Workshops
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Demystifying the IRB Process
Sonia Chawla - Staff, Office of Research Compliance
10:30am-11:30am
Halle 302 / Zoom
This session will cover the requirements for human subject protections in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. We will discuss how to satisfy IRB requirements while conducting research in classes. There will be time for questions during the session.
The World is Ending, Wanna Be My Friend? Critical Friends, Belonging, and the SoTL Community
Cynthia Macknish - Associate Professor, World Languages
Cam McComb - Associate Professor, Art and Design
John Koolage - Professor, History and Philosophy
Dyann Logwood - Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Adam Bogedain - Part-time Lecturer, Construction Management
Michael Foster - Assistant Professor, French and Bilingual Education
Kelsey Decamillis - Research Assistant/Instructional Coach, World Languages
1:15pm-2:15pm
Halle 320 / Zoom
Workshop presenters share their experience of using critical feedback to better understand their teaching as a scholarly practice. Too much emphasis can be placed on quantitative approaches, so we advocate for naturalistic ways of engaging colleagues in investigating and sharing their work in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. This session is not focused on teaching outcomes, rather, presenters invite attendees to think about connection, belonging, and critical friends in developing self-efficacy as scholar researchers. Presenters share insights and engage attendees in thinking about how the themes presented are, or could be, manifested within their unique contexts. Attendees will engage in reflective writing and small group discussion throughout the workshop as they explore SoTL research. The goal is to help attendees see how critical friends can help develop a sense of belonging where colleagues can feel excited and supported in their research of teaching practices.
What Your Instructional Designer Wished They Could Tell You During the Campus Shutdown
Michael McVey - Professor, Teacher Education
John Bruenger - Multimedia Instructional Designer, Center for E-Learning
Rebecca Pietrowsky - Multimedia Instructional Designer, Center for E-Learning
Garrett Whitehead - Multimedia Instructional Designer, Center for E-Learning
10:30am-11:30am
Halle 217 / Zoom
Your Center for E-Learning instructional designers were at the center of the storm during the campus shutdown at the end of the Winter 2020 semester. Join us to review lessons learned, useful approaches to online teaching, and tips for making the most of our services. Michael McVey will moderate this panel discussion with John Bruenger, Rebecca Pietrowski, and Garrett Whitehead.
Radical Self-Care: Mindful Movement and the Educator
Christina M. Sears - Part Time Lecturer, School of Music and Dance
9:20am-10:20am
FDC Collaboratory (Halle 109B) / Zoom
Can Mindful Movement really help improve my teaching? Enrich my life? Help me to extend my stamina as a scholar, teacher, writer and human being? Come forth all you skeptics. The content in this workshop will help you achieve sharper focus, deeper concentration, and a healthier you. Participants complete a check in survey, enjoy a brief slide presentation about the benefits of mindful movement, and then learn a few simple go-to movement and breath patterns. Drawing from the centuries-old wisdom of yogis and the current teaching from somatic leaders, with a few gems from the likes of Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts, the content is proven to reduce stress and promote a sense of well-being. In the midst of professional challenges, taking radical care of oneself is a nourishing and sensible next best step. An exit survey with resources concludes the workshop.
Leveraging Technology in the Classroom
Angela Staples - Associate Professor, Psychology
1:15pm-2:15pm
Halle 217 / Zoom
This workshop will showcase different methods to engage students in the classroom using tools readily available to students and instructors. For example, how to encourage discussion, receive timely feedback, and facilitate small group interactions. This hands-on workshop will provide example use cases that use Canvas and several Google products that could be used with classes held in person or via video conference software. Attendees will have the opportunity to share ideas and practice using different tools. By the end of the workshop, the goal is that attendees have at least one way to use technology to enhance their current class activities and/or assignments.
Canvas: The New Quiz Tool
Garrett Whitehead - Multimedia Instructional Designer, Center for E-Learning
9:20am-10:20am
Halle 110 / Zoom
Learn about Canvas's New Quiz Tool that has great features for managing and enhancing your quizzes and exams:
* New question types and easier question and exam settings
* Learning outcomes can be assigned to individual questions
* Edit mode includes viewing all questions in one page
* Instructors can print quizzes to Word files
New Quiz Tool is available to use in Winter 2022. (Classic Quizzes can be used in your Canvas shell until Summer 2023.) Join us for this live demonstration by Center for E-Learning staff so you can take advantage of the New Quiz Tool now.
Finding Time for Research Writing at EMU
Stephanie Wladkowski - Associate Professor, Social Work
Ken Saldanha - Professor, Social Work
Ildiko Porter-Szucs - Associate Professor, World Languages
9:20am-10:20am
Halle 302 / Zoom
The Research Writer's Collaborative (RWC) has helped participants advance their writing projects, from papers to grants to new assignments for the classroom. RWC facilitators will share time management strategies on how to find time to write and conduct research during the semester as well as our "lessons learned" during our time at EMU. Come for writing motivation and learn how to clarify and approach your writing goals for success.