This Week in the LEC

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.

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 tips on providing assignment feedback using dictation, changing the view of your gradebook, bulk editing assignment due dates, and discovering the analytics within your course.

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.