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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. Register by 8 am to receive the Zoom link.
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How well are you measuring student learning? Assessment is one of the most complex and stressful responsibilities of an instructor. Is your assessment fair? Valid? Come learn best practices for constructing a test.
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Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee, authors of "Marianne Meets the Mormons", will be signing books and speaking virtually with NCFS Unbound about their new book.
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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 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 online on the first Thursdays of the month from 12pm-1pm as we welcome new faculty, new stories, and new ways of thinking about the art of teaching.
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With the meteoric rise of generative AI like ChatGPT going mainstream, what are the implications for teaching and learning in higher education? We’ve put together a diverse group of campus stakeholders to open up the conversation around this disruptive technology. Please join us for this thought-provoking discussion.
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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 noon.
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Tara Bynum, author of "Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America", will be signing books and speaking virtually about her new book.
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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 8 am
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In queer spaces, we often use a list of letters to signal coalitional possibility. What does a list make possible? In this talk, I draw on the virtuosic listmaking deployed by dance critic and lesbian feminist activist Jill Johnston to consider what we can and cannot derive from understanding ourselves alongside one another.
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This workshop is open to all faculty and graduate students, no registration required. In this workshop we’ll be experimenting with how a score, an invitation to dancing, is a site where the acts of writing and dancing might touch. Facilitated by Clare Croft, Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan.
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Tenure-stream faculty who wish to learn more about the Interseminars Initiative are encouraged to attend this Zoom info session.
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The 21st annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will take place on March 3 and 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 210 of Levis Faculty Center and online via Zoom. It will showcase graduate papers that foreground histories of women, gender, sexuality, and/or queerness.
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Stay tuned for more information about the Lunch & Learn Sessions, including the agendas. Researchers that are not currently focused on this work but interested in exploring or getting connected to food security research are encouraged to join the Food Security Working Group.
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Lisa Bralts will interview Rose Marshack, author of the new book "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children." Book signing to follow.
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Rose Marshack author of the new book "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" in conversation with Steve Fast at Waiting Room Records. Book signing to follow.
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Word 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 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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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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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.
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An annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.
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Sowande' Mustakeem, author of "Slavery at Sea", will be signing books and speaking at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at UNC-Chapel Hill about her new book.
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In this 2-hour workshop we will explore the mail merge features in Word including working with various data sources such as Excel and Access; working with rules; and creating and printing labels. We will also take a look at email merges using Outlook.
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In the second session of the CSBS Social and Behavioral Health Funding Series, Dr. Steve Breckler, NSF Program Director, Social Psychology Division, and Dr. Alan Tomkins, NSF Deputy Director, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, will discuss an upcoming NSF funding opportunity focused on the impact of public health guidance.
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In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century.
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Jeff Karzen, author of Playgrounds to the Pros: Legends of Peoria Basketball will be on site to sign books at the Illinois High School Association Basketball tournament.
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Delia Fernández-Jones, author of "Making the MexiRican City", will be signing books and speaking at Schuler Books about her new book.
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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 noon.
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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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Christopher Reali, author of "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals", will be signing books and speaking at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library about his new book.
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Join Jeff Karzen, author of "Playgrounds to the Pros: Legends of Peoria Basketball" for a book talk at Peoria Public Library.
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Join Steven C. Beda, author of "Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country" for a book talk at Powell's bookstore.
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Learn how to effectively use researcher profile systems + scholarly communications networks to develop and manage your online scholarly presence.
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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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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 updates and Phone settings. We will finish up by sharing process information and support resources.
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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 workshop will introduce ideas for creating interesting learning environments that welcome participation. Join us to build your toolbox of strategies to keep students motivated, engaged, and active in the classroom.