WCU's Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

November 2016

Greetings,

We hope you enjoy this new streamlined version of our Faculty Resources Update.  This format is meant to give you easy to find information to meet your needs.  Please let us know what you think via our suggestion box.

Martha Diede, PhD
Director, Coulter Faculty Commons

Important Information and Deadlines for Faculty:

The WCU GoToMeeting license will expire December 31, 2016. We will be happy to help you transition to one of the WCU supported online collaboration tools, Skype for Business or Blackboard Collaborate.  For more information,  click here.

Save the Date for CFC Events:

Spring 2017 Launch
This past August we had several very successful days of mutual accountability, preparation, one-on-one support, and focus that helped faculty to launch their courses for the fall semester.  We will continue this tradition on Thursday, January 5, 2017.  To learn more or sign up for further updates, click here.

Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning 2017
Mark your calendar for the New and Improved Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning at WCU.  We are redesigning this seminar to give faculty more of what they want and need to be successful in the classroom.

Day One: May 16, 2017: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric to Your Online Course
Day Two and Three: May 17 & 18, 2017: Summer Institute Main Sessions

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Current Learning Opportunities:

An Introduction to Computer Aided Design; Wednesday, November 9, 8-10 am
Join us for the last 3D Printer seminar brought to all faculty in cooperation with the College of Engineering and Technology and the Technology Commons. Click here for more information or to register.

Highlighted Learning Videos on WCU Panopto Features Page
We've customized the first entry landing page on panopto.wcu.edu.  We'll be putting up-to-date focused videos in this space and changing them monthly, so make sure to take a look and to suggest more content.

Other Free Events and Resources:

Blackboard Online Help
As the Learning Management System utilized here at WCU, Blackboard enhances the quality of online and face-to-face instruction and is used to monitor, document, and manage online and classroom events and assignments.  The LMS Team at the CFC has put together a handy list of resources for Blackboard, tailored to meet the needs of the WCU Community.

Provost's List of Faculty Resources
There is a considerable amount of helpful information on this web page provided by the Office of the Provost. Information concerning faculty awards and recognition, support and development, to forums, gender equity, and policy and procedures is available on this site.

CFC Resources Online
The CFC works to keep our main webpage updated.  We'd love to have you click in for a visit.  We also have a Faculty Resources blog where we post additional resources and announcements as we get them.

Kanopy Film Database Trial
The library is trying out a new streaming service that has a large number of video assets, including many from PBS and from the Great Courses catalog.  This pilot will be ending soon, so check it out before it expires!

IT Live Training on Microsoft Products
Want some live instruction in Microsoft Office or Office365?  Beginning this semester, the Division of IT will be offering a brand new training service in the core applications of the Microsoft Office 2016 suite: Word, Excel, Outlook, and OneDrive.  This is your opportunity to Increase your efficiency and productivity and save time by learning many of the features and functionalities of Microsoft Office.

Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity Education (C.A.S.E.) Events
C.A.S.E. programs are intentional sessions that were designed to increase awareness and develop the attitudes, knowledge, and skills of the student population around the concepts of Culture, Inclusiveness, Civic Engagement and Leadership in an increasingly diverse world.  To register for one of the upcoming events, click here.

Join the Microsoft Educator Network
The Microsoft Educators Network is an Office365 integrated learning system where  you can work through free learning resources to improve your pedagogical practice using Microsoft products.

View This Week's Educational Technology Weekly
The CFC's Senior Educational Technologist, Jonathan Wade, curates a weekly newsletter highlighting the big stories in the media-sphere about Educational Technology.  Don't forget to subscribe if you want to get weekly updates.

CFC Suggestion Box
We would greatly appreciate any feedback you could give us about how we can improve or add to our services.  We regularly monitor this suggestion box, located on our main web page, and try to respond to suggestions as quickly as possible. We thank you for taking the time to provide us with your constructive and formative feedback!