Kaneb Center Announcements: Responding to Racial Microaggressions

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Home      About      Blog This week's email includes information about spring workshops and a new blog post. To view our full workshop schedule, visit our Events page. Notre Dame Learning Speaker Series: Lessons for Building Community from Social Neuroscience Join us for our ND Learning Speaker Series workshop with Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh.  A sense of community in the classroom contributes to effective learning, likely through benefits to student motivation. While traditional pedagogical literature speaks to methods of building community within the classroom, we can also look outside our intellectual silos to other academic disciplines researching how human beings form and maintain effective collaborative groups. In this interactive session, we’ll consider powerful research investigating team dynamics in simulated space missions, the social neuroscience of how the brain embeds our social others in our very sense of self, and even how honeybees make collective decisions together. We will work together to understand and apply these lessons to the work of the higher education classroom. Register here. Upcoming Workshops We invite you to sign up for any of the following pedagogy workshops this spring. All workshops will take place via Zoom unless otherwise noted. For more information and to register, click here. Creative Assignments and Assessments in Language and Culture Education With the recent rapid move to online teaching, many instructors are trying to find the best alternative to traditional assignments and assessments for language courses. In this presentation, we will re-think how we are assessing our students and explore options to diversify students’ assessments such as adopting a final movie project to replace the traditional language oral exams. The hands-on part will include the following topics: Asynchronous Oral Exams using Flipgrid or Google Form; Online Quizzing using Liveworksheets; In-video Quizzing via EdPuzzle; Adobe Page and Adobe Video Date: Tuesday, March 22 Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Presenter:  Weibing Ye, Associate Teaching Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures & Faculty Fellow, Notre Dame Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence Responding to Racial Microaggressions (Mini Workshop) This workshop will focus on how to respond to racial microaggressions in the classroom. Date: Thursday, March 24 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Presenter:  Dominique Vargas, Postdoctoral Fellow, Notre Dame Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence Hard Conversations in STEM Tuesday, April 5; 11:00am - 12:15pm Integrative & Engaged Learning with ePortfolios Wednesday, April 20; 2:00pm - 3:15pm Teaching for Social Justice Friday, April 22; 11:00am - 12:15pm New Blog Post Integrating Media into Your Course with Panopto by KC Frye "Whether you’re flipping your class, creating video as part of an assignment, or using video as a supplement, developing video courseware has become common practice in teaching and learning. According to a recent survey, use of video content is a primary factor in student satisfaction. ..." Useful resources Teaching Certificates Individual Consultation Events Teaching Resources Services for Graduate Students and Postdocs Services for All Instructors Contact Information 353 DeBartolo Classroom Building, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone (574) 631-9146 ka...@nd.edu To unsubscribe from this list, please send a blank email to kctl-announce-l...@nd.edu.