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CORE Series for Faculty
J. Murrey Atkins Library Events
2024 AI Institute for Smarter Learning at UNC Charlotte
Center for Teaching and Learning Workshops
Nomination Process Open for Honors Faculty
49er Family Fund Allocations Form Now Open
Register for the Global Learning and Internationalization Institute
Faculty Council News
Dissertation Defense
Latest AA News
CORE Series for Faculty
The Community-Oriented Research and Engagement (CORE) Series is a group of events designed to support faculty conducting community-engaged research. Contact Holly Middleton for more information.
Workshop on Publishing in Community Engagement
Community-engaged research can create new audiences for your work, and this hands-on workshop will help you identify those opportunities. Participants will learn how to identify a potential journal, document their work for RPT, and make a writing plan.
Welcome Faculty and Staff to urbanCORE Open Door
Drop by Sycamore Hall to connect with others on community engagement and tap into urbanCORE resources to support your research. We’ll provide the beer, wine, and hors d’oeuvres.
Half-Day Writing Retreat for Community-Engaged Faculty
We welcome participants who want to make progress on a writing project of any kind–teaching, research, service, or personal. Emphasis will be on writing in community with others, trying out new strategies, and setting small achievable goals. Coffee and pastries start at 8:30.
J. Murrey Atkins Library Events
If There Is No Struggle: Early Grassroots Activism in Charlotte
Join Atkins Library for a fire side-style discussion with NC Representative Kelly M. Alexander Jr. and UNC Charlotte professor Dr. Willie Griffin about the birth of grassroots activism in Charlotte starting in the 1930s and into the 1970s. They will discuss Charlotte’s influence on the nationwide Civil Rights movement with special attention to battles on the home front. In collaboration with the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture and the National Endowment for the Humanities “Big Read.”
Media Literacy Matters Conference
Join the J. Murrey Atkins Library Critical Media Literacy Collaborative and Niner Times for the Media Literacy Matters: Current Landscape, Student Actions, and Future Directions Conference. This half-day conference will bring faculty, students, and researchers across campus together to discuss issues related to media literacy. The conference will feature keynote speaker Ryan Pitkin (co-founder and editor-in-chief of Queen City Nerve), student work on media literacy, a Niner Times panel on the importance of campus journalism, and lightning talks by UNC Charlotte faculty. Media literacy is the ability to use critical thinking and rhetorical reasoning to find, evaluate, and create information in online environments. Media literacy guides people toward consuming digital media in a critical manner as engaged, well-informed citizens. The event is free and all are welcome.
2024 AI Institute for Smarter Learning at UNC Charlotte
The 2nd Annual Charlotte AI Institute for Smarter Learning will be held on Wednesday, May 15 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Dubois Center. This is a FREE event for all UNC Charlotte faculty and staff. Faculty and administrators are encouraged to submit proposals for lightning talks, lesson demonstrations, and digital poster presentations on generative AI in teaching and learning. Learn more.
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Center for Teaching and Learning Workshops
Part 1: Canvas Analytics for Early Intervention
Learn how to leverage Canvas Analytics for early student intervention! Course analytics offer data on individual and aggregate student activity, assignment submissions, and grades, as well as page views and student participation metrics across all of their devices. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage Canvas as a tool for identifying students in need!
Part 2: Canvas Analytics to Improve Your Canvas Course Design
Looking to become a data-driven instructor/course designer? This interactive workshop builds on the Canvas Analytics for Early Intervention Workshop to incorporate what you learned into the design of your Canvas Course. We will use Canvas Analytics to identify course elements that need to be improved based on student data. We will also discuss how to (re)design your Canvas course to collect optimal student intervention data, and practice doing so on one of your current course designs!
Part 3: Canvas Studio Analytics: Who’s Watching?
Canvas Studio Analytics can enhance your instructional practices by utilizing the power of data to understand student engagement with video content. Learn how to track views, comments, and participation, and gain valuable insights to optimize your teaching strategies.
Part 1: Getting Started with ChatGPT
Join this workshop if you are a beginning user of ChatGPT. This hands-on workshop will cover an introduction to generative AI and ChatGPT. Participants will set-up a ChatGPT account, learn how Generative AI produces a response, practice prompting with ChatGPT, experiment with personalized learning techniques, and practice producing instructional materials that could be used in your courses.
Part 3: Student Writing Skills with ChatGPT
In this session, we will learn how to integrate AI tools effectively in writing projects. We will demonstrate how to chunk and scaffold project tasks for peer review and instructor support, as well as how to prompt A.I. tools (like ChatGPT) to enhance the writing process at each stage. By the end of the hour, you will have a planning tool and strategies for integrating AI into writing projects.
Canvas Studio: Creating Video Assignments
Canvas Studio has replaced Kaltura Capture and My Media for instructional videos! This workshop will cover the basics of using Canvas Studio to create and share instructional media through your Canvas courses. Topics include: how to upload existing media, recording new media, captioning videos, editing media, embedding media on pages, understanding the video Library, and creating assignments that involve video submission and having students submit assignments involving videos.
Canvas Studio for Video Quizzes
In this workshop, you will learn to use Canvas Studio’s in-video quiz feature to embed interactive quiz questions at specific points in videos. Students can respond to multiple-choice, true/false, or other types of prompts while watching the video. This feature enhances student engagement, reinforces key concepts, and provides a way for instructors to assess understanding. Customization includes time limits and multiple attempts. Learn how to use this tool with your videos to increase student engagement!
Growth Mindset Activities for Your Classroom
Join this interactive workshop and discover five powerful activities that foster a growth mindset among your students, helping them to overcome challenges and reach their full potential. Explore reflective journaling, collaborative problem-solving, effective feedback strategies, goal setting, and the influence of guest speakers and role models. Leave with practical tools and techniques to create a dynamic and empowering learning environment. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your teaching and inspire student growth.
Designing and Implementing Group Projects
Group work is a high-impact educational practice that can have a significant effect on student success. When implemented effectively, it provides a memorable learning experience that helps students develop valuable skills such as engaging in conversations that require higher-order thinking skills and assuming responsibility for their learning. In this session, we will focus on the elements that make up effective collaborative assignments or projects and what is the instructor’s role in facilitating these learning experiences.
Teaching with Poll Everywhere
Join this session to learn the basics of Poll Everywhere as a tool for teaching, learning, and formative assessment.
Nomination Process Open for Honors Faculty
The Honors College is accepting applications to the honors faculty through Friday, March 15. Nominate your faculty to be part of the honors faculty (faculty may also self-nominate). Visit the Honors College website for more information and to access the application.
49er Family Fund Allocations Form Now Open
The 49er Family Fund annually allocates grants to campus initiatives related to student life at UNC Charlotte. These allocations help fund programming on campus that might otherwise be unable to be funded by a campus department, student organizations, etc. The 49er Family Fund seeks to serve as a funding catalyst for innovative, high-impact programs that benefit the larger campus community. The proposal form for the 2024-2025 academic year is available online; proposals should be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 1. For questions, contact family@uncc.edu.
Register for the Global Learning and Internationalization Institute
The Office of International Programs invites faculty members to apply for the Global Learning and Internationalization Institute (GLIII) scheduled in person May 13-17. GLII is a faculty engagement and development initiative to support and align with the University’s strategic plan 2021-2031, Shaping What’s Next, and our pathway toward a top-tier research university status. More information and registration.
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