This Week in the LEC

We are excited to announce our inaugural LEC Teaching and Learning Conference taking place via Zoom on Wednesday, November 2 and Thursday, November 3, 2022. The theme, Connect, Engage, Inspire, depicts the actions we take to form relationships with every learner. We invite all NSU educators to submit a proposal that embraces this theme. Please see the Call for Proposals for specific presentation topics and other details.

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.

The Faculty Book Club is a group of faculty and faculty support professionals who gather weekly to discuss a book that the group has selected. The first round of meetings occurred in the summer of 2022. The plan is to hold meetings in the fall, winter, and summer semesters.

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.

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.