Events

Writing Expressions of Interest for UQ Teaching Awards

The Teaching and Educational Development Institute (TEDI) would like to invite anyone who has been nominated for a UQ Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010 or 2011 but has not won an award, and anyone who is thinking about submitting an expression of interest for a UQ Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning or a UQ Award for Programs that Enhance Learning, to a workshop from 1pm–3pm on Monday, February 20, in room 207 in the Gordon Greenwood Building (Building 32). The session will focus on key elements of the expression of interest and how to provide appropriate evidence to support the claims that are made. Presenters will be Professor Merrilyn Goos, Director of TEDI, and Deanne Gannaway, Head of TEDI's Evaluation Services Unit. For more information or to register your interest, contact Anne or ext. 56351 by Friday, February 17.

• Date: Monday 20 February 2012
• Venue: 32-207,
• Time: 1:00-3:00 pm

Introduction to the University Teaching Program

This session is run over two consecutive days in February and July each year.

It is strongly recommended that academic staff with two years or less of formal teaching experience in an academic context attend this program. Academic staff with experience at another university are also welcome to attend in order to make the most of the opportunities this program offers for collegiality and cross-faculty networking. 

• Start date: Monday 16 February 2012
• Time: 9:00 am-4:00 pm
• Venue: GPN 4, Bldg#14, Rm 115. For details and to register your attendance, go to

https://staffdevelopment.hr.uq.edu.au/program/index/INTUTP 

ITS Technical eLearning workshops in January, February and Semester 1, 2012

You can enrol in the workshops through the Staff Development website.

Topics

The following topics are offered:

• Blackboard Basics
• What's new is Blackboard 9.1
• Blackboard: Online assignments
• TurnItIn
• Using the Grade Centre in Blackboard
• Blackboard: Quizzes, Surveys, Tests and Exams
• Blackboard: Discussion boards, Blogs, Journals and Wikis
• Blackboard: Group management
• Virtual Classrooms (Adobe Connect)

For a description of each workshop and dates check the Staff Development website.

Marnie Holt (faculty Educational Designer) is also available for Blackboard training and support and can be contacted via m.holt2@uq.edu.au  or 336 58869

FoS TF Writing Group workshop

• Date: Thursday 19 January 2012
• Time: 1:00-5:00pm
• Venue: Sir James Foots building 47A-250

Please join us for this informal session. Aims of the group are outlined below.

FoS TF Writing Group workshop

• Date: Thursday 1 December 2011
• Time: 1:00-5:00pm
• Venue: Sir James Foots building 47A-250

The aim of the Faculty of Science Teaching Focus Writing Group is to create the time and space once a month to enable you to focus on writing up your T&L project outcomes for publication. An outcome of the writing retreat held recently was that participants felt that it was beneficial to work alongside others who were writing SoTL publications, particularly because this is a new discipline for many to publish in.

We invite you to drop into the first Writing Group Session on Thursday Dec 1st between 1-5pm and stay as long as you would like. We have booked a room with PCs and large tables so you can either work on your paper individually or have a conversation around any hurdles you are facing in translating your results into a paper. If you are unable to join us, please advise if you would like to be retained on the mailing list for notification of future sessions in 2012. We intend to develop a calendar of future sessions on Thursday so that you can block your writing time into your schedule.

Enquiries: Robyn Evans robyn.evans@uq.edu.au, T: 334 64112

Seminar: Peer-led team Learning: A Faculty Student Partnership for Educational Reform in the Sciences

• Date: Friday 9 December 2011
• Time: 9:00-10:00 am
• Venue: Hawken building 50-N201

Please join us in the foyer of building 50 for morning tea after the seminar

The Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) model of teaching actively engages students in the learning process by having them solve carefully structured problems in small groups under the direction of a trained peer leader. Peer-led workshops are an effective way to engage large numbers of students with course material and each other. Improved performance and retention, development of communication and team skills, higher motivation and course satisfaction, and increased interest in pursuing further study in science are among the benefits of the PLTL approach. This presentation will introduce the theoretical and practical elements of the PLTL model and describe how technology can be used to promote cyber learning through PLTL. Cyber PLTL (cPLTL) is an online, synchronous, collaborative environment for conducting PLTL workshops. The effectiveness of cPLTL in duplicating the proven benefits of the traditional (face-to-face) PLTL method will be described and preliminary results will be presented.

Further details here.

EAIT Workshops-FoS Staff Welcome

Date: Wed 30 November- Fri 2 Dec

EAIT will be hosting Professor Richard Felder (Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Winner of the 2010 IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education) and Professor Rebecca Brent (President, Education Designs, Inc., Cary, NC) for a number of teaching and career development workshops later this year. The details of each of these workshops are:

RSVPto Mrs Kamilla Wells: kamilla.wells@uq.edu.au More details will be sent out closer to the workshop dates but it would be appreciated if you could indicate which workshops you will be attending so that we can book appropriate rooms and estimate catering requirements. 

Lydia Kavanagh has compiled a brief (2 minute max) survey that will allow the workshops to be tailored to achieve the best possible outcomes: workshops that provide career development opportunities at all staff levels, and the incorporation/ implementation of best practice teaching and high quality programs.

Lydia has requested that intending  attendees please complete the survey by Friday 21^st October. Results will be sent to Richard and Rebecca so that they can judge where to pitch each workshop and what to include.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9FXTBZN

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