This Week in the LEC

The Qualitative Report is hosting its 14th annual conference in a virtual format and is offering FREE Registration for the few remaining spots. The theme of the conference this year is “Living in a Post-Covid World” and takes place February 16th through February 18th. Registration is limited. Reserve your space and register today!

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.

This session is designed to give faculty a handful of tips to improve their Zoom sessions. We will review several lesser-utilized Zoom features and share how they can help improve the quality of your Zoom session to make class time more engaging. During the session, we will share tips about Breakout Rooms, Zoom Polls, the New Whiteboard, enhanced screen sharing, reactions, and how to preserve your Zoom recordings.

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.