1. 101 Tips for Teaching Large Classes  
2. A Free and Simple Jeopardy Program
3. Adding a Global Perspective to Your Course  
4. Adjunct Faculty Workshop  
5. Advanced PowerPoint Tips You Never Knew
6. Aligning Course Goals and Objectives with Assessment  
7. An Orchestration of Teaching Models  
8. Assurance of Learning: Formative to Summative Methods  
9. Brain Compatible Learning Strategies  
10. Building a Grade Book Using MS Excel  
11. Cheating: Detecting and Preventing Academic Dishonesty  
12. Classroom Response Systems  
13. Defining the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
14. Designing an Effective Syllabus  
15. Developing a Portfolio for Promotion and Tenure  
16. Developing Your Own Rubric  
17. Games in the Classroom and Lecture Hall
18. Handling Difficult Students in the Classroom  
19. How to Construct a Great Test  
20. Instructional Technology  
21. Interactive Teaching Strategies  
22. International Teaching Assistants: Tips for Successful Teaching  
23. Intro to myUCF Grades: An Online Grade Reporting Tool  
24. iPhones and SmartPhones: Leveraging Mobile Computing in the Lecture Hall
25. Just-in-Time Teaching  
26. Lectures in a Can: Making Narrated PowerPoints into a Video
27. Making the Most of Student Evaluations  
28. Middle Ground on Tests: Automated (or Minimal) Grading, But Also Not Multiple Choice
29. Millennials: How to Engage Today's Undergraduates
30. New Tools in Knight’s E-mail for Groupwork, Projects, and Collaboration
31. Online Final Grade Submission  
32. Pedagogical PowerPoint 
33. Preventing Plagiarism with Turnitin.com  
34. Screenr: New (Free) Software to Capture PowerPoint or Computer Screen Lectures as a Video for Use with Twitter, YouTube, or iTunesU
35. Second Life as a Teaching Tool  
36. Strategies to Internationalize Teaching & Learning  
37. Teaching as a Non-Native Speaker  
38. Teaching Online: Quiz/Test Best Practices  
39. Technology at UCF  
40. Tips and Tricks to Save Time Grading Essays - Even Large Classes Can Assign Writing!  
41. Tools You Need to Start the Semester  
42. Twitter: Interactive Classroom Assessment That’s Not Just Multiple Choice
43. Using Mid-Term Evaluations  
44. Using YouTube to Teach: Passive, Active, Interactive Strategies
45. Why Community Matters  
46. Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts, Facebook, RSS, YouTube and More   

LECTURES IN A CAN: CAPTURING NARRATED POWERPOINTS

There are multiple viable options for capturing your PowerPoint lecture as a video, with you narrating each slide in real time. These videos can then be hosted online to share with your students.
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iPHONES AND SMARTPHONES: LEVERAGING MOBILE COMPUTING IN THE LECTURE HALL

Many of your students carry around with them a cellphone powerful enough to do Internet surfing and other applications. Learn how you can utilize the technology they already possess to make your classes more engaging and interactive. Faculty members do NOT need to have an iPhone or SmartPhone themselves to make use of these techniques!
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ADVANCED POWERPOINT TIPS YOU NEVER KNEW

Learn how to completely embed videos and youtubes, temporarily blank out your screen, show notes on your screen but not the projector, jump to slides elsewhere in the presentation without using the mouse, and change the background color slowly over time. Come with your other PowerPoint questions, as well!
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SCREENR: NEW (FREE) SOFTWARE TO CAPTURE POWERPOINT OR COMPUTER SCREEN LECTURES AS A VIDEO FOR USE WITH TWITTER, YOUTUBE, OR ITUNESU

Videos up to five minutes long can be created using this new, extraordinarily intuitive software. Capture the action on your computer screen, plus your voice, as a video (mp4) and place it wherever you want for your students to view at their convenience. It even plugs seamlessly into Twitter feeds.

USING YOUTUBE TO TEACH: PASSIVE, ACTIVE, AND INTERACTIVE STRATEGIES

We'll explore how YouTube can inject energy into your teaching, and offer different perspectives that add to the class discussion. We'll also look at ways to use YouTube to post your own (or your students' own) videos, as well as the newest usage of YouTube: interactive on-screen buttons that generate a de facto "video quiz."
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WIKIS, BLOGS, PODCASTS, RSS, YOUTUBE AND MORE: USING SOCIAL MEDIA AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING

We’ll provide an introduction and overview of emerging technologies that offer new ways to communicate and interact electronically with your students. Learn what blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS feeds are, and learn how to use them for your classes. We'll also explore ways to use YouTube, Facebook, digg, del.icio.us, Google Alerts, AuthorPoint, Camtasia, and a myriad of other online tools.
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"SECOND LIFE" AS A TEACHING TOOL

The persistent online world of Second Life offers 3-D virtual interaction through avatars. Come for a roundtable discussion and brainstorming session of how this tool, rapidly gaining in popularity, could be used to augment your classes, whether you are teaching in Webcourses or face-to-face.
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101 TIPS FOR TEACHING LARGE CLASSES

Class sizes keep increasing, so how do we manage the new workload and at the same time maintain our standards for excellent teaching and effective learning? Come share your ideas and learn new perspectives.
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A SIMPLE AND FREE JEOPARDY PROGRAM

Stu’s Double Jeopardy, a free download, lets you create and customize your own content onto a programmed Jeopardy board. Especially useful for review before tests, or as a way to inject competition and newness into your class.
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TEACHING AS A NON-NATIVE SPEAKER

Educators who speak English as a second language face unique linguistic and cultural challenges. We will discuss strategies to ease the transition to a new language or a new culture.
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FORGET RATEMYPROFESSORS.COM - HANDLING NEGATIVE STUDENT FEEDBACK

How do we deal with students who are critical of our teaching, either in public or in private? We will model some scenarios, and provide suggestions and hints for turning confrontations into constructive experiences. (offer again halfway thru semester)
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PROBLEM STUDENTS AND DIFFICULT SITUATIONS

Is it ever ethical to bend established class policies? We will model some scenarios, and provide suggestions and hints for making tough decisions when answers are not clear-cut.
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DETECTING AND PREVENTING ACADEMIC DISHONESTY

This session will explore the issues related to awareness, prevention, detection, and consequences of plagiarism. Learn also about UCF services to detect plagiarism.
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WHY COMMUNITY MATTERS

Identify the “micro-culture” in your class and make it work for you.
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TECHNOLOGY AT UCF

Learn about Webcourses, library databases, student clickers, software in the classroom console computers, rosters, eCommunity, faculty training in HTML or Photoshop, RSS, blogs, wikis, making downloadable videos out of your PowerPoint lectures, myUCF Grades, turnitin.com, podcasting, MS-Excel gradebooks and more. Participants will be shown how to learn more about each of these topics.
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BUILDING A GRADE BOOK USING MS-EXCEL

Together we will walk through a grade book template and customize it to your syllabus. Please bring your syllabus with a breakdown of your scoring policy.
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INTRO TO MYUCF GRADES: AN ONLINE GRADE REPORTING TOOL

This pagelet in myUCF will automatically synchronize with your official class rosters and allow you to manually input grades, import from Microsoft Excel, or report grades uploaded directly from Test Scoring Services (without the intermediate step of burning results to a disc). Learn how to use this electronic grade posting tool and do away with posting grades outside classrooms and offices!
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ONLINE GRADE SUBMISSION

Learn how to complete the online "bubble form" or upload your rosters to myUCF.
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