Upcoming Workshops

Our events are open to IPFW and Ivy Tech staff, full and part-time faculty, and graduate students.

A “Take Five” workshop can be arranged for anyone who has at least five people who are interested in a workshop on a particular topic. Like an improvised jazz arrangement, we can begin the planning when our office is notified and together create a time, place, and activities customized to your interests and needs.

Earn a Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) Certificate of Completion.

ITS conducts training in a wide variety of software, including Blackboard Learn. Register for ITS workshops at their Training Resources page. CELT’s workshops will help you apply the software to support specific teaching and learning opportunities.

Excellent Blackboard Tutorials are available from the eLearning page in the ITS Knowledge Base.

Online tutorials in all of the software you want to use are now available by clicking on this special link to Lynda.com. CELT also provides “how-to” information about instructional software such as Safe Assign, ScreenCorder, Adobe Connect and others on its "Instructional Software” page.

March Workshops

12 O'clock Scholars Brown Bag Series: Strategies for Supporting Teaching

Facilitator: Carol Sternberger, NUR
March 1, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in the Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Helmke Library. Offered twice a month at noon on a Monday and a Thursday.

The series will address strategies and issues in supporting teaching. Potential topics of discussion will include formative peer review, summative peer review, mentoring, supporting the teaching done by part-time faculty and graduate students, and managing time for teaching. During the first week of the series participants will identify topics of interest for subsequent discussions. Bring your lunch, your questions, and your own experience to this freely flowing discussion facilitated colleagues known using effective strategies. Registration is required.

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Teaching at Its Best Reading Circle

Facilitator: Michael Bendele, PSY
March 2, 10:00 am - 11:15 am in ET 131

Linda B. Nilson, author of Teaching at its Best, will be the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual College of Arts and Sciences Symposium on Teaching and Learning on January 5, 2012, in Liberal Arts 159. In connection with this event, five different series of reading circles have been organized to discuss Dr. Nilson's book, Teaching at its Best. Books will be available for sale from the IPFW bookstore at her keynote address. Registration is required.

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Intercultural Communications

Facilitators: Suin and Lee Roberts, ILCS
March 14, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT 128

Having an insight into cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication can help with teaching international students or with working with international colleagues. In this workshop, the presenters will discuss effective ways of communicating based on understanding the linguistic and cultural background of speakers. Registration is required.

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Lifelong Learning: Doing it and teaching it

Facilitator: Beth Overhauser, LIB
March 16, 10:00 am – 11:15 am in LIB 440 A (EITC)

If today's graduates are to prepare for jobs that do not yet exist, the ability to discern credible sources of information in a field or discipline and apply it appropriately are skills that students must acquire. This interactive presentation will provide you with tools that will help you find and evaluate the information and research that you need to stay current, and suggest ways in which you may help your students learn the skills and habits of mind that will support their own lifelong learning. Please bring your questions. Registration is required. 

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Teaching at Its Best Reading Circle

Facilitator: Kathy Pollock, ACFN
March 19, 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm in LB 275

Linda B. Nilson, author of Teaching at its Best, will be the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual College of Arts and Sciences Symposium on Teaching and Learning on January 5, 2012, in Liberal Arts 159. In connection with this event, five different series of reading circles have been organized to discuss Dr. Nilson's book, Teaching at its Best. Books will be available for sale from the IPFW bookstore at her keynote address. Registration is required.

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Teaching at Its Best Reading Circle

Facilitator: Marcia Dixson, COM
March 20, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm in NF 257

Linda B. Nilson, author of Teaching at its Best, will be the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual College of Arts and Sciences Symposium on Teaching and Learning on January 5, 2012, in Liberal Arts 159. In connection with this event, five different series of reading circles have been organized to discuss Dr. Nilson's book, Teaching at its Best. Books will be available for sale from the IPFW bookstore at her keynote address. Registration is required.

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Teaching at Its Best Reading Circle

Facilitator: Yvonne Zubovic, MATH
March 21, 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm in LB 275

Linda B. Nilson, author of Teaching at its Best, will be the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual College of Arts and Sciences Symposium on Teaching and Learning on January 5, 2012, in Liberal Arts 159. In connection with this event, five different series of reading circles have been organized to discuss Dr. Nilson's book, Teaching at its Best. Books will be available for sale from the IPFW bookstore at her keynote address. Registration is required.

Register Now

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Teaching at Its Best Reading Circle

Facilitator: Michael Bendele, PSY
March 23, 10:00 am - 11:15 am in ET 131

Linda B. Nilson, author of Teaching at its Best, will be the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual College of Arts and Sciences Symposium on Teaching and Learning on January 5, 2012, in Liberal Arts 159. In connection with this event, five different series of reading circles have been organized to discuss Dr. Nilson's book, Teaching at its Best. Books will be available for sale from the IPFW bookstore at her keynote address. Registration is required.

Register Now

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12 O’clock Scholars Brown Bag Series: Strategies for Supporting Teaching

Facilitator: Hardin Aasand, ENGL
March 26, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in the Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Helmke Library. Offered twice a month at noon on a Monday and a Thursday.

The series will address strategies and issues in supporting teaching. Potential topics of discussion will include formative peer review, summative peer review, mentoring, supporting the teaching done by part-time faculty and graduate students, and managing time for teaching. During the first week of the series participants will identify topics of interest for subsequent discussions. Bring your lunch, your questions, and your own experience to this freely flowing discussion facilitated colleagues known using effective strategies. Registration is required.

Register Now

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12 O’clock Scholars Brown Bag Series: Strategies for Supporting Teaching

Facilitator: Hardin Aasand, ENGL
March 29, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in the Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Helmke Library. Offered twice a month at noon on a Monday and a Thursday.

The series will address strategies and issues in supporting teaching. Potential topics of discussion will include formative peer review, summative peer review, mentoring, supporting the teaching done by part-time faculty and graduate students, and managing time for teaching. During the first week of the series participants will identify topics of interest for subsequent discussions. Bring your lunch, your questions, and your own experience to this freely flowing discussion facilitated colleagues known using effective strategies. Registration is required.

Register Now

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2012 Spring Teaching Conference: Critical Thinking across the Curriculum

Keynote speaker: Bill Roberson, Director of the Institute for Teaching, Learning & Academic Leadership at SUNY Albany
March 30, in Walb Union.

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Our events are open to IPFW and Ivy Tech staff, full and part-time faculty, and graduate students.

A “Take Five” workshop can be arranged for anyone who has at least five people who are interested in a workshop on a particular topic. Like an improvised jazz arrangement, we can begin the planning when our office is notified and together create a time, place, and activities customized to your interests and needs.

Earn a Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) Certificate of Completion.

ITS conducts training in a wide variety of software, including Blackboard Learn. Register for ITS workshops at their Training Resources page. CELT’s workshops will help you apply the software to support specific teaching and learning opportunities.

Excellent Blackboard Tutorials are available from the eLearning page in the ITS Knowledge Base.

Online tutorials in all of the software you want to use are now available by clicking on this special link to Lynda.com. CELT also provides “how-to” information about instructional software such as Safe Assign, ScreenCorder, Adobe Connect and others on its "Instructional Software” page.

April Workshops

Creating and Using Rubrics Across a Program

(Rescheduled from 1/20/12)
Facilitator: John O’Connell, THTR
April 4, from 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm in KT 128

John O’Connell will share effective strategies for building faculty commitment to improving student writing and for collaborative construction of a writing rubric that can be used across a program. Participants will come away with knowledge of the steps involved in the process, techniques to use, and valuable resources to adapt to their own efforts. Registration is required.

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FACET Blackboard Learn Panel Discussion - 8 Months in: Reflections from the field

Panelists: Steve Carr, COM; Adam Dircksen, COM; Michelle Drouin, PSY; and Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, ENGL
April 10, from 9:00 am - 10:00 am in ET 131

We invite you to come hear a panel of four faculty members share their experiences and additional examples of how they have used Blackboard Learn in their classes. Registration is required.

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Our events are open to IPFW and Ivy Tech staff, full and part-time faculty, and graduate students.

A “Take Five” workshop can be arranged for anyone who has at least five people who are interested in a workshop on a particular topic. Like an improvised jazz arrangement, we can begin the planning when our office is notified and together create a time, place, and activities customized to your interests and needs.

Earn a Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) Certificate of Completion.

ITS conducts training in a wide variety of software, including Blackboard Learn. Register for ITS workshops at their Training Resources page. CELT’s workshops will help you apply the software to support specific teaching and learning opportunities.

Excellent Blackboard Tutorials are available from the eLearning page in the ITS Knowledge Base.

Online tutorials in all of the software you want to use are now available by clicking on this special link to Lynda.com. CELT also provides “how-to” information about instructional software such as Safe Assign, ScreenCorder, Adobe Connect and others on its "Instructional Software” page.

There are no workshops scheduled for May at this time. Please check back again for updates.

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Our events are open to IPFW and Ivy Tech staff, full and part-time faculty, and graduate students.

A “Take Five” workshop can be arranged for anyone who has at least five people who are interested in a workshop on a particular topic. Like an improvised jazz arrangement, we can begin the planning when our office is notified and together create a time, place, and activities customized to your interests and needs.

Earn a Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) Certificate of Completion.

ITS conducts training in a wide variety of software, including Blackboard Learn. Register for ITS workshops at their Training Resources page. CELT’s workshops will help you apply the software to support specific teaching and learning opportunities.

Excellent Blackboard Tutorials are available from the eLearning page in the ITS Knowledge Base.

Online tutorials in all of the software you want to use are now available by clicking on this special link to Lynda.com. CELT also provides “how-to” information about instructional software such as Safe Assign, ScreenCorder, Adobe Connect and others on its "Instructional Software” page.

June Workshops

Changing Cycles-Summer Writing Institute

Wednesday, June 6 thru Friday, June 8 from 8:30 am - 5:00 pm in LB 275

Writing in circles? Turn them into cycles and get somewhere! Do you speed along at the start of a project but abandon it when the going gets tough? Do you know who to put on your team and how to make the most of collaborators? Do you lose focus because of a lack of rewards along the way? Join CELT and Helmke Library for our own writing Tour de France! The CELT and Helmke team will coach you to "King of the Mountain" success during this exciting 3 day event. Lunch will be provided and preference given to those who can attend all days. Registration is required.

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Register Now *Please note that this event has reached it's maximum capacity. Registering now will enter your name on the waiting list to attend in the case of a cancellation. You will be notified either way as to whether there will be an opening for you to attend. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

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