Classes are Back in Full Swing!
Enhance Your Teaching & Learning This September with CETL programming!
Student Campus Resources Guide
Please attach this convenient resource guide to all your Canvas courses. This resource serves as a guide for students to access essential services ranging from academic support, financial aid, counseling services, recreational activities, and spiritual groups; all of which can help enhance their campus experience.
Upcoming Events
Active Teaching Lab
AI in Education: Latest tools and practical strategies for instructors
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Hybrid | 9:00am – 10:00am
In this session, David Delgado will guide us through the latest AI innovations and their impact on education, helping you understand what’s new, what’s next, and what matters for instructors. Lane Sunwall will then bring the conversation into the classroom, offering actionable strategies to help students ethically utilize AI, and explore how you might integrate AI into your course.
EdTech Talks
New Video Options in Canvas
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Virtual | 12:00pm – 12:30pm
Join us for a monthly exploration of course design using EdTech tools and Canvas. This month is focused on the new Zoom (AI) Companion features. Come learn about the Zoom (AI) Companion, how to turn it on, and how it can facilitate student learning.
Active Teaching Lab
Reimagining Assessments: How AI can Improve Low-Stakes Assessment and Boost Student Learning
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Hybrid | 9:00am – 10:00am
On October 2nd, Mark Sullivan will share how – after some hesitation – he began to experiment with AI to help him quickly build reading comprehension questions. Mark found that by partnering with AI, the quality of his questions improved, the time he took to build these questions decreased, and he was able to do more low stakes assessments in his course, which together improved his student learning outcomes. Join us as we experiment with a variety of AI tools to create, edit, and improve low-stakes course activities!
Asynchronous Learning
Canvas Quick Start Guide
Available asynchronously online
Everything you need to get started in Canvas with EASY access to guided information. Click here to enroll and access these quick start resources. There is something for the beginner to expert here.
Accessibility Training
Available asynchronously online
UWM is strongly committed to maintaining an environment that provides students with disabilities full access to its educational programs, activities, and facilities. The purpose of this self-paced online training is to provide you with the resources you need to support students with disabilities and to make your course accessible for all students.
Open Textbook and Open Educational Resource (OER)
Available asynchronously online
CETL and UWM Libraries offer a self-paced training that provides tools to identify open textbooks and open-education resources.
Self-Paced Workshops for Educators
Available asynchronously online
Enroll to access this alphabetical list of offerings such as:
– Class Discussions and Silence
– Class Presentations: Who Is Learning?
– Grading Schemes for Active Learning
– Scaffolding for Success
CETL Resources
Revolution Lightboard
A lightboard offers a powerful solution for your classroom and CETL staff is close at hand, working with you to set up and use the equipment.
Lightboards are large panes of glass similar to a traditional whiteboard. While on camera, instructors are able to draw equations, write notes, and edit on-screen slides mimicking a face-to-face classroom experience. Contact cetl@uwm.edu for more information.
Active Teaching Classroom Initiative
Active learning classrooms are intended to maximize the quality of learning experiences by providing classrooms that are designed to stimulate and sustain active and engaged learning.
CETL’s New Look
We are excited to announce the launch of our updated Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) website on Tuesday, September 10, 2024!
You can access the new site at the same address: https://uwm.edu/cetl/.
Workshop Registration Transition:
Starting on Saturday, October 5, 2024, all event registrations will take place on the new Events Calendar page at https://uwm.edu/cetl/events/. To help with the transition, we will provide a video tutorial, which will be included in next month’s newsletter and featured on the Events Calendar page.
Accessing Past Workshop Data:
Our current workshop registration website, https://ltcworkshops.org/, will host its final event on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, and remain accessible until Friday, August 1, 2025. We encourage instructors to export their attendance data before this date, as the information is of value for CVs and performance evaluations and will no longer be available after August 1, 2025.
We look forward to sharing our new site with you and appreciate your support during this transition!
Save the Date — Teaching & Learning Conferences
UWM Teaching & Learning Symposium
Virtual:
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Mark your calendars for the 10th annual UWM Teaching and Learning Symposium to be held Thursday, January 9, 2025.
Proposals to be accepted soon.