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Free Stuff for Your Class: Alternatives to Paying for Copyrighted Material
Location: Viking Union 567, Date: 5/1/2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Learn how to stop paying for copyright clearance. This session will show how to legally use materials already owned by the library for courses and also look at open access options and the public domain.
Also, we will explore the plethora of “free stuff” (e.g., graphics, video, audio, text) your students can legally access and use for assignments and presentations in your class. Join us for a discussion of best practices and instructional strategies for boosting creativity and professionalism in student work.
Join us for this presentation by Michael Lorenzen (Western Libraries) and Justina B... more
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Under Pressure: Heart Design and Fluid Dynamics (Part 2 of 2)
Location: Bond Hall 111, Date: 4/24/2012 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Please join Janice Lapsansky (Biology) for a sneak peek into how she teaches her GUR students about the anatomy of the heart and blood flow dynamics in mammals and how she brings the real world into her classes through her research as an emergency medical professional.
http://www.wwu.edu/depts/facultygur/ more
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Under Pressure: Heart Design and Fluid Dynamics (Part 1 of 2)
Location: Bond Hall 111, Date: 4/17/2012 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Please join Janice Lapsansky (Biology) for a sneak peek into how she teaches her GUR students about the anatomy of the heart and blood flow dynamics in mammals and how she brings the real world into her classes through her research as an emergency medical professional.
http://www.wwu.edu/depts/facultygur/ more
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Lecturing Without Tiring or Losing Your Voice - Reprise
Location: Arntzen 100, Date: 4/12/2012 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Back by popular demand, please join Rich Brown, Theatre, for this 90-minute workshop where you will learn basic vocal health techniques of support, projection, tension release, and proper placement of resonance in order to keep your lecturing voice strong throughout your class session, day, term, career. Attendees will be in contact with the floor for part of the workshop, so wear comfortable clothing. While the physical space is not limited, only 20 participants can be accommodated. Please register for this event by emailing cii@wwu.edu. more
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Learning Technology Group: Peer Evaluation for Team Learning
Location: Viking Union 567, Date: 3/29/2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Members of our campus community are welcome to join the "Learning Technology Group" lunch-hour discussion aimed at increasing our campus-wide understanding and use of technology as a teaching tool. All Western faculty, staff, and interested students are welcome to attend.
Have you ever wished for an easier way to facilitate peer evaluations? Justina Brown will demonstrate a free, web-based peer evaluation tool. Developed by an interdisciplinary team through an NSF grant and hosted at Purdue University, the “Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness” (CATME) tool might just be a v... more
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Learning Technology Group: Social Media in Higher Education
Location: VU567, Date: 2/28/2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Members of our campus community are welcome to join the "Learning Technology Group" lunch-hour discussion aimed at increasing our campus-wide understanding and use of technology as a teaching tool. All Western faculty, staff, and interested students are welcome to attend.
Explore promising methods of engaging students beyond the typical limitations of a face-to-face class period, with examples of using Twitter and Facebook in the classroom and around campus. You are invited to come "share" "like" or "comment" on this topic.
The Learning Technology Group at Western is an ongoing collaboratio... more
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Teaching in the Round: Chalkboards, Whiteboards, Smartboards
Location: MH 038, Date: 2/9/2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join Kendra Douglas, Modern and Classical Languages/Linguistics, for a presentation and workshop on strategic teaching techniques in which instructors utilize all four walls of the classroom, via chalkboards, whiteboards, or Smartboards, for student learning activities. more
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Gender in a Changing World: Through Nature via Nurture to a Humane Appreciation of Gender Diversity (Part 2 of 2)
Location: HU 106, Date: 2/2/2012 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
How does one make sense of gender in a rapidly changing world when yesterday’s norm, today’s convention and tomorrow’s possibilities have little in common? How does one study and teach gender issues in such a volatile and evolving environment?
Lena Ericksen examines the changing nature of gender through history and the effect socioeconomic conditions have had on the rise of gender consciousness, the successive waves and versions of feminism, and the subcultures based upon gender orientation that have emerged. more
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Learning Technology Group: Mobile Learning
Location: VU567, Date: 1/31/2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Members of our campus community are welcome to join the "Learning Technology Group" lunch-hour discussion aimed at increasing our campus-wide understanding and use of technology as a teaching tool. All Western faculty, staff, and interested students are welcome to attend.
Explore ways to reach students via mobile technology such as smartphones and tablets (iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.).
The Learning Technology Group at Western is an ongoing collaboration of Academic Technology and User Services, working with the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, to engage faculty in impleme... more
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Webinar - Re-Centering Teaching: 20+ Techniques For Promoting Active Learning
Location: VU 462B, Date: 1/27/2012 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ever wonder how and when to use particular teaching techniques or feel the need to revitalize your course/session designs? Connecting teaching strategies to learning outcomes is a challenge that higher education faculty face on a daily basis. In this session, participants will discover strategies for redesigning the way they teach challenging concepts or topics and will expand their repertoire of strategies to promote students’ active engagement in learning.
Join us in the Viking Union for a "site connection" to this live webinar, from Innovative Educators, where Dr. Bonnie B. Mullinix, Co-... more
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