Tools and Features in CTools

As you get ready to set up your course sites, you might find this list of all of the Ctools tools and their uses helpful. For further information see the CTools Help Page. Please contact me directly at ahaines@umich.edu if you have any questions about CTools or need help setting up your site.

Announcements -- For posting information

Assignments -- For private submission and grading of coursework

BlueReview -- For linking to lecture recordings hosted on BlueReview

CAEN Lecture Recording -- For linking to lecture recordings hosted by CAEN

Chat Room -- For posting messages among site participants in real time

Drop Box -- For private file sharing between instructors and students

Email Archive -- For displaying email sent to the site

Engineering Honor Code -- For displaying your course honor policy (Engineering courses only)

Forums -- For posting topics and responses

Gradebook -- For posting grades, either entered directly or imported from other tools

i>clicker Sakai i>clicker Plugin - integrates Sakai and i>clicker products

iTunes U -- For distributing media using iTunes

LectureTools -- For enabling live interactivity during lecture sessions

Library Help -- For instant-messaging with a UM librarian

M+Box -- For storing and sharing files in your M+Box account

Messages -- For posting messages directly to individual site participants

Modules -- For building and displaying sequenced learning materials

News -- For displaying RSS and other -- Forms of syndicated web content

Piazza -- For students to ask and answer questions under the guidance of their instructor

Podcasts -- For distributing media

Polls -- For collecting feedback on a given question

Resources -- For posting documents, website URLs, etc.

Schedule -- For posting deadlines, events, etc.

Site Info -- For modifying site properties and participants

Syllabus -- For posting a summary, outline, or requirements

Test Center -- For building and distributing assessments (e.g., quizzes)

Web Content -- For displaying standard web pages

Wiki -- For collaborative authoring of pages and content

Faculty Invite to Enriching Scholarship Artists' Books Workshop

I would like to invite interested faculty and graduate students to sign up for my Enriching Scholarship Workshop, Artist Books For Inspiration or Just for Fun, happening on Thursday, 5/8 from 1:00 pm-3:00 pm in The AAEL Special Collections Room, room B245 in the Duderstadt Center.

Artists’ books are books that were created as works of art. The Art, Architecture and Engineering Library (AAEL) Special Collections has a growing collection of artists’ books in its holdings. These books have been created via printing press, silk screening, painting, sewing, and numerous other processes. They are made from a wide range of media including aluminum, cloth, handmade paper and wood. The books vary greatly in size and structure. Some fit in the palm of a hand, while others span the length of a table. Some are bound, while others must be constructed to be read, and still others illuminate to be read in the dark. In this hands-on session, Annette Haines, the Art and Design Librarian, will showcase this vibrant and thought-provoking collection and discuss ways in which you might incorporate these books into your courses.

Click here to register for this workshop.

Enriching Scholarship is a weeklong, campus-wide conference sponsored by the Teaching and Technology Collaborative. Throughout the week of May 5th-9th free workshops are offered for faculty, staff, and students to support teaching and technology.
This year's Enriching Scholarship Keynote (Monday, May 5th) "From Disruption to Design: Technology and the Future of Residential Education" will be given by Diana Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE.
Visit the Enriching Scholarship website to view the schedule and register for sessions.
Please join us for a week of teaching a learning together!

For Madiba with Love! - exhibition Jan.27th-Feb.14th

Literature Review Workshops

Do you need to conduct a literature review for your proposal, dissertation, or research article? Are you concerned about how you’ll find the best articles, how to keep track of your findings, or ways to improve your search process? This workshop will guide participants through the steps that will help them search the literature to see what research has been done on a particular topic and how best to keep track of what they find along the way. Participants will learn about the different kinds of literature reviews, how to judge which are the more important writings on the topic, as well as what are some of the more specialized sources to check in their specific fields. Best of all, they will learn when they can stop searching!

Literature Review for the Social Sciences

Wednesday, 10/30, 1:00pm-3:00pm

Register at: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/literature-review-for-social-sciences-2/

Literature Review for the Humanities

Monday, 11/11, 3:00-5:00pm

Register at: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/literature-review-for-the-humanities-2/

For additional information on Library instruction and workshops see:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/instruction-and-workshops

What is LectureTools and is it right for me and my class?

Have you heard the name "LectureTools" or seen it in the CTools list of tools and wondered what it is? The Faculty Exploratory and LSA Instructional Support Services are hosting two types of events to help you answer that question. First, we have a demonstration and discussion about what the tool is, the impact it can have on your class, and how it is currently being used here at the University. Second, if you decide you would like to try this tool, we'll have some hands-on workshops that will help you get ready for winter semester. To register for either, please visit http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/tag/lecturetools/

Descriptions of the sessions are below. As always, if you have questions about these or other tools, or would like to be removed from this email group, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools
Tuesday, 10/22, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
If you have a large lecture section, it is sometimes difficult to know which concepts are confusing to students and if they are actively engaged with the material during class. Using LectureTools can be an effective way to directly involve students and solicit their feedback while you are teaching. Activated via your CTools site, this tool allows you to ask multiple choice or free response questions, and lets students flag slides they find confusing, submit questions, and take notes that are synchronized with the lecture slides.

In this demonstration, you will hear from University faculty members who are currently using LectureTools, and how it has impacted their teaching. This demonstration is a broad overview of the tool, focusing on why and how you could use it in your classes; later on in the semester there will be “hands-on” workshops that will get you ready to use LectureTools during the Winter Term.

Getting Started with LectureTools
Wednesday, 10/30, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm OR Thursday, 11/14, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Now that you’ve attended the "Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools" demonstration and understand how LectureTools can enhance your students’ classroom experience, it’s time to get your lectures ready for Winter term. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll start as “students” in a class, so you can experience what LectureTools could be like for your students. After that, we’ll move to the instructor’s side, starting with a tour of the interface. You’ll then learn how to import PowerPoint presentations and insert interactive slides. We’ll discuss the instructor dashboard, how to read and answer student questions, and strategies for successful presentations. Finally, we’ll work in the assessment feature of LectureTools and discuss how to produce reports generated from student responses.

We strongly encourage you to attend the “Making Your Lecture Presentations Interactive with LectureTools” demonstration session to see if LectureTools is right for you and your course.

Grants and funding workshops for graduate students and faculty

Finding Funding for Graduate Students
Need funding to do your dissertation work?  Perhaps a fellowship or scholarship for graduate school? A graduate internship over the summer? This hands-on workshop will present an overview of several academic funding databases available to you that can assist in getting research, fellowship, and other grants. University members have online access to resources that list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities from the Federal government, foundations, professional societies, and other sources. We will do hands-on work with the various resources, learn how to develop sound search strategies, and learn about establishing email alerts for new grants.

•   October 7, 4-5:30 pm  
•   October 23, 12-1:30 pm
•   November 14, 8-9:30 am

To register:  http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/sponsor/university-library/

Finding Funding for Faculty Research & Projects
This hands-on workshop will present an overview of online and human resources at UM that can assist you in getting research grants. Online sources list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities. We will discuss and demonstrate the various web-based funding databases, search strategies, establish email alerts, and create and use individual expertise profiles.

•   October 9, 2-4 pm
•   November 6, 10 am - 12noon
•   November 19, 8:30-10:30 am
•   December 4, 12-2 pm

To register: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/sponsor/university-library/

Spouse and Significant Other Borrowing Privileges

Did you know that UM faculty and staff may request an MLibrary card for their spouse or significant other? It's true! With this MLibrary card, the borrowing privileges are good for one year (or for the duration of the faculty/staff appointment, if less than one year), and the loan period is typically three weeks. For more details, and to request borrowing privileges for your spouse or significant other, see:

https://www.lib.umich.edu/spouse-so-borrowing

ARTstor video demos and online training

ARTstor is a vast database of digital images from hundreds of world class museums and institutions. Faculty can use these images and collaborate with others to enhance lectures and help students learn about art and design. ARTstor's excellent help resource (http://help.artstor.org) includes video demos to help you learn to take advantage of its functionality. Demos include:

• Export to PowerPoint walks you through the process of exporting your ARTstor image groups into a single PowerPoint presentation. Step-by-step PDF guides are also available.
• Folders and image groups explores user options for organizing images within the ARTstor Digital Library. Step-by-step PDF guides are also available. 
• How to unlock a password protected folder guides users through the process of finding and unlocking a shared folder. Step-by-step PDF guides are also available.
• Faceted search describes how to use the faceted search panel to narrow your results when searching within the ARTstor Digital Library. Step-by-step PDF guides
•  Registering walks users through the process of registering for an ARTstor user account.

ARTstor also offers webinars on the basics (viewing, printing and downloading images) and advanced topics (using folders and creating personal collections). You can sign up for these seminars here: http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Online_training_schedule

Faculty Workshop: “Promoting Your Book Like Plutarch: Wisely and Well”

A working scholar has precious little time to apply to attracting readers for a new book. But also can’t afford not to. The middle ground is, as Plutarch would say, to promote wisely and well, utilizing available resources for the best and strongest use of already overtaxed time. Please join us on Tuesday, April 9, as we welcome to campus Kevin Smokler, a noted expert on the relationship between new technologies and traditional publishing. He will discuss how to:

--promote your book smarter,

--reach a wider audience,

--extend the life of your scholarship,

--use social media,

--measure success, and

--develop your readership

Kevin Smokler is the author of “Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School” (Prometheus Books, 2013). He has lectured on the subject at universities and conferences throughout North America. His writings have appeared in the LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, Fast Company, The Believer, and on NPR.

Workshop details:

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

10:00AM – 12:00PM

Welker Room, Michigan Union

To register, please contact Rebecca Sestili, our Author Publisher Liaison, at rsestili@umich.edu.

Winter Term Workshops at the Faculty Exploratory

For Faculty:

Hi all! I hope the start of the semester is going well for you. Our workshop schedule for winter term is now available at http://teachtech.umich.edu - please visit to find out more information or to register.

Also remember that we are happy to teach technology sessions for your students as it may relate to assignments you create; just contact me to learn more or to set one up for a class.

As always, you are welcome to set up an appointment at your convenience to learn to use a technology tool in your teaching or research - just let us know some dates and times that work for you.

Thank you for your interest in our services and workshops!

--L.

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Laurie A. Sutch
Director, Academic Technology Group
University Library
University of Michigan
206 Hatcher Library
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
phone:  (734) 647-7406
Fax:    (734) 764-0259
http://www.lib.umich.edu/exploratory

Upcoming CTools workshops

There are several CTools sessions scheduled in the next few weeks to help you get ready for winter term.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/tag/ctools/

The Faculty Exploratory will be open through December 20th to help you get ready, but will be closed Dec. 21 - Jan 7th.

UMMA Multipurpose Room - Info Sessions

Information Sessions on Teaching and Research at UMMA

Multipurpose Room (Room 125), University of Michigan Museum of Art

November 28, 10:00 - 10:30

UMMA invites faculty and graduate students from across the university to come and learn how to access our collection of nearly 19,000 art objects for teaching and research.

A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has enabled UMMA to hire two staff members—David Choberka, the Mellon Academic Coordinator, and Anne Drozd, the Mellon Collections Assistant—who can help to connect faculty and graduate students to UMMA’s resources.

We are particularly interested in promoting and assisting innovative use of our collection by instructors who teach in academic units that do not regularly work with art objects and in connecting faculty for creative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching with visual and material culture.

We will also be offering two information sessions next semester.

Please plan on coming.

Sincerely,

David Choberka (dchoberk)                                     

Mellon Academic Coordinator                                 

Anne Drozd (drozda)

Mellon Collections Assistant

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David Choberka
Mellon Academic Coordinator

University of Michigan Museum of Art
+1 734 615 8181 phone
+1 734 764 2540 fax

525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1354
www.umma.umich.edu
www.facebook.com/ummamuseum

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Lecturer of German

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

3106 Modern Languages Building

812 E. Washington St.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275

Drawing On Nature: Animal Illustrations, New Exhibit at the Shapiro Science Library

This exhibit features animal illustrations by Professor Joseph Trumpey from the School of Art & Design and the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.

Date: October 5th - April 30th

Location: Shapiro Science Library, 3rd Floor Connector Hall

http://www.lib.umich.edu/events/drawing-nature-animal-illustrations

Grants Classes

Finding Funding for Graduate Students
This hands-on workshop will present an overview of online resources at that can assist you in getting fellowships, internships, and dissertation/research grants. Online sources list and describe tens of thousands of current funding opportunities. We will discuss and demonstrate the various web-based funding databases available, search strategies, and how to establish email alerts. Additionally, there will be a discussion about matching sponsor and student priorities. (All sessions cover identical content.)

   
     * Wednesday, October 17th, 12-1:30pm, ULIC (4059 Shapiro)
     * Wednesday, November 14th, 12-1:30pm, ULIC (4059 Shapiro)
     * Thursday, December 6, 12-1:30pm, ULIC (4059 Shapiro)
     * Monday, December 10, 4-5:30pm, ULIC (4059 Shapiro)

Great Grantsmanship: Finding Funding Sources for Faculty Research and Academic Projects
This hands-on workshop will present an overview of online and human resources at UM that can assist you in getting research grants. Online sources list and describe thousands of current funding opportunities. We will discuss and demonstrate the various web-based funding databases currently available, search strategies, establish email alerts, and create and use individual expertise profiles. Additionally, there will be a discussion about matching sponsor and faculty priorities. (All sessions cover identical content.)

     * Friday, October 12, 9-11am (4041 Shapiro)
     * Thursday, October 25, 11:30am-1:30pm (Gallery Lab, Room 100 Graduate Library)
     * Friday, November 9, 9-11am (ULIC, 4059 Shapiro)
     * Thursday, December 6, 2-4pm (ULIC, 4059 Shapiro)

To register for any of the workshops, please point your browser to: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/upcoming/

Workshop for UM faculty authors

Can My Book Cross Over to a Mainstream Audience?
Should I Get a Literary Agent?
Strategic Workshop for Faculty

• How can I tell if my book has mass appeal?
• How do I write for a sophisticated lay audience?
• How do I find the right agent?
• What will an agent do for me?
• How do I get media attention for my work?

On Friday, November 16, Rebecca Sestili, Author-Publisher Liaison, welcomes Dr. Carole Sargent, Director of Georgetown University’s Office of Scholarly Publications. She joins us on campus for a morning publishing workshop to share her experience working with Georgetown’s faculty on these topics and to answer your questions. You'll leave the workshop with a good idea of how take your book to mainstream readers and how to bring media attention to you and your work.

When:  Friday, November 16, 2012, 10:00 to noon.

Where: Michigan Union, Welker Room

Who should come: Faculty at any level are encouraged to attend. The workshop is highly suitable for authors interested in reaching a broad audience.

RSVP to rsestili@umich.edu by November 9, 2012

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR: Carole Sargent, Ph.D. is Director of Scholarly Publications at Georgetown University, where she was previously on the English Department faculty. Her two books with Farrar, Straus & Giroux received attention in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and on "60 Minutes," NPR and CNN, among many others. She leads a workshop, “Public Intellectual,” for faculty authors at Georgetown, and she has brought literary agents from William Morris Endeavor, Trident Media, and ICM to campus. Her office has been profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education and featured in Change. She welcomes your questions or thoughts before the workshop, booklab@georgetown.edu.

"Academic Publishing Untangled" workshop for faculty

Rebecca Sestili, the Author Publisher Liaison, is offering two sessions of her popular "Academic Publishing Untangled" workshop for faculty and post-docs this fall:
This session, directed to tenure-track faculty and post-docs planning an academic career, will take you step by step through the process of getting your book published.  In an informal setting, I’ll stop along the way to answer your questions, general and specific, and offer tips on how to get your book proposal noticed, what to look for in your contract, and many other topics.

Academic Publishing Untangled
Monday, October 15, 2012
10AM-12PM
Michigan Union, Welker Room
register via email

Academic Publishing Untangled
Friday, October 26, 2012
10AM-12PM
Hatcher Gallery Lab
register via  TTC

Strategies and Techniques for Effectively Using Video in Teaching

Monday, 10/1, 6:00 pm-7:30 pm

There are a multitude of possibilities for bringing video into today’s classroom to support student learning, but how can it best be done in a way that encourages learning and involvement? In this session we will explore the realities of what can be done with current technology as well as some ideas for what might be possible with new technologies on the horizon. We will explore three aspects of classroom use: making video available to students 24/7; effective use of video for classroom presentations; and ways to support students with creating video based assignments.

Register at:

http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/strategies-and-techniques-for-effectively-using-video-in-teaching/

Read Out-- Banned Books Week, Oct. 4th on the Diag

Next week is Banned Books Week. The Read Out will be Thursday, Oct. 4th, from noon-1pm on the diag. The Read Out is an annual event where readers from the campus community read short passages (2-3 minutes) from banned books. Please pass this information along to any interested departments, campus organizations, and individuals. Readers can contact me to schedule a time to read.

Library celebrating recently-published books by faculty

The UM Library is launching an effort to celebrate new book publications by UM authors across the Humanities and Social Sciences. We will host an annual event in recognition of new work, and will feature new releases in a special UM Authors Corner housed in the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Have you published a book during this calendar year (or, will you be publishing one before April 2013)? If so, we'd love to know about it.

Kind regards,

Barbara Alvarez, Jennifer Bonnet, Sigrid Cordell, and Aaron McCollough

MLibrary Faculty Publication Project 
newfacultybooks@umich.edu

ARTstor now includes even more contemporary art images

ARTstor, the digital library of more than one million images, has signed an Online Art Agreement (OLA) with Artists Rights Society (ARS) on behalf of six additional international visual arts organizations covering more than 10,000 new artists from six countries. This substantially expands the ARTstor Digital Library’s modern and contemporary artworks for subscribers.

The artists covered in the agreement include: Waino Aaltonen (Finland), Raul Anguiano (Mexico), Oscar Araripe (Brazil), Charles Blackman (Australia), Paul-Emile Borduas (Canada), Arthur Boyd (Australia), Jack Bush (Canada), Fernando and Umberto Campana (Brazil), José Chávez Morado (Mexico), Grace Cossington-Smith (Australia), Adam Cullen (Australia), Wilhelm Dachauer (Austria), Ken Done (Australia), Destiny Deacon (Australia), Max Dupain (Australia), Felipe Ehrenburg (Mexico), Valie Export (Austria), Rosalie Gascoigne (Australia), James Gleeson (Australia), Jorge González Camarena (Mexico), Oswaldo Goeldi  (Brazil), Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Austria), Eero Jarnefelt (Finland), Angelika Kaufmann (Austria), Manfred Kielnhofer (Austria), Awad Krayem (Austria), Emily Kngwarreye (Australia), Ozias Leduc (Canada), Elwyn Lynn (Australia), Adolfo Mexiac  (Mexico), Benito Messeguer (Mexico), Tracey Moffatt (Australia), Rodolfo Morales (Mexico), Hermann Nitsch (Austria), John Olsen (Australia), Jose Clemente Orozco (Mexico), Mike Parr (Australia), Jean-Paul Riopelle  (Canada), Georg Paul Thomann (Austria), Francisco Toledo (Mexico), Brett Whiteley (Australia), Fred Williams (Australia), Peter Paul Wiplinger (Austria), and Erwin Wurm (Austria), among thousands more.
For further information about the agreement see the ARTstor Blog at:

http://artstor.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/new-agreement-with-international-affiliates-of-the-artists-rights-society-ars/