Calendar of Faculty Development Workshops and Other Faculty Events
The Office of Faculty Affairs sponsors Faculty Development Program workshops, special programs and events as well as co-sponsoring the BLS Vista 4 and Teaching Technology workshops with the Department of Information Services. We invite you to participate in these offerings to develop, strengthen, and advance competencies and enrich our faculty community in the process. We look forward to seeing you there.
To register, click the title in the listing below. Please note that offerings on the next business day are closed out for registration at 4:00 PM and the links to register are not available.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Executive Council 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-342 Faculty Conference Room Instructor: TBD Purpose: To advise the Chancellor on substantive matters pertaining to governance of UMMS, and to review and approve all recommendations originating in the Faculty Council regarding academic matters and faculty status.
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Christine Worden 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.
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Susan Pasquale, PhD and Lyn Riza, MS 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.
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Christine Worden and Tony Maciag 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.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Technology Teaching Tools: Educational Computing Walk-In Clinic 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Christine Worden & Lyn Riza, MS Drop in at your convenience to this informal session and ask application experts questions about:
• Adobe Captivate • Adobe Connect Pro • Adobe Presenter • BLS Vista
• Content Manager
• Polling (Clickers)
• PowerPoint
• Wimba
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Lyn Riza, MS 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.
Faculty Council 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-342 Faculty Conference Room Instructor: TBD The Faculty Council considers issues and matters of interest to the faculty and advises the Chancellor, the Dean of the School of Medicine, other senior administrators as appropriate, and the Executive Council on substantive matters. All faculty are welcome to attend the Faculty Council meetings, which are held on the first Thursday each month on the University Campus.
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Kathy Mazor, EdD 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.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
University Campus Faculty Luncheon 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-342 Faculty Conference Room Instructor: Office of Faculty Affairs Faculty luncheons are a great opportunity for faculty to network and get to know one another better. Stop by, even if it’s only for a few minutes, and enjoy lunch and conversation with your colleagues.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Innovations in Teaching with Technology: A Technology Users Group 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S2-351 Instructor: Susan Pasquale, PhD, Lyn Riza, MS, and Andrea Lydon, EdM Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
A series of brown bag colloquiums. What began in AY 2006/2007 as a WebCT User Group has expanded to include a spectrum of instructional technology - from using the Audience Response System to Synchronous Tools to PodCasting. It is a natural extension of the WebCT Best Practices sessions, tool trainings, and desk side training initiatives. Proposed topics will include timely issues pertinent to teaching, course design, and course administration. Drop in as you have time and pick up and/or share an idea.
Room: University Campus, S2-321 Instructor: Sherry Pagoto, PhD 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.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Women's Faculty Committee 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S4-402 Instructor: Elaine Martin, DA & Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD - Co-chairs The Mission of the Women's Faculty Committee of UMMS/UMMHC is to address the needs of women faculty and promote the status of women in the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care clinical system.
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Tony Maciag, Lyn Riza, MS and Christine Worden 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
Room: University Campus, Island Conference Room, S2-350 Instructor: Susan Pasquale, PhD These drop-in sessions, scheduled from 4:00-5:00PM on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, are part of the SoTL Program. Faculty are welcome to drop in for any amount of time to discuss/receive consultation on their educational research with members of the SoTL team. The goal of the consultations is to facilitate peer-reviewed publications and presentations related to teaching.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Executive Council 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-342 Faculty Conference Room Instructor: TBD Purpose: To advise the Chancellor on substantive matters pertaining to governance of UMMS, and to review and approve all recommendations originating in the Faculty Council regarding academic matters and faculty status.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Faculty Council 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-342 Faculty Conference Room Instructor: TBD The Faculty Council considers issues and matters of interest to the faculty and advises the Chancellor, the Dean of the School of Medicine, other senior administrators as appropriate, and the Executive Council on substantive matters. All faculty are welcome to attend the Faculty Council meetings, which are held on the first Thursday each month on the University Campus.
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Andrea Lydon, EdM & Lyn Riza, MS 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.
University Campus Faculty Luncheon 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-342 Faculty Conference Room Instructor: Office of Faculty Affairs Faculty luncheons are a great opportunity for faculty to network and get to know one another better. Stop by, even if it’s only for a few minutes, and enjoy lunch and conversation with your colleagues.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Women's Faculty Committee 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Elaine Martin, DA & Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD - Co-chairs The Mission of the Women's Faculty Committee of UMMS/UMMHC is to address the needs of women faculty and promote the status of women in the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care clinical system.
Room: Memorial Campus, East Ground Training Room Instructor: Lyn Riza, MS 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.
Room: University Campus, Library Computer Training Room Instructor: Sally Gore, MS, LIS and Lisa Palmer, MSLS, AHIP 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.
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Tom Hopkins, LICSW 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.
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Andrea Lydon, EdM 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.
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Lyn Riza, MS 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.
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Judith Ockene, PhD, Susan Pasquale, PhD, and Randi Segatore 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.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Executive Council 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-342 Faculty Conference Room Instructor: TBD Purpose: To advise the Chancellor on substantive matters pertaining to governance of UMMS, and to review and approve all recommendations originating in the Faculty Council regarding academic matters and faculty status.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Innovations in Teaching with Technology: A Technology Users Group 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Susan Pasquale, PhD, Lyn Riza, MS, and Andrea Lydon, EdM Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
A series of brown bag colloquiums. What began in AY 2006/2007 as a WebCT User Group has expanded to include a spectrum of instructional technology - from using the Audience Response System to Synchronous Tools to PodCasting. It is a natural extension of the WebCT Best Practices sessions, tool trainings, and desk side training initiatives. Proposed topics will include timely issues pertinent to teaching, course design, and course administration. Drop in as you have time and pick up and/or share an idea.
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Christine Worden 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.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Memorial Campus Faculty Luncheon 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM No Registration Required
Room: Memorial Campus, Knowles Hall, Jaquith Building Instructor: Office of Faculty Affairs Faculty luncheons are a great opportunity for faculty to network and get to know one another better. Stop by, even if it’s only for a few minutes, and enjoy lunch and conversation with your colleagues.
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Lyn Riza, MS and Susan Pasquale, PhD 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.
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD 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.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Faculty Council 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-342 Faculty Conference Room Instructor: TBD The Faculty Council considers issues and matters of interest to the faculty and advises the Chancellor, the Dean of the School of Medicine, other senior administrators as appropriate, and the Executive Council on substantive matters. All faculty are welcome to attend the Faculty Council meetings, which are held on the first Thursday each month on the University Campus.
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Danielle Pichette 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.
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Christine Worden 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.
University Campus Faculty Luncheon 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-342 Faculty Conference Room Instructor: Office of Faculty Affairs Faculty luncheons are a great opportunity for faculty to network and get to know one another better. Stop by, even if it’s only for a few minutes, and enjoy lunch and conversation with your colleagues.
Room: University Campus, Library Computer Training Room Instructor: Bob VanderHart and Kristine Reinhard, MLS 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!
Women's Faculty Committee 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM No Registration Required
Room: University Campus, S1-605 Library Conference Room Instructor: Elaine Martin, DA & Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD - Co-chairs The Mission of the Women's Faculty Committee of UMMS/UMMHC is to address the needs of women faculty and promote the status of women in the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care clinical system.
Room: TBA Instructor: Lyn Riza, MS and Susan Pasquale, PhD 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.
Room: University Campus, S2-307D Instructor: Lyn Riza, MS 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
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