Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning

Our Turn

MAY OUR TURN 2024

It is time once again to plan for Our Turn, an opportunity for faculty, staff, and professionals to come together as a teaching and learning community to discuss best teaching practices, participate in essential training, learn about and experiment with new technologies and become informed about new initiatives on campus. May Our Turn will be held May 6 (Zoom) and 7 (in-person, Hemphill Hall). STAY TUNED for links to propose sessions and register for them.

ALSO: August Our Turn 2024 will be held on Thursday, August 16, via Zoom. Details TBA.

Our Turn is a time to come together as a teaching and learning community to discuss best practices, participate in essential training, experiment with new technologies, and learn about new initiatives on campus. Radford University faculty and staff offer dozens of professional development sessions in topics related to:

- Research & Scholarship
- Teaching & Learning
- Implicit Bias
- Micro-aggression
- Inclusive Syllabi
- Inclusive First Day Of Class
- Instructional Technology
- Institutional Training & Development
- Technology Systems Training
- Service

Faculty and staff can sign up for the Our Turn mailing list.

Current Events

STATEMENT ON ANTI-RACISM

View the Academic Programs Statement On Anti-Racism.

OUR TURN

Our Turn is an opportunity for faculty, staff, and professionals to come together as a teaching and learning community to discuss best teaching practices, participate in essential training, learn about and experiment with new technologies and become informed about new initiatives on campus. May Our Turn will be held May 6 (Zoom) and 7 (in-person). Details TBA. Visit the Our Turn page to learn more.

PROFESSIONAL HEAD SHOT WEEK FOR STUDENTS

Spring 2024 Head Shot Week will be held March 11-15 in CITL. This is a free event, by students for students, in which any RU student can sign up to have a professional head shot taken in CITL's Studio One facility by CITL student workers. Please visit the Head Shot event page to learn for more about the event and to sign up when registration goes live.

FALL 2023 WORD FESTIVAL

CITL, along with campus and community partners, hosted the eighth annual Fall 2023 Word Festival throughout the month of October. Check out the Word Festival area of the site for details and to see what films took home awards.

THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF CHATGPT FOR COURSES

Download this helpful PDF document created by Dr. Heather Keith.

RESILIENT AND FLEXIBLE TEACHING

The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning and Information Technology Services maintain the Resilient and Flexible Teaching (RaFT) Resources course in D2L, which all faculty should have access to. Check out the course to find valuable how-to and best practices information regarding assessment, content, assignments, discussion and more.