Faculty Retreat Workshops

  • Are you inspired?
  • Want to know more?
  • Thinking of enhancing your course or applying for a retreat grant?

...Then participate in our Faculty Retreat workshops!

Pre-Retreat Workshop in Room 428, Armory Bldg.

Feb. 21 (Thurs.)
1:30–3:00 pm

Hands-On Teaching and Learning with Adobe Spark, Audition, and Premiere Rush
Guest Presenter: Todd Taylor is the Eliason Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also directs the first-year writing program.  Since the early 1990s, his research and teaching have examined how literacy is evolving in response to rapidly changing digital, information, and networked technologies.  He has recently authored Adobe Creative Cloud across the Curriculum: A Guide for Students and Teachers and Becoming a College Writer: A Multimedia Text  (Bedford/St. Martin's), and co-edited Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet (Columbia).

Post-Retreat Workshops in Room 172, Armory Bldg.

Feb. 26 (Tues.)
4:00–5:00 pm

Remix Your Assignments: Student-Centered Remixes Across Genres, Across Disciplines

Feb. 27 (Wed.)
12:00–1:00 pm

Visual Storytelling: Theory and Practice

Mar. 11 (Mon.)
12:00–1:00 pm

Multimodal Assignments with Adobe Spark

Mar. 14 (Thurs.)
12:00–1:00 pm

Sound Advice: Audio Storytelling for Everyone

Mar. 26 (Tues.)
4:00–5:00 pm
Building the Past: Using Design Applications and Virtual Reality in the Social Studies Classroom

Mar. 28 (Thurs.)
12:00–1:00 pm

Leverage High-Impact Learning with ePortfolio


For additional information and to register: go.illinois.edu/citlcalendar.