Upcoming Events & Workshops
Spring 2026 Events
CELT Tank Hours with Sandy Sarcona
When: Wednesday, February 4 from 9:00am to 11:00am
Where: Zoom
Have questions about your CELT proposal? Drop in during CELT Tank Zoom consultation hours.
Align Your Values, Reclaim Your Time: A Workshop on Intentional Success and Wellbeing
Join faculty members Tiffany Bennett and Brie Radis, who recently completed WCU’s pilot Faculty Success Fellowship co-sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center, the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Compliance, for an interactive 1.25-hour workshop designed to help you move from overwhelmed to intentionality. Discover how aligning your daily practices with your core values can transform your academic and work experience. Learn practical strategies for creating a sustainable plan that honors your whole self, resists toxic productivity culture, and centers what truly matters in your goals, responsibilities, and service.
This workshop is especially valuable for faculty navigating requirements of scholarship, teaching, and service; staff juggling various projects and relationships; and graduate students who must balance school, work, and other obligations. Leave with actionable tools to craft a personalized roadmap that supports your professional goals, personal wellbeing, and your vision for a more just academy.
When: Wednesday, February 11 from 12:00 - 1:15pm
Accessible Instructional Material Webinar Series
This webinar series focuses on building skills necessary for creating accessible instructional materials and digital content in compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA standards. Sessions are not interdependent, allowing you to attend whichever sessions fit your needs.
Topics covered in this series include:
- creating accessible documents, slides, tables, and D2L pages
- authoring alternative text for both simple and complex images
- optimizing your accessibility workflows at both the course- and file-level
- providing audio description for presentations and lectures
Each session will be offered multiple times throughout the spring semester, and recordings will be made available.
Open Dialogue for Inclusive Curricula: Information Literacy
In the face of the rapidly evolving information landscape, characterized by emerging AI technologies, social media, misinformation, censorship, and robust information access, information literacy skills and knowledge are needed now more than ever. WCU faculty and graduate students are invited to join us for a 60-minute interactive discussion, facilitated by Megan Donnelly, Information Literacy Librarian and Doctor of Education, Curriculum and Instruction student here at WCU.
When: Wednesday, February 25, 11:00am – 12:00pm ET
Where: Online, via Zoom
The goal of this open dialogue is to create a collaborative space to share diverse perspectives, build mutual understanding, and empower our community of educators to apply course design and instructional strategies that foster real, modern information behaviors, and equip students with the information literacy skills needed to navigate the modern information landscape. This interactive discussion will begin with a brief lecture to define and contextualize information literacy within the curricula, as well as the modern information landscape. After a brief lecture, participants will respond to discussion prompts designed to engage, inform, inspire, and empower curricular design for information literacy.
If you are interested in participating in this discussion, please use the link below to register at your earliest convenience! If you have any questions about this offering, please contact Jessica Drass at jdrass@wcupa.edu.
Introduction to VoiceThread Workshop
VoiceThread is an interactive multimedia platform that allows users to create and share collaborative presentations and discussions that may incorporate images, documents, videos, and audio commentary. VoiceThread’s D2L Integration allows instructors to add VoiceThread Assignments to the Content section of their D2L Course Site that link to the Gradebook. This Spring, the Teaching and Learning Center will be hosting an Introduction to VoiceThread Workshop for WCU faculty interested in learning more about the tool.
When: Thursday, February 26, 2026, 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Where: Online, via Zoom
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please register at your earliest convenience. Questions? Contact Jessica Drass at jdrass@wcupa.edu.