Events

November

Capstone Courses: Ensuring High Impact Experiences - Friday, 11/14, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Virtual

Capstone courses and senior seminars offer students a powerful opportunity to synthesize learning and prepare for life beyond college. This collaborative session explores what makes capstones truly high-impact, focusing on elements like public demonstration of competence, real-world application, and reflective practice. In community with colleagues, participants will share course models, discover innovative strategies, and leave with a framework and tools to deepen the learning and significance of their capstone experiences.

Fix Your Course Content Day - 11/18/2025, Cook Library 404B

Join FACET for a Digital Accessibility Drop-In Day!

Stop by Cook Library, Room 404B anytime between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to collaborate with FACET instructional designers on ways to make your digital course materials more accessible. Whether you have 15 minutes or an hour, we’d love to see you! Each small improvement helps create a more inclusive and engaging student learning experience.

Stay for lunch and great conversation as we put accessibility into action—one course, one improvement at a time.

Accessibility in Action: Captioning and Transcription Tools You Already Have - Thursday, November 20, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Virtual

Captioning your videos and providing transcripts for your audio is not only good practice and recommended, but it also ensures that every student can participate fully in the digital world. In this workshop, FACET will go over how to easily generate and edit captions and transcripts using the most common applications at Towson University: Panopto, Microsoft Word, Stream, and VoiceThread.

December

Imagining America CoP – December Workshop, 12/1/2025, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., CK 404B

The Imagining America Community of Practice (CoP) at TU provides an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students to connect and to collectively build an infrastructure for collaboration, learning about community engagement, In these sessions we creatively re-imaging our teaching, practice, and scholarship.

The next workshop takes place from 12. – 1:30 p.m. on December 1st in Cook Library, Room 404B. Lunch will be provided. New members are welcome!

Inspired by Toni Morrison’s idea of “the clearing” – a place for love, self-care, and revival – the December workshop participants will utilize creative materials to imagine our individual and collective “clearings” here at TU. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to join. Lunch will be served.

Past Events

TEaching
Integrating AI Components into Course Syllabi and Assignments	Panopto (01:23:03 video)
Introduction to Podcasting	Panopto (01:06:32 video)
The Myth of Grades as a System of Measurement and Standards Based Grading Powerpoint	Youtube (00:48:00 video)
Engaging Learners During Online Instruction	Youtube (00:24:49 video)

REsearch & Scholarship
Launching a Research Program at TU	Panopto (00:55:00 video)
Mentoring Award-Winning Students	Panopto (01:00:06 video)
Applying for a Fulbright Award	Panopto (00:56:41 video)
Planning for and Writing a Winning NSF CAREER Proposal	Panopto (00:54:49) video

Emerging technology
Virtual Reality Environments Using 3D Models in Unity	Youtube (1:09:00 video)
Gamification 2: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure YouTube Stories	Panopto (00:56:21 video)
Creative Coding On and Through the Web	Panopto (01:28:42 video)