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Teaching Seminars

Celebrating Creative Teaching

Thursday, August 27, 2009 | 8:00am—3:15pm 601 Brannan Street

Celebrate the best of our teaching—creative, engaging, student-centered practices—in honor of the Academy’s 80th anniversary.

» Overview of Teaching Seminars
» Department-specific Midterm Workshops
» Online Tutorials
» Non-AAU Online Tutorials (including Sloan-C workshops)

Overview of Teaching Seminars
AAU Teaching Conferences and Workshops provide a chance to get together with colleagues from throughout the Academy to share teaching ideas, inspiration and best practices. These professional development opportunities are available to all AAU faculty and are free of charge. A full-day conference is held prior to the start of fall and spring semesters; midterm workshops are held throughout the semester as requested by faculty and directors; online tutorials are available on demand. Certificates of completion for all AAU Faculty Development seminars are sent to each participant and cc'd to the curriculum office for inclusion in individual faculty files.

Department-Specific Midterm Workshops
Let us bring the workshops to you! You tell us what topic you would like, where and when you are available and Faculty Development will bring a tailored workshop to you. Department directors, adminstrators or individual groups of faculty can select a topic from our workshop menu or request a new topic. (A minimum number of 4 partcipants are needed for a workshop. If you have 3 or fewer instructors, please schedule a small group/individual consultation.) For preparation and scheduling purposes, please request your workshop at least two weeks in advance. Menu of available workshop topics and descriptions. To request a workshop, email facultydevelopment@academyart.edu, or call us at 415-263-4201.
For topics and notes from previous workshops, see the past seminars page.

Online Tutorials
The following online trainings are available to all AAU faculty. For proof of completion for Easy Grade Pro I & II and Keeping Students Motivated, print out & date one of the final slides of the tutorials.

» New Faculty Orientation (Flash Required)
» Directed Study Advisor Orientation (Flash Required)
»  Easy Grade Pro—Novice (20 minutes)—Novice Tutorial
Update: The Academy uses pluses and minuses in the grading system, which is the default in EasyGrade Pro.
»  Easy Grade Pro—Intermediate (20 minutes)—Intermediate Tutorial
Update: The Academy now provides you with rosters pre-formatted for EasyGrade Pro on your class’s website, downloadable through the class Profile page.
»  Keeping Students Motivated (15 minutes)

Non-AAU Online Tutorials
Note that the following tutorials are not administered by the Academy of Art University. Instructors are responsible for obtaining proof of completion and submitting it to the curriculum office.

»  ThomsonWadsworth Publishers: (click on "Get Trained!") This one has a lot on teaching & learning, both onsite and online (Flash Required)
» North American Council on Online Learning (Flash Required)
» University of Adelaide, Australia, has a series of free webinars (Flash Required)
»  The Elearning Guild has a large list (which is also searchable by themes & relevant keywords) of all sorts of trainings on online teaching & learning