Library - Scholarly Commons
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Register for this 2-hour Outlook session to learn about specific features and tips for using Outlook more productively. Zoom link sent if registered by 8 am.
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This one-hour online presentation is aimed at campus IT Pros and phone coordinators. We will begin by exploring the Teams Phones interface, management of Contacts, Calls, and Voicemail. We will take a look at the enhancements to Presence status upgrade and Phone settings. We will finish up by sharing process information and support resources. Link sent if registered by 11
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This 1 & 1/2 hour in person session will begin by logging in to Teams training accounts. Next we will explore the Teams call interface, including contacts, contact groups, and Voicemail. We will take a look at call settings and then spend the rest of the time practicing making and receiving calls, transferring calls, placing calls on hold, and merging calls.
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This 2 hour Outlook Calendar live workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions. Link sent if registered by 8 am
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Join us in a one-hour online session to explore some advanced features of Zoom. Features covered will include breakout rooms, setting a virtual background, recording, and more. Link sent if registered by 8 am.
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We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Skype for Business, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Link sent if registered by 8 am.
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This 1-hour online presentation and demo will begin by exploring the Teams Phones interface, management of Contacts, Calls, and Voicemail. We will take a look at the enhancements to Presence status updates and finish up with Phone settings. Link sent if registered by noon
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Join us in a live, online session using OneNote 365 where we will discuss the structure of notebooks, practice putting data into them, and explore the interconnectivity of Microsoft applications with OneNote. This session is aimed for beginner users of OneNote. Link sent if registered by 8 am
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This 1 & 1/2 hour in person session will begin by logging in to Teams training accounts. Next we will explore the Teams call interface, including contacts, contact groups, and Voicemail. We will take a look at call settings and then spend the rest of the time practicing making and receiving calls, transferring calls, placing calls on hold, and merging calls.
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Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago", will be signing books and speaking at the Portage-Cragin Branch of Chicago Public Library in Chicago, IL about their new book.
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This 1 & 1/2 hour in person session will begin by logging in to Teams training accounts. Next we will explore the Teams call interface, including contacts, contact groups, and Voicemail. We will take a look at call settings and then spend the rest of the time practicing making and receiving calls, transferring calls, placing calls on hold, and merging calls.
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Join us in an online session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Link sent if registered by 11 am
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We'll kick off the summer course design series with an overview of backward design, a simple course design method that will help you ensure proper alignment of objectives, assessments, and activities within your course.
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This session will provide tools to create a classroom that is conducive to accessibility and inclusivity. Your role in determining content for your class, along with choices we make as teachers, influence a student’s sense of belonging. This session will delve into strategies and perspectives to create the right conditions to make your course a learning community.
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics will include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 8 am.
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating with others in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 8
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Learning objectives are the foundation of a good course. You must be clear about these objectives so you can build a course that helps students achieve them. In this workshop, you’ll get some practice using Bloom’s Taxonomy to set objectives at the appropriate level, and you’ll learn about other important aspects of crafting good learning objectives.
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This workshop will focus on developing assessments designed to help students achieve the learning objectives in your class. We will examine different types of assessments. Attendees will work together to develop sample assessments that are appropriate for their learning objectives, with a focus on the long-term goals for student learning in the course.
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Active learning is critical to student engagement and retention of material. In this workshop, you will learn about ways to help your students actively engage with course material to achieve the learning goals of your course.
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In this session, we will address ways to plan assignments and course materials that support your learning objectives when students engage with the material outside of class. The workshop will include approaches and resources to design homework and study tools that promote meaningful and active learning experiences for your students.
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Cynthia Clampitt, author of "Destination Heartland", will be signing books and speaking at Green Hills Library in Palos Hills, IL about her new book.
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Join Stephen Wade, author of "The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience," for a series of banjo workshops at the Old Town School of Folk Music.
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Effective feedback is important for student success. In this workshop, we will cover a variety of approaches to providing constructive and efficient feedback in different learning situations. The session will help you identify where students could use feedback in your course, what constitutes good feedback, and ways to encourage students to engage with your comments.
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We’ll wrap up the series by thinking about that crucial document that often serves as a student’s first impression of the course: your syllabus. We’ll also consider how to establish course policies that are fair, sensible, and consistent with other aspects of your course design.
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Cynthia Clampitt, author of "Destination Heartland", will be signing books and speaking at Rolling Meadows Library about her new book.
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Cynthia Clampitt, author of "Midwest Maize", will be signing books and speaking at North Shore Senior Center about her new book.
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Cara Finnegan, author of "Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital", will be signing books and speaking at this year's Warren G. Harding Symposium about her new book.
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Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago", will be signing books and speaking at the Vernon Area Public Library about their new book.
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Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago", will be signing books and speaking at the Harold Washington Library Center of Chicago Public Library about their new book.
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Zev Eleff, author of "Dyed in Crimson", will be signing books and speaking at the American Jewish Historical Society about his new book.
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Mark Walczynski, author of "Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition", will be signing books and speaking at the Marquette County Historical Society about his new book.
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Join Taylor Hagood, author of "Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend" for a book talk at the American Banjo Museum.
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Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, editors of "Public Workers in Service of America", will be signing books and speaking at the Vivian J. Lincoln Library from Fort Worth Public Library about their new book.
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We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 14. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois.
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Robert Sampson, author of "Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins", will be signing books and speaking at McLean County History Museum in Bloomington, IL about his new book.
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Deadline to apply for the HRI Director's Fellows program. Applications due by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 13.
