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Data Carpentry Geospatial

9:00am - 4:30pm

Learn how to work with Geospatial data in the R programming language in this hands-on, interactive 2-day workshop.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Student Motivation and the Welcoming Syllabus

9:30am - 10:15am

We’ll discuss ways you can make your syllabus more inviting, motivating your students for the challenges in the course ahead.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Powering Up with Transparent Assignment Design

10:30am - 12:30pm

During this session, you’ll engage with peers to evaluate samples and then review and re-fashion one of your own assignments.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Blackboard: Assignments and Tests

11:00am - 12:00pm

This 60-minute workshop will primarily cover how to create assignments and develop tests that make the best of both your time and your students efforts.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Faculty & Staff

First Days of Class

1:30pm - 2:15pm

Discuss strategies for setting up your class for success from the very first day.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Data Carpentry Geospatial

9:00am - 4:30pm

Learn how to work with Geospatial data in the R programming language in this hands-on, interactive 2-day workshop.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Special Guest Workshop: Leveraging Pedagogy with Creative Technologies

10:00am - 1:00pm

Multimodal student assignments, podcasting, and audio-visual research papers are some of the exciting digital projects you will learn to create with and for your students during this hands-on workshop, designed with the novice user in mind.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Getting Started with VoiceThread

1:00pm - 2:00pm

VoiceThread is a web-based application that allows users to share and have conversations around media. Participants will learn how to integrate VoiceThread into their Blackboard course and how to create, comment and share content on VoiceThread.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Getting Started with Blackboard in 45 Minutes

2:00pm - 2:45pm

This workshop covers the best that Blackboard has to offer. From uploading course materials to engaging a discussion board to grading student assignments, participants will watch step-by-step demonstrations and explore diverse ways faculty use Blackboard at GW.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Fall Move-In

First-year students move in on August 21. Returning students move in on August 24.

Fall move-in is coming up! 

First-year students move in on August 21, 2019. Returning students move in on August 24, 2019.

Stress-proof your arrival to GW with these tips:  

• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Free Food
• Mount Vernon Campus

Tools for Creating Online Lectures

11:00am - 12:00pm

This workshop will cover the basics of online lecture creation using PowerPoint narration, iSpring, and Echo Personal Capture as tools to bring audio, video, and screen captures to lectures.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Optimizing Class Time: Openings and Closings

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Find out how to structure a single class meeting to take advantage of what learning science has to teach us about student motivation, memory, and long-term learning.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (Live Virtual Classroom)

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Come discover the essentials of Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, the new version of the synchronous virtual classroom tool, beginning with a general geography of the new and improved user interface and ending with a practice session.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Let's GRE Together: Practice Exam #2

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Study for the GRE together!

Are you planning to apply to graduate or doctoral programs December 2019 and want to take the GRE this fall?

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Start Smart: Graduate Student Orientation

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Get to know the powerful tools and unique resources GW Libraries have for graduate students. Learn about library spaces and services, and discover resources specific to your discipline.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Research

Getting Started with Blackboard in 45 Minutes

2:00pm - 2:45pm

This workshop covers the best that Blackboard has to offer. From uploading course materials to engaging a discussion board to grading student assignments, participants will watch step-by-step demonstrations and explore diverse ways faculty use Blackboard at GW.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Faculty & Staff

Start Smart: Graduate Student Orientation

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Get to know the powerful tools and unique resources GW Libraries have for graduate students. Learn about library spaces and services, and discover resources specific to your discipline.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Research

Columbian College Dean's Welcome Event

2:00pm - 2:00pm

Welcome Columbian College students!

• Academic Events
• Foggy Bottom Campus

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Convocation and Welcome Day of Service

11:00am - 4:00pm

Join your classmates at Convocation, the traditional academic ceremony where GW faculty, administrators and students welcome the incoming class. Following the ceremony, engage in service with your neighbors at local schools, parks and community organizations in the greater DC area. 

• Academic Events
• Community Service
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Speak with Confidence: Impromptu Speaking

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Speak with Confidence is an academic skills workshop series designed to improve the oral academic English skills of GW international students who speak English as a second or additional language.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Let's GRE Together: Review Exam #2

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Study for the GRE together!

Are you planning to apply to graduate or doctoral programs December 2019 and want to take the GRE this fall?

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Start Smart: Graduate Student Orientation

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Get to know the powerful tools and unique resources GW Libraries have for graduate students. Learn about library spaces and services, and discover resources specific to your discipline.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Research

Getting Started with Blackboard in 45 Minutes

6:00pm - 6:45pm

This workshop covers the best that Blackboard has to offer. From uploading course materials to engaging a discussion board to grading student assignments, participants will watch step-by-step demonstrations and explore diverse ways faculty use Blackboard at GW.

• Academic Events
• Faculty & Staff
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Speak with Confidence: Impromptu Speaking

12:45pm - 2:15pm

Speak with Confidence is an academic skills workshop series designed to improve the oral academic English skills of GW international students who speak English as a second or additional language.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Speak with Confidence: Key Words & Phrases

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Speak with Confidence is an academic skills workshop series designed to improve the oral academic English skills of GW international students who speak English as a second or additional language.

• Academic Events
• Career & Professional Development
• Foggy Bottom Campus