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This two-hour online session will introduce you to Access, Microsoft's relational database application. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.
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During this two hour session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources. Q & A to follow. Register by12 pm to get the link sent for the session.
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During this in-person, instructor led session, we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. In this 2-hour workshop, we will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them.
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Join us in an online session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams.
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with selections in preparation to edit images. Register by noon to get meeting link sent.
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Is this a good journal to publish in? Is it using predatory practices? Participants in this workshop will learn features to look for when evaluating publication opportunities in order to make an informed choice about where to submit research. Participants will also understand the utility and drawbacks of different journal ranking metrics as a way to evaluate quality.
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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 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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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Register by 12 pm to get meeting link sent.
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In this 2-hour online 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 Taylor Hagood, author of "Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend" for a book talk at the American Banjo Museum.
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Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites" will be on the panel Taking a Bite Out of the Heartland at Printers Row Lit Fest.
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Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
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Qualitative research includes a wide range of research methods and data types, which can make it difficult to choose an approach for analyzing your qualitative or mixed-methods data. We’ll explore analyzing data based on research questions, data format and volume, and the intended outcome of your research.
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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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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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Learn about our new SCIM Lab, an advanced A/V recording studio for 360 video and motion capture, equipped with advanced AR/VR headsets, 4k cameras, immersive audio systems, greenscreen, and much more. Library tech spaces are available to all campus users.
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Lü Pin is a prominent Chinese feminist activist and an emerging scholar specializing in Gender and Politics. In 2009, she established Feminist Voices, a pioneering and largest new media platform dedicated to women's issues in China, which was banned in 2018. Join us as she reflects about her experiences of being part of the Chinese feminist movement.
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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 and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the whole set of features for managing information in Excel tables. These features make all the typical tabular manipulations—sorting, filtering, analyzing, and formatting, easier than ever.
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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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In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how AI can help you brainstorm topics, craft titles and abstracts, create outlines, and copyedit. Along the way, we’ll discuss techniques for writing effective prompts as well as copyright considerations and the limitations of AI-generated texts. There will be plenty of room for experimentation and questions!
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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 noon
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Kristie Soares, author of “Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media”, will be signing books and speaking at the University of Colorado Boulder about her new book.
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Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, editors of "Public Workers in Service of America", will be signing books and speaking at the Vivian J. Lincoln Library from Fort Worth Public Library about their new book.
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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 Zoom and Teams. We will go over helpful tips for each platform, including scheduling as a delegate. Prereq: Outlook Calendar workshop
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This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains.
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In this 2-hour in-person, hands-on 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. Pre-registration required
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We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 14. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois.
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Join the Interseminars Initiative’s first cohort for a symposium brimming with scholarly panels, installations, exhibitions, and performances, concluding with a reception and book release celebration.
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Qualitative research includes a wide range of research methods and data types, which can make it difficult to choose an approach for analyzing your qualitative or mixed-methods data. We’ll explore analyzing data based on research questions, data format and volume, and the intended outcome of your research.
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KAM is proud to present an artist talk and workshop by Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo in conjunction with Pattern and Process, an exhibition encouraging viewers to investigate how pattern can create and challenge our ways of knowing and interpreting the world.
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Robert Sampson, author of "Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins", will be signing books and speaking at McLean County History Museum in Bloomington, IL about his new book.
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Tariq Khan, author of "The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression", will be signing books and speaking at the Possible Futures bookstore in New Haven, CT about his new book.
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Robert Cherny, author of "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend", will be signing books and speaking at San Francisco State University Constitution Day events about his new book.
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We will discuss free tools that are available for conducting qualitative data analysis, with a focus on Taguette and spreadsheet tools. This workshop does not assume any previous knowledge of Taguette or other QDA software, but does expect that you know how to work with data in spreadsheet format.
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We welcome walk-ins or scheduled appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12-4 pm in the CITL Innovation Studio (Armory 172) or virtually. visit https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/instructional-spaces-technologies/teaching-with-technology/generative-artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-training-and-consultations/ for more information
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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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Mark Walczynski, author of "Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition", will be signing books and speaking at the Fountaindale Library in Des Plaines, IL about his new book.
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This program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.
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We welcome walk-ins or scheduled appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12-4 pm in the CITL Innovation Studio (Armory 172) or virtually. visit https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/instructional-spaces-technologies/teaching-with-technology/generative-artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-training-and-consultations/ for more information
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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, short stories, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
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We will take a behind-the-scenes look at how these tools are built and discuss the ways people are using AI generated images to create new bodies of work, streamline the research process, and beautifully muddy current and future copyright waters. You’ll learn your rights as an image creator, and hopefully have a few more answers about where the machine’s art ends...
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Many instructors have implemented long-term team projects in their courses. There are many benefits derived from this experience; however, these experiences may not be optimal because the students (and faculty…) were not adequately prepared. Join us to learn the what, how, and why of great team projects.
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Ethel Tungohan, author of "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care", will be signing books and speaking at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy about her new book.
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Join us in an online session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams.
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In this session, Lucas will use a simple technique for running good discussions to run a good discussion about running good discussions (it will be a meta-discussion). We will occasionally pause to examine the very discussion we are having and hence learn how to make a discussion go well.
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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. Prerequisite: fundamentals of OneNote. Register by noon to get meeting link sent.
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Arthur Longworth is the author of Zek: An American Prison Story (Gabalfa Press, 2016). He is also a six-time PEN America Prison Writing Award winner, a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee, and a 2019-2020 Writing For Justice Fellow.
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In this talk, Daria Semenova (Slavic Languages & Literatures, UIUC) looks at the early 2000s turn of Ukrainian authors to children's detective stories and adventure fiction to familiarize their readers with topics from Ukrainian history. She will consider stories centered around historic artifacts and places where notable historic events took place...
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Join Rose Marshack, author of "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children," for a book talk at Pygmalion Lit Fest.
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Join Monica Eng and David Hammond, co-authors of the new book "Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites," for a book talk at Pygmalion Lit Fest.
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Featuring author of "The Intersectional Environmentalist", Leah Thomas, sustainable fashion designer, Niha Elety, Ecofeminism Trivia, and more, the Summit will explore the intersection of social oppression and environmental justice through a series of engaging events.
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We welcome walk-ins or scheduled appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12-4 pm in the CITL Innovation Studio (Armory 172) or virtually. visit https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/instructional-spaces-technologies/teaching-with-technology/generative-artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-training-and-consultations/ for more information
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We welcome walk-ins or scheduled appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12-4 pm in the CITL Innovation Studio (Armory 172) or virtually. visit https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/instructional-spaces-technologies/teaching-with-technology/generative-artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-training-and-consultations/ for more information
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Join us in an instructor-led 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. Pre-registration required; no walk-ins please.
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Helmut Puff (University of Michigan, Departments of History and Germanic Languages) will deliver a lecture titled “Architectures of Waiting: The Time of the Antechamber.”
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Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use! Zotero is the citation manager of choice for many humanists.
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In this 2-hour instructor led workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. We will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them with Auto-connect.
