Library - Scholarly Commons
This calendar includes events sponsored by the Scholarly Commons as well as those by
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
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In this 1 hour hybrid workshop, learn about Excel Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts. Topics include learning how to create a Pivot Table; rearrange and then format the data; set filters with Slicers and Timelines; and finally creating a Pivot Chart of the data in the Pivot Table. This workshop is aimed at beginner users of Pivot Tables.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
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Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.
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In this 2-hour hybrid workshop, we will explore the mail merge features in Microsoft Word including working with various data sources such as Excel and Access; working with rules; and creating and printing labels. We will also learn about email merge.
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Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, author of "Challenged Sovereignty: The Impact of Drugs, Crime, Terrorism, and Cyber Threats in the Caribbean", will be signing books and speaking at York College about his new book.
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Dr. Maria Cristina Fava, author of “Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City”, will be signing books and speaking at Western Michigan University about her new book.
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Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites", will be signing books and speaking at the Fountaindale Public Library District about their new book.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
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In this 2-hour instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.
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In this one-hour online workshop, you will learn about conditional formatting of data using Microsoft Excel. Topics will also include applying special formatting to numbers.
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The main job of our students is to learn; however, research tells us a major intellectual challenge they face is managing their own learning. Many don’t know about or employ effective learning behaviors and strategies. We need to help them know not just what to learn, but how to learn. Join this interactive session for strategies to help students learn how to learn better
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This 2-hour Outlook Calendar workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, animation, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration required.
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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, page transitions, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required.
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This 2-hour online workshop introduces the Access query object. Topics include working in design view; creating a simple query by adding and removing fields and adding criterion. We will create multi-table queries; calculated fields and set field properties; explore a totals query, parameter query, and action queries.
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Learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking.
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Eleanor Patterson, author of “Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution” will be signing books and speaking at Auburn University in Auburn, AL about her new book.
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Shreerekha Pillai, author of "Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices against State Violence", will be signing books and speaking at the University of Houston Clear-Lake in Houston, TX about her new book.
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Claudia Lennhoff (Champaign County Health Care Consumers) and Wanda E. Ward (Executive Associate Chancellor for Public Engagement) will talk about the Hope Village Project.
Friday, March 1, 2024
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Do you want to learn more about using Generative AI pedagogically? Are you interested in getting a better understanding of how these tools and platforms might help with classroom engagement and practice? Here is an interactive, engaging workshop for you.
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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In this two-hour class, learn how to create and work with Access reports. Create a basic report and explore the layout and design view. In design view we will add controls and set the properties for those controls; learn about calculated controls, apply the sort & group feature to the data in the report, and finish up with graphics (themes and conditional formatting).
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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How well are you measuring student learning? Assessment is one of the most complex and stressful responsibilities of an instructor. Is your assessment fair? Valid? What would your students say? Come learn best practices for constructing a test.
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In this 2-hour online course you will learn how to use some of the data analysis features and tools using Excel. Topics will include learning how to subtotal a list of data; set up data validation rules; use Goal Seek, Solver, and Scenarios and basic data tables.
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We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Zoom and Teams. We will go over helpful tips for each platform, including scheduling as a delegate. Prereq: Outlook Calendar workshop
Thursday, March 7, 2024
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Jason P. Chambers, author of "Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell", will be signing books and speaking at the Literary Book Bar in Champaign, IL about his new book.
Friday, March 8, 2024
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
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Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, author of "Challenged Sovereignty: The Impact of Drugs, Crime Terrorism, and Cyber Threats in the Caribbean" will be signing books and speaking virtually with Global Americans.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
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During this two-hour session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources. Q & A to follow.
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Gary Rhoades, Aimee Loiselle, and Anne McLeer, contributors to "Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History". will be signing books and speaking virtually about their new book.
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Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene, editors of "Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History", will be signing books and speaking virtually with Higher Education Labor United about their new book.
Friday, March 15, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Sunday, March 17, 2024
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Leta Miller, author of "Union Divided: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality", will be signing books and speaking virtually with the Osher Lifelong Learners Institute at UCSC about her new book.
Monday, March 18, 2024
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In this 2-hour hybrid course, you will become familiar with the Excel's interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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This program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics will include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 9 am.
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In MCOT we will explore the following topics: • Designing Your Online Course • Developing Your Learning Community • Adapting Best Teaching Practices to Your Online Course • Motivating Your Students to Excel MCOT opens on Wednesday March 6, 2024, and our synchronous meetings occur at 11:30am - 1:00pm on the following four Wednesdays - March 20 & 27 and April 3 & 10.
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This two-hour session will introduce you to Access, Microsoft's relational database application. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
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Developing skills and knowledge that can be used to succeed at real-world tasks is a strong source of motivation for many students. Authentic assessments conceptually mimic these tasks and are a more valid means of measuring learning objectives compared to conventional means of assessment.Join us as we investigate using authentic assessment effectively in our courses.
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Patrick Wohl, author of "Down Ballot: How a Local Campaign Became a National Referendum on Abortion", will be signing books and speaking at the Park Ridge Public Library with Madeleine Doubek about his new book.
Friday, March 22, 2024
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Come to this workshop to begin the process of identifying your teaching philosophy, deciding which parts of it belong in your statement, and avoiding common mistakes.
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Calling all faculty and teaching assistants who are currently using or are interested in using alternative methods for grading (i.e. Labor based grading, Ungrading) in their courses. Join faculty members Kary Zarate (Education) and Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Classics) for an informal discussion about their assessment practices.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
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Cynthia Clampitt, author of "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland", will be signing books and speaking at the Isle a la Cache Museum about her new book.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
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Swami Tyagananda will be presenting a public lecture at Spurlock, “Learning from Rāmāyana.”
Monday, March 25, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Participate in this short hybrid course and learn the basics, including how to create slides and put content in them. We will also learn how to format and custom design the slides.
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In this 2-hour online course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel worksheets. Other topics will include an exploration of just a few of the hundreds of functions available in Excel. We will learn how to find a specific function, as well as how to get help while entering arguments.
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Cynthia Clampitt, author of "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past", will be signing books and speaking at the Crete Public Library about her new book.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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In this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.
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Zev Eleff, author of "Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and the Remaking of Harvard's America", will be signing books and speaking at the Swift Hall Common Room in Chicago, IL about his new book.
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Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, author of "Challenged Sovereignty: The Impact of Drugs, Crime, Terrorism, and Cyber Threats in the Caribbean", will be signing books and speaking with York College (CUNY) about his new book.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
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In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.
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Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with David Maraniss (New York Times bestselling author and associate editor at The Washington Post). Lunch provided! Advanced registration required.
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Join us for an evening with David Maraniss as he delivers his keynote talk, “Lombardi, Clemente, and Thorpe: Illuminating American History Through Sports.” A book signing will follow. This talk is part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture, which is taking place March 28–29, 2024.
Friday, March 29, 2024
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Theresa Runstedtler (American Studies, American University) will be presenting, with Daniel Gilbert (Labor and Employment Relations, History) commenting. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture, which is taking place March 28–29, 2024.
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Professor Louis Moore will speak about his book I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (University of Illinois Press, 2017). Respondent Daniel Nasset (Editor-in-Chief, University of Illinois Press) will share the editor's perspective on turning one's idea into a book that speaks to sporting publics.
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Frank Guridy (History, Columbia University) will be presenting, with Augustus Wood (Labor and Employment Relations) commenting. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History, Sports, and American Culture, which is taking place March 28–29, 2024.
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Shakeia Taylor is a Chicago-based award-winning writer and storyteller, whose work focuses on the intersection of sports, history, and culture.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Monday, April 1, 2024
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Teaching presence strongly impacts the way students build their knowledge in your course. In this session, you will learn how to strategically apply your teaching presence to the critical roles you have as a Teaching Assistant and gain insights from outstanding faculty here at Illinois.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with selections in preparation to edit images. Participants can select online or in-person.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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Learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking.
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Participants can choose in-person or online.
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Join us for an evening with Caroline Bressey (Geography, University College London), Kennetta Hammond Perry (Black Studies, Northwestern University), and Rochelle Sennet (Music and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Fine and Applied Arts) as they share their research on Black Britons in a variety of media.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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Siobhan Moroney, author of "Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home", will be signing books and speaking at the Evanston History Center about her new book.
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Sergio Gonzalez, author of “Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin”, will be signing books and speaking at Pyle Center about his new book.