How would you like to have that new prep for fall 2011 completely planned out before the end of May? If you are planning to use writing in a new course or a revision of a course, apply to participate in the Teaching with Writing workshop. The workshop provides an opportunity to work on course development with the input of colleagues from across the disciplines. Sponsored by the Office of Instructional Development and Writing Across the Curriculum, the Teaching with Writing Course Development Workshop is a 20-hour workshop that takes place over 6 sessions in late May. At the end of the workshop, participants will have a final version of the syllabus, assignment handouts, and rubrics for one course. They will also have a plan for coaching and evaluating the assignments. The workshop is open to all UND faculty planning to incorporate writing in a new course or a revision of an existing course. Writing can be used in the course in a variety of ways--from two-minute, in-class journal entries to dissertation proposals and everything in between. Any course can qualify if the instructor plans to use writing as a learning tool, a learning outcome, or an assessment tool.

A course development workshop facilitated by Joan Hawthorne and Anne Kelsch for faculty selected to develop First Year Experience pilots. The workshop meets Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (May 24- 26, 2011) from 8:30-noon in the Medora Room of the Union.

This 8 day seminar/workshop, sponsored by OID and facilitated by the Center for Instructional and Learning Technology (CILT), is designed for faculty interested in using technology to enhance traditional classroom teaching. This includes those who are just getting started using technology, those who are thinking about using it, and those who have used it in limited ways but want to reconsider how they are using it. In this context, "technology" includes such things as course web sites (Blackboard), web research projects, tutorials and animations, social software (wikis, blogs, and journals), "clickers" (audience response system), SecondLife, podcasting and other audio and video enhancements.

Once again in collaboration with OID, CILT will offer a second technology related workshop. This 8 day seminar/workshop is for faculty who want to figure out ways that technology can further enhance online courses. The workshop is designed for everyone, from complete novice to almost expert, who wants to consider (or reconsider) how technology impacts their online teaching. The workshop embraces the same definition of "technology" as the TwT workshop for on campus courses: Blackboard, web research projects, tutorials and animations, social software, audience response system, etc.

This Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Extended Workshop will focus on writing in upper level courses designated as Advanced Communication (A) or Capstone (C) or meeting the Communication Goal (Comm). The workshop will give faculty the opportunity to develop the writing component of the course, including assignments and strategies for coaching and evaluating those assignments. Informed by research on the development of writing skills, faculty will work collaboratively both to set appropriate goals for advanced writing and to find ways to gauge students' preparedness for those goals. We will also consider how different delivery methods (face-to-face and online) can be used to support advanced writing projects. The six-session afternoon workshop will be facilitated by Kathleen Vacek, UND Writing Center, and Shane Winterhalter, Northern Illinois University.

This 6 day seminar/workshop, sponsored by OID and facilitated by the Center for Instructional and Learning Technology (CILT), is designed for faculty interested in using technology to enhance traditional classroom teaching. This includes those who are just getting started using technology, those who are thinking about using it, and those who have used it in limited ways but want to reconsider how they are using it. In this context, “technology” includes such things as course web sites (Blackboard), web research projects, tutorials and animations, social software (wikis, blogs, and journals), “clickers” (audience response system), SecondLife, podcasting and other audio and video enhancements.

In a new collaboration between OID and CILT a second technology related workshop will be offered this summer. This 6 day seminar/workshop is for faculty who want to figure out ways that technology can further enhance online courses. The workshop is designed for everyone, from complete novice to almost expert, who wants to consider (or reconsider) how technology impacts their online teaching. The workshop embraces the same definition of “technology” as the TwT workshop for on campus courses: Blackboard, web research projects, tutorials and animations, social software, audience response system, etc.

A six-session afternoon workshop on Writing Across the Curriculum facilitated by Shane Winterhalter and Eric Wolfe will be offered for faculty in June. This workshop is designed to enable faculty to focus intensively, and in collaboration with colleagues from across campus, on developing or redeveloping the writing component of a particular course or course sequence.

This 6 day seminar/workshop sponsored by OID and facilitated by CILT is designed for faculty interested in using technology to enhance traditional classroom teaching. This includes those who are just getting started using technology, those who are thinking about using it, and those who have used it in limited ways but want to reconsider how they are using it. In this context, "technology" includes such things as course web sites (Blackboard), web research projects, tutorials and animations, social software (wikis, blogs, and journals), "clickers" (audience response system), SecondLife, podcasting and other audio and video enhancements.

This three afternoon workshop facilitated by Anne Kelsch and Joan Hawthorne is a follow up offered for faculty who participated in the Creating Significant Learning Through Integrated Course Design Workshop in February and would like an opportunity to continue the work they began. The sessions will focus on articulating student learning outcomes and designing assignments that advance those outcomes and assessments that gauge them. Participants will receive complimentary copies of books on classroom assessment techniques and rubric design.