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Faculty Development Center
109 Bruce T. Halle Library
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
Email: aavp_fdc@emich.edu
Ph: 734.487.2530

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01429 - Bruce K Nelson Faculty Friends Development Fund

Workshops, Events


Upcoming FDC Events:


SPSS I Summer Workshops (All graduate students welcome)

Led by Professor Joe Scazzero
May 22nd or May 23rd, 9:00-11:00 a.m. in 110 Halle Library

This "hands-on" workshop is for participants who have never used or feel out-of-date with the statistics package SPSS. The menu-driven system of the Windows version of SPSS 18 will be demonstrated for performing common tasks such as: entering data into SPSS, creating variable and value lables, computer new variables, recording values, running selected statistical procedures, and saving data and output files. The SPSS I Workshop will cover the basics of this package.
To register for this workshop Click Here. Walk-ins are welcome!

SPSS II Summer Workshops (All graduate students welcome)

Led by Professor Joe Scazzero
May 29th or May 30th, 9:00-11:00 a.m. in 110 Halle Library

This "hands-on" workshop is for participants who want to know how to create and use syntax files for the statistics package SPSS 18 for Windows. The SPSS II Workshop will cover selected advanced features and syntax files. Syntax files are text files that allow the user to run programs on a SPSS data file. The advantages of using syntax files rather than menu-driven systems will be discussed and demonstrated during the workshop.
To register for this workshop Click Here. Walk-ins are welcome!

SNAP Online Surveys Workshop (All graduate students welcome)

Led by Professor Mark Ragg
Halle 110

To fully understand the software, you must attend both Part 1 and Part 2 of the training.

Part 1-Developing Your Survey: 5/29/2013 or 5/30/2013, 11:00 am-1:00 pm
This "hands-on" workshop walks participants step-by-step through developing an online survey using the newest version of SNAP Survey Solutions. SNAP is one of the most powerful and secure online survey systems. The newest version allows users to install SNAP on any computer making it easy to use SNAP from anywhere in the world. Learn the newest data collection technologies such as maps, images, sliders and other methods of making data collection easy and engaging for respondents. Part 1 of this workshop provides the basic steps of developing the survey and importing survey questions from Word files.

Part 2-Finalizing and Posting Surveys: 6/5/2013 or 6/6/2013, 10:00 am-12:00 noon
This "hands-on" workshop walks participants step-by-step through finalizing the online survey. Participants will learn how to use branching, insert background images, use Excel files to send automatic email invites, and publish their survey. The training ends with retrieving data and importing into SPSS for data analysis. Participants will be able to manage their own surveys through a secure system.

To register for this workshop series Click Here. Walk-ins are welcome!

Teaching-Learning Academy (TLA)

300 Halle

The Teaching-Learning Academy (TLA)is modeled after the long-running TLA at Western Washington University (WWU). EMU’s TLA will convene students, faculty and staff to dialog twice monthly, with a focus on student learning. Drop-ins welcome (Fall schedule to be announced in the summer months).

New York Times Jam Sessions *NEW and Improved*


Have a topic recently in the NY Times that you’re interested in discussing with colleagues? Contact us! You bring a group (minimum 10 faculty and/or staff) together and lead the discussion and the FDC works with the NY Times to provide a light lunch during your discussion. We will even bring it to you…right to your department. Give us a call at 734.487.2535 or pre-register by clicking here.

Upcoming External Conferences:


Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning

May 8-10, 2013, Mount Pleasant, MI

Call for proposal deadline is over. To register, Click Here.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Academy

May 19-21, 2013, Grand Rapids, MI

Call for proposal deadline is over. To register, Click Here.

ISSOTL Conference

October 2-5, Raleigh Convention Center, NC

Call for proposal deadline is over. To register, Click Here.

Assessment Institute

October 27-29, 2013, Indianapolis, IN

Call for proposal deadline is over. To register, Click Here.

For workshops on Grant Writing and Research check out EMU's Office of Research Development.


HR's Training & Organizational Development newsletter lists many practical workshops of interest to faculty.


You may also want to check out the offerings on the IT training calendar, and support and training for eCollege (EMU-Online, eCompanion).



Handouts and Links from Recent FDC Workshops

Webinars

  1. Connections Learning, Webinar: The Many Uses of Online Learning After clicking on the link, to view you need to enter the registers email address. To access this webinar you will need to enter peggy.liggit@emich.edu. From April 17, 2012.
  2. Embedding Universal Learning Design in the Classroom, Webinar: Low and No-Cost Strategies that work A word document with a link to a recording of the webinar, as well as to the handouts. From March 15, 2012.
  3. Copyright and Fair Use: Codes of Best Practice in Higher Education From February 23, 2012.
    To view the archive
    • Go to the link above
    • Enter the registrant's email address: asinger@emich.edu
    • Enter the Event ID: 18612
    • Enter the Order Number: 683800
  4. Brian Smith's webinar "And We're Live: What You Need to Know About Live Webcasting and Lecture Capture"

FERPA

  1. PPT slides about FERPA
  2. FERPA at a glance Word doc
  3. Faculty Legal Issues: FERPA (PPT)

Handouts from Disability Resource center

  1. Syllabus Accessibility Statement
  2. Student FAQ
  3. Short UD Summary
  4. Purpose of the DRC (for presentations)
  5. Faculty FAQ
  6. Accomodating Disabilities (PPT)

T2R - August 2010

  1. Handout for First Day of Class Session
  2. How Can You Do Well in this Course?

Setting the Tone

  1. Setting the tone (Word document)

Teaching and Learning at EMU

  1. The benefits of choosing a campus clicker standard (Must login or register to view)
  2. ICPSR At 50: Facilitating Research and Data Sharing
  3. Group Projects (PPT)
  4. Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (PDF format)
  5. How to manage classroom incivilities
  6. Teacher Behaviors Inventory (word document)
  7. Lecturetools webinar

EMU Lectures on iTunes U

  1. View guest speaker Terry Doyle's "Follow Where the Research Leads" lecture from our Faculty Development Spring Colloquium, as well as other online videos of past lectures/presentations at the FDC, at iTunes U: Faculty Development Center. (because this is iTunes, this link may take a minute to load)

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