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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Aportfolio Panel Discussion
Please join us for a panel discussion on the successful implementation of Aportfolios in classrooms across our campus.

This session will provide examples of how faculty have implemented Aportfolio in their classrooms and provide attendees with ideas and methods for using Aportfolios as a pedagogy to support writing, integrative learning and the development of a capstone ePortfolio.

Refreshments will be provided.

Facilitators will in include: Alison Reaves, associate director for the career development at the BB&T Student Leadership Center, Miles Britton, award recipient for the 2016 Excellence in Teaching with Aportfolios and Rhetoric and Composition instructor, Dr. Beth Fiske, Assistant Professor of Nursing, and Dr. Elaine Gray, ePortfolio coordinator

Mapworks for Faculty
This workshop will help faculty members and academic advisors explore how they can use Mapworks as a tool to promote success among freshman and new transfer students in their class.

2017 State Health Plan and NCFlex Benefit Changes
Be informed about important changes to the State Medical Plan and NCFlex Benefits for 2017. Action must be taken by employees to maintain current level of coverage and to maintain premium wellness discounts in 2017. Learn how to login and make changes to your 2017 benefit packages.

URC Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
Looking for a grant to use as a stepping stone to seek additional funding from other sources and increase the magnitude of the results of your projects? Want to learn how to write a better University Research Council (URC) Grant proposal to apply for those funds? Attend this once-a-week for four weeks URC series which will walk you through the URC grant proposal process where we will review what the guidelines are really asking for, review your project goals, and create a realistic budget. Participants should be prepared to read draft proposals and give feedback to other participants.

*Participants must bring their own computer to the sessions*

*Participants must attend all sessions*

APPLY - Appalachian Proposal Preparation Lab
Appalachian Proposal Preparation Lab is designed to assist grant-ready faculty develop their idea for funding and prepare a quality, review-ready proposal with valuable information and support from grant-experienced facilitators. It is a ten week program with weekly meetings on Thursdays between September and November.

Participants should expect to learn the skills and insights required to develop competitive grant proposals as well as participate in hands-on writing and workshop activities in and outside the lab hours.

Upon registration, participants will be prompted via email to submit a one-page synopsis of the idea they plan to develop during this lab in a Word document. Please include the funding agency and a link to the funding announcement if you have already identified one. If not, please indicate that no funding agency has been identified on your one-page Word document. Please direct questions to Karen Fletcher at fletcherkl@appstate.edu

*Participants must bring their personal computer*

Funding Your Research
This workshop will provide an overview of the funding opportunity databases available through the university and an in-depth look at how to use them to find upcoming and recurring funding announcements to meet your needs.

Data Management Plans
Co-presented by the Library, ITS, and the Office of Research, this workshop will walk you through the basic format of a data management plan, addressing writing data management plans, legal and ethical requirements, backup, storage, formatting issues for long-term preservation, and metadata standards that can make research data easier to find, use, and preserve. Data management plans outline the types of data that are associated with a research project and describe how the data will be collected, processed, and protected during the project; and how the data will be archived, described, and, when appropriate, made available to other researchers after the project’s completion.

Introduction to Drupal 6
This workshop introduces users to the basic functions for creating and publishing content to a Drupal website at Appalachian. This is an online, asynchronous, self-paced course. This block of time will allow users to work at their own pace to complete the tasks associated with the Drupal Training site. The instructor will be available for questions during this time, as well.

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.

Introduction to Zotero
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It integrates with your web browser, where you do most of your research. It senses and extracts bibliographic and other information allowing you to add it to your personal library. This session is open to students, faculty and staff.

Manuscripts 1: Saving Time with Styles in Word
This is the first in a series of 2 workshops to help you complete a paper, thesis, dissertation, or manuscript to meet the requirements of the school or publisher. See the Additional Information link below for details about the series of workshops. An Introduction to Styles in Word. Do you produce multipage documents with sections and subheadings? Do you find yourself spending more time working on the formatting than on the content? Microsoft Word is a styles-based word processor that provides powerful document formatting at the click of the mouse. Understanding the way styles and document themes work can give you better control over the way your documents look and open doors to features you may not be aware of. Demonstrations include creating a Table of Contents in 7 seconds (Really!).

Styles is a feature used in many word processing and publication applications (like Adobe InDesign). The concepts in this workshop will apply to these applications.

This workshop is not an introduction to using Word. We will focus on using, modifying, and creating styles in Word for Windows and Mac.

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