UA Online Learning Innovation Summit (OLIS)
The UA Online Learning Innovation Summit (OLIS) is a cross-campus professional development unconference focused on innovation in online learning, to be held on February 3, 2017. OLIS participants will share experience and best practice surrounding online learning and teaching technologies, in order to improve student outcomes. Innovation in online teaching will be recognized and honored at this key university-wide
Cultivating the Imagination: Creating the Resilient, Resourceful, Inspired Learner
Ferguson Center TheaterThe 21st Century is a new game, requiring new skills, dispositions and learning strategies where learning in action and in play is more critical than ever. The key to learning, especially lifelong learning, is developing our imagination which, I will claim, is now more important than ever. Our challenge is that imagination can’t be taught
WebAIM Accessibility Training for Educators
Bryant Conference Center, Birmingham RoomTopics Covered Principles of and motivations for web accessibility Overview of how users with disabilities access and use the web Web accessibility guidelines and laws - Section 508, WCAG 2.0, ADA, etc. Evaluating site accessibility Schedule 9:00–10:30am: Part 1 10:30–10:45am: Break 10:45am–12:30pm: Part 2 12:30–1:15pm: Lunch (provided) Register for this event
“Sneaking Diversity into the Classroom”
205 Gorgas Library“Sneaking Diversity into the Classroom” Breakfast: Thursday, February 16, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Faculty member: Chris Roberts Student panelist: Mary Virginia Ireland We hope you can join us for four Spring 2017 teaching workshops on promoting diversity and inclusion in the classroom. At 37,000 students and counting, the University of Alabama may not be the biggest place students will ever live, but
Advising for Student Success
Ferguson Center Heritage RoomSave the dates! Project Rising Tide's "Advising for Student Success" workshops will be held on the following dates: Thursday, February 23 Wednesday, April 5 Wednesday, May 3 All workshops will take place in the Ferguson Center's Heritage Room from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. We hope to see you there!
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Inclusive Campus Breakfast
Sponsored by Crossroads Community Center, the Inclusive Campus Breakfast covers topics such as Inclusive classroom teaching practices Student diversity and dialogue initiatives Supporting trans students, faculty, and staff African American History Month (February) All Breakfast Dates January 11 February 1 March 1 April 5 May 3 Location: Anderson Room, 3125 Ferguson Center
Digitorium 2017
ADHC, 109a Gorgas LibraryInspired by working with scholars and students in many different departments, the Alabama Digital Humanities Center has created Digitorium, with the generous support of the University Libraries and the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies in the Department of English at the University of Alabama, to provide a new venue to discuss the wide range of
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“Notions of Identity in the Classroom”
205 Gorgas Library“Notions of Identity in the Classroom” Coffee hour: Wednesday, March 8, 4-5 p.m. Faculty member: Utz McKnight Student panelist: Lizzie Emerson and Andrea Dobynes We hope you can join us for four Spring 2017 teaching workshops on promoting diversity and inclusion in the classroom. At 37,000 students and counting, the University of Alabama may not be the biggest