Author: thoeck

The Microsoft Whiteboard application allows instructors to create an infinite, collaborative canvas for fostering effective and engaging learning with their students. This tool is especially powerful when working with students for completing a variety of tasks through brainstorming and planning. In this quick 45-minute workshop you will have a hands-on opportunity to work with the Microsoft Whiteboard and learn how you can use this tool in your online or face-to-face classes.

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.

Before a class officially begins, students begin accessing your course in Canvas. What do they see? What is the first impression they have of who you are? A course welcome video allows students to become familiar with you and your course before class starts. During this online workshop, Gregory Wright, an experienced multimedia producer will show you around the video editing tool Adobe Premiere Rush and share some basic video editing principles. Be sure to bring your previously recorded video content to edit.

Join the Faculty Book Club where we will read and discuss, How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching written by Susan A. Ambrose, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Marsha C. Lovett, Marie K. Norman. Dr. Kathleen Hagen will lead us through a review of each chapter and moderate a discussion of our experiences with each principle and how we might apply the principle in upcoming classes.

This workshop is designed to show you different classroom technologies that can assist you in enhancing your online, blended, or face-to-face classroom experience. The instructor will take you step-by-step through each topic by telling you what it is, why you would use it, and demonstrate how to use it before you try it. This session will include tips on providing assignment feedback using dictation, changing the view of your gradebook, bulk editing assignment due dates, and discovering the analytics within your course.