you to collect, categorize, and “pin” images onto virtual “boards.” Used as a group activity, Pinterest can be used to create engaging activities within a community of learners.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will practice pinning and commenting on their own boards and those of other participants. Discussion topics will include appropriate use of Pinterest, ensuring privacy, and best practices.
Please bring a laptop or tablet and “pin” with us!
Planning Your Next Writing-Intensive Course: Why not try Portfolio Assessment?
Tom Deans, English & ITL-Writing Center
Monday, December 14, 2015
There are alternatives to the conventional ways of sequencing and grading papers, and one the most promising is using portfolios. Portfolios are the gold standard in writing assessment, and shifting your W (or other) course to a portfolio system needn’t require extra instructor time.
Registration is required. To register, please visit http://itl.uconn.edu/seminars/.
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu