TA Project

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This workshop explores how to easily create conference posters by using PowerPoint tools. We will explore adjusting slides to poster dimensions, adding and managing text and bullets, images, charts, tables and other poster content. We will also generate QR codes which will link to informational websites from the posters. Finally, we will explore saving the poster as pdf files and various printing options.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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Prezi is a cloud-based presentation application (for both Mac and PC) that lets you organize and share ideas and information in a very dynamic way. You can lead your students (and audience) on a visual journey, collaborate in real time across time zones, and run your presentation from the cloud, desktop, iPad, or iPhone. In Intro to Prezi NEXT, you learn how to set up a free account, navigate the canvas, create topics and subtopics, utilize templates, apply text, images and video, and use the Tool/Prezi Editor.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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This workshop provides a quick hands-on overview of PowerPoint; its structure, utilities, slide management features, animation, and design templates (with a number of tips and tricks useful for instruction).

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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This workshop explores different methods of using Excel to calculate student grades. In addition to calculating weighted averages, we discuss methods of dropping the lowest grade, and assigning letter grades based on numeric average grades via a lookup table. Finally, we cover various dynamic means of assessing the performance of entire class by using charts and summation functions.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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RefWorks (free to members of the Rutgers community) is a web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create and administer their own personal bibliographic database. This hands-on workshop introduces RefWorks, and demonstrates how personal bibliographies can be created and managed. Two additional RefWorks tools, Write-N-Cite and RefGrab-It will also be demonstrated. Additional help will be available for persons logging into RefWorks for the first time.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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This workshop will cover the basics of how to navigate the Canvas learning management system and edit content in it. By the end of this session you will be able to navigate the global menu and a course menu, edit content and settings, and use Speedgrader. We will also look at the best ways to move Sakai content into Canvas and edit it there.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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Difficult Conversations can be challenging to have in classrooms. This presentation will model how to prepare your students for productive discussions. By enacting three strategies—norm setting, historical context, and sense-making—any topic can be discussed in a respectful and productive manner.

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This workshop explores the purposes of a diversity statement for academic employment, reviews pedagogical practices for teaching diverse students, and examines how scholars can talk about diversity in their teaching and research. Armed with this information, participants review and critique sample diversity statements before work-shopping their own ideas and drafts of the diversity statement. Participants should bring any materials related to the diversity statement that they have already prepared.

Registration opens soon.

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Designed to help graduate students prepare teaching portfolios. The major parts of a teaching portfolio will be covered, including teaching responsibilities, teaching philosophy and goals, and evidence of effective teaching.

Registration opens soon.

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Instructors take on many roles, some expected and others less so. This session will discuss the multiple responsibilities TA’s take on as instructors in the classroom, including those associated with teaching, mentorship, discipline, listening, and making the classroom an inclusive space. Additionally, we will discuss effective ways to balance these roles, and how to set appropriate boundaries between instructor and student.