Call for Presenters: August 2019 Grad Academy
Faculty, academic professionals, and experienced TAs are invited to participate as presenters and facilitators at the Graduate Academy for College Teaching (August 19-22, 2019), CITL's program for new TAs with classroom teaching responsibilities, and the Symposium on Grading & Office Hours (August 20, 2019), our program for those TAs with non-classroom responsibilities. There are opportunities to create your own concurrent session, facilitate a lesson from a pre-existing lesson plan, or facilitate microteaching sessions. Facilitating microteaching is a particularly fun and easy way to volunteer even if you are somewhat new to teaching yourself.Follow this link to see the full call for presenters. If you already know you want to help,follow this link to volunteer for the Grad Academy.
Chair-a-Thon: April 26
Whether you’re running in the Illinois Marathon, or planning to sit on the couch, we’ve got something fun for you to do during lunchtime onFriday April 26.Help choose the best chairs for newTransitionaliFLEX interactive classrooms at aChair-a-ThonFriday, April 26 from 11am until 1pm at the DCL Atrium. Eight styles of mobile tablet armchairs will be available. So test them out, eat a sandwich, and vote for your favorites!RSVP for the Chair-a-Thon by clicking here(so we can get the right number of sandwiches).
CITL Exam Services: Office Hours for Spring 2019 Finals Week
CITL Exam Services in room 247 of the Armory Building will be open for final exams from 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, May 3, and Monday, May 6, through Friday, May 10. This includes being open during the lunch hour. We are closed Saturday and Sunday during finals. Contactexams@illinois.eduor 244-3839 with any questions.
De-stress Disco at the TechHub: May 2
Stop by the TechHub on reading day for a de-stress disco. Try your hand at DJing with a 2-deck Traktor Pad, experience music in VR on our HTC Vive or unwind with some Playstation VR. Free!Check out their Facebook event for details.
Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day @ Illinois: May 16
Attend some of the 15 free workshops including Word and PPT Accessibility, Captioning and Audio Descriptions, E-Text Accessibility, Microsoft Lighthouse Project and learn more about the new campus accessibility policy and implementation plan. View demonstrations of assistive technologies. Tour the DRES history timeline and Beckwith Residential Support Services at Nugent Hall. Complimentary lunch available with pre-registration before May 10thand ASL accommodation requests needed by May 1st.
More information and registration at:https://go.illinois.edu/gaad/
Language Courses Open to All (Summer 2019)
The Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program offers low-cost classes in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and English as a Second Language. Open to everyone; not for credit, just for fun! Classes will meet May 13-31 (no class on Memorial Day).Look here for more information and to sign up.
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