Events for Faculty and Instructional Staff
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Teaching and AI Workshops
CATLOE's teaching workshops and benchwork sessions are highly interactive. They replicate active learning so you can experience what it might be like to use evidence-based strategies, methods, or techniques in your own classrooms. All of our events provide guided support for implementing what you’ve learned in your teaching.
Use Transparent Assignments to Discourage Misuse of AI: A Benchwork Session
Thursday, September 3, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon, Zoom
Registration deadline: August 31
A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate high-impact changes. We invite you to join us for this session and bring in an assessment for a course you are currently teaching. You will use the research-based principle of transparency to make small changes to your assessment. Transparent assignments motivate students to fully engage with the work and discourage them from using AI inappropriately.
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Helping Students Use Generative AI to Support their Learning: A Benchwork Session
Thursday, September 10, 9:30 – 11:00 am, Zoom
A CATLOE benchwork session is an opportunity to dive into work on a specific aspect of your teaching and make some immediate, high-impact, low-effort changes. We invite you to join us for this session to develop pedagogically sound strategies to help students use generative AI tools to support their learning in your courses. You will work through a series of guided steps to explore key strategies for designing activities and assignments that incorporate productive and thoughtful use of artificial intelligence.
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Introduction to Generative AI: A Working Session for Beginners
Thursday, October 1, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
A CATLOE working session is an opportunity to experience a specific pedagogical approach or tool with an eye to considering how it might be useful to you and your students. We invite you to join us for this session to learn how instructors and students can access and use Generative AI interfaces that are readily available to them. If you haven’t previously played much (or at all) with Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT, this working session is for you! We will cover the basics, such as accessing these platforms, prompt writing, and file sharing with AI.
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Teaching with Technology Workshops
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Brightspace Training Webinars
For quick how-to's, please visit our collection of Brightspace Training Videos.
Brightspace Gradebook
Wednesday, August 19, 2:00 – 3:15 pm, Zoom
Register for Brightspace Gradebook – August 19
Brightspace Gradebook
Thursday, August 20, 7:00 – 8:15 pm, Zoom
Register for Brightspace Gradebook – August 20
Brightspace Discussions
Friday, August 21, 10:00 – 11:15 am, Zoom
Register for Brightspace Discussions – August 21
Vendor Demos and Training
Please visit our Brightspace Training Videos page to see recordings of past sessions for UAlbany.
Visit the VoiceThread workshops page to learn about their upcoming workshops.
Accessibility
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Accessibility Webinars
Please visit the Accessibility section of our Teaching Resources page or our collection of short Accessibility Training Videos for additional information about accessible course materials.
Accessible Multimedia Content
Thursday, August 20, 10:00 – 11:15 am, Zoom
Register for Accessible Multimedia Content
Evaluating Websites for Accessibility
Thursday, August 20, 2:00 – 3:15 pm, Zoom
Workshops for Graduate Students
Academic Job Market Workshops
Making a Strong Impression in Interviews
Thursday, September 17, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon, Zoom
If you’re getting ready for the academic job market or you’re on it, you need to get ready for interviews! In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn about the different purposes of interviews and the best ways to prepare for them. You’ll leave with a clearer sense of what to expect during interviews, how to avoid potential pitfalls, and how to come across as the calm, collected professional they are looking for. You’ll also get key tips on managing the Zoom platform during screening interviews. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the interview and be invited to work further on your interview skills and strategies with a CATLOE consultant.
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Powerful Teaching Demonstrations
Wednesday, September 23, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Whether you’re applying for a teaching-focused or a research-focused faculty position, you will be required to demonstrate your teaching ability during the on-campus or extended interview. Don’t wait to prepare! This interactive workshop will help you make good decisions based on the context of the demonstrations you may be asked to do and give you some ideas of how to best communicate your teaching skills in this high-pressure situation. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the teaching demonstration and be invited to work further on the demonstration with a CATLOE consultant.
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Secrets of an Excellent Job Talk
Monday, September 28, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Whether you are interviewing for a position that focuses on teaching or research, you are likely going to be asked to give the “job talk,” where you share your research with the search committee and other attendees. But what are you really being asked to do when you give the job talk? If you don’t know the secrets of the job talk, you risk confusing or boring your audience during this crucial part of the on-campus or extended interview. In this interactive workshop you’ll learn how to create a job talk that impresses the audience and communicates more than just your research. You will have an opportunity to begin planning for the job talk and be invited to work further on the job talk with a CATLOE consultant.