The Cowbell
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Apply to Present at the 2026 Instructional Development Institute (Applications Due Friday, Oct. 31)
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Welcome to the UW-Green Bay Instructional Develop Institute (IDI) Call for Proposals Page! Theme: Moving from Access to Connection At UW-Green Bay our mission begins with access, but it doesn’t end there. This year’s Instructional Development Institute (IDI) invites participants to explore how fostering authentic connections can deepen student engagement across all modalities and promote…
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Digital Accessibility Tip: When to Use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on PDFs
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Optical character recognition, or OCR, is an automated process that turns an image of text into machine-readable characters that can be parsed by technologies like screen readers. OCR is a very important step for making some PDFs accessible, but it isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Knowing where and when to use OCR is important for making…
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Recognizing Faculty and Staff Completion of the 2025-2026 “Teaching with AI” Course
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The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) is pleased to acknowledge the following faculty and staff who successfully completed the 2025-2026 cohort of Auburn University’s Teaching with Artificial Intelligence course, reflecting their ongoing dedication to professional development. The current list reflects those who completed during the summer of 2025 and earned the…
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Eat & Educate Series Fall 2025
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AI is already being used in creative and unexpected ways across our campuses. To help faculty and staff learn from one another, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and the Division of IT (GBIT) are continuing the Provost-sponsored Eat & Educate series this fall. This semester, we’ll host three lunchtime sessions,…
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Digital Online Whiteboards
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Interactive digital online whiteboards offer a shared virtual space for instructors and students to collaborate, brainstorm, and engage with course content simultaneously or asynchronously. Like their physical counterparts, they help explain concepts, illustrate examples, and present information in ways that allow students to visualize key points. At UW-Green Bay, instructors have access to three main…