Transform Students’ Video Watching Experience with Annoto

If you want to increase student engagement and personalize feedback within your Shark Media videos, the Annoto Widget workshop was created just for you. The Annoto widget is a tool that integrates with Shark Media and can be used in Canvas enabling you to add interactive elements to your videos. You can use it to create questions, quizzes, surveys, polls, and discussions that appear on the video timeline. You and your students can also use it to annotate your videos with highlights, notes, links, and images.

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Workshop: Getting Started with SharkMedia

Videos are often the most highly engaging media in a course. Videos can be used to introduce new course content, reinforce concepts already learned, share demonstrations, simulations, and much more. You may know that NSU has a media server called Shark Media which is our branded version of Kaltura. During this workshop, we will review the many capabilities of the Shark Media platform. We will show you where you can find every function on the platform, from uploading videos, all the way to creating chapter markers and playlists for your students. 

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AI Series: The AI of AI: Preserving Academic Integrity Amid Artificial Intelligence Tools

How do we know that students have achieved our course objectives? In this session, we will consider methods of assessment that minimize irresponsible student use of artificial intelligence. We will look at a variety of assessment tools and evaluate how they are impacted by GenAI tools. By the end of the session, you will have several potential strategies for updating and strengthening your course assignments.

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Exploring the Microsoft Edge Copilot for the Educator

Are you looking to streamline your teaching and research tasks? Join us for an exciting workshop where we explore Copilot in Microsoft Edge, a powerful AI-driven assistant designed to enhance your productivity and efficiency. In this hands-on session, Participants will learn how to use Copilot to draft lecture outlines, analyze data and collaborate with colleagues on research projects.

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Canvas Corner: New SpeedGrader Options and Lucid for Education 

Canvas has just added two new features that you may want to explore for use in your courses. One is a new feature in the SpeedGrader that allows you to utilize a screen capture to guide students with feedback when grading. Another is a tool called Lucid for Education, which is a suite of visual applications for creating diagrams, charts, and whiteboards. These can be used to convey information to students, and as a tool students can use for completing assignments.

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The Teaching Toolbox Series – Add New Tools to Your Toolbox

This summer we are offering a series of “How to” professional development sessions designed specifically for educators who want to enhance their teaching with practical, effective strategies. We will equip you with a toolbox of ideas, techniques, and applications that can be directly integrated into your practice. Each session in the series will spotlight a specific aspect of teaching and learning ranging from technology tools to pedagogical approaches.

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Teaching Toolbox Workshop: An Introduction to Mentoring

Mentoring is a practice that enhances students’ academic and professional development. However, mentoring does not always come naturally. In this workshop, we will discuss some foundational mentoring terms and definitions, roles and competencies, benefits, and personal mentoring motivations and expectations. Whether you are just beginning to mentor or looking to deepen your mentoring practice, this workshop will provide a foundation of knowledge and skills you can use to enhance your mentoring relationships.

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Teaching Toolbox Workshop: GenAI for Educators: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Your Professional Practice

There has been a lot of discussion about how generative AI has impacted higher education’s teaching and learning, research, and professional practices. There are many ways faculty can apply generative AI to support their daily work activities such as writing and research, course design, and personal learning. In this session, we will identify some commonly used generative AI tools, explore how they can be used to support professional practice, and discuss issues related to responsible and ethical use.

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