OFD Newsletter: March 16, 2020
Getting Your Course Online Quickly
When circumstances warrant, it can be important to get your course content online quickly and communicate that effectively to your students. This workshop guides you through getting your course online in our Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle, including creating a course, adding resources, and using the Announcements forum.
This workshop also demonstrates how to create online class meetings in Zoom, so you can present content simultaneously to all of your students. These two tools, Moodle & Zoom, can help you keep teaching while on-campus meetings are not possible.
Space is still available in the March 19 and March 20 sessions.
Keep Teaching: Creating an Academic Continuity Plan (Workshops and Webinars)
OFD and DELTA have partnered to offer face to face and online workshops designed for instructors who want guidance in constructing a basic academic continuity plan for their courses.
Participants will:
- Discuss the purpose and benefits of academic continuity
- Discuss issues related to academic continuity
- Reflect upon the key parts of a basic continuity plan
- Begin to develop a basic continuity plan for your course
- Explore resources for continuity planning at NC State
Register here or by visiting reporter.ncsu.edu and searching for “continuity.”
Comics & Storyboarding: Using Visuals to Help You and Your Students Better Communicate Complex Ideas
Workshop with Dr. Karen Head on April 14th from 2 to 4pm, in room 129 of the 1911 Building
Around second or third grade, many people stop drawing, especially in an academic environment. However, as Graphic Novelist, Cartoonist, and Educator, and 2019 MacArthur Fellow, Lynda Barry’s research has shown, drawing can help us analyze, evaluate, communicate, and clarify ideas.
Barry has helped a wide range of audiences, from professors in natural sciences to graduate students in education to undergraduates studying agriculture, use drawing to make their research clearer and more engaging.
This workshop will demonstrate how to use comic book style storyboarding to help you and your students more effectively communicate complex ideas and research to a wider audience.
Important Note: No artistic skills necessary.
Fulbright Application Workshop and One-on-One Consultations
When: Tuesday, April 14 (9 a.m.- 4 p.m.)
Where: D.H. Hill, Faculty Research Commons and Breakout Rooms.
Interested in teaching or conducting research abroad? Consider a Fulbright Fellowship. Fulbright funds over 2,000 awards annually in more than 140 countries. As a Fulbright Scholar you can expand your network, foster lasting relationships, serve as an ambassador for international exchange, and gain valuable experience working and teaching abroad. Fulbright is family-friendly and flexible; Fulbright appointments range anywhere from two weeks, in the case of Fulbright Specialists, to a year for Fulbright scholars.
Join us on Tuesday, April 14th for our inaugural Fulbright Application Workshop. This all-day event will offer faculty and staff dedicated time and space to work on application materials, ask questions related to the application process, and to receive guidance from past Fulbright Fellows. Fulbrighters will be available throughout the day to field questions, share their experiences, and/or review application materials. This workshop will allow you to meet one-on-one with past Fellows, who represent a range of types of fellowships, geographic regions, and disciplines. Faculty and staff at all stages of the application process are welcome.
Please rsvp via the google event form. This event is sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs. For more information, please contact Maria Almanza (maria_almanza@ncsu.edu).
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