Looking for ideas and help to make your virtual class better, but running short on time and energy? Join the Instructional Core and your fellow faculty members for this informal, hour-long conversation around key teaching issues. Conversation will center on your questions and concerns for ending fall courses on a high note, troubleshooting questions that arose during fall teaching, and re-energizing for spring classes.
Archive of Past Library Events
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Date and Time:
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online at gwu.webex.com/meet/workshops
Event Format: Salon
Event Type: Faculty
In this workshop, participants will learn how to set up Zoom in Blackboard and use the various features to conduct a virtual class in Zoom.
Date and Time:
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Tools for Flexible Teaching
Event Type: Faculty
Join us as we review a variety of exam study skills, time management, and how to maintain motivation after a low test score.
Date and Time:
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Skills for Academic Success
Event Type: GWorld Cardholders
This workshop will cover how to manage the grade center and calculate grades.
Date and Time:
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Tools for Flexible Teaching
Event Type: Faculty
In this workshop, participants will learn how to create a Blackboard Test and set it up for students.
Date and Time:
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Tools for Flexible Teaching
Event Type: Faculty
This workshop will help participants become comfortable with the key concepts of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and create basic maps of data.
Date and Time:
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Visualizing Data with GIS
Event Type: GWorld Cardholders
Participants will have the opportunity to learn about creating assignments, submitting assignments as a student, and grading them.
Date and Time:
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Tools for Flexible Teaching
Event Type: Faculty
In this workshop, participants will learn how to set up Zoom in Blackboard and use the various features to conduct a virtual class in Zoom.
Date and Time:
Monday, November 16, 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Tools for Flexible Teaching
Event Type: Faculty
FLEX camps are short learning opportunities for instructors to focus on transitioning existing coursework to online and blended formats for maximal flexibility.
Date and Time:
Monday, November 16, 2020 (All day) to Wednesday, November 18, 2020 (All day)
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Type: Faculty
Please join the National Churchill Leadership Center for a virtual discussion featuring authors Catherine Grace Katz and Tim Bouverie. We will discuss their paths as first-time authors and being historians of a new generation.
Date and Time:
Sunday, November 15, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online
Event Format: Panel Discussion
Event Type: Public
Participants will learn how to create a rubric, associate it to a graded activity, and effortlessly grade using an interactive rubric.
Date and Time:
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Tools for Flexible Teaching
Event Type: Faculty
Looking for ideas and help to make your virtual class better, but running short on time and energy? Join the Instructional Core and your fellow faculty members for this informal, hour-long conversation around key teaching issues. Conversation will center on your questions and concerns for ending fall courses on a high note, troubleshooting questions that arose during fall teaching, and re-energizing for spring classes.
Date and Time:
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online at gwu.webex.com/meet/workshops
Event Format: Salon
Event Type: Faculty
This workshop will cover how to manage the grade center and calculate grades.
Date and Time:
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Tools for Flexible Teaching
Event Type: Faculty
This virtual experiential and interactive bootcamp focuses on global innovation and problem-solving using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG’s).
Date and Time:
Saturday, November 7, 2020 (All day) to Sunday, November 8, 2020 (All day)
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Event Type: GWorld Cardholders
Building on a basic knowlege of R and introductory statistics, this workshop will walk you through the R functionality you can use to compute correlations between continuous variables.
Date and Time:
Friday, November 6, 2020 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online Only
Event Format: Workshop
Event Series: Collecting and Analyzing Research Data
Event Type: GWorld Cardholders