Upcoming CITL Events

 Student Voices: Perspectives from Student of Color on their Experiences in Lehigh's Classrooms. Each conversation will highlight the experience of a different group of students, with a focus on how their particular identities and backgrounds shape their experience as learners at Lehigh. A panel of three or four students will share their experiences in our classrooms and offer their perspectives on practices that they have found helpful or not so helpful. It is our hope that participants in these conversations will leave with a broadened understanding of student diversity and an improved understanding of factors that affect student learning and student success.

Lehigh’s Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) will host a Classroom Technology Open House on Wednesday, August 22, 2018 in the EWFM Library, CITL Commons.

If you’re new to Lehigh -- or perhaps not so new -- join us for any or all of the following sessions that will introduce you to Lehigh’s teaching spaces, classroom technology, Course Site Learning Management System, and digital and software resources.

Please note: The 12:00 pm “Introducing LUapps” session is the only one that requires registration (lunch will be provided). For all others, you may simply attend if your schedule allows.

9:00 am - 10:00 am- Crash Course on Course Site 
Location: EWFM 379
Presenters: Bobby Siegfried and Jason Slipp

Need to get your course set up quickly or have questions like how to send communications, add content to your course, or set up gradebook?
Stop by this session and we'll help get you set up for the start of semester.

10:00 am: - 12:00 pm- Tour of Visualization Lab, One Button Studio/Lightboard and the Digital Media Studio.
Location: Begins in EWFM, CITL Commons

This tour of our digital learning spaces includes a demo of the Halolense and the HTC Vive.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm- Introducing LUapps! (Lunch included. Please register by Monday, August 20)
Location: EWFM 370d and online at http://go.lehigh.edu/zoomluapps.
Presenter: Amanda Caton

Library and Technology Services is pleased to announce the launch of LUapps, a new service that allows you to access software applications anytime, anywhere, and on any device!

LUapps simplifies access to over 50 software titles from a laptop, desktop, tablet, or smartphone, and provides a more consistent user experience across Mac and Windows operating systems. All you need is the Citrix Receiver on each device where you want to run LUapps, a connection to the Internet, and VPN if you’re off-campus. Get started with LUapps here: go.lehigh.edu/luapps

This session will also be available online at: https://go.lehigh.edu/zoomluapps

1:00 - 3:00pm- Classroom Support
Presenter: Judd Hark
Location: Begins in EWFM, CITL Commons

Are you curious about the presentation technology installed in your classroom? Have you been assigned to a lecture hall with a large video display wall? Does your course have web conferencing or other specific technology needs? Our classroom support team will be on hand for in-room demonstrations and Q&A.

Bring your questions! Our staff is ready to assist. If you have additional questions as you prepare for the start of semester, you can submit a request for help at www.lehigh.edu/help (choose Classroom Technology) or contact the LTS Help Desk at 610-758-HELP (4357) or helpdesk@lehigh.edu.

We hope you can join us!

Greg Reihman, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Provost
Library & Technology Services
Director, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Lehigh University

This is a 2-day event held for new faculty. It will be held on the following dates:

Monday, August 20th 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Tuesday, August 21st 8:30 am to 5:30 pm

This event is an opportunity for you to meet some of your new colleagues, learn more about the teaching and research cultures at Lehigh, and discover what support and mentoring services are available to you on campus. Our main goal is to provide new faculty with helpful information (without overwhelming them) and to connect them with the people who are here to help them get started successfully. 

New faculty may wish to review the following documents in the Resources section of the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning website: a course design worksheet, a syllabus template, some guidance on syllabus development, resources on active learning and inclusive teaching, and other pedagogical resources.  Please also browse around on the  CITL website to get a sense of the kinds of programs and support we offer.

XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be presenting a Hybrid Computing workshop.

This 4 day event will include MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC and accelerators and run June 4-7. This event will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom(WAC) training platform and will conclude with a special hybrid exercise contest that will challenge the students to apply their skills over the following 3 weeks and be awarded the Fifth Annual XSEDE Summer Boot Camp Championship Trophy. In addition, an XSEDE Badge will be available to those who complete the Challenge.

To be as time zone friendly as possible, each day will run from 11AM-5PM Eastern time. The tentative agenda is as follows (all times given are Eastern):

Monday June 4
11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
11:45 Intro to Parallel Computing
12:30 Intro to OpenMP
1:30 Lunch break
2:30 Exercise 1 (zip folder of all exercises)
3:15 More OpenMP
4:30 Exercise 2
5:00 Adjourn

Tuesday June 5
11:00 Intro to OpenACC
12:00 Exercise 1
12:30 Introduction to OpenACC (cont.)
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Exercise 2
2:45 Introduction to OpenACC (cont.)
3:00 Using OpenACC with CUDA Libraries
3:30 Advanced OpenACC
4:00 OpenMP 4.0 Sneak Peek
5:00 Adjourn

Wednesday June 6
11:00 Introduction to MPI
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Intro exercises
3:10 Intro exercises review
3:15 Scalable Programming: Laplace code
3:45 Laplace Exercise
5:00 Adjourn

Thursday June 7
11:00 Laplace Exercise (Cont)
12:30 Laplace Solution
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Advanced MPI
3:00 Outro to Parallel Computing
4:00 Parallel Tools
4:20 Hybrid Computing
4:40 Hybrid Competition
5:00 Adjourn

Due to demand, this workshop will be telecast to several satellite sites. This workshop is NOT available via a webcast.

You may attend this event at any of the following sites:

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
• University of Delaware
• Texas A&M University
• Lehigh University
• Tufts University
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Boston University
• University of Utah
• University of Arizona
• Old Dominion University
• Oklahoma State University
• Clarkson University
• Pennsylvania State University
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• Arizona State University
• West Virginia State University
• Texas Tech University
• George Mason University
• University of Texas at El Paso
• University of Houston – Clear Lake
• Temple University
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville – National Institute for Computational Sciences
• University of Michigan
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

To register, choose the appropriate link on the XSEDE Portal Registration pages: https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar

Please address any questions to Tom Maiden at tmaiden@psc.edu.