Faculty

Active Teaching Lab - Connecting with Personalized Content

How do you create course outcomes that motivate and inspire students to take ownership of their own learning? How do you build a flexible instructional strategy that lets them personalize learning?

1-2 p.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Project-Based Learning and the Wisconsin Experience

Project-based learning provides learners with hands-on experiences beyond the traditional boundaries of the classroom.

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Writing Center Workshop

Working with Multilingual Writers and Fostering Their Success

3-4:30 p.m.

Writing Center (Commons), 6171, Helen C. White Hall

Active Teaching Lab - Peer Review with Canvas

Peer review allows students to fine-tune their work and expand their understanding by viewing others’ work, elevating the quality of final submissions and reducing instructors’ grading load.

1-2 p.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Student-Curated Content

Enlisting students to find and share relevant examples of course content helps them see its value in their lives and provides more examples with less work for instructors.

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Intra-Departmental Collaboration

Let’s address team teaching, using Canvas Commons, managing multiple sections of the same course (blueprinting), lesson study (learning from students, redesign).

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Pressbooks and Engage eTexts

Create individually or collaborate with students and peers to design interactive eTexts!

1-2 p.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Group Projects

Structure projects so students can bring their interests and skills, while learning their peers’ expertise. Real world problems and projects require collaboration, specialization, and application of course content to authentic issues.

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Canvas for Small-to-Medium Classes

Strategies specifically targeted to classes with 10-40 students. Foster collaborative learning with guided online discussion forums and hands-on interactions. Incorporate videos, peer review, and more to extend the in-class experience and encourage a cont

1-2 p.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Canvas for Large Classes

Several Canvas features can be optimized to easily manage large classes, either for the lecture hall or in discussion groups.

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Designing a Student-Centered Course

How do you build a student-centered instructional experience in Canvas? Attend this lab to share your experiences and learn from others!

1-2 p.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Trending Tools in Learning Technologies

What can we learn from the capabilities that other tools provide? Let’s explore why instructors use unsupported tools and brainstorm how similar results can be achieved with supported tools.

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Writing Center Workshop

Writing Recommendation Letters

2:30-4 p.m.

Writing Center (Commons), 6171, Helen C. White Hall

Active Teaching Lab - Hypothes.is Annotation for Pressbooks

Expand the possibilities of your Pressbook eText with collaborative annotations through Hypothes.is.

1-2 p.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - TopHat for In-class Activities

Engage students in continuous thought and reflection throughout lecture and in-class activities. TopHat’s live polling feature offers instructors real-time data about student understanding and participation with course content.

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Sharing Student-Curated/Created Content

Use Canvas and other tools to share those artifacts and inspire further learning through multiple means of representation.

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Working in Groups

Discuss key elements that promote learner collaboration and group work in Canvas.

1-2 p.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Adding just one other option increases possibilities for students to connect deeply to content. We’ll look at several strategies you can use to improve learning in your course.

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Making Your Course Inclusive and Accessible

Tips on captioning, technical considerations, and other ways to proactively make courses inclusive and accessible.

1-2 p.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Designing the Wisconsin Experience into Your Course

Does your course foster the Wisconsin Experience so that students leave UW-Madison with a greater sense of Empathy and Humility, Relentless Curiosity, Intellectual Confidence, and Purposeful Action?

8:30-9:45 a.m.

120 Middleton Building

Active Teaching Lab - Instruction for Today's Students

Just because today’s students are well-wired does not mean they are inherently skilled with instructional technologies. Join this lab to share strategies that encourage learners to engage, collaborate and contribute to a dynamic virtual classroom.

1-2 p.m.

120 Middleton Building

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