Would you be interested in expanding your teaching practices? Whether faculty, staff or a GSI, dive into digital pedagogy and Digital Scholarship tools. This workshop is designed to support educators in integrating digital scholarship tools and assignments into the classroom. Join us in exploring various pedagogical methods, from semester-long project-based learning that creates public engagement resources like an online museum gallery or archive to innovative … Continue reading Digital Pedagogies: Expanding Your Toolkit »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

Learn the basics of QGIS, the free open-source desktop geospatial software. In this workshop you will gain hands on fundamental GIS skills including how to make a choropleth (color shaded) map, load shapefiles and .csv table files into QGIS, join data to spatial information and edit features. Participants will leave with resources for learning more QGIS. No previous GIS experience is required.   You will … Continue reading Learn QGIS »

This workshop will provide an overview of data visualization principles. It will help participants to develop a language and sense of design elements necessary for creating data visualizations in any software. We will cover best practices and how to approach designing data visualizations. There will also be a small interactive component where participants can create their own data visualizations.   You will receive a confirmation … Continue reading Principles of Data Visualization »

This session will give participants a hands-on opportunity to practice some basic GIS processes that are often used in the social sciences, using ArcGIS Online. This includes selecting data by location and/or attribute, changing the symbology, labelling, data classification and displaying a CSV file as points. Some GIS experience is helpful but not needed. Beginners welcome! Datasets for the hands-on demo will be provided.   … Continue reading Common GIS Tools for Social Sciences »