Category: Professional Development

Join our Empowering Research Excellence Winter Series from January 30th to April 17th, 2025, and gain practical tools and strategies to elevate your research. Sessions cover essential topics like leveraging library resources, integrating AI, and mastering grant writing basics. Click to learn more!

Generative AI has become another tool for researchers, offering opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance analysis, and explore new ways to present research results. However, its use raises important ethical considerations. This session will equip researchers with a foundation for ethical and responsible use of generative AI in research. Participants will explore best practices for using generative AI tools in research, examine ethical challenges such as bias and transparency, and learn how to maintain rigor and accountability when incorporating AI into their scholarly work.

In this session, participants will explore the role of AI in libraries, focusing on tools that enhance research activities such as literature reviews. Participants will learn how to critically evaluate AI technologies, considering their potential benefits and limitations, and discover practical strategies for leveraging AI tools to advance their research activities.

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.

Are you looking to streamline your teaching and research tasks? Join us for an exciting workshop exploring Copilot in Microsoft 365, a powerful AI-driven assistant designed to enhance productivity and efficiency. In this hands-on session, participants will learn how to use Copilot to draft lecture outlines, analyze data, and collaborate with colleagues on research projects.

Engaging students at a distance and in the classroom can present challenges. Poll Everywhere offers 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.

Unlock the full potential of the Canvas LMS with this hands-on workshop designed for educators looking to optimize their online course discussions and grading processes. This session will explore key features such as Discussions and Assigning Options to create dynamic and interactive learning environments. Additionally, attendees will learn how to customize assignment settings to meet diverse teaching and learning needs. The workshop will also cover the Speed Grader Screencast feature, enabling instructors to provide personalized and efficient feedback to students.

Take your Poll Everywhere skills to the next level in this hands-on workshop designed for those that have used Poll Everywhere and want to learn more features. You can enhance student engagement and streamline course management using advanced features of Poll Everywhere.