This Week in the LEC

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.

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. You and your students can also use it to annotate your videos with highlights, notes, links, and images.

Videos are often the most highly engaging media in a course. Videos can be used to introduce new course content, reinforce concepts already learned, share demonstrations, simulations, and much more. You may know that NSU has a media server called Shark Media which is our branded version of Kaltura. During this workshop, we will review the many capabilities of the Shark Media platform. We will show you where you can find every function on the platform, from uploading videos, all the way to creating chapter markers and playlists for your students. 

Are you looking to streamline your teaching and research tasks? Join us for an exciting workshop where we explore Copilot in Microsoft Edge, a powerful AI-driven assistant designed to enhance your 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.

Mentoring is a practice that enhances students’ academic and professional development. However, mentoring does not always come naturally. In this workshop, we will discuss some foundational mentoring terms and definitions, roles and competencies, benefits, and personal mentoring motivations and expectations. Whether you are just beginning to mentor or looking to deepen your mentoring practice, this workshop will provide a foundation of knowledge and skills you can use to enhance your mentoring relationships.

There has been a lot of discussion about how generative AI has impacted higher education’s teaching and learning, research, and professional practices. There are many ways faculty can apply generative AI to support their daily work activities such as writing and research, course design, and personal learning. In this session, we will identify some commonly used generative AI tools, explore how they can be used to support professional practice, and discuss issues related to responsible and ethical use.