Past Events
CITL: New Faculty Community of Practice
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 12:00 pm
Location: EWFM 625
Presenters: Peggy Kane and Holly Zakos
Audience: Faculty
Please join us for the inaugural meeting of the New Faculty Community of Practice being convened by the Center for Innovation Teaching and Learning. We’ll be holding this first hybrid meeting on Wednesday, November 16, from Noon - 1PM, in E.W. Fairchild-Martindale Library RM 625 or on Zoom.
The intent of this community will be to provide you with an opportunity to be part of a network of Lehigh faculty, across disciplines and colleges, who want to discuss teaching and learning at Lehigh. If you’re curious about how other faculty foster student engagement, are interested in hearing alternative assessment strategies, would like to share experiences in large enrollment courses or are looking for guidance from peers on challenges you’re facing, please consider joining us. CITL staff will facilitate these sessions, and we will look to you to determine topics and areas of mutual interest as the group moves forward.
If you’d like to join us, please RSVP by Monday, November 14, indicating whether you’ll join us for lunch in EWFM 625 or connect remotely. If you plan to join using Zoom, please add the event to your calendar (via the link on the RSVP page) so that you have the Zoom link to attend remotely.
CITL: Lehigh's XR Community of Practice
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: CITL Classroom (EWFM 379)
Presenters: Steve Sakasitz, Tarah Cicero, Chris Harvey
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students
Please join us at our first meetup for the returning XR Community of Practice (formerly known as the VR/AR Community of Practice!) on Wednesday, October 26 2022 at 3pm in EWFM 379 (the CITL classroom).
Topic(s): General Introductions and XR News + Announcements
Description: For our first meeting back, we'll plan on a part casual/part structured meeting to introduce (or re-introduce) ourselves to one another and talk a little about where our individual interests in XR and immersive technologies lie. Be it in our teaching, research, day-to-day jobs, or even leisure use. A chance to network with other like-minded folks on campus! In addition, we'll take a look at the current state of XR at Lehigh and in the world in general with some announcements, news, and "current events" in the field. We can discuss potential topic(s) and even workshop ideas for future meetings. Light refreshments provided. This meetup is open to ANYONE with an interest in XR. Please share with others. Looking forward to seeing everyone who can make it!
CITL: Moodle Moments: Creating Good Quiz Questions
Date & Time: Friday, October 14, 2022, 12:00 pm
Location: Online
Presenters: Bobby Siegfried, Holly Zakos
Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students
Back again with a fresh Moodle Moments session never offered before: How to Create Good Quiz Questions. We’ve spent time looking in-depth at quiz administration, settings, and setup. But we rarely have time to deep dive into best practices in assessment, question design, and related pedagogy and how the many question types available in Moodle can be leveraged to create effective and creative quizzes.
And that’s why, in our next just-in-time Course Site training this Friday 10/14, 2022 at 12:00pm, we will be taking an in-depth, practical look at creating good quiz questions, specifically focusing on best-practices, key settings, and reviewing common questions and answers. By the end of this 45 minute session, attendees should feel more comfortable and empowered to create good quiz questions using the many question types available in Moodle.
We look forward to seeing you in this online session.
CITL Workshop: Teacher Development Program For Graduate Students (Fall 22)
Date & Time: Thursday, September 22, 2022, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Location: Online
Audience: Graduate Students
Additonal Dates: October 6 & 20, November 3 & 17, Dec 1 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
The Teacher Development Series is a free, five-part non-credit series specifically for graduate students to develop classroom and instructional skills. The GLO and the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning are again partnering to offer a series of workshops in our Teacher Development Program for Graduate Students.
These free, non-credit workshops are open to all graduate students.
Here are this semester's topics and presenters!
- Giving and Receiving Meaningful Feedback (Farah Vallera)
- Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning (Holly Zakos)
- Navigating Difficult Topics/Conversations (Allison Mickel)
- Cycles of Learning (Greg Reihman)
- Inclusive Teaching (Scott Burden)
Promoting Your Graduate Work (Ali Erk)Look forward to seeing you there!
CITL: Workshop: Globalization through Virtual Exchange and COIL as Strategy
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location: EWFM 625
Presenters: Claudia Tobar, Chief Innovation Office, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Audience: Faculty, Staff
Claudia Tobar, chief innovation officer and professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador, will visit Lehigh on September 21 to deliver the workshop, “Lessons from the Pandemic: Globalization through Virtual Exchange and COIL as Strategy.” She will discuss COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) and virtual exchange and share why the innovative pedagogies are part of the internationalization strategy at USFQ.
The workshop is sponsored by the Office of International Affairs and the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. It will take place in Fairchild-Martindale Library Room 625 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Lunch is provided.
To learn more about the workshop and Tobar’s experience, please visit the OIA website.
CITL: Moodle Moments: Creating and Managing Quizzes in Course Site
Date & Time: Friday, September 16, 2022, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: Online
Presenters: Bobby Siegfried
Audience: Faculty
If you haven’t already, you’re probably about to want to assess your students using the Quiz activity. Quizzes are loaded with features, and can feel daunting to set up, and that’s why, in our next just-in-time Course Site training of the fall semester, we will be taking an in-depth look into the Moodle quiz activity, specifically focusing on best-practices, key features and setup, and reviewing common questions and answers.
This session is aimed at helping faculty successfully administer a quiz in Course Site. By following these best practices and strategies, faculty can, in most cases, significantly reduce the amount of time that goes into setting up and configuring a course gradebook later in the semester.
CITL: Moodle Moments: Optimizing Your Course Site Gradebook
Date & Time: Friday, September 9, 2022, 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm
Location: Online
Presenters: Bobby Siegfried, Holly Zakos
Audience: Faculty
Did you know the best time to set up your course gradebook is at the beginning of the semester? View the Recording, Slides, of our first just-in-time Course Site training of the fall semester, an in-depth look into the Moodle gradebook, specifically focusing on best-practices, the Natural calculation method and why everyone should consider using it, and reviewing common questions and answers.
This session is aimed at helping faculty set up their gradebook early on in the semester so that as more activities are added and graded, the gradebook can grow and populate efficiently and automatically. By following these best practices and strategies, faculty can, in most cases, significantly reduce the amount of time that goes into setting up and configuring a course gradebook later in the semester.
CITL: 2022 CITL Summer Workshop
Date & Time: Thursday, August 11, 2022, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Online
Audience: Faculty
The 2022 CITL Summer Workshop was held on August 11, 2022. Recordings.
CITL: WAC/TRAC Writing Symposia Series
Date & Time: Friday, April 29, 2022, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: CITL Commons (EWFM 370)
Presenters: Greg Skutches; Faculty and Student Panel
Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students
Writing Instruction in the Disciplines and the Broader Educational Experience of Lehigh Students
- What are the connections, if any, between effective writing instruction and learning in the disciplines?
- How important are writing and communication skills to meaningful undergraduate research?
- How does/can writing instruction affect Lehigh's efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion?
- What can be done to improve, through writing instruction, the undergraduate student experience at Lehigh?
Faculty Panelists:
Sirry Alang, Sociology and Health, Medicine, and Society
Hannah Dailey, Mechanical Engineering
Suzanne Edwards, English
KhanJan Mehta,Vice Provost for Creative Inquiry
Siva Sivakumar, Marketing
Bruce Whitehouse, Sociology and Anthropology
CITL: WAC/TRAC Writing Symposia Series
Date & Time: Friday, April 8, 2022, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: CITL Commons (EWFM 370)
Presenters: Greg Skutches; Faculty and Student Panel
Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students
Join us on April 8th from Noon-1:30 pm for a panel discussion on "Writing Instruction in the Disciplines at Lehigh: How Important is it? And how well are we doing?" Panelists will include:
Faculty
- Heather Johnson, Sociology
- Allison Mickel, Sociology and Anthropology
- Ziad Munsen,Sociology
- Siddha Pimputkar, Materials Science & Engineering
- Todd Watkins, Economics
- Ben Wright -Religion Studies
Students
- John Cascio, Finance
- Emma Fernandez-Echeverri, Chemical Engineering
- Caroline Palmer - Biology
- Caroline Spindel - Biology
Lunch will be served.