Library - Scholarly Commons
This calendar includes events sponsored by the Scholarly Commons as well as those by
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
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Join us in a hybrid session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams. Pre-registration required.
Tuesday, April 16, 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.
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Sergio González, author of "Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin", will be signing books and speaking virtually with the Midwestern History Association about his new book.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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Digital literacy is the ability to apply IT and digital technology to find, understand, evaluate, communicate, and create information. Digital literacy skills are just as important as self-regulated learning behaviors. In this workshop you will develop strategies to promote digital literacy among your students for their learning in your course and beyond.
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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.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
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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
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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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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.
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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 Chicago History Museum about her new book.
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Sergio González, author of "Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin", will be signing books and speaking at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, WI about his new book.
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Robert Sampson, author of "Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois", will be signing books and speaking at the Urbana Free Library about his new book.