Tech:30

The Tech:30 series is an opportunity to get plugged-in to helpful tech in your classroom. Tapping into a number of programs that faculty use regularly, these sessions will cover under-utilized features of programs to help you become more tech-savvy faculty! LITS will explain the technical aspects, and a faculty member will explain how they've used the tech in their classroom. 

Sessions will be held on the 4th Wednesday of the month from 11:00 - 11:30am, prior to the Library's Academic Honesty Office Hours. During the first 10 minutes we will walk through an AI tool (see tool schedule below). The remainder of the session will be an open discussion about responsible faculty and student use of the tool.

Tech:30 Schedule

• September 27th - Consensus
• October 25th - Goblin.tools
• November 22nd - Quillbot 
• January 24th - Co-pilot 
• February 28th - Formula Bot 
• March 27th - Jasper 
• April 24th - MidJourney 
• May 22nd - Dall-E 2
• June 26th - Khanmigo

Academic Honesty

Amy Hall and Sarah Leeman, from The University Library, discussed ChatGPT's relevance to Academic Honesty. For more information regarding this topic, please see the Teaching Academic Honesty Lib Guide. 

Did my student use Chat GPT? Identifying & Addressing AI Academic Honesty in the Classroom

Upcoming: AI Conversation Corner

Join the University Library for open-ended, faculty-focused discussions on all things related to academic honesty and plagiarism, including teaching strategies, AI tools, Turnitin, APA style, plagiarism detection, student conversations, and more. Bring questions, concerns, and scenarios, or simply come to chat.

Academic Honesty Office Hours are hosted by the University Library on the 4th Wednesday of the month  from 11:30am-1:00pm (CST); following the Tech:30 session. (no sessions will be hosted in November or December)

Community of Practice: Equity in Practice Series

As an extension of what we learned last year from the Courageous Conversations series and the Dr. Tia Brown McNair visit, we'll be hosting Equity in Practice sessions. These will help the NLU community enhance equity, inclusion, and belonging in the classroom and at NLU. This will likely be paired with the development of an Inquiry Framework. Content and linked resources adapted from the CUE (2020) Equity-minded inquiry series (Document Review, Observations, and Syllabus Review).

For more details about each session, please visit the CTLE's Equity in Practice page.

Fall Theme: Investigating our own practices

• October 13th: Spotting Patterns
• November 10th: Noticing Our Communication
• December 8th: Examining Our Classroom Expectations

Winter Theme: Investigating our courses and syllabi

• February 9th: Equity-minded Syllabi Practices
• March 8th: Challenging Education Norms

Spring Theme: Investigating college/department/university practices/systems

• April 12th- Introduction to CUE's Equity-minded Document Review Process 
  • Sample of documents to review: Who does our syllabi serve? Finding cultural responsiveness in a templated curriculum
• May 10th - Continue to Review Documents for Equity-mindedness 
  • Sample of documents to review: Adjusting assignments and activities to be more Culturally Responsive.
• June 14th- Continue to Review for Equity-mindedness
  • Sample of documents to review: Questions to ask ourselves about our approach with students.

First Friday Firsts Series

This workshop series showcases NLU faculty’s innovative and creative instructional approaches. Are you considering trying something for the first time in your course? You've come to the right place! This is the “I tried this and it needs your help” series. On the first Friday of every month, bring a pedagogical technique that you've never tried or have tried in a limited capacity. Share that technique with the group and get feedback! Someone in the group may have tried this technique in the past and can share their experiences with it. 

1. Faculty bring a technique to the workshop and spends 5-7 minutes describing the technique - a single PPT slide will help (but not required). If the faculty has tried the technique, they describe the student response. 
2. The group assembled will spend about 15 minutes providing feedback that will help the faculty refine and improve the technique.
3. Repeat as often as time allows.

When? The First Friday of the Month, Noon - 1:00pm CST

JumpStart Orientation

We realize that a single orientation session is not enough to support new faculty members. So, we've created a series of orientation sessions, collectively called the JumpStart Orientation, scheduled throughout the term. These sessions will help you get acquainted with your fellow faculty members and NLU’s systems, while also serving as touch-points for you to get your questions answered. See each drop-down below for an outline of each session and a link to register. Please keep in mind that these sessions may change based on the evolving needs of faculty. We’re happy you’re here and we look forward to seeing you during the JumpStart Orientation!

Excellence in Online & Remote Teaching

Excellence in Online and Remote Teaching (EORT), a development opportunity for all faculty at National Louis University, features asynchronous, interactive modules and resources accessed on the CTLE website that address the nuts and bolts of online and remote teaching. This information is designed as hands-on, just-in-time learning experiences that result in tangible, usable strategies that can be immediately implemented into your teaching practice.

Even though the course has a sequential aspect to it, it is also designed for you to consume and interact with information that is most meaningful to you, so feel free to skip around and don’t worry if you do not participate in each module.

Use the EORT link below to explore the web resources to help you teach asynchronously. 

Courageous Conversations Series

The Courageous Conversations series of professional development will focus on building community among faculty and offer a safe place to surface concerns around Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. These conversations can also serve as a model for faculty to use with their students to build community (see the Teaching Excellence Framework for context). 

A Courageous Conversations page has been created to organize this information and centralize the next steps identified during these sessions. Also, a Padlet has been created to help extend the conversations beyond the sessions. Please join the ongoing discussion in Padlet.

Topics:

• Fall - What is each of us doing to promote inclusion and belonging for our students?
• Winter - What is each of us doing to promote inclusion and belonging at NLU (dept/college/university)?
• Spring - Where is the ship heading? What’s the desired end-state of our inclusion and belonging efforts?

Facilitated by: Keith Baltimore and rotating co-hosts