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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Once you know how to resolve the most common Compass challenges, you and your students can spend more time mastering content. Participants will learn how to address common problems as well as troubleshoot more complex ones. All sessions will be customized to the participants’ needs and include training on using a simple campus survey. Registration is required.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Register for this session to learn about specific features and tips for using Outlook more productively, followed by Q&A of specific scenarios.
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In this 2 hr online workshop, participants will learn how to create and work with Access tables. We will create a table using application parts and also from scratch. We will create a primary key and start entering data. We will work with fields in a table from adding, deleting, re-arranging to setting field properties. Finish up using lookup fields and calculated fields
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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A properly designed database makes it easier to work with up-to-date, accurate information. Investing the time required to learn the principles of good relational database design ensures that you will end up with a database that meets your needs and can easily accommodate change. This online workshop provides guidelines for planning an Access database.
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Just Infrastructures announces its inaugural Speaker Series with Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, presenting “What is Media Manipulation?” on Feb. 3, 2021.
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This talk focuses on detention care and its deadly consequences in the United States. Between October 2003 and November 2020, there were at least 216 deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, many the result of grossly inadequate medical practices.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Discussion boards, group work, and video assignments are popular ways to increase engagement. We'll examine each of these tools and consider ways they can spark innovation among your students. All sessions will be customized to the participants’ needs and include training on using a simple campus survey. Registration is required.
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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.
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In this lecture, Dr. Amelia M. Kraehe discusses white liberalism as an ideological stance that masks racism in contemporary K-20 arts education before introducing abolitionism as a contemporary praxis grounded in a Black radical tradition to move the arts beyond gestures of goodwill and toward racial justice.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Workshop: “Creative Abolitionism: A Contemporary Praxis” Dr. Amelia M. Kraehe facilitates a workshop on creative abolitionist strategies to grapple with racism in and through the arts. Register to attend
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Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
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Looking for a way to jump start your semester? Join us for an afternoon of trivia! Our theme: The Nobel Prize in Literature. Test your knowledge and win a prize!
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Join Dr. Kelly Wisecup to explore the archives of Indigenous groups from the Great Lakes region.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Join local C-U Lockdown Trivia host, Julie Laut, for a night of fun and challenging online trivia on Saturday, February 6, 2021 @ 7:30pm. In conjunction with the Spurlock’s current exhibit, Debates, Decisions, Demands: Objects of Campaigns and Activism, Laut will lead four rounds of trivia from the world of politics.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Tired of leading discussion sections where conversations stall halfway through, or take far longer than you imagined they would? Struggling to figure out how to fit everything you need to address in fifty minutes, or how to prepare for class more quickly? Join us to learn strategies handpicked to help teaching assistants improve learning and streamline preparation time.
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Learn the distinctions between different types of questions as well as how to build comprehensive pools that can be used in either tests or surveys. From orientation quizzes to high stakes exams, you'll learn how to customize an assessment that fits your course. All sessions will be customized to the participants’ needs and include training on using a simple campus surv
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Learn tricks on how to captivate your audience with a more engaging presentation. *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames.
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This workshop will focus on concepts underlying student engagement and practical strategies to engage our students across diverse formats. *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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Laser cutting is easier than you thought and anyone can do it! During this workshop we walk you through the tools and materials needed, some of the limitations, and walk you through the preparation process for your own design. While the workshop is online, you are invited to join us at the Innovation Studio and actually laser cut your design during our open hours.
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In this 2-hour online course learn how to create and work with Access forms. Create a new form using the form wizard and explore layout and design view. Add and modify form controls including a calculated control and lookup control.
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CITL and the ESL-ITA Program are offering a series of three weekly workshops to help graduate students prepare for the English Proficiency Interview (EPI). Attendance is free, but registration is required.
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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.
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In this 2-hour short online course, you will become familiar with the Excel 2016 interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.
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Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the spiritual leader of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda, will be speaking on the existence of his religious community in Uganda.
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Led by Assistant Dean for Career & Professional Development in the Graduate College, Derek Attig, this information session for potential applicants to the HWW Summer Bridge Experience will explain the application process.
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Register for this session to learn about InDesign and make a brochure from scratch. Link sent after registration.
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This workshop will explore creative and strategic approaches to achieve the learning objectives you set for your students. *This workshop counts towards completion of CITL's Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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Join Illini Esports, along with their supporting staff and faculty affiliates, for a panel presentation and discussion on the state of Illini Esports and Gaming on campus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Participate in this short online course and learn the basics, including how to create slides and put content in them. We will also learn how to format and custom design the slides.
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Join us for a conversation with Amna Akbar and Jackie Wang on abolition. Featuring two scholar-activists who focus on the law and political economy, this conversation seeks to address questions of policing, imprisonment, and long-unfolding threats to democracy...
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Join us for an overview of easy to use strategies for increasing student engagement online, or in the classroom. Walk away with ideas you can use right away. *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
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This pandemic has drastically shaped how class material is presented and taught. This seminar will investigate the challenges of remote instruction, as well as the challenges in language instruction, and propose modalities to ease the transition from in-person classrooms to remote settings.
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Most teachers get evaluated by their students at the end of the course by implementing ICES. But by then, it is too late to make changes that will make a difference for your current students. Come to this workshop to learn how to design, implement, and interpret Informal Early Feedback (IEF) to improve the class experience for everyone.
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By combining different Compass settings, you can significantly enhance the security of tests. We'll cover three scenarios that can be customized to meet your course's needs. Registration is required.
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Let's meet online to talk about Illustrator. In this two-hour live session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then work through a tutorial together to create our own vector graphic logo.
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Aneesha Dharwadker is an educator and design practitioner with interests in global urbanism, material history, and rural healthcare. She is the founder of Chicago Design Office and editor of Transect, an annual journal of design criticism.
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This 2-hour online class introduces the Access query object. Topics include working in design view; creating a simple query by adding and removing fields and adding criterion. We will create multi-table queries; calculated fields and set field properties; explore a totals query, parameter query, and action queries.
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In this new, short online course we'll learn how to work with slide animations and transitions between slides. We will also learn how to use the Animation Painter tool. Prerequisite: Completion of PowerPoint Getting Started or equivalent knowledge.
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CITL and the ESL-ITA Program are offering a series of three weekly workshops to help graduate students prepare for the English Proficiency Interview (EPI). Attendance is free, but registration is required.
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Join us in a one-hour online session to learn about the basic features of Zoom. This session is aimed for first time or beginner users.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Adobe Illustrator CC.
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On February 17, 7 pm CT, join The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures for a discussion-based film series, Internation Activism in Film. During this session, we will be joined by Robert Tigan to discuss the film Milada, a historical biopic about the politician Milada Horáková and her resistance to a communist coup in the Czech Republic.
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Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application capable of producing cards, certificates, newsletters, and other material. Topics covered in this 6-hour course include the interface and creating a basic publication; adding text, text frames and picture placeholders; formatting text, including styles and connecting text frames; editing text and graphics frames.
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This talk draws on three studies conducted to explore how children develop as readers and how public libraries enable that development: an investigation of what happens at baby storytimes with a special focus on the babies themselves; an observation study of preschool girls during and immediately after one of their regular trips to a public library with their mothers...
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In this 2-hour short course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel 2016 worksheets. Other topics will include an exploration of just a few of the hundreds of functions available in Excel. We will learn how to find a specific function, as well as how to get help while entering arguments.
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Join us for a talk by Kim Lane Scheppele entitled “Europe’s New Democracy Deficit: Creeping Autocracy in Hungary and Poland.” This event is part of the REEEC Critical Methods Series in Legal Studies and co-sponsored by the European Union Center.
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This talk explores the gimmick as a form that simultaneously repels and attracts us and the judgment by which we express this ambivalent mixture of feelings. Sianne Ngai (Professor of English at University of Chicago).
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Monstrous Women in Comics (2020, University Press of Mississippi), co-edited with Elizabeth Rae Coody, explores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability.
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Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
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Microsoft Teams is a communications tool available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour online workshop, we will learn how to navigate the Teams environment and communicate with others in Teams. We will practice participating in online Teams meetings, and discuss sharing screens and files during meetings. We will create a team and channels.
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Join the Asian Educational Media Service for the film screening of Edo Avant Garde, directed by Linda Hoaglund
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Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
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Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
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You know that Compass can support group projects. How can you use it to meet the needs of your particular course? Here you'll learn how to create groups, populate them, and grade group assignments. Registration is required.