Category: Professional Development

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. 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 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.

Zoom is hosting a special series for education organizations on Tuesday, August 2, and Wednesday, August 3. This three-part event series will teach you how to set up your classroom and engage your students on Zoom. Live training sessions are interactive, with opportunities for live Q&A with Zoom Trainers and will inform you on best practices for using Zoom in an educational setting and as an educational tool.

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.