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Welcome to CAT Base, the new and improved CAT+FD wiki, designed to support programming by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development at Xavier University of Louisiana.
Brightspace Tutorials
- Brightspace: Instructors Quick Start Tutorial — To successfully teach your courses, you must be able to utilize basic Brightspace tools. If you are not already familiar with Brightspace, or if you need a refresher, start here.
- Customize Your Course Homepage in Brightspace — Customize your course homepages to enhance the course experience for your students.
- Utilize Brightspace to Help Students Stay on Track
- Allow Learners to Reflect on Their Learning
- Engagement Strategies for Online Discussions in Brightspace
- Facilitating Group Work in Your Brightspace Course
- Using VoiceThread to Enhance Lectures and Discussions
- Rethinking and Improving Online Tests in Brightspace
- Inclusive Teaching in Mixed-Mode
- Instructional Continuity — Anything from extreme weather to family emergencies can disrupt scheduled courses. An instructional continuity plan will assist you with continuing course delivery in the event of a disruption by minimizing the effects of the disruption.
- #LearnEverywhereXULA (Online/Hybrid Instructor Tutorial)
- Brightspace Small Plates — Timely tips from our award-winning blog.
- See also our Brightspace FAQ as well as our Brightspace documents.
EdTech Tutorials
- Achieving HTML Literacy — The mysterious code of web pages doesn't have to be so mysterious anymore.
- Content Curation for Teaching & Learning — The content curator is emerging as an important role in the 21st century.
- How to create a personal website — These simple step-by-step instructions will guide you through the process of setting up a free personal website on WordPress.com.
- Everybody's a Visual Learner
- How to Make Excellent Video Lectures
- Using Camtasia
- Using Feedly
- Using VoiceThread for Teaching and Learning
- Video help
Pedagogy Presentations
Transformative Feast
- Mindfulness for You & Your Students
- Technopathology and the Mindfulness Movement
- Developing a Personal Vision — Articulating a personal vision can re-energize your efforts, inform your short-term and long-term plans, even improve your daily time-management skills.
- Developing a Personal Vision and a Personal Website
- Five Iron-Clad Laws of Extremely Efficient Time Management
- Social Media, Social Justice
- Maintaining Focus in a Fragmented World
Communities of Practice
- Fall Faculty Book Club: During the fall semester CAT sponsors a book club for Xavier faculty.
- Teaching Portfolio Working Group: Develop a portfolio as a scholarly project that provides documented evidence of teaching from a variety of sources.
- P-MAX (Preparing Mentors and Advisors at Xavier): P-MAX is a training program that is designed to provide participating faculty with the knowledge and skills needed to mentor and advise undergraduate students, especially those engaged in research.
- #LearnEverywhereXULA Advanced Certification
- XULA Faculty Writing Group
Resources
- Brightspace Educator Share Showcase (The Orange Room)
- Brightspace FAQs
- Brightspace HTML Templates Resource
- Brightspace Known Issues
- Creative Commons Resources
- Equipment — Actual physical hardware Xavier faculty can borrow.
- Faculty Resources
- Inverted Teaching
- KeepTeachingXULA (Instructional Continuity Toolbox)
- QR Codes in Education
- STEM and Mentoring Resources
- Tips for Hybrid (Mixed-Mode) Presentations (in CAT+FD facilities)
- Transparency in Learning and Teaching
- Using CC Licenses and CC Licensed Works
- Writing and Research Productivity
Archived Resources
- Academic Integrity
- Assessing Student Learning (Assessment Toolbox)
- Career Pathways Initiative
- Digital Footprint Resources
- Grounding
- NASA SHELiB Bridge to High Schools
- Student Resources
- 2017 RISE & BUILD Summer Workshops
- 2019 RISE & BUILD Summer Workshops
- 50 Web Tools for Online Teaching and Learning