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The Lecture is Dead! Long Live the Lecture! (Downtown Campus)

Conference Room Frio Street Building 4th Floor, Downtown

Research shows that 50 percent of faculty still use lecture as a primary means of instruction, particularly in large classes. Effective lecturing can make classes interesting, engaging, and active. This workshop presents techniques for gaining and keeping interest, organizing information for learning, and actively engaging students with the material. Participants will leave with resources [...]

Blackboard Essentials

FIT Lab MS 1.03.14, Main Campus

In this session, the presenter will show you how to organize content in the course menu by adding different content containers and create a communication plan with the different communication tools in Blackboard Learn. Objectives: Learn how to Navigate a Blackboard Learn course Add Content Organizers. Upload different types of content. Create announcements. Identify [...]

Department of Energy (DOE) Introduction

Faculty Center Small Conference Room JPL 4.04.12D, Main Campus

We will discuss how, as a mission agency, DOE differs from NSF and NIH, how DOE is organized, how the different parts of DOE differ, how funding opportunities are announced, how to talk to Program Officers, what DOE staff and reviewers are looking for, and how to develop competitive white papers, quad charts, and [...]

Assess Student Knowledge (in Blackboard)

FIT Lab MS 1.03.14, Main Campus

In this session, the presenter will show attendees how to create assignments and tests. Objectives: Create an Assignment and Safe Assignment, Identify a plagiarized student submission, Grade an assignment, Format a test in a Word document for importing into Respondus, Import test into Respondus and Publish to a Blackboard course, and Deploy a test [...]

New Faculty Institute (Research): Before You Write: Positioning Yourself to be Competitive

Student Union Ballroom 2 HSU 1.104, Main Campus

This session will cover strategies for developing a research agenda, identifying and analyzing funding opportunities, understanding funders’ expectations, planning a project, and talking to program officers. PLEASE NOTE: New faculty (start dates in Fall 2018) should not register for any New Faculty Institute sessions through this website. You indicated your selections during orientation and [...]

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