Faculty Development Events & Archive

Faculty Lunch & Learns and Tech Tuesdays

Tech Tuesdays and Lunch & Learn sessions are held two Tuesdays per month from 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm in the Library Media Viewing Room (Library 005) for faculty and staff to come and share pedagogical, technological, and research-related information and strategies. 

To attend an upcoming Tech Tuesday or Lunch & Learn, check out our event calendar to the left or our News & Events page. 

Interested in presenting at a Tech Tuesday or Lunch & Learn? Contact Julie Perino at jperino@transy.edu

• What do you want from a Center for Teaching Excellence? video from our meeting on 9/26/23

• Using Video to Flip the Classroom led by Professors Ellen Furlong and Melissa Fortner, video from our meeting on 1/16/24

• Digital Storytelling through Data Visualization with Dr. Kenton Rambsy, from our virtual workshop on 1/19/24.

Pedagogy Related Tech Tuesday Archives

• 1/16/24: Using Video to Flip the Classroom led by Professors Ellen Furlong and Melissa Fortner

• 4/4/23: Different Ways to Integrate e-portfolios into Your Classes led by Dr. Julie Perino

• 03/21/23: Jesse Stommel Ungrading workshop

• 2/21/23: The Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon led by Professors Kerri Hauman and Emily Goodman

• 11/1/22: Open Educational Resources: What are they and how can we use them?

• 4/12/22: Technology, Equity, and Access—Led by the DLA Co-directors and the DEI Committee

• 2/08/22: Universal Design in Canvas--Led by Julie Perino with guest expert Amber Morgan

• 10/13/2020 Ungrading with Dr. Melissa Fortner

  • • Dr. Melissa Fortner Slide Presentation

    • Readings:

      • • Stommel, Jesse (2017, October 26). Why I Don’t Grade.

        • From an English/Interdisciplinary Studies professor: Davidson, Cathy. (2009, July 26). How To Crowdsource Grading. HASTAC. 

          • • Follow up for those interested

        • From a Chemistry professor: Sorensen-Unruh, Clarissa. (2019, February 10). Ungrading: A Series (Part 1). Reflective Teaching Evolution. (specifics of Gen Chem I and II courses, for those interested)

Digital Tool Related Tech Tuesday Archives

• 1/17/23: Google Teacher Certification led by Professor JJ Wallace

• 10/24/22: Creating Interactive Narratives with Thing Link led by Professor Emily Goodman

• 9/20/22: Creative and Nontraditional Uses of Hypothesis--Led by Hypothesis VP, Dr. Jeremy Dean, Ph. D.

• 9/6/22: Canvas Show and Tell--Led by Professors Melissa Fortner, Kremena Todorova, and Emily Goodman

• 2/22/2022: Teaching with Augmented Reality--Led by Dr. Emily Goodman

• 1/05/2022: Social Annotation with Hypothesis--Led by Julie Perino

• Sept 14, 2021: Hypothes.is in Canvas Demo

• Sept 28, 2021: Canva.com for Educators--Led by Beth Carpenter

• Oct 19, 2021: Boost Student Engagement with Kahoot!--Led by Julie Perino

• 1/19/21 - Canvas Show & Tell

• 9/29/20: Podcasting at a Distance

  • • Podcasting at a Distance Help Website

    • Dr. Scott Whiddon Slide Presentation

Research Presentations

• 4/11/23: The Transy & Race Collaborative Project Team led by Professors Leslie Ribovich, Priya Ananth, and Jamie Day

• 10/4/22: Pervasive and Racist, Spelling and Grammar Checkers Online led by Dr. Julie Perino

• 11/24/22: Digitizing Moosnick: Accessing History through 3D Images and Virtual Tours Led by Jamie Day, Bobby England, JJ Wallace, Julie Perino, and Leigh Kostenbader

• Mar 29, 2022: Lexington in the time of COVID19--Led by Kremena Todorova and Kurt Gohde

• Nov 2, 2021: Geoffrey Williams Archival Research Presentation

• Nov 16, 2021: Transy and Race Collaborative Project Presentation

• Nov 30, 2021: Exergaming Project Presentation

• 3/16/2021: Daniel Clausen & Emily Rau from the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • • Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Website

    • Poetry from the Plains Website

    • Digital Humanities Minor Undergraduate Catalog

    • The Willa Cather Archive Website

    • The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers Website

• 3/30/2021Transy and Race Collaborative Team Presentation

Transy Supported Resources for Faculty

• 2/07/23: Opportunities for Library Instruction 

• 3/8/2022: Get to Know the DLA--Led by Tim Polashek, Emily Goodman, and Julie Perino

• 1/26/21 LOOP with Anthony Mead, Morlan Gallery Director

Past Online Tech Tuesday/Thursday Discussion Sessions

Spring 2021

• April 13th - DLA Year End Review

Fall 2020

• September 8th - First Week Check-In

• September 15th - Collaborative Project Teams

• September 22nd - Biweekly Check-In

• October 6th - Biweekly Check-In

• November 10th - Online Exams

• Berkeley Center for Teaching & Learning - Best Practices - Remote Examinations

• Canvas Help - How do I create a quiz with individual questions?

• Canvas Help - How do I select a grade posting policy for a course in the Gradebook? 

  • • ** Please make sure to choose 'Manual' for your grade posting policy.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education - Students Cheat. How Much Does It Matter?

• University of Pennsylvania Center for Teaching & Learning - Exams and Quizzes when teaching remotely

• Yale University - Strategies for Delivering Exams in Canvas

• November 17th - Biweekly Check-In

• December 1st - Canvas Catch Up

  • • Peer Review in Canvas (Student View)

• December 8th - End of Year Reflections on Online Teaching - successes and challenges

Summer 2020

• August 18th - Your First Day of Class

• 8/13/2020 Universal Design for Learning

• August 11th - Multicam Demonstrations

  • • Kurt Gohde Example

• August 6th - Asynchronous Work

• August 4th - Recording Lectures in Canvas

• July 28th - Research at a Distance with Guest Speakers: Helen Bischoff & Beth Carpenter

• July 23rd - Presentations and Presentation Alternatives

• July 21st - Small Group Discussions

• July 16th - Pedagogical Approaches to be used in online & hybrid classrooms

Spring Semester 2020

• March 19th - Distance Learning

• March 3rd - Distance Learning