Summer Academies
Reacting to the Past: Gamify Your Classroom
Do you want to deepen the learning of your students? Do you want to engage them? Do you want to connect classroom learning to real world events? If so, come play a game with us.
Reacting to the Past is a proven pedagogy involving immersive role-playing games centered on real historical events such as the American Revolution and climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. In each game, students take on the role of a real person with clear objectives. To “win”, the students must collaborate, communicate, strategize, and think critically.
Registration deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. |
Reacting to the Past: Gamify Your Classroom In this one-day workshop, you will have the opportunity to play and experience a Reacting to the Past game with your faculty colleagues. We will also discuss how writing and oral assignments from the games can be incorporated into your course. |
Gainesville Campus |
Previous Workshops
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Start Your Summer "Write!"
Faculty and teaching staff were invited to attend a three-day writing academy presented on Zoom. Dr. Christine Tulley, Professor of English and Director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Findlay, Dr. Marguerite “Peggy” Brickman, a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia, and Dr. Anne Ellen Geller, Professor of English at St. John’s University, offered insight and guidance on faculty/staff writing habits and moving projects forward.
The academy offered speaker presentations, time for independent writing, and one-on-one flash consultations with the speakers. For more information, please see the 2022 Faculty Writing Academy Agenda (PDF).
Date/Time & Location Topic Monday, May 9, 2022
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Zoom
Establishing Scholarly Productivity at a Teaching-Intensive University
This workshop will focus on practical strategies faculty members can use with teaching-intensive workloads, particularly in the age of COVID. An emphasis will be given on effective project management, writing techniques, and tools that can assist busy faculty writers.
Dr. Christine Tulley
Christine Tulley is a Professor of English and Founder and Director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Findlay. As the campus Academic Development Coordinator, she runs faculty writing groups and offers tenure and promotion application support including effective practices for writing with heavy teaching and service loads.
She is the author of How Writing Faculty Write (2018), the forthcoming Rhet Comp Moms: What 100 Time Use Diaries Can Teach Us About Parenting, Productivity, and Professionalism (Utah State University Press), and contributes regularly to Inside Higher Education on faculty productivity issues.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Zoom
Co-Authoring STEM Related Publications
This workshop is designed for faculty who wish to advance knowledge about student learning and the success of teaching methods. Whether you are new to conducting and publishing education research or not, we will help refine and focus a research question, identify variables and convincing sources of evidence, select appropriate methods and publication venues, and organize the next steps in enacting your research plan.
Dr. Marguerite "Peggy" Brickman
Peggy Brickman is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology whose contributions to teaching have been recognized at the local and national level. Brickman received her Ph.D. in Genetics from U.C. Berkeley, but in her position as a Professor of Biology Education, she has become a driving force for the scholarship of teaching and learning at UGA, where her research and scholarship focus on new methods of teaching introductory biology. Over 25,000 students since 1996 smile when they think of biology thanks to the enthusiasm and comedic gifts Brickman has brought to the classroom.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Zoom
Finding The Next Thing I Need to Do…and Then the Next Thing After That and Then…
We’ll reflect on where your project was when you began these three days, where it is now, and what the next things are that you need to keep going. We’ll ask: What might keep you from completing this project and what would help you finish it?
Dr. Anne Ellen Geller
Anne Ellen Geller is a Professor of English at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. She teaches undergraduate and graduate English courses. From 2007-2018 she was Director of Writing Across the Curriculum and from 2018-2021 she was Director of Writing Across Communities. In both these roles she supported St. John’s faculty writers.
She is the co-editor of Working With Faculty Writers (Utah State University Press 2013). She is one of the three co-researchers of The Meaningful Writing Project and co-author of The Meaningful Writing Project: Learning, Teaching, and Writing in Higher Education (Utah State University Press 2016) and Teaching Meaningful Writing (under contract with West Virginia University Press).