CETLs Teaching Seminars
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.
Principles of Effective Course Design (Webinar)
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm – via WebEx
(Previously titled “Adding Instructional Design to Your Toolbox”)
In this introductory webinar, we will provide an overview of instructional design, a systematic process for planning a course. Participants will begin to build a course design framework based on a course they teach or want to teach. Participants will also walk away with tools and resources to customize their course plan. This “hands-on,” interactive webinar will be limited to 12 participants and offered via WebEx.
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CETL Workshop August 16, 2017 "Developing a Course Utilizing Specifications Grading"
How might we design our courses and grading systems if we want to motivate our students to learn, save ourselves grading time, and have student grades reflect what and how much they have learned? To find out, please join us for the CETL Workshop, Designing a Course Utilizing Specifications Grading on Wednesday, August 16 from 9:00am to 3:00pm in MONT 214 (Monteith building). Lunch will be provided.
We’ll discuss and utilize the ideas from Linda B. Nilson’s 2015 book, Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time. We’ll spend the first part of the day on best practices of course design, including careful alignment of assessments with student learning objectives. During the second part of our workshop, we will focus on the essentials of specifications grading, including the development of specs for acceptable student work, “bundling” assessments, use of tokens, and determining final letter grades. We will also discuss ways to get students to understand and buy into a specifications grading system.
All instructors are welcome. No prior experience with specifications grading is necessary.
Participants should come to the workshop with a particular course in mind (bring a draft of the syllabus if possible), as time throughout the day will be devoted to hands-on course development activities. Please bring your laptop or tablet.
For more information, please contact Suzanne.LaFleur@uconn.edu
To register https://web9.uits.uconn.edu/fins/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=194
Teaching Talks
You are invited to participate in a series of informal teaching talks throughout 2017. These are opportunities for participants to comfortably share teaching concerns and discuss techniques and strategies with colleagues, experts, and CETL staff. All sessions will take place in Rowe 319. All UConn instructors —graduate students, TAs, and APIRs, as well as adjunct, tenure-track and tenured faculty—are encouraged to attend.
Contact Suzanne LaFleurif you have questions or would like more information.
Wednesday, August 9 1:30 – 2:45 Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation
At this session, participants will discuss topics like
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
The role of choice in motivation
Engaging student passion
The importance of the teacher/student relationship
Challenge and reward
The reluctant learner
Service Learning
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Hands-On HuskyCT Workshops and other EdTech Workshops
Is your HuskyCT Grade Center ready for midterm and final grade calculations? Do you have questions about using HuskyCT tools in your course? Join us for hands on guidance with HuskyCT, including Grade Center. Workshops take place in Rowe 319 except via WebEx dates.
While each session covers a specific topic, general discussions and open-ended questions are always welcome. Please bring your laptop.
Contact Daniel Facchinetti if you have questions or would like more information.
Tues., 8/8 10:00-11:00 am – iClicker Personal Response Systems
The use of Classroom Response Systems or “clickers” is a proven way to engage students and let instructors know what students are thinking. This training will cover the following:
- How to install/run the iClicker software
- How to setup a Polling Session
- How to run a Polling Session
- How to link your Polling Sessions to HuskyCT
- How to sync your roster and scores into HuskyCT
- How to setup clicker Registration for your students in HuskyCT
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Tues., 8/8 11:00-12:30 pm – Assessments & Assignments in HuskyCT
HuskyCT provides a number of tools for assigning student work, collecting assignments such as papers and projects, and conducting other types of assessments such as tests and quizzes. This session will provide an overview of the tools available to instructors and how to use them, including the use and application of SafeAssign (a built-in plagiarism detection software) as it relates to pedagogy. (Please note: This session will cover the basics of using HuskyCT’s test/quizzing functions, but if you would like to learn about the details of that tool, you also may want to consider the “Developing and Building Test, Quizzes, and Exams in HuskyCT” workshop on August 15)
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Wed., 8/9 9:30-11:00 am – Kaltura and Collaborate
Kaltura is an application built right into HuskyCT that allows instructors and students to record their own video and audio, such as screencasts and/or webcam recordings, and add them directly to their courses. Collaborate is a web-conferencing platform (similar to Skype or WebEx) built into HuskyCT and available to every instructor, allowing for remote/virtual live interaction with students. This session will cover the basics of each platform and how they can be used in your course through HuskyCT.
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Thurs., 8/10 1:00-2:30 pm – Kaltura and Collaborate (online using Collaborate)
Kaltura is an application built right into HuskyCT that allows instructors and students to record their own video and audio, such as screencasts and/or webcam recordings, and add them directly to their courses. Collaborate is a web-conferencing platform (similar to Skype or WebEx) built into HuskyCT and available to every instructor, allowing for remote/virtual live interaction with students. This session will cover the basics of each platform and how they can be used in your course through HuskyCT.
Register here
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu