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Register for Faculty Development Workshops and Other Faculty Events

Please complete the registration form below. Confirmation of registration will be emailed to the address indicated. You may register for a session that is full and you will be placed on a waitlist. If a seat becomes available prior to two days before the session, you will receive an email notification. If you would like to withdraw from a session, please complete your name and email on the form below and click "withdraw."

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Workshops and EventsSessions (Seats Available)
Adobe Acrobat
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Adobe Acrobat PDF files can be used for more than just sharing cross-platform, visually accurate copies of documents. In this introductory class, learn how to • produce PDF documents using text and graphics. • collaborate with colleagues to comment on and modify documents. • enable security features like digital signatures and password protected documents. • package your documents.
Adobe Captivate: Software Simulations, Demonstrations, Online Training
Captivate is a software application used to create
• flash presentations.
• interactive online training modules.
• software simulations.
In this class you will get to know key elements of the Captivate interface, practice recording mouse movements, and build clickable navigation buttons.
Adobe Connect and Wimba Live Classroom: Comparison of Synchronous Tools
Adobe Connect and Wimba Live Classroom are web-based, synchronous collaboration tools that offer video conferencing capability, application sharing, live polling, chat, whiteboards, and presentation functionality. This session will demonstrate the features and functionality of each application to assist you in making a decision as to which tool is best suited for your instructional/research needs.
Advancing Your Presentation Skills
This workshop will offer faculty members successful strategies for enhancing presentation skills and increasing their effectiveness. It will identify key elements of high-quality presentations, and provide specific effective techniques for preparing and delivering them.
Annual Women's Awards Luncheon
Awards will be presented in the following categories:
• Sarah Stone Excellence in Education Award
• Outstanding Community Service Award
• Women in Science and Health Achievement Award
• Excellence in Clinical Services Award
• Outstanding Mentoring Award
Best Practices in Blended Teaching and Learning
This course is designed for faculty who are thinking about enhancing their teaching through the use of technology. It will highlight how the curriculum design process and teaching practice must work in partnership with a chosen technology, and will address how the design process and teaching practice can advance by incorporating a technology already in place. Participants will have the opportunity to acquire new ideas and skills that will be helpful in enhancing their course design and teaching. The focus of this course is how to teach effectively online. For example, with online technologies, synchronous tools, learning management system. This course is a collaboration between the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
BLS Vista Course: Integrating Adobe Captivate and Presenter Modules
Prerequisite: A working knowledge of Adobe Captivate and/or Presenter.
Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter are powerful eLearning content authoring tools. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how you can use one or both tools to add interactivity to your BLS Vista course. Specific topics will include uploading existing Captivate and Presenter files into the BLS Vista system, integrating the files into your course content, and how to handle updates to the files as the course progresses. Prerequisite: A working knowledge of Adobe Captivate and/or Presenter.
BLS Vista: Easy Enhancements for Your Course
In this session, we’ll review basic best practices for online course development, including options for presenting complex content, ideas for improving overall aesthetic “look and feel” of the course, and an overview of new and existing tools and technologies that you can easily incorporate into your new or existing BLS Vista course.
BLS Vista: Comprehensive Training
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Introductory course in using BLS Vista as part of an academic program. This is a hands-on session during which participants will have the opportunity to interact with the tool as both an instructor and a designer.
BLS Vista: Refresher Training
Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Participants in this course will have the opportunity to become re-oriented with the BLS Vista system as they prepare to begin working in their course section in a new semester. Working with the File Manager, building a Learning Module, and adding a Content File to a Learning Module are among the topics to be covered.
Civility and Respectful Conflict Resolution
As a faculty member, you are called on to provide leadership. One dimension of effective leadership involves addressing conflict. This workshop will seek to facilitate a deeper understanding of conflict for the participants. There will also be a focus on approaches that facilitate respectful negotiation and constructive resolution of conflict.

Participants will learn:
• When conflict is more likely to be constructive, and more likely to become dysfunctional.
• Coaching and negotiation techniques to address conflict in a respectful constructive manner.
• The role of communication in managing conflict.
Creating Effective Learning Modules with Adobe Presenter
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
In this 2-hour hands-on workshop, learn how to leverage existing PowerPoint presentations and create engaging eLearning modules by adding audio, video, and interactivity in the form of quizzes and surveys. Once you''ve created your Presenter module, you can add it to your BLS Vista online course, embed it into your website, or use it as a stand-alone file.
Creating Effective Posters
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This workshop will simplify the process of creating academic and research posters from the planning phase to the design following best practice tenets. Participants will critique various poster samples based on these design tenets and view the top 10 common poster mistakes. The session will provide participants with handouts and online resources to aid in the poster process which will include how to get your posters printed at UMass. Workshop Agenda 1. Planning your poster 2. Walk Through of a Poster Make Over and the Underlying Best Practice Design Tips 3. Top 10 Common Poster Design Mistakes 4. Poster Resources 5. Printing Your Poster at UMass
Evidence-Based Medicine: Learning How to Find Best Evidence in the Medical Literature
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
This workshop will present an overview of Evidence-Based Medicine concepts and a detailed discussion of the EBM resources available through the Lamar Soutter Library and the types of literature that contain best evidence. You will become familiar enough with each of these so you will recognize them right away and will easily know how to appraise and apply what you have found.
How to Effectively Navigate and Interpret Tenure Policies
Take the perplexity out of the tenure process by participating in this informational workshop. The workshop is designed for faculty who are on the tenure-track. Presenters will discuss UMMS tenure policies, preparing and maintaining your teaching portfolio, the role of the “mini review”, followed by Q&A.
Information Overload: Learning How to Keep Your Head Above Water
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library
How many journal articles are piled on your desk (or floor) that you will “read someday”? What about e-mails – is your inbox sagging with the weight of unread messages that you don’t want to delete but you haven’t read yet? Learn how technology can help you out with. This class will concentrate on alert services, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), Social Bookmarking and Google Desktop tools – all as a means to help you better organize and get a handle on the flow of information in your life.
Integrating Teaching and Curriculum Design with Effective Classroom Technology
This course is designed for faculty who are thinking about enhancing their teaching through the use of technology. It will highlight how the curriculum design process and teaching practice must work in partnership with a chosen technology, and will address how the design process and teaching practice can advance by incorporating a technology already in place. Participants will have the opportunity to acquire new ideas and skills that will be helpful in enhancing their course design and teaching. The focus of this course is how to use the everyday classroom technology (Apreso, Polling, PowerPoint) to teach effectively. For example, curriculum design around a polling exercise or effective presentation. This course is a collaboration between the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
New Faculty Welcome
Speakers:
  • Michael F. Collins, MD, Senior Vice President for the Health Sciences & Chancellor
  • Terence R. Flotte, MD, Executive Deputy Chancellor & Dean for the School of Medicine
  • Anthony Carruthers, PhD, Dean for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
  • Judith K. Ockene, PhD, MEd, Interim Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
  • Susan J. Pasquale, PhD, MT-BC, NMT, Director of Curriculum and Faculty Development
    This event is by invitation only.
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    Podcasting Primer
    Podcasting is a way to distribute downloadable digital audio and video files via the Internet using a subscription-based model. Podcasts can be played back on a computer desktop, an iPod, or another mobile device and can enhance teaching and learning by freeing educational materials from the constraints of the physical classroom. Listeners can automatically have new episodes or chapters of content downloaded to their system and play them back at any time. In this class, participants will learn the tools needed for finding, downloading and managing podcasts, as well as how to integrate this technology into their teaching. Class Agenda: 1. Podcast Definition and Overview 2. Common Methods Creation, Delivery and Viewing 3. Samples re: Medicine and/or Education 4. Hands On
    PowerPoint 2003: An Overview
    Prerequisite: Familiarity with PowerPoint
    Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
    Participants in this workshop will learn how to use PowerPoint for teaching presentations. Avoid cookie-cutter slides by creating customized templates and understanding the master slide. Design a PowerPoint presentation using advanced techniques such as animation and layering, hyper linking and importing and embedding media.
    PowerPoint 2007: Creating Effective Animation
    Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
    Animation can help your audience focus on certain points in your PowerPoint presentation. Learn how to add special effects and sounds to your text and graphics to demonstrate movement, processes and highlight key information. Timing animation sequences and looping animation will also be covered. A working knowledge of the basics of PowerPoint is required for this hands-on workshop.
    PowerPoint 2007: Creating Master Slides and Templates
    Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
    This workshop will be a lab session for faculty members that will focus on the use of templates and master slides. By the end of the lab, participants will practice and have an understanding of the following PowerPoint concepts:
    • The Difference Between a Design Template and a Slide Master
    • How to Create Your Own Design Templates
    • How to Add Multiple Design Templates/Master Slides
    • How to Make Global Changes to Presentations Using the Slide Master
    PowerPoint 2007: The Basics
    Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
    This hands-on workshop will cover creating a PowerPoint presentation with a variety of slide layouts, use of design and graphics, simple animation, effective presentation tips, and more. Bring your questions!
    RefWorks
    Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
    This class will introduce the RefWorks bibliographic citation management program. RefWorks is a free, online bibliographic software tool available to all UMMS and UMMHC faculty, staff and students. You can import references from MEDLINE and other bibliographic resources and format bibliographies based on many pre-set styles. RefWorks works well as a departmental reference manager as many can share one Internet-based account without having to download or install special software.
    Scientific Presentations
    Description forth coming.
    SoTL Special Topics: Getting the Most out of Your Questionnaire Part I
    The focus of this workshop will be on the first steps in questionnaire development: identifying what you want to measure, drafting items, formatting, and pre-testing. A second workshop will be offered in May (day and time to be determined); Part II, which can be taken with or without Part I, will focus on validity and reliability - what are reliability and validity, why you should care, and how you should think about them in the context of your questionnaire.
    SoTL Special Topics: Smoother Sailing with your IRB Submission
    The process of approval from the UMass Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research (commonly known as the IRB) can seem a daunting task. Dr. Brian O''Sullivan, IRB Chair and a clinical investigator himself, will review some of the current challenges to the IRB, and address some of the common problems with investigator submissions. This interactive session will focus on the critical steps for a successful IRB submission.
    Strategies to Enhance Your Negotiation Skills
    By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
    • Discuss general factors of negotiations.
    • Define and examine strategies used in: Yielding, Stonewalling, Positional/Distributed Bargaining, Interest based/Joint gain negotiation.
    • Consider the effect of issues which modify negotiations such as: Gender, Culture, Differential power between the parties.
    Teaching with the Audience Response System
    Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
    This workshop provides a hands-on demonstration of the UMass Turning Point audience response system (ARS), which we have used in resident seminars and student lectures. The workshop will include: technology and implementation overview; student attitudes to ARS; participation in a brief interactive seminar sample using ARS; and an opportunity to design slides as a group for ARS use by constructing a survey of workshop participants and carrying out the survey in real time. Basic and advanced software functions will be demonstrated; do’s and don’ts for ARS and tips on ARS presentations will be offered. Faculty will provide use cases from teaching experience, how the ARS has been used in classes; what curriculum worked best and some expected and unexpected outcomes.
    Writing and Developing a K Award
    This workshop will provide information on planning and writing a K award proposal. Information on what study sections are looking for, and key ingredients for success will be discussed. This session is for faculty members considering writing a K award grant.
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