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FYW Passing the Torch Lunch & Learn

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Room

As we wind down from the fall semester and start looking forward to the spring, Writing Programs invites you all to join together for lunch in the Trustees’ Dining Room and conversation about teaching FYW. Those of you currently teaching FYW can pass the torch to your colleagues teaching FYW in the spring, and we […]

Moodle Upgrade Zoom Q&A Workshop

Zoom

A required update of our Moodle Learning Management System is scheduled for Monday, December 18th. A brief sneak peek video is available here, and a “first look” PDF guide is available here. While there are several drop-in sessions planned for January, the FDC and ITS are partnering to host this super sneak peek Q&A workshop about new Moodle features. […]

Spring 2024 Reading Circle – Mid-Career Teaching Enthusiasm Reboot

Duke Library - Room 042

It’s not uncommon to feel a little less enthusiastic about teaching during the last weeks of the semester as demands crank up and time seems to slip away. If you are frequently wondering why students seem less engaged than pre-pandemic, are feeling less energetic about teaching in general (it happens!), or want to connect with […]

Spring Write Now! Accountability Groups

Zoom

Do you have a writing project you are invested in this spring?  Would you like to connect with other Furman colleagues to achieve your goals? Research shows that scholars engaged in writing groups write more often and are more productive. The Faculty Development Center and the Furman Humanities Center will continue our popular peer-led structure of accountability to help […]

Lunch & Learn: An Introduction to Multi-Modal Assignments (Spring Seminar Series)

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Room

Multimodal assignments—assignments that ask students to use more than one mode of communication, such as verbal + visual or verbal + aural—offer students a challenge while allowing them to combine their critical and creative skills. Multimodal assignments also make it more difficult for students to use AI in unauthorized ways. In this Lunch and Learn, […]

Lunch & Learn: Teaching Development and Innovation Grant Brainstorm and Panel

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Room

The FDC offers two primary grant programs – Teaching Development and Teaching Innovation - to enhance teaching pedagogy that facilitates student learning and to integrate new technologies that enhance or expand pedagogical practice. Join us as we review details of both grant opportunities, hear about a few of the projects recently funded (with colleagues Eunice […]

Spring 2024 Reading Circle – Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Duke Library - Room 042

The conversation about happiness--what it is, what it isn't, and how to cultivate it--is an ongoing discussion.  Join us to learn more about what Build the Life you Want The Art and Science of Getting Happier co-author Arthur C. Brooks calls "Three Myths and Four Truths about How to Get Happier" (link here). In the book, Brooks and Winfrey […]

Spring 2024 Reading Circle – Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Duke Library - Pitts Room (Room 203) 3300 Poinsett Hwy,, Greenville, South Carolina

With her genius for demystifying science, Temple Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking and uncover how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers. Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers, with insight of particular relevance to educators from every […]

Designing Multimodal Assignments Workshop (Spring Seminar Series)

Duke Library - Room 042

This workshop is the second of a three-part series on multi-modal projects brought to you by Sarah Archino, Paige Dhyne, Magdelyn Helwig, and Jean Schwab. Colleagues are welcome to join as a stand-alone session, even if you did not participate in the first workshop. Now that you have decided to incorporate a multimodal assignment into one […]

Supporting Students’ Composing of Multimodal Assignments Workshop (Spring Seminar Series)

Duke Library - Room 042

This workshop is the third of a three-part series on multi-modal projects brought to you by Sarah Archino, Paige Dhyne, Magdelyn Helwig, and Jean Schwab. Participation is welcome as a stand-alone session, even if you did not participate in the first two workshops. You have got your multimodal assignment ready to go and are ready […]

Archives to Active Learning: Special Collections and Archives Fellowships Lunch & Learn

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Room

Special Collections and Archives offers two short summer fellowships for Furman faculty each year. Fellows explore the collections and liaise with library faculty and staff with an eye to enhancing an existing course or developing new course assignments or content to engage students with Furman’s rare and unique books, manuscripts, documents, and objects. Come to […]

Advising Students Interested in Law in 2024

Duke Library - Room 042

Join Furman’s  pre-law advisor Maya Russell for a workshop to discuss significant changes to law school admissions including: the removal of the LSAT analytical reasoning section, a growth in schools admitting on the GRE test, the introduction of the JDNext testing option, how AI is impacting file review, how the revision of the USNWR ranking […]