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Workshop: Transform Your Students’ Video-Watching Experience with Annoto

November 18, 2023 thoeck

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.

Introducing Turnitin Draft Coach: A New Tool for Student Writing Support

November 12, 2023 thoeck

The LEC is excited to notify you of a new tool for student writing assistance and evaluation – Turnitin Draft Coach. This cutting-edge innovation will streamline our students’ writing process and support our faculty in evaluating assignments more efficiently.

Educational Technology

Workshop: How to Build a Branching Scenario in SharkMedia

November 7, 2023 thoeck

Sharkmedia has been enhanced with an exciting feature from Kaltura called Interactive Video Paths. Interactive Videos enable you to create a more personalized, “choose your own adventure” learning experience by adding choice-based learning paths to your videos. Interactive videos are well known for their ability to increase viewer’s participation, reduce cognitive overload, maximize retention, and provide real world learning experiences. This workshop will explore pedagogical tips and technology tools for assembling an engaging interactive video path through a step-by-step process that will help you to make your own interactive video learning experience for students. Register today!

Workshop: Creating Interesting and Engaging Discussions with Flip

November 6, 2023 thoeck

Flip is an easy-to-use tool to foster strong connections within a Canvas course. This tool is offered to educators for free and can be integrated into your Canvas Course to allow students and you the opportunity to record their responses to topics in fun and innovative ways. The social experience of letting students use creativity in composing their video allows them to engage with a topic that stimulates thought-provoking responses from the students and can also be entertaining. Join us to learn more about using this engaging tool in your courses.

Professional Development

Conference Seats are Filling Up – Register Today! – Connect with Colleagues from Across NSU at a No-Cost Teaching & Learning Conference

October 25, 2023 thoeck

Please plan to join your colleagues at our annual conference Destination Excellence: A Journey to Engaged Teaching and Learning. The conference represents NSU’s collective ambition to create an educational environment that nurtures critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. It recognizes that excellence is not a stagnant endpoint but an ongoing journey, requiring continuous improvement and adaptation. Please plan to join us by registering today!

Workshop: All About SharkMedia

October 23, 2023 thoeck

Videos are often the most highly engaging pieces of content in a course. Videos can be used to introduce new course content, reinforce concepts already learned, share demonstrations, simulations, and much more. You may know that NSU has a media server called SharkMedia which is our branded version of Kaltura. During this workshop, we will review the many capabilities of the SharkMedia platform. We will show you where you can find every function in the platform, from uploading videos, all the way to creating chapter markers and playlists for your students.

Harnessing generative AI tools for Assignments, Activities, and Assessments

October 21, 2023 thoeck

Now that generative AI (gAI) has become available to the wider public, there has been a lot of discussion about the implications of these tools on the world of higher education. One of the interesting areas for exploration is the ability to leverage the use gAI for coursework such as assignments, activities, and assessments. Ideas are continually emerging, and the possibilities seem endless. This article provides a few examples and starts to answer the question of how can gAI be used as both a student tool for learning and a faculty tool for designing learning.

Articles

Learning with the LEC: Using Polls to Create Breakout Rooms in Zoom

October 15, 2023 thoeck

This “Learning with LEC” video shares a brand new tip with you – creating breakout rooms based on the poll results in Zoom. This new feature of Zoom helps you create more engaging and customized breakout sessions for your participants.

Learning with the LEC

Maximizing Student Engagement and Learning with NSU Video Tools

October 2, 2023 thoeck

Educational videos have become an important content-delivery tool in higher education. Video learning can be a great supplement to traditional learning methods in higher education. Passive engagement with videos is insufficient for learning. In this article we share several tools that you can use to create more active engagement with your video content that are available from NSU.

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Workshop: Getting Started with Poll Everywhere for Classroom Engagement

October 1, 2023 thoeck

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.

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