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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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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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, animation, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required. Register by noon to receive the meeting link.
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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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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 this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo. This workshop is online; register by noon to be sent the link.
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Join Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo, authors of "Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry," for an event about their book at Grace College.
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Join Stephen Wade, the author of "The Beautiful Music All Around Us" for four days of classes, jams, song circles, and concerts centered on traditional 5-string banjo styles.
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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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In this 1-hour online workshop, you will learn the basics to get started in Skype for Business including navigating the interface, learning about availability or presence status, adding contacts to a contact list, and more. We will explore voice and video features, settings, and messaging.
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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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Nancy Toff, an academic and trade history editor with a wide-ranging portfolio and long experience, will demystify the work of the university press. She will explain what editors look for in book proposals and manuscripts, how to prepare and submit a proposal, and how to work with all departments of a university press to produce the best possible book.
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Join Peter Vagt at Prairie Path Books for a book talk about "Light Through The Trees: Photographs at the Morton Arboretum."
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Stop by our booth at Printers Row Lit Fest and get your copy of "Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets" signed by author Adam Selzer!
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Join Ray Long and Joan Esposito for a discussion of Long's book "The House that Madigan Built: The Record Run of Illinois' Velvet Hammer" at Printers Row Lit Fest.
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Stop by the University of Illinois Press tent at Printers Row to meet Ayana Contreras, author of "Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago."
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Meet author Cynthia Clampitt and have her sign your copy of "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past" and "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland."
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Join Adam Selzer, author of "Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets" for a book signing at Centuries and Sleuths Bookstore in Forest Park.
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Stop by the University of Illinois Press booth at Printers Row Lit fest and meet Dick Simpson, author of Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago.
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Join Dick Simpson, author of "Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago," Michael Dorf, co-author of "Clear it with Sid: Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service" for a conversation with Gerry Plecki, President of The Society of Midland Authors at Printers Row Lit Fest.
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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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In this 2-hour online course, you will become familiar with the Excel's interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.
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Join us in a hand-on training 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.
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Join staff from the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) to learn about our undergraduate internship opportunities, deadlines, and application tips. We'll make a brief presentation about the various openings and then allow some time for Q & A.
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Join Ray Long, author of "The House That Madigan Built: The Record Run of Illinois' Velvet Hammer," for a book talk at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, IL.
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Reflecting and implementing what you have learned from informal (such as the Informal Early Feedback - IEF) and formal (such as ICES) student feedback is a valuable process. we will share how to maximize gathering and analyzing the formal and informal student feedback. (And come back to CITL for consultation!)
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Tired of describing film, art, and sound in non-media friendly documents? Want to present your research accessible to a broader public? We will explore Scalar, a digital publishing platform, and discuss basic writing strategies for multimedia publications, including resources for assessing copyright, file formats, and page layout.
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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 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 this 2-hour online session, we will work with graphics in Microsoft Word. 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.
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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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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.
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We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 15. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
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"Nazarbandh/Captive" (Suman Mukhopadhyay, India, 2020) 1 hr 25 mins. Hindi with English subtitles. "Nazarbandh/Captive" is a much-lauded film that was Official Selection and World Premiere at the 25th Busan International Film Festival, 2020.
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City Lit is very excited to host Laurie Petersen to discuss the newly-released 4th edition of the American Institute of Architects Guide to Chicago! Chicago is an architectural wonderland, and this is your guide to the best of it!
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This workshop will review the foundations of network analysis starting from data collection through modeling outcomes. The workshop will cover how to think about data, measures, and models.
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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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Join Cynthia Clampitt author of, "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a talk in Fowler, IL.
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In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn how to select data in an Excel 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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Join Jen Masengarb and Laurie Petersen for an event about the AIA Guide to Chicago at the Chicago Architecture Center.
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In this 2-hour in-person, instructor led 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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R I: Getting Started with R workshop
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In this 2-hour online workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Link sent after registration.
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Learning is not a spectator sport. Students must be cognitively, physically, and affectively engaged for deeper learning and retention to occur. Yet, there are many distractions and the attention span of our students can be relatively short. How do we manage the amount of content that we should teach while providing opportunities for our students to be actively engaged?
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Have a large research project, but not sure how to organize it? Want to structure your writing around multiple topics and themes? We will explore Scalar, a digital publishing platform, that can structure multiple paths through your argument and help you visualize connections between topics, themes, objects, and spaces.
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SPSS is a user-friendly program that allows you to conduct statistical analyses through simple point-and-click menu items. This is an introductory course where you will learn the basic menu options and will be useful for people who have never used SPSS before.
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Join Cynthia Clampitt author of, "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a book talk in Des Plaines, IL.
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Join Ayana Contreras, author of "Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago" at Pygmalion.
