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Weekly Emails
Throughout the academic year the CAFE director emails CPP faculty, offering an assortment of upcoming events, opportunities, teaching tips, career advice, important announcements, and more. Below is a collection of past emails.
Nov-18 : Winter Institutes, Accessibility Workshops, and More (pdf) Oct-29 : Week 10 CAFE Updates: Teaching Resources, Canvas News & Campus Community Events (pdf) Oct-14 : COOL Classes, Canvas News, and Mentoring (pdf) Oct-1 : Teaching, Service, Accessibility, AI Survey, and More (pdf) Sep-10 : Small Gestures, Big Impact and New CAFE Programs (pdf) Aug-27 : Accessibility Workshops, Consultations & Fall Events (pdf) Aug-19 : Welcome to the Fall Semester and Some Resources for a Great Start! (pdf) May-19 : Summer writing; CAFE Exec Director search (pdf) May-14 : Pomodoros for grading; important accessibility news (pdf) May-6 : Submitting grades on BroncoDirect; Canvas tips (pdf) Apr-30 : Your input sought; two paid PD opportunities (pdf) Apr-23 : The (apparently) unnecessary (pdf) Apr-8 : More on gAI (pdf) Apr-2 : Spring break, Faculty Day, and a funding opportunity (pdf) Mar-27 : Some big news and many resources (pdf) Mar-19 : Several tech-related items and much more (pdf) Mar-12 : Staying up with news; lots of programs (pdf) Mar-6 : Workload idea; Faculty Day!! (pdf) Feb-27 : Warm-up drill tip; conversations about grading (pdf) Feb-19 : Distraction in the classroom and lots of opportunities to talk (pdf) Feb-12 : Useful observation rubric and lots of programs (pdf) Feb-5 : Teaching microtip; amplifying an important message from Student Affairs (pdf) Jan-27 : "StudentLingo" resource; lots of programs & events (pdf) Jan-17 : First day of class, syllabus packet, PUBLISH your Canvas course, and more! (pdf)
Dec-13 : AI use at the end of the semester (pdf) Dec-6 : A productivity hack for Week 15 & Finals (pdf) Nov-30 : A concept-integration activity, "Save the Date" and more (pdf) Nov-21 : Happy Thanksgiving holiday and two paid opportunities (pdf) Nov-15 : Talking to students about grades (pdf) Nov-9 : Student evaluations, resources & programs (pdf) Nov-1 : Lots of ideas from fellow faculty! (pdf) Oct-24 : Last call for registering for the Nov. 3 AI Symposium! (pdf) Oct-19 : Resources if you need help; last call for Campus Symposium on AI (pdf) Oct-10 : Gradescope, Wall of COOL, Fearless Classroom, and an "unconference" (pdf) Oct-5 : Update your CPP 411 Directory info, lots of upcoming programs & resources (pdf) Sep-26 : A growth-focused activity, Technology Tuesday, & Wall of COOL! (pdf) Sep-20 : Early-mid-semester feedback; individual consultations (pdf) Sep-13 : Progress reports for students; lots of new scholarly and career resources (pdf) Sep-7 : "Power Hour"; Registration open for the AI symposium! (pdf) Sep-1 : A valuable professional asset (pdf) Aug-24 : Useful first day activity, Canvas reminder, and LOTS of cool opportunities (pdf) Aug-14 : Syllabus language for AI; news from IT, Instant Access, and Canvas (pdf) May-4 : Four useful notes including why not to suggest to students to withdraw (pdf) Apr-25 : Faculty Day 2.0, ideas for student evaluations (pdf) Apr-18 : Responding to AI-generated work; upcoming events & programs (pdf) Apr-11 : Two special events and a helpful action (pdf) Mar-16 : A discussion strategy; CAFE's Summer Institute 2023 (pdf) Feb-27 : CPP Care Center, another Canvas tip (pdf) Feb-21 : Canvas tips for midterm, new programs and resources (pdf) Jan-31 : Resource for holding good discussions; upcoming programs & resources (pdf) Jan-23 : Just-in-time reminders for getting started (pdf) Jan-19 : Two great ideas as you finalize spring plans (pdf) Jan-9 : Spring Syllabus, ChatGPT, the end of Blackboard, and more (pdf)
Dec-20 : End of semester, end of year notes (pdf) Dec-13 : Thoughts on final grades; uploading grades to Canvas gradebook (pdf) Dec-6 : The END of Blackboard approaches! plus, update on grade information (pdf) Nov-30 : WU's vs F's vs I's; end-of-semester checklist, and a couple of new things! (pdf) Nov-16 : Strategies to get high completion rates for student evaluations (pdf) Nov-9 : Waking up knowledge from early on; upcoming events & programs (pdf) Oct-24 : "Must do, should do, could do" and an early special event announcement (pdf) Oct-17 : The "Active learning library" and "Solo Success" workshop (pdf) Oct-13 : "Colleging" support; correction from last week; Wall of COOL (pdf) Sep-29 : Checking in with students; "Increase Your Writing Productivity," and first call for 2023 Wall of COOL nominations (pdf) Sep-21 : Mid-term feedback, last call for "peer to peer coaching" program (pdf) Sep-14 : Supporting students with covid; upcoming programs and resources (pdf) Sep-7 : Teaching microtip, upcoming programs, and "Everybody's Mentor" (pdf) Aug-31 : Teaching microtip; upcoming programs (pdf) Aug-25 : Idea for first day, Canvas news, and program highlights! (pdf)