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This summer we are offering a series of “How to” professional development sessions designed specifically for educators who want to enhance their teaching with practical, effective strategies. We will equip you with a toolbox of ideas, techniques, and applications that can be directly integrated into your practice. Each session in the series will spotlight a specific aspect of teaching and learning ranging from technology tools to pedagogical approaches.

Generative AI (GenAI) has the potential to assist learning in many practical ways. While the tools and our understanding of how to use them are constantly developing, it is already possible to utilize them in many ways, one of which is as a method of support and feedback. This can have various benefits for students and can be a valuable way to practice skills and review course content. There are also limitations to using these tools in this format. In this workshop, we will highlight the benefits, limitations, and possibilities for GenAI to act as a personalized tutor for your students. We will also focus on developing prompts that are effective, supportive, and won’t give away the answers!

If you want to increase student engagement and personalize feedback within your Shark Media videos, the Annoto Widget workshop was created just for you. The Annoto widget is a tool that integrates with Shark Media and can be used in Canvas enabling you to add interactive elements to your videos. You can use it to create questions, quizzes, surveys, polls, and discussions that appear on the video timeline. You and your students can also use it to annotate your videos with highlights, notes, links, and images.

If you have writing assignments in your course, you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism along with the newly added function of AI writing detection. During the workshop, you will learn about the various ways in which Turnitin can be used in your Canvas course so that you can begin screening writing assignments for plagiarism, grammatical errors, and detecting AI-written essays.

In this workshop, you will discover how to use Canvas Rubrics to provide clear and consistent feedback to students, save time grading, and improve the quality of student work. You will learn about different types of rubrics, including holistic, analytic, single-point, and customized rubrics, and discover how to create and use them effectively in your course. Whether you’re a seasoned Canvas user or new to the platform, you will learn practical tips and insights to help you maximize your use of rubrics in Canvas. Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your teaching and student learning outcomes – register now!

Engaging students at a distance and in the classroom can present challenges. Poll Everywhere provides a way to interact with your students with activities designed to ask questions, drive participation in group activities, and encourage students to share thoughts and insights from their phones or computers.

Experiential learning can happen in classrooms, through study away programs, service learning, research projects, and more. However, experiential learning doesn’t just happen on its own. The design of these experiences must be intentional. In this session, we will explore how to use Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle to guide the design of experiential learning coursework, and share an example of how one Honors course was designed and implemented for learners to have authentic experiences, reflect on those experiences, and apply their learning to new situations.