This Week in the LEC

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.

In this workshop, we will explore strategies for making online courses more accessible and inclusive. All students can benefit from intentional course design.

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 workshop will use a blended flipped type of experience where the participants will first go into the Canvas course to view the course material that explains the procurement of a Poll Everywhere account, how to download and install the Poll Everywhere app to PowerPoint, and short videos introducing the Poll Everywhere software. After completing the Canvas portion, the participant will be granted access to the zoom link for the live Zoom session.  

Register Now! NSU Libraries’ 7th Annual Power Publishing Day, Thursday, January 27 – FREE EVENT Do you want to share your scholarly research with the world? Come join us for a day of learning about academic publishing from the publishers, editors, and faculty. You will not want to miss this opportunity to meet editors and reps from publishing houses including Clarivate, Elsevier, Emerald, IEEE, IGI, SAGE, Taylor & Francis, and more. Learn about: getting your research published, including case studies navigating the peer review process publishing initiatives for Open Access strategies for finding the right publisher and more… Plus, network with your colleagues and other academics in our community. There is no cost to attend but registration is required and can be done through lib.nova.edu/ppd22. You can attend in person or online. Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be served. This event is open to NSU faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the public. The event will be held at the Alvin Sherman Library at 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314. If you can’t make it to the event, email Susan Berkman at sberkman@nova.edu to request the presentation recordings.