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Learn how several courses have successfully conducted peer review in Compass and investigate options for applying it to yours. Bring questions and objectives! Registration is required.
Professor Fritzsche (History, UIUC) is the author of numerous books including Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (2020), An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler (2016), and Life and Death in the Third Reich (2008). He will discuss recent events through the lens of European-Jewish history.
Crafts, Folklores, and More will bring you an artsy combo of folktales with related crafts, youth presentations, and interactive sessions—all from the comfort of your homes. This is a family-friendly event sponsored by Ascending Aesthetics and co-sponsored by the Spurlock Museum and the Museum of the Grand Prairie.
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.
This talk explores how late imperial Russia's kopeck newspapers constructed images of Russian backwardness and Western modernity, and how they instrumentalized those images to argue that Russia's future lay in imitating the West.
Come to this workshop to begin the process of identifying your teaching philosophy, deciding which parts of it belong in your statement, and avoiding common mistakes.
SPSS II: Inferential Statistics with SPSS
How well are you measuring student learning? Assessment is one of the most complex and stressful responsibilities of an instructor. Come learn best practices for test construction. *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.
Associate Professor Kate McDowell (MS ’99, PhD ’07) is speaking as part of The Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration.
R is statistical software that is licensed as an open source program under GNU license. In other words, it is free. As statistical software, it can be used for data manipulation, calculation, inference, and graphical display. It contains advanced statistical procedures often not yet available in other statistical software and is available on a variety of platforms.
For complete details and speaker information, please visit https://wggp.illinois.edu/news-events/wggp-40th-anniversary-symposium
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.
A book talk and conversation on Stephen Macekura's The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2020), which explores critiques of economic growth across the twentieth-century world by revealing how reformers have challenged and sought to rethink "growth."
2021 will mark the first anniversary of COVID-19 in the United States and the 40th anniversary of HIV/AIDS. Yet both pandemics continue to affect our well-being and health. How might history help us move beyond oversimplified comparisons between the two, while showing us that health is always more than the absence of disease?
The European Union Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will host a virtual performance of "The Suppliants" by Aeschylus, a tragedy about migration and asylum. The performance will include an international, diverse cast, including American, British, and Greek actors.
The Goethe-Institut/Transatlantic Outreach Program hosts Dr. Tiffany Florivil, author of "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement", for a webinar discussing her new book. This event will be held via Zoom and requires prior registration.
We'll cover how to embed videos directly into your Compass site and ensure that they're captioned using Illinois Media Space (also known as Kaltura). You'll learn how this not only increases accessibility but also enhances the user experience. Registration is required.
The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and the Humanities Research Institute and co-host this annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.
Register for this session to learn about specific features and tips for using Outlook more productively, followed by Q&A of specific scenarios.
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.
Join this interactive workshop to explore best practices that will enhance your students’ experiences as they learn cooperatively in groups. *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.
Please join us for our March lecture with Dr. Catherine J. Murphy, who will discuss her research on inorganic nanomaterials applications and the chemical interactions these nanomaterials have with their surroundings.
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.
Stata is a small but powerful menu- and syntax-driven statistical package for managing, analyzing, graphing data, as well as for creating programs and macros.
In this new 2-hour online session, we will work with graphics in Word 2016. Topics covered will include learning how to add pictures and online images in a Word document; work with shapes; format, resize, move and crop images, and finish with creating and modifying an organization chart.
Do you get comments about your grading? Is your grading efficient, valid, consistent? Join this session to learn and practice strategies to enhance your grading and your feedback. *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.
Join Nathan Matias, Founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab, as they present on Governing Human & Machine Behavior.
The COVID-19 pandemic and current political upheavals have triggered a general state of anxious ‘doomscrolling’ of social media and 24-hour online news. Reading this experience alongside Don DeLillo’s The Silence (2020), Professor Salisbury’s talk takes as its starting point the insight of the phenomenological psychiatrist Eugene Minkowski (1933) that much mental...
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.
The SAS program is a syntax-driven statistical and data management program used in many different professional and academic disciplines. It has a reputation for being difficult to learn at first, so let us help you get ahead of the curve with this introductory course.
Join KAM for a film screen on Tiffany Harris' short film Becoming. A film about exploring Black femme relationships to land, nature, southernness, and girlhood. The films will screen through a Livestream on KAM’s youtube page and remain active online for a week after the screening event.
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.
In this talk, the data-sitters will reflect on the value of public-oriented feminist collaboration: what’s worked, what’s failed, what kinds of questions they’ve come closer to answering. They will also share advice for other scholars interested in undertaking collaborative DH work.
Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
This talk is the inaugural event of Ricardo Basbaum's hybrid art residence at UIUC as part of the project "On-Contamination: An Extended Space for Sustaining Encounters through Art."
Sudden Sound and Nick Rudd Music Experience present a special webinar event featuring exclusive pre-recorded performance content and live discussion with Mark Deutsch, a visionary artist who created the bazantar, a six-string acoustic bass fitted with an additional 29 sympathetic strings and four drone strings.
Join the U-C Comics Colloquium for a conversation with Ryan Estrada, co-author with Kim Hyun Sook of Banned Book Club. Set in 1980s South Korea, Banned Book Club tells a story of a group of students who resist an authoritarian regime with a secret club for reading banned books.
Flipping a course typically means moving some lectures online and using class time for engaging activities. Learn more in this fast-paced overview. *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.
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.
Have you considered having your students submit audio/video assignments? Perhaps you’d like your students to share prerecorded video presentations. View examples from current and past courses and see if this method meets your needs. Registration is required.
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
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.
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.
Stata is a small but powerful menu- and syntax-driven statistical package for managing, analyzing, graphing data, as well as for creating programs and macros.
Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10am - 2pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free!
Learn how to harness the impactful connection between emotion and learning. Create a safe authentic place where students can learn, grow, and be feel empowered to do their best. *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.
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.
This course will show you how to run the most common bivariate statistical analyses in SAS.
Register for this session to learn about InDesign and make a brochure from scratch. Link sent after registration.
In this short online course you will learn how to use some of the data analysis features and tools in Excel 2016. Topics will include learning the basics of PivotTables; using subtotals in a list of data; setting up data validation rules; using Goal Seek, Solver, and Scenarios.
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.
A book talk on Jessica Hurley's Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Hurley is an Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University.
Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
