Events

Register for the Tips and Tricks Workshop

Discover time-saving techniques for providing feedback efficiently, explore various feedback options available in Blackboard, and understand how students access and interact with your feedback. This session will equip you with practical strategies to streamline your feedback process and improve the student experience.  

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Register for the Engaging Courses Workshop

Transform your course design experience with the untapped capabilities of Microsoft 365. From gamification and interactive presentations to creative asset design and accessible content delivery, this session shares practical takeaways that will elevate your online developments with tools you already have at your fingertips! Participants will be presented with several real-world course development challenges.  In this session we will explore rapid authoring solutions, tips for crafting engaging PowerPoint presentations, innovative approaches to content delivery using Sway, gamification development with Forms, and efficient tips for developing accessible media. 

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Register for the Collabortive VoiceThread Workshop

Join us for an interactive workshop aimed to help instructors harness the full potential of VoiceThread as a dynamic collaboration tool. VoiceThread offers a versatile platform where students can not only engage in meaningful discussions but also actively contribute to presentations, fostering a culture of collaboration and creativity. In this session, we will delve into strategic approaches for leveraging VoiceThread to facilitate both group work and individual contributions to presentations, enhancing student engagement. Faculty participants will leave with sample VoiceThread presentations and templates that they can readily integrate into their instruction.  Prior experience with VoiceThread is required for this session. 

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Register for the Escape Room Workshop

Escape rooms offer an ideal setting for conducting formative assessments or facilitating professional development opportunities. This session is designed to introduce you to the world of virtual escape rooms and provide you with the skills to craft your own experience using Microsoft Forms, a widely available tool in many educational institutions through a Microsoft 365 subscription. Escape rooms have long been a popular way to engage participants in a challenging and interactive adventure. The concept of virtual escape rooms offers an exciting opportunity to create, share, and enjoy a gamification experience remotely.  You'll explore multimedia integration, and quiz-based structures to simulate the experience of a physical escape room, all within the digital realm. We will also explore the utilization of AI tools to enhance the development of your escape room experience. 

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Register to attend the Student Engagement CoP in person or access the Student Engagement CoP via Zoom

Student engagement pedagogies are teaching and learning approaches that are student-focused and research-based.  As we support student engagement with course content, peers, and the faculty, we see better academic performance and lower failure rates.  A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common interest in a topic and come together in shared professional development.  FACET supports faculty, staff, and librarians who come together several times a year to form the Student Engagement CoP.  We welcome you to our first meeting of the 2024-25 academic year.  Learn a new classroom practice, help shape the group meetings for the year and learn more about documenting the impact of enhanced student engagement.  Participation for novices and experts alike is encouraged.

Register to attend Tech Tips for Faculty

We’ll cover practical tips and tools to enhance your efficiency, including how to enable and use the clipboard history, valuable keyboard shortcuts, leverage the snipping tool feature and emoji keyboard, and more! Whether you're looking to simplify your workflow or integrate new features, this workshop will provide valuable insights and actionable strategies to improve your Blackboard usage and save time.

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Register for the CURE CoP Meeting

Please join the CURE (Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences) Community of Practice (CoP) for our fall semester meeting. The first cohort of FACET CURE developers from CLA and CBE will discuss their newly designed courses, and the CoP will discuss how CUREs have helped TU faculty obtain external funding for their research. We welcome anyone interested in learning more about CUREs as well as those already familiar with this high impact pedagogical approach.

Lunch will be provided.

Register to attend the AI DEI in the Classroom Workshop

Generative AI affords faculty new pedagogies as well as new ways to employ traditional ones to address diversity efforts in teaching and learning.  AI initiatives enjoy an increasingly significant role in teaching and learning.  The digital tools associated with AI can support teaching and learning ways that increase efficiency, engagement, and student success.   This session is designed to demonstrate how a unique diversity framework guides faculty in the integration of AI tools to support representation, inclusion, social justice and cultural identity initiatives in the classroom.  Accompanying AI tools provide exciting opportunities for faculty and students to participate in a learning environment whereby everyone is included and represented.  Further, faculty can employ digital tools that support students’ social justice efforts related to the discipline and course content. Learn how to easily create images that reflect the diversity of your students, quickly develop scripts representative of diverse points of view that can be used in videos, case studies, and role plays.  Emphasis will be placed on how to use the tools to achieve diversity, equity and inclusion goals for teaching and learning.  All are welcome from AI novices to experts.