Category: Professional Development

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 topics like How to use the new Zoom features like the Timer App and Presentation Slide Controls as well as the Comment Library in Canvas.

The Microsoft Whiteboard application allows instructors to create an infinite, collaborative canvas for fostering effective and engaging learning with their students. Join us for this brief and interactive session, and start using the tool today!