Spring 2018 Workshops & Events

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Instructional Innovation events are open to all instructors: faculty, lecturers, adjuncts, grad instructors, and instructional staff. Come extend your toolkit for teaching!

Spring topics include:

Communities of Practice

  • Echo 360 Community of Practice
  • Game-Based (Learning?) Scholarship Community of Practice

Digital Brown Bags

  • Minecraft for Education
  • TechnoStress—How Electronic Devices & Information Systems Work Against Employees
    (And Ways We Can Stop It)
  • How to Manage Real-Time Online Discussions in Zoom (online discussion)

Hands-On Workshops

  • Creating Accessible Documents (Word, PDF, PowerPoint)
  • Creating an Accessible Syllabus
  • Differentiated Instruction and Universal Design for Learning – What is the Difference (and does it matter?)
  • Intro to DIY Closed Captions
  • Qualtrics in the Classroom
  • JMP in the Classroom: Designing Data-Driven Lessons and Exploration

For event descriptions, schedule & registration, visit:

Spring 2018 Workshops and Events

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