Library - Scholarly Commons
This calendar includes events sponsored by the Scholarly Commons as well as those by
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.
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In this 2-hour course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive manner.
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.