Room 428 Armory Buildling (Southwest corner of the building)

Junior Faculty Seminar Series on Teaching & Learning

Come join this learning community by participating in this specially designed seminar series for junior faculty, though all are welcomed to participate. We'll share strategies and best practices for effective and efficient teaching. There will be great conversations, handouts, and lunch! Since each session builds on each other, we hope you will be able to attend all the meetings.  

Session 5: Make Teaching Stick - Six Ways to Make Your Lessons More Memorable

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We spend hours making decisions on critical concepts and skills for our students to master; we think about the best ways to present those concepts; we plan activities to engage our students.  Yet… some of our students just don’t get it. Maybe what our class lacked was “stickiness.” In this interactive session, we will discuss the six principles that Chip and Dan Heath propose in their book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die” and ways to apply them to our teaching.

ATLAS.ti: Qualitative Data Analysis will cover the following topics:

1. Learn about the methodological principles behind ATLAS.ti
2. Open ATLAS.ti software and import textual documents
3. Understand the layout of the ATLAS.ti environment
4. Learn the fundamental functions of ATLAS.ti for data description, exploration, analysis, and interpretation
5. Learn how to print, save, and export output

Each workshop will last for 2 hours

R I: Getting Started with R workshops will cover the following topics:

1. Basic R syntax
2. Common R packages
3. Importing data sets from other software such as SPSS, Excel, and Stata
4. Computing new variables and recoding variables
5. Creating frequency and contingency tables
6. Obtaining univariate statistics
7. Handling output

Each workshop will last for 2 hours

Armory building, room 428

In this workshop, we will discuss all the steps necessary for providing a fun, interactive learning experience to all the students in your laboratory class. Topics include: course planning, group work, providing effective demonstrations, experiment review and more. 

This is a TA-to-TA workshop, designed for TAs and offered by one of CITL's Graduate Affiliates.

This workshop counts towards the Graduate Teacher Certificate or the Certificate in Foundations of Teaching.

R II: Inferential Statistics with R workshops will cover the following topics:

1. Chi-square and Fisher's exact test
2. Two-Independent samples t-test
3. One-way ANOVA
4. Bivariate correlation
5. Bivariate regression
6. Multivariate regression

Each workshop will last for 2 hours

Armory 172 (Innovation Studio)

Throughout your life you will, almost certainly, give presentations. We’ve all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform our students the best? Is it only about the PowerPoint or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression on the audience? In this session we distill the magic that just might take your next presentation from bland to grand. http:/go.illinois.edu/presentation

Note: This workshop counts towards, the Graduate Teacher Certificate, the Certificate in Foundations of Teaching, or the Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching.

TechHub - Armory Room 151A

CITL Innovation Spaces is hosting a variety of hands-on emerging technology topics for beginners. Workshops are open to everyone. (Note: This workshop counts towards the Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching.)

All workshops are free and scheduled to last one hour. Participation requirements are listed, below.

360° Cameras with GoPro Fusion and Virtual Reality with the HTC Vive – Wednesday, November 6th at 3pm at the TechHub (151A Armory)

• Learn to capture 360 spherical images and videos. This is one of the easiest ways to create your own virtual reality experiences. Participants, in groups, will record a 360° video which we then experience in an HTC Vive virtual reality headset.
• Requirements: none