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_______________________ Throughout August, the CFT will be offering a number of workshops about various technologies and strategies to help you prepare to make the transition back to the classroom. You can find more details and full workshop descriptions of these events by visiting our August events web page. The Flipped Classroom Date: Wednesday, August 11th Time: 2:00-3:00pm Panelists: Chris Candelaria (Leadership, Policy, and Organizations), Lars Plate (Biological Sciences and Chemistry), and Heeryoon Shin (History of Art) Faculty panelists share lessons from pandemic teaching that will shape how they have students prepare for class and what they have them do in class this fall. REGISTER Teaching With Top Hat Date: Thursday, August 12th Time: 2:00-3:00pm Faculty Guest: Jesse Blocher (Owen) In this session you’ll hear about Top Hat, Vanderbilt’s student polling application. Jesse Blocher, associate professor of the practice at the Owen graduate school of management will share the ways he has used Top Hat for his classes. REGISTER Teaching for Wellbeing Date: Tuesday, August 17th Time: 1:00am-2:30pm Facilitators: Julaine Fowlin (CFT) and Stacy Simplican (Gender and Sexuality Studies) In this workshop, we will give an overview of wellbeing and the relationship to teaching and learning. Participants will apply the new