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Innovative Writing Instruction Award: Application Deadline Extended
April 3, 2012
The deadline to apply for the Innovative Writing Instruction Award has been extended to Friday, April 13. Read More
Featured Resource: Discussion Techniques
March 30, 2012
The purpose of discussion techniques is to provide practice and feedback for students in the skills you want them to develop. Read More
Four IU Faculty Members Awarded Information Fluency Grants
March 29, 2012
Indiana University Libraries, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Information Fluency Grants. Four IU faculty members were each awarded $1500 to support redesigning their courses with a focus on information fluency. Read More
Faculty Spotlight: Jen Shang
March 27, 2012
Jen Shang, assistant professor at SPEA, made some unexpected discoveries about student learning as a result of her willingness to change the way she taught Organizational Behavior and Arts Management. Read More
From the Director: A New Home for the CITL
March 23, 2012
Construction has begun on a new home for the CITL in Wells Library. This unique "teaching commons" space is designed to promote the collaboration and community that are at the heart of our work with IUB faculty members. Read More
Two New Global Center Initiatives
March 22, 2012
The Internationalization Collaborative Across Bloomington (ICAB) Faculty Learning Community is accepting proposals for collaboration between IUB and Ivy Tech to help instructors re-design existing courses in order to more deliberately achieve and assess international learning objectives. The Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization (ICCI) will be held May 20-23 and will focus on the internationalization of teaching, learning, and higher education more generally. Follow the links above for more information about these opportunities.
Clicker Day Is April 10
March 21, 2012
Join the CITL and Turning Technologies on April 10 for a series of workshops and presentations on using student response systems, commonly known as clickers. If you would like to observe clickers in use before Clicker Day, there will be several opportunities to do so in the week before. Read More
Adobe Day Is April 17
March 19, 2012
Have you used Adobe Connect, Presenter, or Captivate to support your teaching or improve student learning in your classes? The CITL is in the process of gathering examples to showcase at the annual Adobe Day at IU on April 17th, and we'd like to display your work. Please contact us if you have something we can include.
New Teaching Resource: Helping Culturally Diverse Students Understand Course Expectations
March 2, 2012
Just as the wider society is becoming more diverse, students At IUB are increasingly more ethnically, economically, socially, and racially diverse. How can we make experiences with those who are different from ourselves beneficial to everyone, both instructors and students? Read More
Faculty Spotlight: Linda Hoke-Sinex
March 1, 2012
Linda Hoke-Sinex helps girls navigate through adolescence by teaching a service-learning class that pairs IU students in her course, The Psychology of Girls in Adolescence, with girls at local middle schools. Read More
The CITL Introduces Weekly Updates
February 29, 2012
The CITL will supplement these monthly newsletters with our CITL Friends list, a weekly e-mail message about upcoming events and deadlines. Sign Up Here
From the Director: Gamification
February 23, 2012
Gamification involves using elements of gaming—achievement badges, leaderboards, progress indicators, etc.—in order to engage students. It isn’t gaming, per se, but a way to understand and take advantage of common student motivators and love of games. Read More
New Process for Ordering eTexts
February 22, 2012
Currently, only departmental textbook coordinators are able to order eTexts. Beginning this fall, however, all faculty members will be able to place an eText order via the Student Information System (SIS) for their spring 2013 classes. Read More
2012 Course Development Institute
February 22, 2012
Do you have plans to develop or revise a course over the summer? If so, you may wish to consider this year’s Course Development Institute, which is free of charge and open to all instructors at IU Bloomington. Read More
2012 Institute for Designing Online Courses (iDOC)
February 22, 2012
The CITL will hold a summer institute during May and June to guide IUB instructors through the process of designing an online course. Space is limited, and participants must have a specific course to develop and approval from their department chair. Read More
Beth Gazley Receives Thomas Ehrlich Award for Service-Learning
February 21, 2012
Dr. Beth Gazley, associate professor in SPEA, has been awarded the 2011 IU system-wide Thomas Ehrlich Award for Service-Learning. Read More
The Deadline for Ordering eTexts for the Summer Sessions Is March 20
February 20, 2012
IU's eTexts initiative focuses on delivering eTexts to students at a reduced cost, while providing faculty members with new tools for teaching and learning. For more on eTexts at IU, including student and faculty benefits, visit http://etexts.iu.edu. Read More
Classroom Video Recording Service
February 13, 2012
The UITS Classroom Video Recording Service is available to record your class, and has created a new online form to request a video recording. Read More
New Innovative Writing Instruction Award
January 31, 2012
The CITL seeks to recognize exceptional uses of writing instruction on the IU Bloomington campus through its newly established Innovative Writing Instruction Awards, providing $750 to as many as three recipients in the Spring 2012 semester. Read More
What Is Lecturing Good For?
January 31, 2012
Lecture time is more effective when used to model the kinds of thinking the instructor wants students to engage in. A good lecturer does not simply give an example, but in addition provides commentary about the "why" and "how" of the modeled behavior. Read More
From the Director: Why Risk and Failure Are Important in Learning
January 26, 2012
Taking intellectual risks is not comfortable for our students, but it is vital to their growth as learners. How do we help them embrace risk-taking in our classes? In part, it comes from showing them how risk and failure are part of what all expert learners encounter in the pursuit of knowledge. Read More
Games and Learning Event Series
January 26, 2012
Beginning on March 1 with a 9-day alternate reality game, the CITL has scheduled five workshops related to games and learning—including a SOTL lecture from the renouned James Gee. Read More
Martin Luther King, Jr. 2012 Essay Contest Winners Announced
January 26, 2012
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Committee announced the winners of its 2012 Essay Contest at the MLK Leadership breakfast on Monday, January 16. Congratulations to Jamie Ehrenpreis (undergraduate written); Michael A. Goodman (graduate video); and Sola Lawal (graduate written). The MLK Essay Contest Committee is chaired by Laura Plummer, CITL Writing Program Director. Read More
Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA)
January 25, 2012
The Sakai Teaching and Learning community is seeking entries for the 5th annual TWSIA competition. Oncourse is the IU name for the Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment. Read More
National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
January 25, 2012
On February 14, all IU first-year and senior students will receive an electronic invitation to complete the NSSE survey, which asks students about their undergraduate experience. Encourage your first-year and senior students to check their email and complete the survey. View 2011 Results
Faculty Spotlight: Brian D'Onofrio
January 23, 2012
Professor D'Onofrio uses Just-in-Time Teaching to ensure students are prepared for lectures. Read More
Information Fluency Grants Deadline Extended to February 24, 2012
January 23, 2012
Indiana University Libraries are pleased to offer three instructional development grants of $1500 each for the design or revision of a course to incorporate information fluency into undergraduate curricula. Read More
Faculty Spotlight: Alwiya Omar
January 4, 2012
Professor Omar asks students to write and record stories in her Swahili classes to increase student motivation and performance. Read More
Service-Learning Reflection Sessions
January 4, 2012
ACEs are available to facilitate in-class or out-of-class reflection at the request of Service-Learning instructors. Complete this form to request ACEs for reflection sessions. Please submit your request at least one month prior to the anticipated date of the reflection process. Email nschonem@indiana.edu for additional information.
Turnitin.com Available in Oncourse by Default
January 4, 2012
Starting January 4, Turnitin.com will be automatically integrated into the Assignments 2 tool in Oncourse. Read More
From the Director: Managing Innovation (and Risk) in Your Teaching
January 3, 2012
As we in the CITL encourage and support innovative teaching at IU Bloomington, we recognize the need to help you and your faculty colleagues become informed risk-takers and learn how to innovate in the most productive ways. Read More
Keep Teaching During Winter Emergencies
January 3, 2012
In the event of a weather emergency or widespread illness resulting in high absenteeism, instructors and students can continue with scheduled instructional activities. Read More
Teaching Difficult Concepts Community of Practice Series Announced
January 3, 2012
Almost every instructor encounters moments in the classroom in which significant numbers of students have failed to understand something important despite our best efforts to teach them. By thinking about the places where students get stuck, instructors can learn how to prioritize course topics. Read More and Register
WTS Is in the Information Commons
November 30, 2011
Writing Tutorial Services has moved again, this time to its permanent location in the northwest corner of the first floor of Wells Library. Read More
"Like" the CITL on Facebook!
November 30, 2011
Check out the CITL's page for conversations about teaching, news announcements, and upcoming events: facebook.com/iucitl.
Clickers for Spring
November 17, 2011
Considering using clickers in the spring? View this online presentation for important information. For additional help, contact Christina Melki.
No-charge IT Training Workshops
November 16, 2011
For the spring 2012 semester, faculty and staff can register for UITS IT Training workshops at no charge, thanks to a new pilot program. Read More
Summer 2009 Oncourse Course Sites to be Archived January 30, 2012
November 16, 2011
Learn how to archive content from your summer 2009 course sites in a permanent project site. Read More
From the Director: What Do We Want Students to Remember about Our Courses?
November 16, 2011
As we near the end of the semester, ask yourself two questions: if your students were to remember and understand just three things from your course five years from now, what would they be? And how did you teach to make sure that happens? Read More
New Marking and Peer Editing Tools
November 16, 2011
The CITL is piloting two new tools from Turnitin.com, GradeMark and PeerMark, aimed at facilitating online marking and online peer review respectively. Read More
Follow CITL on Twitter
November 15, 2011
Follow CITL on Twitter at @IUCITL to get the latest teaching-related news at IUB. Have something to contribute? Use the hashtag #iucitl to add a tweet to our feed.
2010-2011 Summary of Associate Instructor Preparation
November 8, 2011
Every year, IU Bloomington solicits information from departments to identify common practices for the preparation of graduate student instructors, to measure the prevalence of these practices across campus, and to highlight the many laudable ways departments prepare instructors to teach. Read More
Spring 2012 Oncourse Course Sites Available to Faculty Beginning Weekend of 11/11
October 31, 2011
Spring 2012 course sites will start to become available for faculty access on Friday, 11/11, with all spring course sites available to faculty by Monday, 11/14. Read More
CITL Grants Announced
Each year the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning offers a variety of grants and fellowships to faculty members who are invested in furthering student learning. Read More