This Week in the LEC

Flip is an easy to use tool to foster strong connections within a Canvas course. This tool is offered to educators for free and can be integrated in 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 the students and can also be entertaining. With this tool, you see the student’s emotion during their responses, which can generate a meaningful, more connected experience to any topic you ask them to share their opinions about.

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.

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.

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.

Generative AI products include ChatGPT for text, Dall-E for imagery, deepfakes for videos, avatars in social media feeds, Google’s Music LM and Jukebox for music generation, software code generation, and more. These tools are moving rapidly from experimental to core features of ubiquitous software products, including Microsoft Office and Google. This change has significant implications to teaching and learning across most fields. Beyond pedagogy, the introduction of generative AI has important legal and ethical implications regarding copyright, privacy laws, antidiscrimination laws, ADA compliance, and much more. This discussion will explore the legal, ethical, and academic policy considerations regarding the use of generative AI by students, faculty, and institutions.

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.

Flip is an easy to use tool to foster strong connections within a Canvas course. This tool is offered to educators for free and can be integrated in 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 the students and can also be entertaining. With this tool, you see the student’s emotion during their responses, which can generate a meaningful, more connected experience to any topic you ask them to share their opinions about.