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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Word 2016 interface while we type text on a page, fix spelling errors, change spacing and page margins, and save our work. We will practice navigating the document; select text to make revisions; and move text by cutting and pasting. Formatting tools will be next, where we will learn how to emphasize text.
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This online session will cover specific features of InDesign, followed by Q&A. We will also work through a beginning tutorial.
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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 new 1-hour online course, you will learn about conditional formatting of data in Excel 2016. Topics will also include applying special formatting to numbers.
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Join Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge", for a virtual event with Hull House Museum.
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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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As a Kickoff Event for this year’s New Directions Series, the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center invites you to join a roundtable discussion on the role of race and racism in our region and scholarly field.
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Join Koritha Mitchell and Brittney Cooper for a conversation about Mitchell's new book "From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture."
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During this two hour-long session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will point out her favorite beginner tutorials and resources. Q & A to follow
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The University of Illinois Archives is hosting a monthly Women in Science Lecture Series that will feature speakers from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diverse and multidisciplinary scientific enterprise.
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Please join Andrea Stevens, Associate Professor of English, and the EU Center for a lecture on racial masquerade at the English Caroline court.
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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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In this 2-hour online class, learn how to create a basic Access report, and explore layout and design view. In design view add controls and set properties for those controls; learn about calculated controls, apply sort & group feature to report data, finish up with graphics (themes and conditional formatting).
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Learn about creating and pre-assigning breakout rooms, polling, recording sessions and how to resolve related problems. We will also review any recent changes and news and answer your questions.
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Let's meet online to talk about Photoshop. In this two-hour session, we will start working through some curriculum, work with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Register by noon to get meeting link sent.
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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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In this 2-hour online course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive method. Register by noon to have link sent.
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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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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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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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Please see the event details for resources you should view prior to the session. After a quick walk-through introduction to Digication, the campus ePortfolio platform, we'll lead you through the creation of a custom ePortfolio template to use in your course.
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Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 PRESENTED BY: Dr. Jocelyn Landrum-Brown, Dr. Teresa Mok, Dr. David Chih
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This talk by Phillip M. Ayoub, Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College, will be given as part of the European Union Center’s fall reception.
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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 in an online session using OneNote 2016 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. Register by 8 am to get link sent.
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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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Dr. Kimberly Nielsen, author of "Money Marriage and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott”, will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
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In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn how to select data in a worksheet and work with Chart tools to customize the chart type, chart layout, and chart style that best represents the selected data. Once the chart is exactly the way you want it, we will learn how to save it as a template to use again.
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You don't have to prep for hours, change your personality, or even have everyone in the same room to have a good discussion. This workshop focuses on practical tools to help TAs lead discussion sections, whether socially distanced, online, or asynchronously.
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Let's meet online to talk about Illustrator. In this two-hour session, I'll share resources and tutorials, plus spend time answering questions. We will work through a tutorial together to create our own vector graphic logo.
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This collaborative lecture (presented by a transatlantic historian of race and a Slavist) brings together little-remembered newspaper records, personal correspondence, and others texts—from the mid-1830s onwards—to recover how Pushkin was regarded as a black intellectual.
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America”, will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
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Professor Tony Ballantyne of the University of Otago kicks off HRI's 2020-21 research theme The Global and Its Worlds with a talk titled “Beyond the Shadow of Empire? The state, mobility and difference in New Zealand’s COVID-19 response.”
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The “open” is a common metaphor in the era of global connections, and a foundational modern value, albeit prone to contradictions. Exploring the implications of this concept, Akcan’s lecture introduces her latest book, Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA - 1984–87, which defines open architecture as the translation of
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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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Simidele Dosekun, author of "Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture", will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the whole set of features for managing information in tables in Excel 2016. These features make all the typical tabular manipulations—sorting, filtering, analyzing, and formatting, easier than ever.
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Join two faculty members from C-HeARTS (Community Healing And Resistance Through Storytelling) Research Cluster as they present "How Do We Survive, Resist, and Heal Oppressive Realities?" After the presentation there will be time for audience Q&A.
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Featuring: Genesee Spridco, Aaron Muñoz, Sara Hook, Endalyn Taylor, and Catherine Prendergast
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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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This event is part of the Becoming A Trans Inclusive Library project. Archie Bongiovanni is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Minneapolis.
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Dr. Natalya Chernyshova is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Winchester. She specializes in late Soviet history, with a focus on Belarus, and is the author of Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era (Routledge, 2013).
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The Second Book Project Symposium brings together scholars from across the field of American literary studies. This fall's symposium will be held over the course of two days, on September 25 and 26.
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Do you need online automated proctoring for midterms? Learn how to integrate Proctorio in exams for both Compass and Moodle. See how it works and what students will need to know. Ask any questions you might have. For help email citl-info@illinois.edu.
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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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University of Illinois-affiliated faculty and students are invited to join this Humanities Without Walls (HWW) information session as we cover: 2021–22 grant opportunities and themes; plans for fall and spring HWW events; seed grant application information and process.
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Blackness has been (and continues to be) under attack globally, but particularly within our country. As colleges and universities across America begin to grapple with some of the wider ranging and material effects of racism, particularly anti-Blackness, three scholars will hold a joint book talk to chart cultural histories of Blackness through law, politics, and media.
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The Second Book Project Symposium brings together scholars from across the field of American literary studies. This fall's symposium will be held over the course of two days, on September 25 and 26.
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Alana Harris and Robyn Deterding will share insights into Student Wellbeing as well as some practices and examples that can be included as we work to stay connected to our students. There will also be time to share your tips and ideas during the workshop.
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CITL and the ESL-ITA Program are offering a series of two weekly workshops to help graduate students prepare for the English Proficiency Interview (EPI). Attendance is free, but registration is required.
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Do you need online automated proctoring for midterms? Learn how to integrate Proctorio in exams for both Compass and Moodle. See how it works and what students will need to know. Ask any questions you might have. For help email citl-info@illinois.edu.
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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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CITL and the ESL-ITA Program are offering a series of two weekly workshops to help graduate students prepare for the English Proficiency Interview (EPI). Attendance is free, but registration is required.
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This two-hour online session will introduce you to Microsoft's relational database application, Access 2016. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.
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Join us for An Evening with Elizabeth Acevedo. National Poetry Slam Champion Elizabeth Acevedo received the 2018 National Book Award for her New York Times best selling novel, The Poet X.
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This course will show you how to run the most common bivariate statistical analyses in SPSS.