Winter 2022 Guest Presentation: Build Your Course Welcome Video with Adobe Premiere Rush

LEC Guest Presentation Build Your Course Welcome Video With Adobe Premiere Rush

Students begin accessing your course in Canvas even before classes officially begin. When logging in to your course, 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.

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Foundations of Teaching Online Series

Foundations of Teaching Online

If you are new to teaching at NSU or simply want to hone your online teaching skills then this series is for you! Foundations of Teaching Online is a series of interactive sessions focused on the development of competencies for effective online course design and delivery. In this series, we will introduce the basics of teaching and learning in online and blended learning environments. While these one-hour sessions focus on strategies for teaching online, most can be applied to any modality. Below is a listing of the sessions with links to their descriptions and registration information. 

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Foundations of Canvas – Foundations of Teaching Online Series

Square Foundations- Foundations of Canvas

In this workshop, we will discuss the foundational knowledge and skills needed to teach effectively in Canvas. While this session is not training on how to build courses in Canvas, participants will gain an overall understanding of how the Canvas LMS is used at NSU, what Canvas components should be included in academic courses, and where to find help and support.

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Using Flipgrid to Engage Your Students

Using Flipgrid to Engage Your Students

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.

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Winter 2022 Guest Presentation: Effective Use of Teams for Project-Based Learning

Project-based learning (PBL) has been shown to be a powerful tool in the classroom. This method can also be used effectively in the online teaching environment. In this presentation, we will discuss how PBL can be used in today’s environment to enhance students’ learning engagement, improve their academic performance, and teach them to apply course knowledge to the real world. 

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As Featured in Faculty Focus: 15 Years and 15 Ways to Engage Your Students In-Person, Online, and In Zoom

Welcome to the Winter 2022 term! Although we have resumed our classes in their regularly scheduled format (i.e., in-person, hybrid, and online), we continue to practice flexibility in our teaching due to the recent surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Over the 15 years that Marti Snyder, Ph.D., PMP, SPHR has worked at NSU, she has had the opportunity to teach face-to-face, online, and blended courses to undergraduates, master’s, and doctoral students. Here are 15 strategies that she uses most often in these various formats to engage her students. Many of these strategies overlap and can be used regardless of delivery mode. 

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Winter 2022 Guest Presentation: Embodiment Theory, Trauma, and Pedagogy for Better Course Engagement

SQUARE Winter 22 Guest Pres Embodiment Theory

Rhetorical embodiment is a complex concept that allows us to understand the ways that our socialization and conditioning impacts our performance of self. As educators, we believe that is the only thing we can embody in the classroom. The purpose of this session is to explore the intersection of rhetorical embodiment and the fostering of knowledge acquisition as a way to shift our course design to share student agency and thus, their engagement. As Fountain notes, “we develop expertise when we develop the skilled capacities necessary to use the discourses and objects, the displaces and documents, according to the explicit and tacit rules of that community. (Fountain, 5) This session will help us understand how we can create student agency by providing opportunities for embodiment.

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