“Welcome!” Adjunct Faculty Orientation ImagineRIT As an RIT adjunct, you’re not just teaching...
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“Welcome!” Adjunct Faculty Orientation ImagineRIT As an RIT adjunct, you’re not just teaching a course, you are joining RIT’s community of teaching & learning excellence.
“Welcome!” Adjunct Faculty Orientation ImagineRIT As an RIT adjunct, you’re not just teaching a course, you are joining RIT’s community of teaching &
Welcome! Adjunct Faculty Orientation ImagineRIT As an RIT
adjunct, youre not just teaching a course, you are joining RITs
community of teaching & learning excellence.
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RIT History & Facts Each Other Key Resources & Systems
The goal of orientation is to learn about:
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Agenda RIT History & Facts (mixer game) Preparing to Teach
@ RIT (checklist) Three Key Resources RIT Adjunct Orientation
Resource Wiki Your Department The Wallace Center Evaluations &
Wrap-up
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RIT History RIT is privately endowed, coeducational university
with nine colleges and institutes emphasizing career education and
experiential learning. 1829 RIT traces its roots back to 1829, as
the Rochester Athenaeum, a reading society. 1891 The Athenaeum
merged with the Rochester Mechanics Institute (founded 1885) in
1891. 1940s Renamed the Rochester Institute of Technology in the
1940s. 1966 RIT chosen for site of National Technical Institute for
the Deaf 1968 RIT moves to Henrietta campus
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RIT Facts 1.CAST, College of Applied Science and Technology
2.CIAS, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences 3.COLA, College of
Liberal Arts 4.COS, College of Science 5.GCCIS, B. Thomas Golisano
College of Computing and Information Sciences 6.KGCOE, Kate Gleason
College of Engineering 7.NTID, National Technical Institute for the
Deaf 8.SCB, E. Phillip Saunders College of Business 9.CHST, College
of Health Science and Technology - New
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RIT Facts
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Our campus nickname: "Brick City" Our sports mascot: RITchie
the tiger We operate on the quarter system -- four 11-week
quarters, year round, and we move to a semester system in AY 2013!
(All of tonight's information is available in a wiki.)
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What is the RIT Adjunct Faculty Wiki? Wikis are collaborative
websites that multiple people can view and edit. RIT Adjunct
Faculty Resource Wiki contains the majority of references used
today and more... https://wiki.rit.edu/display/adjunct/Home
https://wiki.rit.edu/display/adjunct/Home Two ways to use a wiki in
Higher Education 1.For Faculty: work together using a wiki to write
curriculum and lesson plans for courses, to develop assignments
2.For Students: group assignments in courses
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Preparing to Teach checklist is located in two places: Your
folders AFO wiki It contains key tasks & resources: i.e.
accessing the learning management system (myCourses) AFO
Checklist
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Settling into your Department Some questions are best answered
at the department level: Administrative staff contact information
Ordering textbooks Syllabus Department Policies Classroom Support
Office equipment and supplies Student-faculty rapport
https://wiki.rit.edu/display/adjunct/Questions+to+Ask+Your+Department
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The Wallace Center Support One number to call: 475-2551
Teaching and Learning Services Reference Librarians myCourses
Support Classroom Support
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Teaching & Learning Services Instructional Design
Consultants are your go-to professionals
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Academic Technology
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Academic Technology Support Supports faculty use of a wide
range of academic technologies in online, blended, and campus
courses myCourses: Course Management System Adobe Connect: Web
conferencing RIT Wiki: Group-editable websites iClicker: Student
response system What number do you call?
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Classroom Support Operates and maintains the audio and video
equipment in most academic classrooms and auditoriums on campus
Equipment delivery Training on all installed classroom equipment
Swipe access for podiums where required What number do you
call?
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Media Services Captioning-Course media must be captioned. Allow
at least one week for processing Classroom capture Adobe Presenter
Custom multimedia development
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Academic Technology and Media Team
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http://library.rit.edu/
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260+ Research Databases 35,000 + electronic journal
subscriptions 100,000 + e-books 400,000 print collection Course
Reserves, E-Reserves Course specific Library Guides Class/Faculty
research instruction Resources -
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Meet your Librarian http://library.rit.edu/meet-your-librarian
A librarian for each of RITs colleges
http://library.rit.edu/meet-your-librarian
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The Student Information System Student Information System(SIS):
Official registrars records Class schedule for Fall 2012 View class
rosters for Fall 2012 classes View waitlist for Fall 2012 classes
Email students View personal data summary Enter and post grades
(November 2012) http://sis.rit.edu http://sis.rit.edu Training for
Faculty http://rit.edu/sistraining http://rit.edu/sistraining
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FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974
Copyright and Plagiarism Turnitin feature in myCourses ADA
Compliance Teaching classes with Deaf and Hard of Hearing
students--See handout To request captioning to be added to your
media, contact The Wallace Center at 475-2551
https://wiki.rit.edu/display/adjunct/Legal+Issues Key Compliance
Items