This Week in the LEC

Creating accessible PowerPoints is easy using Microsoft’s built-in accessibility checker. In this presentation, Carolyn Fitzpatrick will review common accessibility mistakes in PowerPoint, and demonstrate how to fix them quickly. 

Active learning modalities of teaching are instructional undertakings involving students participating in an engaging manner in their education. Approaches that promote active learning focus more on developing students’ skills instead of transmitting information through a traditional didactic lecture setup which can be relative, a more passive level of participation for the student. Active learning sessions require students to indulge actively (read, discuss, write, analyze) that requires higher-order and critical thinking, and emphasis is placed on the students’ explorations of their own attitudes and values. This presentation explores the different modalities which practice an active learning format, insights into the facilitation of these sessions, and measurement of student outcomes of these sessions. 

Before classes officially start, students begin accessing your course in Canvas. What do they see? A course welcome video allows students to become familiar with you and your course before class actually starts. During this in-person workshop, Gregory, an experienced multimedia producer, will show you around the video editing tool Adobe Rush and share some basic video editing principles. Be sure to bring your previously recorded video content to edit. If you don’t have a video, you can schedule a time to film in the new LEC Faculty Studio. If you prefer to film the video on your own, the presenter Gregory Wright has created a video with some easy-to-implement suggestions to improve your video quality. By the conclusion of the workshop, you will have a welcome video that can be used in your course to greet your students.

NSUWorks, NSU’s institutional repository, and SelectedWorks, the online professional profile system, work together to curate content for the Digital Commons network of repositories for dissemination of your scholarly output to the world at large. Digital Measures is NSU’s internal review and tracking system for faculty to keep track of their professional activities. Part 1 of this 2-part series will discuss how these three systems work at NSU, explain your college process for adding your scholarly contributions into these systems, and provide think-tank opportunities for the creation of new scholarly work for yourself and your students. Part 2 will be a hands-on workshop experience to show you how to manage your SelectedWorks profile effectively on your own.

In this workshop, we will define Instructional Design (ID) and discuss how ID principles are used to develop course objectives, sequence content, create authentic assessments, and create web-based content that supports learning content that aligns with your learning objectives.

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

In this workshop, we will discuss key assumptions for teaching online, identify theories, models, and frameworks that support online pedagogy, and how they can be used to guide online course design and facilitation.

Everyone’s lives were turned upside down during quarantine in 2020. Traditional face-to-face lectures were out of the question and teachers everywhere were forced to adapt to provide for their students. This presentation will review some of the skills and technologies that help to enhance student learning while socially distanced and as we transition back to the classroom for our “new normal.” Tutorials will also be provided for free resources to help incorporate more technology into your lectures including live streaming to YouTube and using virtual sticky notes.