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Monday, November 3, 2014
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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Lightning Session: Using Mindfulness Training in the Classroom
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: Come to join Maureen Hall (Teaching and Learning), Aminda O’Hare (Psychology) who will discuss using mindfulness training in the classroom.
Lunch will be served; if you wish to attend, please register through the Events calendar on UMD website.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
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9:30 AM
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11:30 AM
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Managing Others: Performance Management
- Location: Foster Administration Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Managing Others: Performance Management : In this session, participants will:
• Review the performance management cycle and the critical success factors
• Learn how to establish performance expectations and development goals
• Learn how to hone their coaching skills for higher performance
Location: BOT Foster 333
Facilitator: Sheila Whitaker, Organizational Development & Training
Contact Info: Sheila Whitaker, X 8045
- Topical Areas: Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, Training
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1:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Collaboration: Where Group Work Meets Technology
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 128
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: How can we streamline and enrich group assignments using technology?
Including collaboration into course work provides opportunities for knowledge sharing and reflection as well as helps to promote a sense of community among our learners. Blogs, Wikis, and Blackboard Collaborate are three tools that can be used to create collaborative learning assignments and environments. Attending this seminar will provide participants with an overview of each tool, examples of effective collaborative assignments, and strategies for incorporating each tool and collaborative work successfully into their course work.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
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2:00 PM
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4:00 PM
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Introduction to InDesign, Part 2
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services
- Description: The second workshop in the three part series covers working with text frames, threading text and importing text from other documents. Placing images, the Links palette, the Direct Selection tool and Text Wrap are also covered. Previous InDesign experience, or Part 1 of the Introduction class is required.
This workshop takes place in the Library, room 225.
Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799,
or email RLegault@umassd.edu.
Seating is limited, so please register today!
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
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9:00 AM
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
Note: This course is offered entirely online and will be conducted over a four week time frame.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, Training, Workshop, topic: Faculty Development
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10:00 AM
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11:30 AM
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Increasing Student Engagement with Multimedia
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: Topics delivered though audio & video can increase student engagement and greatly benefit students with visual learning styles over traditional text-based materials. This session will explore your options for transforming your current lessons into rich media presentations. Faculty will be shown what tools are currently available for use in developing media as well as where to find resources that have already been developed and are free for your use.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Technology+Tools+%26+Ideas
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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12:00 PM
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1:30 PM
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Faculty Writing Workshop
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: The Office of Faculty Development’s Writing Group for Faculty provides UMass Dartmouth faculty with a structured yet flexible forum for discussing and stimulating their ongoing writing projects. The group will meet every three weeks on Wednesday in the OFD Lounge. Lunch will be provided. Regular participation throughout the academic year is encouraged, but drop-ins are welcome.
This workshop series will be facilitated by Maureen Eckert, Associate Professor, Philosophy. Please contact Maureen Eckert at meckert@umassd.edu with any questions.
Lunch will be served in all sessions; if you wish to attend any session, please register through the Events calendar on UMD website.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
Note: This course is offered entirely online and will be conducted over a four week time frame.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, Training, Workshop, topic: Faculty Development
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Friday, November 7, 2014
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10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Creating Forms with Adobe Acrobat
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services
- Description: This workshop provides an introduction to Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat is used to create, edit and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. PDF files can be set up as interactive forms for distribution and data collection. Participants learn to work with Acrobat’s toolbars, navigate, edit and annotate PDF documents, manage bookmarks, and set document security via passwords. Also covered are Acrobat’s form features, from form creation through distribution and compiling responses. No previous Acrobat experience is required.
This workshop takes place in the Library, room 226.
Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799,
or email RLegault@umassd.edu.
Seating is limited, so please register today!
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
Note: This course is offered entirely online and will be conducted over a four week time frame.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, Training, Workshop, topic: Faculty Development
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10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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ESU Performance Management Training
- Location: Charlton College of Business, Room 115,
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Performance Management
Managing and evaluating employee performance is one of the more challenging roles of a supervisor. Whether you are new to it or in need of a refresher, in this session you will:
• Understand how performance management works
• Learn about best practices and the tools to make it work
• Discuss effective goal-setting
• Review the common pitfalls of performance evaluations
• Learn how to give effective feedback
Location: Lib 314
Facilitator: Sheila Whitaker
Contact Info: Sheila Whitaker, X 8045
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
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Saturday, November 8, 2014
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
Note: This course is offered entirely online and will be conducted over a four week time frame.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: audience: Faculty, Training, Workshop, topic: Faculty Development
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