Past Events
Learn how to identify the skills you employ in teaching to market your skill set for diverse career pathways.
Designing Blended Courses (Part 2): Making Decisions about Content
The PTF Showcase is the annual pecha kucha-style presentation of Second-Year Fellows' final initiative results, as well as a celebration of a successful year of the PTF Program. This event is for PTFs and invited guests.
The recipients of last year’s Undergraduate Teaching Grants would like to share their stories of their journey implementing an innovation based on one of the Principles of Effective Teaching. They are willing to share their success and challenges with you and help you include some of their ideas into your courses. Join us on Fridays to finish the week on an upbeat note.
This week, Michal Calo and Phil Barrish will share their project on Pooling Resources: Creating accessible DEI material for humanities teachers.
A discussion of Assessment in Creative Disciplines: Quantifying and Qualifying the Aesthetic (David Chase, J. Joseph Hoey IV and Jill L. Ferguson))
This session will describe the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center's Well-being in Learning Environments project that collaborates with faculty to support student mental health. During the session, we will learn about and practice various wellness strategies, including expressing gratitude, developing a growth mindset, and being self-compassionate.
In this companion workshop to the Introduction to ClioVis, faculty, staff, and graduate students who are familar with ClioVis will be able to explore a range of topics including different forms of visualization available through ClioVis timelines, how to make ClioVis projects inclusive and accessible, and how to embed ClioVis projects within Wordpress sites. During the session, student work across several academic disciplines will be highlighted.
ClioVis is an innovative digital timeline tool that is easy to use and engaging by design. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how embedding ClioVis in your course can provide a wide range of possibilities for helping students practice active learning and critical thinking skills that “stick.” This workshop is designed for faculty, staff, and graduate students who are relatively new to ClioVis and who would like to use ClioVis to support students' experiential learning.
The recipients of last year’s Undergraduate Teaching Grants would like to share their stories of their journey implementing an innovation based on one of the Principles of Effective Teaching. They are willing to share their success and challenges with you and help you include some of their ideas into your courses. Join us on Fridays to finish the week on an upbeat note.
This week, J.E. Johnson will share his project on Cultivating student choice and peer to peer learning in a degree requirement lab course.
UT's Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) is partnering with the Graduate School and UT Libraries to host our fifth Graduate Teaching Showcase to highlight excellent graduate student teaching at UT Austin.