Faculty Development Workshops
CxC faculty development activities provide opportunities for faculty to
- explore, reflect, and discuss topics surrounding communication-intensive teaching and learning, and
- collaborate with others across and beyond our campus interested in teaching, service, and research innovation.
CxC provides resources to help participants better connect, listen, share, and learn. We understand that time is no doubt our most valuable asset, but we encourage you to create space in your calendar to emerge yourself in this professional development experience, and who knows, you may even have some fun along the way!
Note: CxC faculty development sessions are open to all LSU faculty, instructors, and
graduate teaching assistants; however, if space becomes limited, priority will be
given to faculty teaching certified Communication-Intensive courses.
Spring 2018
CxC Studio Sandbox Day
Friday, January 5, 2018 @ 10am - Noon
Join us for CxC Studio Sandbox Day where you can pop into one of the four CxC Studios to tinker with communication technologies, network with other C-I faculty, visit with the Communication Peer Mentors who support your students, and/or work with our team to tune-up your C-I course assignments and assessments.
Fall 2017
Faculty Roundtable Discussion: Teaching (not just assigning) team/group collaboration and communication skills in the C-I classroom
Monday, October 16 @ 11:00a-Noon in B2 Coates Hall
Faculty Lightning Rounds: Ideas for the C-I classroom
Tuesday, November 7 @ 1:30-2:30p in B2 Coates Hall
Spring 2017
Spring 2017 Faculty Learning Community Meet-up
Session #4: Balacing Depth vs Coverage
Group A: Monday, 4/17, 11:30a-12:30p in 104 Design Bldg. (you’re welcome to bring your lunch!) / Group B: Tuesday, 4/18, 1:00-2:00p in 104 Design Bldg.
Reference Resources: What is a flipped classroom? What is just-in-time teaching? Just-in-Time Teaching
as Interactive Pedagogy. Peer Instruction and JITT at University College. Roosevelt. Three
Evolving Thoughts about Flipped Learning. Potential Discussion Questions: How do you find the balance between coverage versus depth of learning? Are you using
blended learning, just-in-time teaching or flipped classroom techniques? What has
worked? What, for you, needs further refining to be viable? In addition to pre-taped
lectures and video content, what are some other ways you utilize flipped and/or JITT
approaches?
Session #3: Connecting Your Research Interests and Teaching
Group A: Monday, 3/20, 11:30a-12:30p in 104 Design Bldg. (You’re welcome to bring your lunch!) / Group B: Tuesday, 3/21, 1:00-2:00p in 104 Design Bldg.
Reference Resources: Teaching While Learning: What I learned when I asked my students to make video essays. Teaching to Enhance Research. Linking Teaching & Research. Potential Discussion Questions: Where does (or can) your interests, research, and teaching overlap in the C-I classroom? How do you balance your teaching, research, and service load? How might you turn your C-I classroom into a research project to advance teaching scholarship within your discipline?
Session #2: Managing the Feedback Loop/Applying Formative Assessment
Group A: Monday, 2/20/17, 11:30a-12:30p in 104 Design Bldg. (you’re welcome to bring your lunch!) / Group B: Tuesday, 2/21/17, 1:00-2:00p in 104 Design Bldg.
Reference Resources: Online Discussion Forums as Assessment Tools. Four Strategies for Effective Assessment
in a Flipped Learning Environment. Scaling Up Courses. Characteristics of High-Quality
Formative Assessments. Teaching Students How to Manage Feedback. Potential Discussion Questions: How do (or wish) you would manage the C-I feedback loop? Are you leveraging feedback
as a true student learning tool? What are your time management strategies? Are there
specific tech tools or skills you use or wish you had?
Session #1: Maximizing the First and Last Five Minutes of Class
Group A: Monday, 2/6/17 11:30a-12:30p in 104 Design Bldg. (you’re welcome to bring your lunch!) / Group B: Tuesday, 2/7/17, 1:00-2:00p in 104 Design Bldg.
Reference Resources: Three Focusing Activities to Engage Students in the First Five Minutes of Class. Small Changes in Teaching: The Last 5 Minutes of Class. The Flipped Classroom Unplugged: Three Tech-Free Strategies for Engaging Students. Inside Higher Ed: Small Teaching with James Lang. Potential Discussion Questions: How do you use the first and last 5 minutes of class? What role does/could reflection play in your course? What 5-minute break activities do you use throughout class to check-in with your students and their understanding? What concerns do you have about making such activities work?
Spring 2015
Responding to and Assessing the Writing of ESL Students – International students who have English as a Second Language (ESL) enrich our classroom and studios by bringing a cross-cultural perspective to projects and assignments. However, when we begin to assess non-native students’ texts, we often feel unprepared to address the complicated concerns that emerge. Join us for a CxC-sponsored panel discussion where we’ll explore ESL proficiency levels, culture, acceptable adaptations and more.
>>Thursday, January 22, 12:00-1:00 p.m., College of Design: Room 104
Providing Useful Feedback on Students’ Oral Communication Presentations – Oral presentations are an effective way to increase students’ learning of course content while honing their speaking skills. Even so, we sometimes hesitate to assign presentations because we feel ill equipped to provide critical, useful feedback.
This interactive workshop, conducted by a Communications and Performance Studies instructor, will focus on providing quick in-class feedback to students, creating efficient rubrics, and implementing assessment activities which increase student engagement and encourage self-evaluation. Participants will leave with concrete tools aimed at facilitating a collaborative community of peer responders.
>>Wednesday, March 18, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 137 Coates Hall (HopKins Black Box) **Registration is limited to 25 people.
Fall 2014
Learning Forward and Backward: Using Reflective Writing in Research Projects to Foster Students’ Critical Thinking – If you are integrating any type of research project into your course, this is the session for you! Self-directed learning is question-driven rather than topic or thesis driven. With this teaching and learning approach, students develop and explore a researchable question, or line of inquiry, to make meaning and create new knowledge rather than searching for “The Answer.”
>>Tuesday, September 23, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., 225 Peabody Hall
Integrating Speaking Activities to Support Student Success – Are you looking for ways to include innovative, engaging speaking activities to foster deeper learning among your students? Are you eager to help students advance their ability to verbally communicate concepts and ideas to specific audiences? Are you looking for something other than the traditional in-class presentation model? Then join us for this faculty workshop, formatted like speed dating, focused on developing speaking-intensive assignments which go beyond the traditional in-class presentation model. The format will allow for participants to collect new ideas from a range of assignments.
>>Wednesday, October 22, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., 225 Peabody Hall
Speak to Me: Providing Audio and Video Feedback to Students – Feedback is critical to student success and we are constantly looking for ways to make the feedback process more efficient for you and more effective for students. Join us for this hands-on workshop in which you’ll practice using Jing, an audio and video feedback tool that allows you to create a voiceover video response to student work. This simple, free, and easy-to-use technology advances the learning process, saves time, and improves students’ active listening skills. This is a Bring Your Own Laptop (BYOL) workshop.
>>Thursday, November 13, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m., 225 Peabody Hall
Spring 2014
Effective Feedback Strategies – Whether you are serving as an LSU Distinguished Communicator Advisor or a Communication-Intensive instructor, the level of feedback you provide and how you manage this in your workflow is critical to your success and the success of your students. During the January CxC Faculty Lunch & Learn next week, we will discuss effective ways to give feedback to students throughout the C-I learning process, including helping DC candidates with digital portfolios.
>> Wednesday, January 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 225 Peabody Hall
TED Talks: Leveraging them in the College Classroom – Sure, there are some great TED talks that can help supplement our course content, but what about using TED talk videos to help students become better presenters? Join us for a discussion on ways to strategically use TED talks in (and outside of) your speaking and visual C-I classrooms. We will cover the top four tenants of good public speaking in any discipline, and take a look at some segments of TED talk videos that can help students learn these skills though observation. It is a teaching approach that is sure to up the caliber of your students’ presentations!
>>Tuesday, February 25, Noon-1pm, 225 Peabody Hall
To Work Well in Teams… – More than mastery of content knowledge, employers want to hire college graduates who can work effectively in teams (AAC&U Survey). But team work requires many skills—interpersonal, management, communication, to name a few. Students can learn to function more productively in groups—and faculty should teach them how.
Whether you’re often disappointed in the quality of group work in your class, or especially if you have developed successful teaching strategies for group work you’d like to share, this is the session for you! It is the perfect time to think about how you want to teach and to organize group assignments for next semester.
>>Wednesday, April 23, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 225 Peabody Hall
Fall 2013
Responding to Student Work in Progress: Part I, Feedback Strategies – Do you hesitate to assign written, spoken, or visual work because you are uncertain how to respond to and assess student projects? In this first of two workshops on assessing student projects, we will discuss strategies for formative evaluation (giving feedback on drafts or practice sessions when students are still shaping their work). You’ll get tips on setting priorities for feedback, deciding the means by which to respond (track changes, spoken comments, conferences), involving peers in the feedback process, praising good work, using minimal marking to flag errors in usage and mechanics as the project nears completion, and designing and using rubrics to make responding quicker and more reliable.
>> Wednesday, Sept. 25, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 225 Peabody Hall
Evaluating and Assessing Student Work: Part II, Grading Strategies - Do you hesitate to assign written, spoken, or visual work because you are uncertain how to evaluate and assess student projects? In this second of two workshops on assessing student work, we will discuss strategies for summative evaluation (giving feedback on final drafts or presentations). You’ll get tips for setting priorities for comments and ways to convey what’s effective or not effective and why, for analyzing errors in usage and mechanics, and for using rubrics to standardize grading. Part I is not a prerequisite for attendance to this session.
>> Thursday, Oct. 17, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 225 Peabody Hall – RSVP Now!
Spring 2013
“Using Your iPad for Business,” hosted by the CxC College of Business Studio – How can you get the most from an iPad in a business setting? There are hundreds of thousands of apps available – how do you pick the ones that will help you be more productive? Dave Paradi, MBA has been leveraging his iPad to get work done on the road and in this webinar he will share some of the ways you can make best use of an iPad for business use. This session will cover a variety of tips and trick, such as accessing files using cloud storage, syncing iPad and desktop files, MS Office apps, delivering PowerPoints from the iPad, marking up PDFs, and more!
>> Tuesday, March 26, 12:00-1:30 p.m., 1700 Business Education Complex
“Looking for the Pedagogy in Blended Course Design,” hosted by CxC Music & Dramatic Arts Studio – The proliferation of blended/hybrid initiatives and resources is heartening and furthering a delivery model that is reaching maturity. However, there is still much to be examined about what organizations promote as models for designed blended courses and how these models are enacted by practitioners. Dr. Patricia McGee, associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will present the findings from three studies examining blended best practices, pedagogical practices, and learner preparedness. She’ll also address mission directly by sharing a range of pedagogical strategies and best practices that are directly aligned with learner success through the axiomatic use of technology to support and facilitate learning. This session will focus on the following themes: (a) identifying effective practices that relate to course priorities; (b) adopting a layering strategy for organizing the blend; (c) utilizing a learner-centered approach in course components; and (d) identifying needs of the blended learner.
>> Monday, March 18, 12:00-3:00 p.m., 245 Music & Dramatic Arts
“STEM Teaching Methods That Work,” hosted by CxC Engineering Studio - Numerous surveys and reports have documented that far too many college students either fail or become bored with science and technology courses, abandoning plans to major in STEM fields. Dr. Steve Benton, senior research officer at the IDEA Center, will explore the relationship between teaching methods and learning objectives in STEM education. The idea behind this analysis is that the right approach to learning objectives and teaching methods could lead to meaningful improvements in STEM education. This session will cover the following questions: Which learning objectives are emphasized in STEM classes? How much learning are students reporting on those learning objectives? Which teaching methods might be employed to support greater student learning? What are student and course characteristics in STEM courses? How can this analysis be used to improve the success and learning of students enrolled in STEM courses?
>>Wednesday, March 13, 1:00-2:00 p.m., 2301 Patrick F. Taylor Hall
It’s Tech Training for You! – Do you wish you knew more about innovations in Office 2013? Would you like to assign your students multimedia projects but know that some lack basic technology skills that you don’t have time to teach? Well there’s a great resource just for you and your students – lyndaCampus! Via lyndaCampus, you and your students can access free software, business, and creative skills training 24/7 on more than 1,600 different programs? Tutorials are broken down into small, 3-5 minute videos so you can get right to the specific function you need to learn, or you can take advantage of some of the professional tutorials like how to choose the best font. And you can do it all while sitting in the Quad or wearing your fuzzy slippers! Join us for this fun session to learn more about the resources within lyndaCampus. We’ll talk about how you can build a customized playlist of tutorials related to your course, reducing the tech-teaching and troubleshooting in the classroom; track students’ usage of the assigned tutorials; and use lyndaCampus as your own personal/professional development tool.
>>Wednesday, Feb. 20, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 104 Design Bldg.
Fall 2012
Special Session by the LTC: “Flipping the Lecture” – Do you want your students to more comfortable with applying their knowledge or solving problems? Then your classroom may be ready for a flip! Join us for this faculty development session where we will explore the concept of “flipping the classroom,” a technique that refers to reversing traditional instructional approaches so that students use out-of-class time for viewing lectures and readings (formerly in-class lectures) and in-class time for interactive lessons and application learning (formerly out-of-class homework). Through this strategy, the classroom becomes a place to work through problems, advance concepts, and engage in collaborative learning, maximizing the scarcest learning resource—time.
>>Nov. 19, 2:30-3:30p, 210 Choppin Hall
Engaging Students Inside & Outside the Classroom, co-sponsored by FTC
>>Nov. 1, 12-1p, 109 LSU Library
Copyright Chat – An exploratory conversation about copyright as it relates to images, audio, videos, and other resources students frequently incorporate into slide presentations, posters, websites, and other commonly assigned Communication-Intensive projects.
>>Sept. 13, 12:00-1:30p, 225 Peabody Hall
Spring 2012
Writing for Deeper Learning – A review of LSU’s NSSE data and implications for teaching and developing writing assignments in the disciplines.
>>Wednesday, March 14, 12:30-1:30, 225 Peabody Hall
Think Video! - Designing student assignments that enhance critical thinking, organizational and communication skills, and deeper learning of course content using “alternative video projects.” (*This is NOT for the professional filmmakers or screenwriters!)
>>Tuesday, Feb. 14, 12:30-1:30, 225 Peabody Hall
Fall 2011
Energizing Writing Projects – See how LSU faculty are empower students to write for a global audience and publish
research to Wikipedia.
Resources: Teaching with Wikipedia
>>Wednesday, Nov. 16, 12:30-1:30, 104 Design Building
Taking a Look Outside and In – Join the discussion with top employers about the challenges LSU grads face when communicating in the workplace and how LSU faculty might help further improve students’ communication skills.
>>Tuesday, Sept. 13, 12:00-1:30, 225 Peabody Hall
Spring 2011
Harnessing the power of PowerPoint as a Visual communication tool (not a bulleted outline)
>>Tuesday, April 12, 12:00-1:00, 225 Peabody Hall
Tips, tricks & lessons learned from teaching C-I courses
>>Friday, March 11, 12:30-1:30, 225 Peabody Hall
Helping student writers in your “non-writing” courses.
Resource: Perceived Roadblocks to Transferring Knowledge from FYC to Writing-Intensive Major
Courses: A Pilot Study
>>Tuesday, Feb. 1, 12:30-1:30, 225 Peabody Hall
Fall 2010
Teaching students the basics of copyright and fair use laws when using artifacts found
via the internet
Resources: VIEW RECORDED Session / Quick Reference Handout for Students
>>Thursday, Nov. 18, 12:00-1:00, 225 Peabody Hall
Energizing Writing Projects – See how LSU faculty are empower students to write for a global audience and publish
research to Wikipedia.
Resources: Teaching with Wikipedia
>>Wednesday, Nov. 16, 12:30-1:30, 104 Design Building
Effective techniques for integrating peer review for writing, speaking, and other
C-I assignments
Resource: VIEW RECORDED Session
>>Wednesday, Sept. 8, 12:30-1:30, 225 Peabody Hall
Spring 2010
Faculty Demo & Discussions: Using Pen Displays for Teaching & Learning
Resource: Wacom products
>>Wednesday, April 21, 11:30-12:30, 151 Coates Hall
Using Portfolios in the Classroom for Learning, Teaching, and Student Assessment
>>Monday, March 22, 11:30-12:30, 225 Peabody Hall
Team-Based Learning – Small Group Learning’s Next Big Step (CxC sponsored live webinar by Educause Learning Initiative)
>>Monday, March 8, 12:00-1:00, 202 Coates Hall
Fall 2009
Teaching Effective Visual Communication in Non-Art Classes
>>Thursday, Nov. 19, 12:00-1:00, 225 Peabody Hall
Using video-based projects to teach course concepts, while improving students’ critical thinking and communication skills
>>Tuesday, Oct. 27, 12:00-1:00, 225 Peabody Hall
Effectively using Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom to Improve Students’ Learning
Resource: Web 2.0 Classroom Tools
>>Wednesday, Sept. 9, 11:30-12:30, 225 Peabody Hall