You’ve established syllabus policies and had conversations with your students about Generative AI, but how do you adapt your assessment strategies to ensure that you can evaluate their learning?  We know standard essay prompts, quick-answer quizzes, assignments, and even discussion posts can be easily completed by AI. This workshop focuses on evaluating the “offload-ability” of your assessments and identifying opportunities for AI integration, mitigation, or … Continue reading Rethink and Redesign Assessment for the GenAI Era »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

This hour-long workshop will show participants how to create a basic webmap in ArcGIS Online using open data. Please bring a laptop if you’d like to follow along, all you need is a browser. Intended for those with little to no experience with GIS or ArcGIS Online. NOTE: This session does not include StoryMaps. This workshop is part of a series offered by the Clark … Continue reading Intro to ArcGIS Online »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. This hands-on workshop introduces the core DesignPLUS workflow for creating and updating Canvas content. You’ll learn how to navigate the DesignPLUS … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 1: Getting Started »

Although it’s not actually magic, having organized and tidy data to analyze can help make analysis go smoother. Join us to learn some basic principles and practices in project organization, file naming, and structuring tidy data within spreadsheets. This workshop is an edited version of Data Organization in Spreadsheets by Hao Ye [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3991311]. The Zoom URL for this session will be included in the confirmation … Continue reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidy Spreadsheets »

Discover the power of Gemini Notebook, the advanced AI-powered research and note-taking assistant available to all University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students. Designed to help you understand and synthesize information from your own documents,  transforms your lesson plans, lecture notes, and research papers into a dynamic knowledge base. By grounding its responses entirely in your sources, it becomes your most trusted research partner. Recent … Continue reading Exploring Gemini Notebook for Education »

This 60-minute introductory workshop explores how oral history research projects can preserve knowledge without reproducing extractive relationships. Designed for students, faculty, and community-engaged researchers, the session combines brief presentations, paired practice, and a case-based exercise. Participants will explore oral history as both a research method and a collaboratively produced historical source, examine post-colonial practices in libraries and archives, and learn the basics of audio recording, … Continue reading Intro to Oral History: Skills, Practice, Shared Knowledge and Authority »

Working on an oral history project and curious about the possibilities for your collection and impact? Join us to discuss community-centered approaches to creating a digital archive and managing an inter-generational public humanities project. We’ll review foundational oral history interviewing and processing skills, as well as project management strategies like fundraising and outreach. This workshop will help you identify key strategies for community-centered interviewing and … Continue reading Introduction to Community-Centered Digital Humanities Project Management »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. In this workshop, you will build on the skills you gained in Part 1 by exploring DesignPLUS interactive components and content. You’ll also … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 2: Interactive Content & Course Building »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Team-based learning (TBL) is an active learning pedagogy that LSA supports with dedicated TBL classroom spaces and tailored faculty training. This workshop will help faculty bring team-based learning pedagogy into their teaching and explore how TBL can foster engaging, collaborative learning experiences. In this session, participants will: Define team-based learning and understand its impact on student outcomes. Differentiate between group work and teamwork. Explore a range … Continue reading The Power of Teams: Strategies for Active, Collaborative Learning »

Make meditation part of your goal to strengthen your mental well-being. Discover three core practices—meditation, rejuvenation, and inner connect in just three session. Meditation is a mindful journey for regulating your mind. It’s like a mental workout, training the mind to focus on a single thought amid the 60,000 that pass through daily. With 3 core practices it cultivates effortless concentration, heightened awareness, and presence … Continue reading Learn to Meditate in 3 days »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Ready to put what you learned in Rethinking PDFs: Using EPUB for More Accessible Academic Documents into practice? This applied working session provides dedicated time and support to create or convert your own academic materials into accessible EPUBs.  Rather than presenting new concepts through a traditional workshop format, this session concentrates on learning through doing. Participants will work independently or alongside facilitators to apply skills … Continue reading EPUB Working Session: Putting Accessible E-Publishing into Practice »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »