Creating Free Google Docs Surveys Workshop (All graduate students welcome)

Google forms are a useful tool to help you plan events, send a survey, give students a quiz, or collect other information in an easy, streamlined way. A Google form is automatically connected to a spreadsheet with the same title. When you send or share a form, recipients’ responses will anonymously be collected in that spreadsheet. This tool can automatically summarize your data into graphs/tables. To learn how to use Google as a survey tool in a 90 minute workshop, register by clicking here.

SPSS I Winter Workshops (All graduate students welcome)

This "hands-on" workshop is for faculty and staff who have never used or feel out-of-date with the statistics package SPSS.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.

Please register for an SPSS I Workshop by clicking here. Walk-ins are welcome!

SPSS II Winter Workshops (All graduate students welcome)

This "hands-on" workshop is for faculty and staff 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

Please register for an SPSS II Workshop by clicking here. Walk-ins are welcome!

Panopto Training with EPEO Staff

For the Kickoff session, Frank Fedel, a "power user" of Panopto will present a variety of ways Lecture-Capture can be used in and outside of the classroom. In this session, we will help you set-up a Panopto account and guide you through a practice run using the technology. We will also assist users in applying the various ways Lecture-Capture methods can be used with students. In the Open Lab sessions, Frank and other Panopto experts will be present to assist you with whatever Panopto support you might need. In the Show and Share session,all users are welcome to come and present their favorite Panopto recording.

Office of Research Development Grant Proposal Writing Workshops

Beginning in January, ORD and FDC will sponsor a semester-long workshop designed to assist faculty in the process of writing a grant proposal. We anticipate that each participant may well begin this process in a different place in the process. Thus, the first meetings will be used to determine where each participant is in this process and to develop a program that will allow for good progress toward his or her goals for the semester. The primary purpose of this workshop series is to keep participants on track for completing tasks that will enable them to submit a proposal. The syllabus is designed for a faculty member who has conducted an initial review of the literature and has an idea or ideas for a proposal topic. For attached syllabus, Click Here.

Scholarly Agenda (Winter 2013)

Putting together a scholarly agenda is not easy. It requires thinking about many different issues and topics, as well as networking, looking for grants, re-thinking your current data, etc. This seminar series is designed for tenure-track faculty who wish not just to make a plan, but to implement it. Led by Drs. Deb de Laski-Smith and Michael McVey, there will be four two-hour seminars during the winter term. After summer implementation of your scholarly agenda, an August meeting will allow you to reflect with colleagues on your implementation strategies and plans. First and second year faculty will receive preference, but all full-time tenure-track/tenured faculty are invited to apply. For a more detailed description of this seminar Click Here. Please fill out the Application by clicking the link and return it, along with other requirements listed in the application to aavp_fdc@emich.edu.

Disciplinary Literacy by the model of Reading Apprenticeship Seminar (Winter 2013)

What can be done when students enter our classes unprepared to read and write about the literature of our disciplines? How can we address these needs without subtracting from the content of the discipline? What is disciplinary literacy and how do we assess it? In this seminar we will address these questions through reading and applying principles from the new book Reading for Understanding, Second Edition. We will model and practice metacognitive strategies for reading in all disciplines and reflect on the varying requirements for reading in our individual disciplines. Ultimately we will design lessons that will support reading, reflection and inquiry in our disciplines. This seminar is open to faculty, part-time and full-time lecturers. For a more detailed description of this seminar Click Here.Please fill out the Application by clicking the link and return it, along with the other requirements listed in the application to aavp_fdc@emich.edu.

Teaching-Learning Academy (TLA)

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.

Jam Sessions

Sponsored by the New York Times Readership Program, these sessions are informal where one facilitator will start off on a topic of general or current interest and then let the conversation go. It's a time for faculty/lecturers to meet people from other units, have a chance to think widely and critically with no "learning outcomes" beyond collegiality and maybe a couple fresh ideas. The NYT Readership will provide lunch.

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).

Upcoming External Conferences:

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)