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Feb 4

Improving Student Outcomes, Saving Faculty Time: AsULearn Assignment Tool Rubrics and grading guide

Friday, February 4, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
134, Reich College of Education

Are you looking for ways to make your assignments more transparent to your students in an effort to help them better achieve your learning objectives? Come find out how the advanced grading options in AsULearn Assignment can help. The Advanced grading option in the AsULearn Assignment tool gives faculty a wider range of options over the direct grading method. This workshop will explore the creation and use of rubrics and grading guides available in AsULearn's built-in assignment tool. Registration Link
Learning Technologies: Instruction, Teaching, Learning, & Student Success, Learning Technologies: AsULearn Tools, Workshops
Feb 4

Course name,Improving Student Outcomes, Saving Faculty Time: AsULearn Assignment Tool Rubrics & Grading Guide

Friday, February 4, 2022 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
134, Reich College of Education

Are you looking for ways to make your assignments more transparent to your students in an effort to help them better achieve your learning objectives? Come find out how the advanced grading options in AsULearn Assignment can help. The Advanced grading option in the AsULearn Assignment tool gives faculty a wider range of options over the direct grading method. This workshop will explore the creation and use of rubrics and grading guides available in AsULearn's built-in assignment tool. Registration Link
Learning Technologies, Learning Technologies: AsULearn Tools, Workshops
Feb 10

Turnitin & AsULearn

Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Online in Zoom

Turnitin is an integrated AsULearn service for faculty and students that provides a number of writing-related and originality tools:
Learning Technologies, Learning Technologies: AsULearn Tools, Workshops
Feb 11

Black Male Brilliance: Drawing on Strengths of Black Males in the Classroom

Friday, February 11, 2022 - 10:00am to 11:15am
Online in Zoom

This workshop shares the findings from research published by Dr. Will Sheppard (Associate Director of Intercultural Student Affairs) and Dr. Brandy Bryson (Director of Inclusive Excellence) on high-achieving Black male college students. Implications for faculty and the classroom will be offered. Registration Link
Teaching, Learning, & Student Success, Inclusive Excellence, Workshops
Feb 16

Black Male Brilliance: Drawing on Strengths of Black Males in the Classroom

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 - 1:30pm to 2:45pm
Online in Zoom

This workshop shares the findings from research published by Dr. Will Sheppard (Associate Director of Intercultural Student Affairs) and Dr. Brandy Bryson (Director of Inclusive Excellence) on high-achieving Black male college students. Implications for faculty and the classroom will be offered. Registration Link
Teaching, Learning, & Student Success, Inclusive Excellence, Workshops
Feb 18

Creating Effective Peer Review Assignments Utilizing the Workshop Tool in AsULearn

Friday, February 18, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
134, Reich College of Education

Do you use peer review in your course or are looking for a practical way to include it? The Workshop Tool in AsULearn may be the answer you are looking for.
Teaching, Learning, & Student Success, Learning Technologies, Learning Technologies: AsULearn Tools, Workshops
Feb 22

Spring Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 8:30am to 3:00pm
218 Anne Belk Hall, CAE Classroom 222

App State faculty are invited to participate in the service-learning faculty fellows program. Participation in the cohort involves attending workshops focused on discussing the foundations of civic engagement, syllabus design, service-learning course objectives, appropriate reflections/writing assignments for service-learning classes, nuts-and-bolts of community involvement, and the role of civic engagement in tenure and promotion. 
Career Development, International, Global, Civic Engagement, Workshops
Feb 23

Book Club: Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 3:00pm to Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 4:00pm
Online in Zoom

Although unintentional, we have all committed subtle acts of exclusion (SAE, a.k.a. microaggressions) which can alienate our colleagues, students, and friends. These actions and phrases often go unaddressed and are harmful. Join us in learning how to spot and address stereotypes, objectification, and other forms of microaggressions that separate instead of uniting. Registration Link Book: "Subtle Acts of Exclusion How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions", by Tiffany Jana & Michael Baran
Book Clubs
Feb 24

Spring Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship

Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 8:30am to 3:00pm
218 Anne Belk Hall, CAE Classroom 222

App State faculty are invited to participate in the service-learning faculty fellows program. Participation in the cohort involves attending workshops focused on discussing the foundations of civic engagement, syllabus design, service-learning course objectives, appropriate reflections/writing assignments for service-learning classes, nuts-and-bolts of community involvement, and the role of civic engagement in tenure and promotion. 
Career Development, International, Global, Civic Engagement, Workshops
Apr 20

Spring Service-Learning Syllabus Workshop

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:15pm
218 Anne Belk Hall, CAE Classroom 222

Interested in integrating service-learning or community-based research into a new or existing class? This workshop will serve as an introduction to curricular-based service-learning for faculty who have been considering adding a service component to their classes. Service-learning has been shown to improve student learning in a number of areas. We’ll cover the basics of service-learning syllabus design and discuss resources available through the office of academic civic engagement. All faculty in all disciplines are welcome.
Teaching, Learning, & Student Success, International, Global, Civic Engagement, Workshops