Learning and Educational Center
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. 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.
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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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Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to change all the text in your presentation to a different font with one click? Or apply a consistent color scheme to unite your slides? You can with PowerPoint themes and master slides! This presentation will demonstrate how to use these tools to improve PowerPoint design.
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As we close out the academic year (AY) 2021-2022, we would like to thank NSU’s faculty and staff who took the time and effort to prepare and deliver relevant and worthwhile presentations as part of LEC’s Guest Presentation Series. Faculty and staff from eight of our colleges presented on a range of important topics related to teaching and learning.
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OIIT has provided a list of technology best practices for using your Work computer, Classroom technology, Mobile devices, and general Safe Computing tips. Need to contact OIIT? OIIT requests are now available for submission through the NSU OIIT ServiceNow Portal!
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Guest Presenters from our NSU Libraries will demonstrate unique library resources, such as streaming media, e-newspapers, library guides, and online tools. Learn how to use these educational sources to enhance and engage your students.
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With remote learning being so prevalent in our classrooms in recent years, you have likely put into consideration when and how to use web cameras for your virtual classrooms. This article looks at the benefits and drawbacks of introducing web cameras to online learning.
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The LEC encourages you to join our NSU Libraries Workshop for an introduction to downloadable resources, including popular reading, magazines, professional development tools, and academic eBooks.
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Responding to students’ questions in an efficient and effective way can help reduce misunderstandings and improve student performance and engagement. This presentation will address the topic of student questions and how faculty can answer them in various forums from in-person office hours to online discussion boards.
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Flipgrid is an easy to use tool to foster strong connections within a 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 stimulates thought provoking responses from the students and can also be entertaining. With this tool, you see the student’s emotions during their responses, which can generate a meaningful, more connected experience to any topic you ask them to share their opinions about.
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