Past Events – Page 14 – This Week in the LEC

Creating Captions and Editing with SharkMedia

December 10, 2022 thoeck

Our video management software SharkMedia (aka Kaltura) is enormously powerful if you know where to look. This session is dedicated to showing you some quick tips for editing your video all on the web using SharkMedia. SharkMedia can also provide automated captions for your videos in addition to the editing options of snipping video as well as capturing your screen recordings. Join us as we go over these features and answer your questions about SharkMedia (Kaltura).

Did You Know? Quick Tips on Classroom Technology: Rubrics

December 3, 2022 thoeck

Rubrics are a valuable tool for both instructors and students. They are especially useful for written assignments and projects where quality may be hard to define, and grading can be interpreted as being subjective. For instructors, rubrics help to clarify expectations and components for an assignment. They also help to assess assignments consistently from one student to another and they cut down time spent on grading.

Gear-Up Library Workshops – OER (Open Education Resources)

November 15, 2022 thoeck

Gear-up workshops are designed to allow NSU faculty, students, alumni, and the general public an opportunity to engage with publishers, researchers, and librarians. Get an overview of Open Education Resources (OER). The presentation will also discuss how the NSU Libraries Can Support Faculty OER Initiatives at Nova Southeastern University.

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Plagiarism and Using TurnItin with Canvas

November 14, 2022 thoeck

If you have writing assignments in your course, then you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism. 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, as well as grammatical errors.

Quick Take: Canvas Mastery Paths

November 12, 2022 thoeck

Canvas Mastery paths allows you to deliver specific pieces of course content to students based on performance on a graded assignment, discussion, or quiz. It is particularly useful for asynchronous courses where you want to restrict access to content until a student can master prior content. Mastery Paths can also allow you to present remedial content to students who did not perform well on a graded item and can also be used to provide students with a choice of assignments as they pursue course learning objectives. Join us as we guide you through Mastery Paths for Canvas.

Engage Your Students with Poll Everywhere Activities

November 10, 2022 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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Faculty Book Club: Creating Self-Regulated Learners

November 3, 2022 thoeck

Join the Faculty Book Club where we will read and discuss, Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students’ Self-Awareness & Learning Skills written by Linda B. Nilson. Dr. Kathleen Hagen will lead us through a review of each chapter and moderate a discussion of our experiences with each technique and how we might apply the technique in upcoming classes.

Using Flip to Engage Your Students

November 1, 2022 thoeck

Flip (formerly 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.

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Last Chance to Register – 2022 Teaching and Learning Conference is this Wed. and Thurs.

October 26, 2022 thoeck

We are excited to announce that registration is open for the Learning and Educational Center’s Teaching and Learning Conference scheduled November 2nd and 3rd, 2022. This virtual event is free and open to all NSU educators (including faculty, students, staff, and administration) interested in advancing teaching and learning research and practice.

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Workshop on New Feature – Creating Engaging Video Paths in SharkMedia

October 17, 2022 thoeck

Lights, Camera, Action! Would you like to create an interactive video? 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.

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