Make your students more globally engaged. Find community partners to help your students learn through service.
Some of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology’s workshops require registration, so simply select the link in the workshop title and you’ll be taken directly to the appropriate registration page. Workshops are held at our facility at 301 South Main Street unless otherwise noted. If you have questions or need help, you can always email us at CTLT@ilstu.edu.
Fostering Student Collaboration
Monday, June 22 • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Learning from your peers can be powerful. Yet, when creating collaborative experiences, both instructors and students often run into challenges. Students become frustrated because they haven’t developed collaboration skills. Teachers face difficult decisions about how to structure collaborative work. They struggle to assess and grade students. It all makes the very idea of group work daunting. In this workshop, you will participate in a variety of group activities and determine how they can be used in your class. You will also develop or revise a group project for a class that you teach.
Successful Online Course Facilitation
Monday, June 22 • 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Teaching online requires faculty to move from a teacher-centered to a learner-centered design and delivery process. Explore strategies and tools you can use to increase the effectiveness of your facilitation of the online learning environment. Topics covered include what to do at the various stages of course delivery, including before the course begins, and how to reduce the amount of time you spend on communication activities without diminishing the quality of student interactions. This workshop is rated “E for Everyone,” but a basic knowledge of ReggieNet will be helpful for implementing some strategies.
Word: Level 1
Monday, June 22 • 1–4 p.m.
This is an introduction to Microsoft Word’s basic tools. You will learn to create new documents, enter and edit text, and save files.
Going Global with Your Course
Tuesday, June 23 • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Design or revamp your course to make it more globally engaged, in keeping with the latest version of Educating Illinois and the University’s International Strategic Plan. Become aware of current paradigms shaping the internationalization of higher education and how these have been conceptualized and operationalized. Learn about common and effective approaches for creating global courses. You’ll become familiar with books, organizations, websites, and technological tools that can help you design or redesign your course. You’ll also hear from others who have recently gone global with their own courses. This cohort will be invited to participate at the Course Design Showcase on August 5, 2015, at the Alumni Center. Please note: Due to limited seating you will be automatically waitlisted for this cohort, but will be notified when you are actively registered. This workshop meets on June 23, June 24, June 30, July 7, and July 14, but you only need to register for the June 23 session.
OneNote
Tuesday, June 23 • 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Transform how you take and share notes with Microsoft OneNote. Unlike a word processor, OneNote allows you to easily include images, videos, and audio clips anywhere on the page. Organize information into virtual notebooks that can be shared across all your devices and with others. Explore how to use OneNote on desktop, tablet, and smartphone, and how to collaborate with others by synchronizing through OneDrive. Since OneNote is available for free to both students and instructors on campus, it can be an easy way for students to share media in class.
Community Partners Lunch and Learn
Tuesday, June 23 • 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Interested in incorporating civic engagement or service learning in your courses? CTLT can help you connect with some community partners. Join us for a lunch and meet representatives from agencies in town who would like to collaborate with Illinois State students. At this event, community partners will give a short overview of their programs, services, and needs, and then faculty will have the opportunity to explore the table fair and discuss possibilities.
University Teaching Award Portfolio Circles
Wednesday, June 24 • 9–11 a.m.
This workshop tackles some of the difficulties of content-heavy courses through constructivist methodology and application to help shift away from content-centered and to student-centered activities. Explore techniques to facilitate the balance of content delivery and active student learning to transform delivery methods and spark student discovery. Facilitator: Allison Alcorn.
Word: Creating Fillable Forms
Wednesday, June 24 • 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Learn how to create simple digital forms in Microsoft Word. We’ll explore this functionality and briefly talk about its advantages and disadvantages, and explore other options (such as creating forms in Adobe Acrobat).
Effective Teaching with Clickers
Thursday, June 25 • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Join us for a workshop designed to get you started teaching the right way with classroom clickers. This full-day event is for both novices and experienced clickers users. Learn how to ask the right questions and problem-solve classroom issues. This is more than just technology training! Learn how clickers can lead to effective pedagogy and effective student learning in classrooms of all sizes. We guarantee that you will leave this workshop with new ideas and genuine excitement about putting clickers to use in your upcoming courses.
Constructivist Methods for Success in Content-Heavy Classes
Thursday, June 25 • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
This workshop tackles some of the difficulties of content-heavy courses through constructivist methodology and application to help shift away from content-centered and to student-centered activities. Explore techniques to facilitate the balance of content delivery and active student learning to transform delivery methods and spark student discovery. Facilitator: Allison Alcorn.
If you need a special accommodation to fully participate in an event, please contact the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology’s main desk at (309) 438-2542.
