Past Workshops
2016-2017
Communicating Your Passion: A Reprise
Date, Time, Place: 21 Mar 2017, Doudna 1080 (Globe Studio)
In the classroom or in academic discussions, how do you tell your story, present your vision, or inspire your audience? Last year, Prof. Anne Thibault (Theatre Arts) offered a Faculty Development workshop to help us as faculty manage performance and presentation anxiety, achieve voice control and variety, and improve posture and body language. This month, Prof. Thibault offers a reprise of this workshop explaining the ways to and benefits of Communicating (Y)our Passion. The workshop helps us identify unconscious habits that sabotage our message and shows us how we can more meaningfully engage our students and audiences with authenticity and clarity.
Anne Thibault is not only a professional theater artist, but provides workshops to business corporations on speaking and presenting. This is a chance to fine-tune our self-presentation and performance. It will increase our self-awareness of how we influence how our message is received.
Let's Talk Teaching Series
Follow the Money: Funding for Faculty Research and Creative Activity
Date, Time, & Place: Wed, Feb 8, 4440 Booth Library
Dr. Robert Chesnut, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, offers a brief presentation of suggestions for obtaining outside funding for faculty activity, while a panel of faculty who have each had success in obtaining such funding weigh in on these suggestions with practical examples from their own experience. The panel is comprised of Dr. Charles R. Foy, History, Dr. Mary E. Konkle, Chemistry, Dr. Peter Ping Liu, Technology, Dr. Robin L. Murray, English and Women’s Studies. We would also like to hear your questions and experience. If you are interested in applying for Grants, check out the Summary of the Discussion on Follow the Moneynow.
Co-sponsored Workshops and Speakers:
Recognizing and Responding to Microaggressions on Campus
Time & Location: Tues., 15 Nov. 2016, Klehm 2030
Making Excellence Inclusive (MEI) and the Faculty Development Office at Eastern Illinois University are co-sponsoring a session on Recognizing and Responding to Microaggressions on Campus, Tu, 15 Nov, in Klehm 2030. This session will define and provide examples of microaggressions. Through interactive dialogue, the session will then assist participants in understanding how microaggressions perpetuate racism, sexism and misogyny, homophobia and transphobia, as well as classism. Proactive communicative challenges and responses will also be addressed. Open to Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Assistants.
Getting Started with OneNote for Teaching and Learning
HANDS-ON FOLLOW-UP
Contact: Tom Grissom, Director of Instructional Technology Center
Time Location: Thurs., 10 Nov. 2016, ITC lab, Buzzard Hall 1430
Even if you missed the workshop last week, feel free to stop by this hands-on OneNote follow-up where Dr. Grissom will be happy to help you learn how to adapt OneNote to your own course needs.
Original Workshop SummaryThis workshop demonstrates a few lesser-known components of Office 365 to which all EIU faculty and students have free access, and which are specifically designed for education. Hands-on demonstration followed by discussion of when, how, and why you might want to use these programs. BYOD (bring your own device). For participants who want to begin using OneNote in their own courses, Dr. Grissom will offer a follow-up lab-based workshop a week later.
Classroom Polling
Contact: Lisa Dallas, Kai Hung, Catherine Polydore, Jeffrey Stowell
Time & Location: Tues., 8 Nov. 2016, Booth 4440
On 8 Nov., to celebrate the end of polling at the national level (well, for a week or two), we offer a session of four Lightning Talks on Classroom Polling (Lisa Dallas, Lumpkin School of Business/CATS/SCE, on PollEverywhere; Kai Hung, Biological Sciences, on Top Hat; Catherine Polydore, Counseling & Student Development, on Kahoot; Jeffrey Stowell, Psychology, on using mobile devices as clickers). Five-minute initial micro-presentations on favored polling practices will be followed by discussion on why you might want to try one of these apps in your course. BYODevice.
Getting Started with OneNote for Teaching and Learning
Contact: Tom Grissom, Director of Instructional Technology Center
Time & Location: Thurs., 3 Nov. 2016, Buzzard Hall 1140
This workshop demonstrates a few lesser-known components of Office 365 to which all EIU faculty and students have free access, and which are specifically designed for education. Hands-on demonstration followed by discussion of when, how, and why you might want to use these programs. BYOD (bring your own device). For participants who want to begin using OneNote in their own courses, Dr. Grissom will offer a follow-up lab-based workshop a week later.
Strategies for Making It Stick
Contact: Catherine Polydore
Time & Location: Wed., 26 Oct. 2016, 4440 Booth Library
This workshop is inspired by Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Brown, Roedigfer, McDaniel, 2014), discussed in last year’s Faculty Development reading groups. Educational psychologist, Dr. Catherine Polydore, Counseling & Student Development, shares her original, classroom-tested methods for deepening student learning. Come join us for this brief, lively presentation, followed by discussion of how these practices and tactics can readily be adopted across disciplines.
