Monday, July 10
11:30am to 12:15pm

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Draw inspiration from innovative approaches programs are using to save time, share ideas, and enhance continuity across curricula.

Tuesday, July 11
9:00am to 9:50am
Instructor: Sabrina Fairchild
Meet in Lillis 211 classroom

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Come experience yoga postures and breathing techniques accessible to all body types and abilities. Practicing yoga improves your well-being, focuses your mind and increases your joy. This is a gift for you and those you serve. Participants are encouraged to dress comfortably, but not required to dress down for the session, nor will mats be needed. We will practice standing and/or in chairs. All are welcome.

PE & Rec is a wonderful resource for student and faculty wellness! For example: 

• There are 3 new massage chairs in the Zen Zone. Each massage cycle is 15-minutes. Chairs are available on a first come, first serve, accessible any time the building is open.
• There is a hot tub in the Downtown Aquatics area, available during all open rec swim times.
• You’re also welcome to use any of the fitness and recreational spaces for movement and/or play.

For general facility, hot tub, rock wall or other specialty area hours, visit the website: https://rec.uoregon.edu/hours
Check out the Summer Yoga Freebie classes Wednesdays at noon. 

Tuesday, July 11
10:00 to 11:30am

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Discover practical ideas for using Canvas that will save you time, increase clarity for your students, and help you focus on the aspects of teaching you enjoy the most. We'll explore both basic and advanced uses of Canvas, address common struggles among faculty, and provide pedagogical and practical tips to enhance your teaching with targeted strategies like automated communication and time-saving template structures.

Agenda for session:

• Introduction and session objectives.

• Part 1: Time-Saving strategies in Canvas for efficient teaching workflows

  • Mature uses of using and framing announcements, scheduling and educating students of notifications, and utilizing group spaces.

  • Breakout into discussion groups to identify and share strategies, challenges, and key points.

• Part 2: Enhancing Clarity and Communication

  • Mature uses and importance of being consistency within your course utilizing Canvas features for clear communication, course navigation and layouts, assignment and assessment design.

  • Breakout into discussion groups to identify and share strategies, challenges, and key points.

• Part 3: Assessment, A Day in the Life

  • Overview of mature uses within SpeedGrader, Comment Library, and Rubrics.

  • Breakout into discussion groups to identify and share strategies, challenges, and key points.

• Session Conclusion and wrap up.

Session materials:

• File Making Canvas Work For You - Slide Deck
• File Jamboard collaborative document for sharing key topics, strategies, and challenges within each Part. (this is a copied .pdf version of that document).

 

Tuesday, July 11
11:30am to 12:15pm

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Join us for an inspiring look into colleagues’ Canvas teaching materials. Circulate among a group of UO faculty who will be sharing refined examples of assignments, rubrics, peer activities, and more—some you’ll be able to download right into your own Canvas course site! This fast-paced session highlights the effort faculty like you put into designing and refining classes, but also celebrates that we need not do it alone. Quite the opposite: one of the great joys of working alongside such talented educators is that we get to learn from each other and share what has been working in our own classes. You'll leave this session with the gift of tangible materials you can adapt for your own class.

Wednesday, July 12
9:00am to 9:50am
Instructor: Whitey Lueck
Meet in Lillis 150 Atrium

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Few visitors are aware of the dramatic changes that have occurred to the campus landscape since the University of Oregon was founded in 1876—when only two small trees stood on what is now the entire campus footprint. Apart from the one tree remaining from the original two, every tree on campus has been planted since 1876. Why was the campus treeless before? Where have all these trees come from? You’ll find the answers to these questions—and plenty of other fascinating stories about the campus landscape—in this brief tour with local dendrophile (tree-lover in Greek) Whitey Lueck.
 

See dates and descriptions of Whitey's upcoming tree tours:

File treewalks-2023-brochure.pdf

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Wednesday, July 12
10:00 to 11:30am

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This session offers a concrete framework for considering “flexibility” that includes a “decision tree” of questions you might ask to get you to a clearer solution. We’ll share illustrations from your colleagues’ practices of enacting flexibility in particular areas for particular goals, with an emphasis on ones that are transferable, straightforward, and work with the Senate’s “reason neutral” Attendance and Engagement Policy; we’ll also share illustrations from students about the impact of flexibility on their learning. You’ll leave having identified one flexibility-related practice you might try in your course—one that increases both your and your students’ capacity for engaging in your course.

Agenda for session:

• Session goals and context​

• What we're talking about when we talk about “flexibility”​

• Clarifying what practices are required (and what aren’t)​

• Identifying parameters and purpose​

• Crowdsourcing practices you/your colleagues use for each purpose​

• Choose your own adventure breakouts (including option to discuss Attendance & Engagement Policy or AEC flexibility accommodations)​

• Collective next steps (ones for us, and one to select for yourself)

Session materials:

• Getting Specific (and Realistic) about Flexibility PowerPoint
• Collaborative Word document for crowdsourced practices, questions, and comments (need to sign in under UO account)

 

Thursday, July 13
9:00am to 9:50am
Instructor: Adriana Miramontes Olivas
Meet in JSMA Lobby

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Join us for a private “before hours” tour of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Curator Adriana Miramontes Olivas will introduce viewers to the collection and special exhibitions, as well as varied topics such as the meaning of art, the environment, meditation, politics, and notions of global mobility. During this session participants will also be invited to consider how sound, light, and space are employed by artists to examine not only contemporary issues, but to inspire and motivate change in our society.

Learn more about incorporating JSMA into your teaching at the museum's Faculty Resource Center. 

Thursday, July 13
10:00 to 11:30am

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This session considers class discussion and dialogue in light of shifting student attitudes toward class attendance and participation, and in light of students’ varied preparation to reach some of the goals and ideals for discussion many of us hold. What are the aims of class discussion in 2023 and beyond? What are the impediments? How can we deepen students’ sense of the purpose, value, and moves that matter in discussion-based activates, and elevate our class conversations from discussion to true cross-perspective dialogue. Examples will draw from multiple modalities.

Session materials:

• Deepening Dialogue PowerPoint
• Components of Discussion Protocols handout
• Discussion Moves that Foster Critical Inquiry, Curious Exploration, and Collaboration handout
• Sentence Starters for Discussion Boards handout
• Structured Academic Controversy activity
• Teaching in Turbulent Times Toolkit

 

Friday, July 14
10:00 to 11:30am

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Writing is taught within the Composition Program and in more than 60 percent of Core Education courses; it’s listed as a specific learning outcome for more than 70 percent of UO majors – it’s truly a shared project. But how do UO students experience writing tasks, and how can we meet the moment—one characterized by more easily accessible artificial intelligence systems and the lingering impacts of remote instruction on students’ foundational skills?

In this session, the findings of a recent UO research project will ground a broader discussion about how students struggle with time management and anxiety when it comes to writing. We will also be joined by faculty leaders in writing instruction who will share approachable and adaptable techniques for guiding students as they use writing to reflect, think, and grow.   

Session Materials

• File Nancy Sommers, Responding to Student Writers
• File Writing Circle Activity, Emily Simnitt
• File Good Writing Habits, Emily Simnitt
• File Instant Replay Activity, Lori Shontz
• File Writing activities, Lori Shontz
• File Written Communication Student Survey Data

Friday, July 14
11:30am to 12:15pm

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Join in for a playful way to share favorite teaching strategies with faculty colleagues.