Library - Scholarly Commons
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This two-day symposium offers us a chance to reflect on what makes our work unique and uniquely valuable. It gives us an opportunity to articulate what our scholarship and creative practice offer to a university seeking ever more social, cultural, and intellectual creativity.
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A Friday lunchtime series of free yoga classes introduces participants to the fundamentals of hatha yoga at Krannert Art Museum. Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public. Please visit http://kam.illinois.edu for more information.
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The purpose of this summit is to highlight educational and research opportunities around e-sports, and to explore opportunities for making esports a varsity sport on our campus.
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The Illini Gadget Garage is a collaborative repair center that assists consumers with troubleshooting and minor repairs for personally-owned electronics and small appliances. Join us to learn how to fix your own devices during this free Pop-In Repair Clinic offered in CITL’s Innovation Studio (Armory 172).
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Prof. Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015).
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Professor Bilal will provide an overall introduction to an anthology meant to end the invisibility of activist women in Armenian historiography. Then, drawing on Yelbis Gesartin's work, she will discuss the interrelatedness of discourses on gender, sexuality, body, emotion, culture, history, nation, modernity, land and music in 19th century Armenian intellectual narratives
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This talk will provide an overview of open education, explore both sides of the debate, and offer reasons why engaging in open education doesn't—and shouldn't—stop at cost-savings.
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This Yom Ha' Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we are honoring the life and work of Italian author and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi. The evening will feature readings by Kirsten Wynne Pullen (Theatre) and Philip Phillips (Physics) and brief commentaries by Jonathan Druker (Italian, ISU) and Eleonora Stoppino (French & Italian).
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In this 2-hour 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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Every year, IPRH celebrates excellence in humanities scholarship by awarding IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities. Please join us in honoring this year's recipients at this year's ceremony.
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This Spring Luncheon and Lecture invites you to hear from Kevin Hamilton, Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts. The public is invited, and reservations are required. Please contact Chris Schaede (217 244 0516 or kam@illinois.edu) for reservation information.
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You are welcome to the opening reception of a temporary exhibition featuring work from artists in the Bachelor program at the School of Art + Design. The gallery will be open until 7pm on the Saturday, after which the gallery will be open during normal museum hours.
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This 6 hour course will prepare you to use the most common basic features of Adobe Photoshop CC.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking as part of the IISH Lecture Series in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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We invite you to join us for an informative strategy session covering a range of external funding opportunities – including ACLS, Guggenheim, and residential fellowships (e.g., research libraries, arts residencies, institutes for advanced study).
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking as part of the Collaborative Research Group Seminar at the University of Leiden.
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Fraser Ottanelli, coauthor of "Assassins against the Old Order," will be speaking at Red Emma's in Baltimore, MD about his book.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking as part of a seminar on international activism by dockworkers at the University of Lisbon.
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Marcia Hansen Kraus, author of "George Szell's Reign: Behind the Scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra" will give a book talk at Cleveland's Hungarian Museum.
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Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Take this short course and learn the basics, including how to use the new 2016 interface to create slides and put content on them; format and custom design the slides; and prepare speaker notes and handouts.
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This 6-hour course introduces the basics of Adobe Illustrator. Topics will include design principles, elements, and graphics composition; creating documents containing basic shapes and customized paths. We will also learn how to insert text and typographical characters.
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Emily Thuma, author of "All Our Trials," will be giving a lecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz about her book.
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Every graduate student hears many times “the dissertation is not the book,” but what does that really mean? Dawn Durante, a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press, will discuss the differences between the dissertation and the book and give helpful advice on how to approach revisions.
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Peter Cole, the author of"Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area", will give a talk at the Work Organisation and Employment Relations Research Centre.
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Emily Thuma, author of "All Our Trials," will be giving a lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara about her book.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking at Queen Mary University of London.
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This talk reveals the untold story of the transnational efforts the University and its students went to support the war effort in 1917.
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Melanie Holmes, author of A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston, will be give a book talk at 12pm and 2pm at the Johnston Ridge Observatory on the anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption.
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Richard Hughes, author of "Myths America Lives By 2nd edition: White Supremacy and the Stories that Give us Meaning" will give a lecture at the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing.
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Cicero M. Fain III, the author of "Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story" will give a book talk at the D.C. Chapter of The Ohio State University Alumni.
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This 6-hour, hands-on course is an intro to web page design using Dreamweaver CC. Students will become familiar with the Dreamweaver environment, interface elements, layout customization, website creation and publishing. Activities will include creating a new site, laying out basic pages and text, using text styles and containers, inserting images, uploading a simple site.
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In "The Fabrication, Materials, Design, Cultural Context, Uses, and Miracle of Paper," Sidney E. Berger explores the most extraordinary forms of paper decoration, and offers a look at many of its uses.
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In this 2-hour workshop participants will learn how to use Photoshop to do basic photo correction, use selection tools, manipulate, save, and store images. No prior knowledge of Photoshop is required.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to create and open Illustrator documents, navigate the user interface, use vector shapes to create a logo that looks good on screen and in print. No prior knowledge of Illustrator is required.
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In this 3 hour course, participants will learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages to images.
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Michael Jeffords and Susan Post, co-authors of "Curious Encounters with the Natural World: From Grumpy Spiders to Hidden Tigers", "Exploring Nature in Illinois", and "Butterflies of Illinois" will give a book talk at Hartfield Book Company.
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Wish you had a smarter, more efficient way to arrange your Outlook 2016 email and more? In this two-hour workshop, you will learn how to use the conversation view; how to insert a screenshot into a message; sorting messages; advanced searching techniques, including filters; working with folders; using flags, color categories, and rules.
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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.
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This two-part series offers tips on what you can do to increase your confidence as a teacher. In Part 1, topics include creating a comfortable teaching and learning environment, making the material your own, and tips on using your voice effectively. You will be asked to create a 1-2 minute lesson to present during the workshop.
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Join us for a book launch celebrating the release of "A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston by Melanie Holmes at the David Johnston Community Center in Oak Lawn, IL.
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Richard Hughes, author of "Myths America Lives By 2nd edition: White Supremacy and the Stories that Give us Meaning" will give a lecture at the Council of Christian Colleges Institute for New Faculty, Calvin College, Grand Rapids
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InDesign is a desktop publishing program that combines incredible power and flexibility with a surprisingly easy-to-use interface -- for creating or editing everything from simple posters and brochures to multi-chapter books. We will do the basics in this 6 hour class.
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Learn how to use backward design to create a good course, and get a head start on learning about Bloom's Taxonomy and learning objectives.
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Learn how to write good learning objectives to get your course design started on the right path.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to adjust a photo’s color and brightness in Lightroom; crop, straighten, and fix perspective, brush over certain parts of a photo for local adjustments; and work with photos on multiple devices. No prior knowledge of Lightroom is required.
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Richard Hughes, author of "Myths America Lives By 2nd edition: White Supremacy and the Stories that Give us Meaning" will give a lecture at the Christian Scholars Conference, Lubbock Christian University.
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Ensure proper course alignment by choosing assessments that match your learning objectives.
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Description: In this workshop, participants will identify the benefits of using a rubric (with an emphasis placed on analytic rubrics). Participants will then create a rubric that determines "the best type of pizza". Finally, participants will plan how to incorporate rubrics into their teaching.
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This two-part series offers tips on what you can do to increase your confidence as a teacher. Part 2 will focus on public speaking skills such as posture, movement, and responding to students' questions. For this workshop you will also present a 1-2 minute lesson in order to practice your newly learned skills.
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Ruth Nicole Brown, the author of "Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood" will give a book talk at the Trinity United Church of Christ.
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Andrew Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street," will be speaking at the Aurora Public Library about his book.
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Join us for a book signing at Printer's Row Lit Festival and meet Melanie Holmes, author of "A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston."
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Join us for a book signing at Printer's Row Lit Festival and meet George Van Dusen, author of "Clear it with Sid!: Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service"
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Michael C. Dorf and George Van Dusen, authors of "Clear It With Sid!" will be speaking at Politics and Prose Bookstore at the Wharf.
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Richard Hughes, author of "Myths America Lives By 2nd edition: White Supremacy and the Stories that Give us Meaning" will give the Rabbi Ira Sanders Distinguished Lecture of the Central Arkansas Library System.
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Learn ways to engage students in class that align with your course design.
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Come join us as we dissect the types of questions instructors ask their students and learn what’s packed inside that serves to promote or undermine effective teaching strategies.
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Andrew Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street," will be speaking at IndyReads about his book.
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Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Take this short course and learn the basics, including how to use the new 2016 interface to create slides and put content on them; format and custom design the slides; and prepare speaker notes and handouts.
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Attendees will become familiar with the Outlook 2016 calendar interface (including the enhanced Ribbon tools). You will also learn how to schedule and edit an appointment; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule meetings with the Scheduling Assistant and practice scheduling a conference room.
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Andrew Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street," will be speaking at the Unabridged Books.
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Learn to create a syllabus that best reflects your course design while also serving as an introduction to you as a teacher.
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Walter Rimler, author of "The Man That Got Away," will be participating in a discussion with Harvey Granat and David Lahm, at the 9nd Street Y cultural center.
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The idea of teaching online can seem very daunting. How can we meaningfully transfer our best face-to-face teaching practices to our online instruction? In this workshop, we demystify this process by looking explicitly at the objectives of our teaching strategies and how we can recreate these elements for our students’ online learning experience.
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Carol Haddix, Bruce Kraig, and Colleen Taylor Sen, co-editors of "The Chicago Food Encyclopedia," will be speaking and signing books at the Schaumberg Township District Public Library.
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Wish you had a smarter, more efficient way to arrange your Outlook 2016 email and more? In this two-hour workshop, you will learn how to use the conversation view; how to insert a screenshot into a message; sorting messages; advanced searching techniques, including filters; working with folders; using flags, color categories, and rules.
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Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here You Have to Fight," will be giving a book talk at Taylor Books.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to create and open Illustrator documents, navigate the user interface, use vector shapes to create a logo that looks good on screen and in print. No prior knowledge of Illustrator is required.
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Emily Thuma, author of "All Our Trials," will be part of a panel discussion about her book at the Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics in San Francisco.
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Alumnus St. Elmo Brady was the first African-American to obtain a PhD in chemistry in the US. He received his degree from the University in 1916 for work completed at Noyes Laboratory and continued his career as a professor of chemistry at historically black colleges and universities. This talk will discuss the life and accomplishments of this important educator.