Available Workshops

To register for a workshop please click on the name of the workshop you are interesting in attending to see the list of dates and times offered. You will receive an email confirmation confirming your registration. If a workshop is full you will be assigned to the wait list. If you are unable to attend a workshop, please contact the workshop presenter to cancel your registration.

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"Explain Everything", a screencasting iPad app
This session is designed to introduce participants to the "Explain Everything" app and facilitate the production of an explanation/presentation to enhance classroom instruction. White boarding, screen capture and screen casting are simplified with the app that will be provided for participants through the ASU self-service.

Introduction to Xitracs
Introduction to Xitracs as an Assessment Reporting Tool for Educational Support and Administrative Units

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss assessment at Appalachian after our most recent SACS reaccreditation and to introduce Xitracs as the new assessment reporting tool on campus. This workshop is geared toward educational support and administrative units with mainly operational outcomes. Participants will revisit the purpose of assessment at Appalachian and discuss the key components to a successful assessment process. Facilitators will demonstrate how to archive assessment data from TracDat and how to upload an assessment report into Xitracs.

Facilitators: Pete Wachs and Tina Hogan

Introduction to RCOE ClassPad Sets for Checkout
This session will review/introduce to faculty the essentials for using the RCOE ClassPad cases for classroom teaching and learning. Reservation of the sets through the Media Lab and how to request apps through the TAC will be explained. Media production and media sharing tools will be explored. Strategies for screen sharing and collaborative interactions will be modeled. Bring your iPad and a colleague.

Intermediate Drupal Training
This workshop builds on the Introduction to Drupal workshop by learning how to build books on a Drupal site, learning how to build columned page layouts with panels, and learning how to build webforms and access the submitted results.

Introduction to Drupal
This workshop introduces users to the basic functions for creating and publishing content to a Drupal website at Appalachian. Users who will be maintaining a website are required to attend. Please note the prerequisites.

Having a Drupal site is a prerequisite because we have found that it is easier to retain information from the workshop if you have a site to work on already. However, people who are interested in learning how to use Drupal are welcome to attend as well.

When a Student Discloses Sexual Assault
When a student tells you about a sexual assault, what is the ethical thing to do? What is the legal thing to do? What is the compassionate thing to do? This workshop will provide an overview of policies, procedures, and resources on campus related to sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sexual misconduct. Participants will learn basic helping skills, campus and community resources, as well as federal, state, and campus requirements and policies.

Facilitators:
Suzette Patterson, Multicultural Student Development
Judy Haas, Office of the Dean of Students

How to navigate Grants.gov and your 424 Forms
Grants.gov is the Federal government’s solution for a "one stop shop" for finding and applying for funding opportunities. Join us and learn the basics about this system that will replace current programs.

The workshop on September 6 will focus on science and technology agencies (EPA, USDA, NIH and others) while the workshop on March 20 will focus on arts and humanities agencies (NEH, NEA and others).

Engaging the Scholarship of Engagement
In 1990, Ernest Boyer challenged academics “not to replace previous forms of scholarship but rather to broaden and deepen the possibilities for civic engagement in higher education.” He saw the scholarship of engagement as inherently integrative, bringing together teaching, research, application, and community into a set of reciprocal practices that worked towards improving public life. This workshop explores the challenges and opportunities inherent in pursuing the scholarship of engagement and how it could relate to your discipline or institution.

Facilitator: Laura Cruz, Director of the Coulter Faculty Commons, Western Carolina University

About the facilitator:
Originally from Richmond, VA, Laura received her MA in History from Purdue University in 1994, and her PhD in European History from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001. She joined the faculty of Western Carolina University in 2002, and currently is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Coulter Faculty Commons. She is recognized on and beyond her campus for her work involving active and engaged learning, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and her editorial leadership for MountainRise: The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

DE & Belk Library Workshop
This workshop is designed to introduce the Distance Education faculty to the Belk Library’s services and resources. DE faculty will be meeting with Library faculty to learn about instruction services, library materials requests, interlibrary loan and the many other services available. In addition they will meet with their DE & LTS staff who will provide information about the processes of textbooks, course needs, travel forms, and other aspects of the DE process. The workshop will take place at the Belk Library and Information Commons in rooms 421 and 024.

For those who cannot physically attend, this workshop will be streaming live on the DE website:

http://deacademics.appstate.edu/

Coffee with the Provost
Provost Gonzalez would like to invite Faculty across campus to join her for coffee during spring semester. In order to accommodate everyone’s busy schedules, she plans to initially host six afternoon meetings during the months of February and March.

Ideally, each hour-long meeting held in the Academic Affairs Conference Room will include the Provost and 10 to 12 Faculty members. The Office of Academic Affairs will provide coffee and other light refreshments.

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