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Previous Events & Workshops

2013

Why grade alone when you can grade together?	May 6, 13
FDEC Day - Expanding Conversations about Mentoring: Developing a Mentoring Network	May 2, 13
Tech Byte: Getting Acquainted with eTexts	Apr 18, 13
Tech Byte: WizIQ	Apr 3, 13
Re-imagining the academy: the emerging role of community engaged scholarship at Fairfield University	Mar 21, 13
Tech Byte: Blackboard Assessment Tools	Mar 6, 13
Student Papers as Enjoyable Reading? Engaging Assignments that you will want to read	Feb 21, 13
Advising as Teaching: Tools for Advising and Documenting Your Advising Work	Feb 13, 13
Interpreting & Using Your IDEA Results	Feb 7, 13
The Blogibilities of Building a Digital Community: Using Free Blogging Software as a Tool For Enhancing Instruction (an introduction)	Feb 6, 13
Getting started with IDEA	Feb 5, 13
Setting Up Your Course in Mentor (Spring-into-Spring)	Jan 16, 13
Preparing to teach in the Spring: Orienting & Reorienting (Spring-into-Spring)	Jan 16, 13
Setting Up Your Course in Blackboard (Spring-into-Spring)	Jan 16, 13
Introduction to Fairfield's New Portal: my.fairfield.edu (Spring-into-Spring)	Jan 16, 13

2012

Mini Writing Retreat	Dec 13, 12
Mini Writing Retreat	Dec 6, 12
Writing Retreat	Nov 30, 12
Tech Byte: Teaching with iPads	Nov 27, 12
Writing Retreat	Nov 16, 12
Conversation on Ignation Pedagogy and Jesuit Values	Nov 15, 12
Interpreting & Using Your IDEA Results	Nov 14, 12
Mini Writing Retreat	Nov 9, 12
Getting Started with IDEA	Nov 8, 12
Mini Writing Retreat	Nov 8, 12
Tech Byte: Blackboard Course Management	Nov 7, 12
Mini Writing Retreat	Nov 1, 12
Mini Writing Retreat	Oct 12, 12
Tech Byte: Kaltura Video Streaming Server	Oct 4, 12
Opening Writing Retreat	Sep 28, 12
Preparing to teach in the Fall: Orienting & Reorienting	Aug 29, 12
Introduction to Blackboard Course Management System	Aug 29, 12
Introduction to Mentor Course Management System	Aug 29, 12
American Studies Workshop	May 22, 12
Summer Institute 2012	May 16, 12
Re-envisioning Peer Review of Teaching: Poster Presentations & Dialogue (Fac. Dev't Day)	May 3, 12
Providing Your Students with Feedback	Apr 11, 12
Student Engagement Techniques & Active Learning	Mar 29, 12
Writing a Teaching Philosophy: lunch workshop	Mar 28, 12
Integrate IDEA, Pathways & Your Learning Goals	Mar 21, 12
Mindfulness webinar: The Neuroscience of Somatic Attention: a key to unlocking a foundational contemplative practice for educators	Mar 21, 12
American Studies Learning Objectives Workshop	Mar 7, 12
Classroom Observation	Feb 23, 12
Inside Higher Ed audio conference on “Restoring Civic Education”	Feb 22, 12
Celebration of Community-Engaged Scholarship at Fairfield - "The Evolution of a School-University Partnership: Understandings from an Auto-ethnographic Study"	Feb 15, 12
Celebration of Community-Engaged Scholarship at Fairfield - "Student Learning and Development at the Crossroads"	Feb 14, 12
U 2 Can JUHAN	Feb 8, 12
Using Classroom Discussion	Jan 31, 12
Blackboard Tools for Assessment (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 13, 12
Blackboard Tools for Communication (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 13, 12
Building and Using Rubrics in Mentor (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 13, 12
Student Engagement Techniques and Active Learning (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 12, 12
Digital Media: Films on Demand, Online Streaming, NBC Learn (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 12, 12
WizIQ Virtual Classroom (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 12, 12
Introduction to Mentor Course Management System (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 11, 12
Creating Online Tests and Surveys in Mentor (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 11, 12
Classroom Assessment Techniques (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 10, 12
Introduction to Blackboard Course Management System (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 10, 12
Grading to Influence Learning and Save Time (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 10, 12
Preparing to teach in the Spring: Orienting & Reorienting (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 9, 12
Course Design: From Goals to Evidence (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 9, 12
Syllabus Design: Communicating Your Course to Your Students (Spring-into-Spring Week)	Jan 9, 12

2011

Re-envisioning Peer Review of Teaching: Poster Presentations & Dialogue (Fac. Dev't Day)	Dec 13, 11
Tech Byte: “Course Management: Making the Leap from Stagweb to Blackboard”	Dec 7, 11
American Studies Workshop	Dec 7, 11
PRoT Planning Meeting	Nov 28, 11
American Studies Workshop	Nov 17, 11
IDEA Workshop 2 - "Unpacking the Data"	Nov 11, 11
IDEA workshop 2 - "Unpacking the Data"	Nov 10, 11
IDEA Workshop 2 - "Unpacking the Data"	Nov 7, 11
IDEA Workshop 1 - "Getting Started"	Nov 3, 11
Tech Byte: WizIQ Virtual Classrooms and Meetings	Nov 2, 11
IDEA Workshop 1 - "Getting Started"	Nov 2, 11
IDEA Workshop 1 - "Getting Started"	Nov 1, 11
The Core Pathways Unmasked	Oct 21, 11
Reception for New Faculty	Oct 6, 11
Tech Byte: Using Digication e-Portfolio	Oct 4, 11
Nine Ways to Use Class Discussion to Promote Transformation	Sep 19, 11
Tech Byte: 'Why Blackboard?'	Sep 14, 11
Mentoring Fulbright Scholarship Applicants	Sep 8, 11
Nuts and Bolts of Clickers	Sep 7, 11
Getting Your Courses Ready for the Fall - Computer Lab Time with Consultants (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 26, 11
Getting Your Courses Ready for the Fall - Computer Lab Time with Consultants (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 26, 11
Consultation (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 26, 11
Introduction to Digication (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 25, 11
Planning to Use Digication for Teaching & Learning (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 25, 11
Consultation (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 25, 11
Introduction to Blackboard (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 24, 11
Planning to Use Blackboard for Teaching & Learning (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 24, 11
Introduction to Mentor (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 24, 11
Planning to Use Mentor for Teaching & Learning (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 24, 11
Consultation (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 24, 11
Meeting the Needs of the Millennial Generation (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 23, 11
Integrating the Core Pathways & IDEA into your course (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 23, 11
Consultation (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 23, 11
Course Design: From Goals to Evidence (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 22, 11
Syllabus Design (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 22, 11
Consultation (Back-to-School Week)	Aug 22, 11
Statistics for Everyone Workshop -- Advanced topics! **2 day workshop June 13th and 14th	Jun 13, 11
FPLC Day Lunch for Graduating and New Members	May 25, 11
"Plagiarism and Student Engagement: Making Productive Connections" Dr. Rebecca Moore Howard, Professor of English, Syracuse University	May 5, 11
Mathematics "Core of the Core" Workshop	Apr 20, 11
Making Fairfield Truly Inclusive: Supporting International Students	Apr 19, 11
INTERESTED IN GUIDING YOUR STUDENTS BEYOND BORDERS?	Apr 18, 11
Washing Away the Dust of Everyday Life: Interdisciplinary Uses for the Bellarmine Museum of Art's Kress Collection	Apr 12, 11
Getting started with IDEA	Apr 12, 11
IDEA Workshop: "Unpacking the Data" (repeat)	Apr 8, 11
9 Ways to Use Class Discussion to Promote Transformation	Apr 7, 11
Graphic Novels and the Work of Alison Bechdel	Apr 7, 11
Community Engagement as Scholarship (CEaS) Panel & Discussion	Apr 4, 11
Modern Languages & Literatures "Core of the Core" Workshop	Mar 31, 11
IDEA Workshop: "Unpacking the data" (repeat)	Mar 30, 11
IDEA Workshop: "Unpacking the Data"	Mar 29, 11
IDEA Workshop: "Unpacking the Data" (Repeat)	Mar 29, 11
Interactive Talk on Conflict Resolution and Social Justice	Mar 17, 11
Professional Development 2 hour workshop: "Applying a Social Justice Lens to Conflict Resolution on Campus"	Mar 17, 11
Undergraduate Advising Workshop	Mar 14, 11
History "Core of the Core" Workshop	Mar 8, 11
Assign Writing in Any Course to Promote Rhetoric and Reflection	Feb 17, 11
Community Engagement As Scholarship Workshop	Feb 11, 11
"With-ness" as a Warrant: Exploring the Mutually-Transformative	Feb 10, 11
"Teaching Circles: Models of Departmental Collaboration around Teaching"	Feb 9, 11
Audio-Conference- Engaging Educators in Meaningful Assessment: A Collaboratively Designed Problem-based Approach	Jan 20, 11
Getting Your Blackboard Course Page(s) Ready for Spring 2011!	Jan 14, 11

2010

FPLC Midyear Report-out Day	Dec 15, 10
Café Scribe: e-Textbook Demo	Dec 15, 10
FDEC Faculty Development Day: Student Engagement	Dec 10, 10
Innovative Teaching with Technology: Exemplars from the School of Nursing	Dec 10, 10
Putting the "Learning" into Service-Learning Experiences (webinar)	Dec 8, 10
Blackboard Users Showcase	Dec 3, 10
Foundational Course Workshop PH "Core of the Core" Series	Dec 2, 10
IDEA Workshop	Nov 30, 10
Core Integration Brown-Bag	Nov 17, 10
Conversation on Academic Integrity	Nov 15, 10
Foundational Course Workshop RS "Core of the Core" Series	Nov 10, 10
Curriculum Maps Connect Learning Across Courses	Nov 3, 10
The Core Unmasked	Oct 29, 10
Global Citizenship through Leadership Faculty Workshop	Oct 25, 10
Foundational Course Workshop EN "Core of the Core" Series	Oct 20, 10
Integration Brown-Bag	Oct 13, 10
Learning Environments Project - Lunch Provided w/ Registration	Oct 5, 10
IDEA Faculty Workshop (Repeat)	Sep 29, 10
Mentor/Mentee Gathering	Sep 22, 10
IDEA Faculty Workshop (Repeat) - Lunch Provided w/ Registration	Sep 21, 10
IDEA Faculty Workshop	Sep 13, 10
Summer Institute on Integrative Learning: June 14-16, 2010	Jun 14, 10
JUHAN workshop: Haiti: Traversing the Path to Democracy	May 24, 10
Summer Institute on Integrative Learning: Wed 5/19 thru Fri 5/21/2010	May 19, 10
Faculty Development Day: Global Citizenship (with Ashley Byun McKay on student conservation travel to the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, Winston Tellis on students experiencing service learning in Bridgeport, and Edna Wilson on study abroad)	May 7, 10
Evaluation: Assessing Our Students’ Growth (Ignatian Pedagogy Series)	Apr 29, 10
“MEET THE PATHWAYS”	Apr 26, 10
Teaching Your Course to First-year Students Who Live Together (repeat)	Apr 20, 10
Teaching Your Course to First-year Students Who Live Together	Apr 19, 10
Action: Empowering Our Students to Act (Ignatian Pedagogy Series)	Apr 7, 10
Tools for Academic Advising	Apr 6, 10
Teaching Graduate Students at Fairfield	Mar 29, 10
Feeling Different at Fairfield	Mar 26, 10
Developing Research Savvy Students	Mar 24, 10
"Where is Knowing Going?"	Mar 23, 10
Jr Faculty Wine and Cheese	Mar 16, 10
GIS Workshop with Michael Howser	Mar 16, 10
Integrating Tunnel of Oppression Into Class: Disturbing Students into Discomfort while Empowering them to Change	Mar 15, 10
Cross-unit collaboration: Service Learning 101	Mar 3, 10
Designing Laboratory/Hands-on Experiences for Core Science Students	Mar 1, 10
Tools for Academic Advising	Feb 24, 10
Cross-unit event: ePortfolio Vendor Presentations	Feb 24, 10
Designing Laboratory/Hands-on Experiences for Core Science Students	Feb 22, 10
Cross-unit event: Service Learning Roundtable: Classroom Models for Engaging Service to Advance Learning and the Common Good	Feb 17, 10
Cross-unit event: Mastering Biology - Chris Hess visit	Feb 10, 10
Reflection: Facilitating Reflective Practice in Our Classrooms (Ignatian Pedagogy Series)	Jan 28, 10
JUHAN workshop: Teaching Social Analysis in the Service of Justice: (Re)Building a Lost City -- A Blueprint for Global Justice Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans (w/ guest Gary Perry, Seattle University)	Jan 14, 10

2009

FPLC Midyear Report-out Day	Dec 16, 09
Using Technology in the Classroom: Faculty Development Day	Dec 11, 09
Re-membering Mind and Body	Dec 4, 09
Experience: Engaging Our Students in the Teaching & Learning Process (Ignatian Pedagogy Series)	Nov 17, 09
Brown Bag Technology Forum	Nov 11, 09
Managing Groupwork in the Classroom: From Conflict to Collaboration	Nov 10, 09
Classroom Assessment Techniques	Nov 5, 09
Career Stages: From Early Blowout, Midcareer Burnout and Latecareer Rustout to Surviving, Thriving and Leaving a Legacy	Nov 4, 09
Time Management	Nov 3, 09
Brown Bag Technology Forum	Oct 21, 09
Incorporating Global Citizenship and Humanitarianism Into Curricula and Research	Oct 19, 09
Incorporating Global Citizenship and Humanitarianism Into Curricula and Research	Oct 17, 09
Learning Portfolios for the Classroom and Beyond	Oct 15, 09
The Context of Teaching & Learning (Ignatian Paradigm Workshop Series)	Oct 14, 09
Meeting with New Faculty and their Mentors	Sep 15, 09
Statistics for Everyone: A Workshop on Integrating Statistical Thinking Into Your Courses (THIS IS A 2 DAY WORKSHOP)	Jun 15, 09
Using Quantitative Reasoning to Achieve Integrative Learning	Jun 3, 09
FPLC Year-End Workshop	May 20, 09
Faculty Development Day: Organizing Summer Work: Teaching and Research	May 4, 09
Classroom Assessment Techniques	Apr 21, 09
Re-membering Mind and Body	Apr 17, 09
Active Learning Strategies	Apr 15, 09
New Faculty: A Conversation	Apr 14, 09
Teaching Human Rights, Humanitarian Action & DSJ issues	Apr 8, 09
Barbara Love: Exploring Racism & Internalized Racism in the Classroom	Mar 25, 09
To Live Diversity, Take Action, and Continue the Dialogue: Faculty Seminar w/ Campus Guest Tim Wise	Mar 24, 09
Introduction to Digital Storytelling	Mar 17, 09
IDEA Rating System: What Students Can and Can’t Tell Us About Our Teaching (repeat)	Mar 9, 09
IDEA Rating System: What Students Can and Can’t Tell Us About Our Teaching (repeat)	Feb 26, 09
IDEA Rating System: What Students Can and Can’t Tell Us About Our Teaching	Feb 24, 09
Peer Review of Teaching: Nuts and Bolts (repeat of Faculty Development Day 12/12/2008)	Feb 10, 09
Peer Review of Teaching: Nuts and Bolts (repeat of Faculty Development Day 12/12/2008)	Feb 5, 09
Practical Strategies for Assessment in the Sciences, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A 2 DAY EVENT	Jan 30, 09
Advancing Fairfield’s Strategic Vision through Communities of Practice	Jan 26, 09

2008

Faculty Development Day: Workshop to Develop a Structure for Peer Review	Dec 12, 08
FLC Gathering	Dec 11, 08
Evaluating Faculty Learning Communities	Dec 4, 08
Team Teaching: Challenges and Rewards	Nov 25, 08
Students of the New Millennium	Nov 20, 08
Teaching with Case Studies	Nov 17, 08
When Mental Health and Disability Issues Intersect in the Classroom	Nov 6, 08
Mentor/Mentee meeting	Nov 5, 08
Peer Review of Teaching: Developing a Useful Process	Oct 29, 08
Women, Men and Service: Drinks & Discussion on Managing Challenges in Faculty Advancement	Oct 21, 08
Using the IDEA Rating System: What Students Can and Can’t Tell Us About Our Teaching	Oct 16, 08
Peer Review of Teaching: Developing a Useful Process	Oct 7, 08
Talking Diversity While Walking the Line Between Polite Avoidance and Outright Conflict	Oct 2, 08
Part Time Orientation Session	Sep 25, 08
FLC Orientation: Getting Going	Aug 25, 08
ePortfolio debrief luncheon	Jun 23, 08
CCLI Statistics Workshop - NOTE: This is a 2 day event June 10th and June 11th	Jun 10, 08
ePortfolio Webcast: "ePortfolios and Formative Program Evaluation"	Apr 30, 08
ePortfolio Webcast: "The Challenges of Implementation"	Apr 23, 08
Wine and Cheese Conversation Among Untenured Faculty	Apr 23, 08
ePortfolio Webcast: "Models of Practice"	Apr 16, 08
Peer Review of Teaching - Part I	Mar 25, 08
Core Science - Room Planning Session	Mar 17, 08
Advising as Teaching and Mentoring the Individual or Group	Mar 13, 08
Promoting Critical Thinking in the Disciplines: From Theory to Practical Strategy	Feb 28, 08
IDEA Results Discussion	Feb 27, 08
Quick Primer on MATs	Feb 21, 08
IDEA Results Discussion	Feb 15, 08
Mentor and Mentee Gathering	Jan 29, 08
Core Science Meeting	Jan 17, 08

2007

Community Scholars Student Input Workshop: Creating a Sophomore Year Diversity & Social Justice Living & Learning Community	Dec 4, 07
The Dance of Diversity: Discussing the Undiscussable	Nov 29, 07
Responding to Writing—Whatever You Teach	Nov 8, 07
Part Time Faculty Survey Results	Nov 1, 07
Developing and Evaluating Teaching Portfolios : Web Conference	Oct 26, 07
Community Scholars: Moving From Talking the Talk to Walking the Walk -- Creating a Diversity & Social Justice Living & Learning Community	Oct 17, 07
Community Scholars: Moving From Talking the Talk to Walking the Walk -- Creating a Diversity & Social Justice Living & Learning Community	Oct 16, 07
Keeping it Interesting: Strategies for Renewing Research at Mid-Career	Oct 11, 07
The Learning Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student Learning, with John Zubizaretta (Goal 1 Integrative Learning Event)	Oct 4, 07
Encouraging and Developing Reflection for Improved Learning: A Reflective Writing Workshop with John Zubizaretta (Goal 1 Integrative Learning Event)	Oct 4, 07
Professors as Writers: Strategies for Work and Time Management	Sep 26, 07
Part Time Faculty Development Workshop and Dinner	Sep 6, 07
Part Time Faculty Support	Jun 27, 07
Spirituality in Higher Education: Issues for Research & Curriculum Development	Jun 20, 07
From Talk to Action: Let's Integrate the Core! Faculty Development Day Workshop	May 3, 07
Doing Classroom Observations	Apr 23, 07
Web-based tools and communication	Apr 17, 07
Preparing College Students for Social Action Engagement	Apr 16, 07
Goal 1, Integrative Learning Event: Workshop with Author Stephen Brookfield	Mar 29, 07
Goal 1, Integrative Learning Event: Workshop with Author Stephen Brookfield	Mar 28, 07
Providing Structure for Your Students' Independent Study Projects	Mar 19, 07
Goal 1, Integrative Learning Event: Workshop with Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens	Mar 5, 07
Science Core, Workshop on curriculum development and course design	Feb 9, 07
Science Core Dinner and Conversation	Feb 8, 07
Promoting Reflective Writing	Feb 7, 07
Course Redesign Workshop	Jan 29, 07
Mentor/Mentee Gathering	Jan 26, 07

2006

Course Redesign Workshop	Nov 30, 06
iTunes U at Fairfield University	Nov 28, 06
Involving Students in Research: How To Get The Job Done	Nov 7, 06
Core Integration Initiative - Overnight Faculty Retreat (RSVP REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY)	Nov 3, 06
Use Student Diversity to Enhance Learning (Based on Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, by Maurianne Adams et al.)	Nov 2, 06
Generating Student Commitment: The Promising Syllabus. A Workshop with Ken Bain (author of What the Best College Teachers Do, Harvard, 2004). Core Integration Initiative Event.	Oct 30, 06
Organize Citations and Research Notes Online: Workshop on Using Refworks to Speed Up and Streamline Creating and Using References in Manuscripts	Oct 18, 06
Increase Your Productivity and Publishability: Based on Tara Gray’s 2005 book, Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar, w/ powerpoint and worksheets.	Oct 17, 06
The Grant Fundraising Process - Session A	Sep 26, 06
The Grant Fundraising Process - Session B	Sep 26, 06
Listening to the Voices of Others (Jubilee Year theme discussion)	Apr 25, 06
Faculty-Student Use of ePortfolios: The SON Experience	Apr 24, 06
Promoting Critical Thinking in Your Discipline using practical methods and strategies	Apr 12, 06
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, video & workshop	Apr 10, 06
Forming Faculty Learning Communities (groups of 5-8 faculty meeting regularly to discuss shared interests)	Apr 4, 06
Introduction to Podcasting	Mar 28, 06
US & World Diversity course planning workshop co-hosted with University Curriculum Committee: Guidelines for preparing course submissions	Mar 22, 06
Getting Writing Done Given Competing Demands on Your Time, with Noah Blumenthal, author Addicted To You: Why Change Fails and What You Can Do About It (Berrett-Koehler, 2007)	Mar 21, 06
The Art of the Lecture: Justice - A Harvard University Course in Moral Reasoning (Harvard video, 28 mins.) screening and discussion	Mar 3, 06
Jesuit and Feminist Education	Feb 28, 06

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