Handouts and Recorded Events Archive

Each event, workshop, or discussion series that has a handout is listed below in groupings by subject area. The handouts can be effective resources for helping you prepare for an event or to aide your self study. Some TLC events have been recorded in audio and/or video. For more information about an event handout or one of its attachments please feel free to contact our staff.

Clickers

• Principles for Constructing Good Clicker Questions (5/10/2008)
• UB Clicker Demo (6/27/07)
• UBclicks: Introduction (1/15/09)
• UBclicks: Advanced (10/24/07)

Course Management

• UBlearns: Campus Pack Blogs & Wikis (10/21/08)
• UBlearns: Grade Center (1/9/09)
• UBlearns: Quizzes and Surveys (1/7/09)
• UBlearns: Preventing Plagiarism Using SafeAssign
• UBlearns: Student Submissions of Assignments
• UBlearns: Workshop
• UBlearns: Video
  

Digital Imaging

• Drawing & Diagramming using Adobe: Illustrator

Library Research

• ARTstor: Teaching with Digital Images
• Endnote Basics (09/08)
• Endnote For Scientists (2/6/09)
• HSL Bioinformatics Series - BLAST (9/17/09)
• Maximizing Google's Research Potential
• SciFinder Scholar Substructure and Reaction Searching (1/5/09)
• Scifinder
• Searching Patent Literature (7/6/09)

Multimedia

• Casting a Wide Net: Video Coursecasting
  ... Idylls by a Stream, on a Pod (10/20/06)
• Creating Movies from Screen Captures
• iTunes U: Introduction to Podcasting (7/16/09)
• Online Video Sharing: Present and Future (11/2/07)
• Streaming Media
• Sound Editing and Recording Using Audacity (09/25/09)
• Taking Advantage of YouTube (10/21/08)
• Using PowerPoint with iTunes U (9/28/08)
• Video Sharing for Instructors (2/19/09)

Presentation

• Designing and Delivering Effective Lectures and Presentations
• Less is More: Creating Effective Presentations (spring 07)
• Managing Presentations on the Fly
• Presentions: Drawing Tools and Layers
• Presentations: Multimedia
• Presentations: Pictures and Drawings

Productivity Tools

• Creating Course Content in PDF Format
• Document Editing and Markup
• Make Striking Graphs
• Taking Control of Microsoft Word (10/22/09)

Special Events

• FERPA : Managing Records and Training Faculty (11/2/08)
• New Faculty Orientation Program
• Regional Knowledge Network (11/14/06)
• Successful Models of Minority Graduate Student Recruitment
• Undergraduate Research at UB: Benefits/Challenges and Funding Opportunities for Faculty (2/15/07)

Teaching Effectiveness

• Assessment
  
  • Curriculum-Based Methods for Assessing Learning
  • Designing Effective Objective Tests (2/11/09)
  • Developing Learning Objectives
  • Rubrics: The Basics
    
  
  Copyright
  
  • Copyright and Higher Education: Beginning the Dialog
  • Copyright and Higher Education: Continuing the Dialog
    
  
  Course Design
  
  • Constructing Your Teaching Philosophy and Portfolio
  • Creating a Positive, Solution Focused Approach in the Classroom
  • Developing a Student Centered Learning Syllabus
  • The Little Shop of Course Design Horrors
  • Moving Lectures Out of the Classroom to Make Room for Learning
  • Pulling it Together: Developing Lesson Plans for University Students
    
  
  Critical thinking
  
  • Critical Thinking and College Students
  • Developing Autonomous Learners: Helping Students Succeed in College
  • Levels of Questions in Learning and Thinking
    
  
  Diversity
  
  • Genteels’ Excellence in Teaching - Diversity in Higher Education (spring 2009)
  • International Students in the Classroom: Tips for Faculty
  • Multidimensional Instruction Strategies to Improve your Teaching
  • Supporting International Students: Tips from Counseling Services
    
  
  Group work
  
  • Beyond homework: Student Assessment through Group Work and Oral Examination
  • Group Work for Students in the University Setting: Cultivating Group Leader and Member Skills
  • Enhance Group Learning using UBlearns (2/15/06)
  • Genteels’ Excellence in Teaching - Theory and Philosophy Behind Cooperative and Active Learning in Higher Education (spring 2008)
  • The Skills and Dynamics of Teaching: Addressing the
    Hidden Group in the Classroom
  • The Wisdom (and Vicissitudes) of Crowds: Web 2.0, Social Networking, and Higher Education
    
  
  Large Classes
  
  • Tips for Teaching Large Classes: Teaching Strategies

Teaching with Technology

• Developing Student Portfolios
• Educational Gaming (2/3/06)
• Education - What's on the Horizon?
• Facebook Strategies for the Classroom
• Technology Tools for Instruction: Opportunities & Challenges

Web Technologies

• Blogs (2/20/06)
• Building your Faculty Website (4/21/08)
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Contribute: Discussion for Web Administrators (2/9/06)
• Contribute: Maintaining Website Content (2/1/2007)
• Creating a Basic Webpage Using Dreamweaver
• Dreamweaver: Website Management
• Making Your Website More Usable
• Podcasts (3/6/06)
• RSS (3/30/06)
• Web 2.0: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting, and RSS (2/2/07)
• Web 2.0: The Basics (2/6/09)
• Web Forms: Collecting Data Online
• Wikis (2/27/06)
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