Review of LEC Workshops in 2022
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.
Sessions
- Foundations of Online Teaching and Learning
- Online Learning Theories, Models, and Frameworks
- Begin with an End in Mind: Designing Your Online Course
- Humanizing Approaches to Teaching with Technology
- Accessible and Inclusive Instructional Design
- Foundations of Canvas
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Canvas Summer Road Trip
If you missed our summer Canvas Road Trip Series, you can view the recordings here! Using the metaphor of planning a road trip, this series of five videos offers a blend of backward course design with specific resources to support the design of your course in Canvas.
Sessions
- Where Are We Going? Identifying Desired Results
- How Will We Know We’ve Arrived? Determining Acceptable Evidence
- What Do We Need Along the Way? Planning Learning Experiences & Instruction (Part 1: Welcoming Your Students)
- What Do We Need Along the Way? Planning Learning Experiences & Instruction (Part 2: Organizing Your Content)
- What Do We Do When We’ve Arrived? Resources for Continued Success
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Quick Take: Engage Students Using Microsoft Whiteboard
The Microsoft Whiteboard application allows instructors to create an Infinite, collaborative canvas for fostering effective and engaging learning with their students. This tool is especially powerful when working with students for completing a variety of tasks, from brainstorming and planning to learning and conducting seminars. In this quick 45-minute workshop you will have a hands-on opportunity to work with the Microsoft Whiteboard and learn how you can use this tool in your online or face-to-face classes.
Engage Your Students with Poll Everywhere Activities
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.
Using Flip to Engage Your Students
Flip (formerly 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 that stimulates thought provoking responses from 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.
Plagiarism and Using TurnItIn with Canvas
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.
Creating Engaging Video Paths in SharkMedia
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.
Did You Know? Quick Tips: Canvas Features
This workshop is designed to show you different classroom technologies that can assist you in enhancing your online, blended, or face-to-face classroom experience. The instructor will take you step-by-step through each topic by telling you what it is, why you would use it, and demonstrate how to use it before you try it. During this fast-paced workshop, we will share unique features about the tools that you use everyday but may not know everything about. This session will cover a variety of Canvas Features including setting Module Requirements, Assignment Groups, and Canvas Commons.
Did You Know? Quick Tips: Canvas Gradebook
During this fast-paced workshop, we will share unique features about the tools that you use every day but may not know everything about. We will demonstrate and discuss use cases for the following Canvas Gradebook features and tools including Filters, History, Missing Items, Saved Comments, Individual Gradebook, Gradebook notes, and more…
Did You Know? Quick Tips on Classroom Technology
This workshop is designed to show you different classroom technologies that can assist you in enhancing your online, blended, or face-to-face classroom experience. The instructor will take you step-by-step through each topic by telling you what it is, why you would use it, and demonstrate how to use it before you try it. This session will include tips on providing assignment feedback using dictation, changing the view of your gradebook, bulk editing assignment due dates, and discovering the analytics within your course.
Build Your Course Welcome Video with Adobe Premiere Rush
Before a class officially begins, students begin accessing your course in Canvas. 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. Be sure to bring your previously recorded video content to edit.
Embodiment Theory, Trauma, and Pedagogy for Better Course Engagement
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.
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.
Inclusive Courses in Canvas According to Universal Design for Learning
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)-based instruction promotes inclusive learning that meets the diverse needs of all students. Three UDL principles, nine guidelines, and 31 checkpoints guide the creation of an instructional environment, lessons, and curricula. However, given the myriad of pedagogical and technological options, where and how do we start implementing UDL in an online course? What are some practices or tips to get started in Canvas? In this session, Dr. Orellana will share and discuss with participants practical implementation ideas to design Canvas courses according to UDL.
PowerPoint Design: Formatting Tips and Tricks
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to change all the text in your presentation to a different font with one click? Or apply a consistent color scheme to unite your slides? You can with PowerPoint themes and master slides! This presentation will demonstrate how to use these tools to improve PowerPoint design.
Answer Student Questions: Effective Platforms and Approaches
Responding to students’ questions in an efficient and effective way can help reduce misunderstandings and improve student performance and engagement. This presentation will address the topic of student questions and how faculty can answer them in various forums from in-person office hours to online discussion boards.
Library Resources to Enhance Your Classes
Guest Presenters from our NSU Libraries will demonstrate unique library resources, such as streaming media, e-newspapers, library guides, and online tools. Learn how to use these educational sources to enhance and engage your students.
Connecting Faculty and Student (Re)Engagement with Relationship-Rich Education
This conversation provided participants with an overview of relationship-rich education (Felton & Lambert, 2020) and how it can have a positive impact on faculty and student (re-)engagement this fall. We identified features of relationship-rich education, connected relationship-rich education to (re-)engagement, and developed strategies for implementing relationship-rich education in and out of the classroom
Promoting Academic Integrity through Authentic Assessments
When students engage in academically dishonest behaviors, they may be responding to subtle pressures in the learning environment that interfere with deep learning and nudge them toward cheating. Hence if we can gain a better understanding of the reasons for academically dishonest behavior, we can use that knowledge to improve our course design, teaching practices, and communication with students. One of the recommended strategies for reducing cheating through better learning has been the use of authentic assessments (i.e., assessments that break from the traditional model of quizzes and tests)—and a growing body of research has especially looked at the role that authentic assessments can play in medical education. In this workshop, participants will learn what the research tells us about the prevalence of cheating in higher education today, about the different forms that authentic assessments can take in medical education, and how those authentic assessments can help reduce cheating in their courses. The session will include a presentation and time for questions and discussion.
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We’ve Got Questions, Todd Has Answers
In this presentation, Dr. Zakrajsek will share his insight to some of the questions on the minds of faculty. He will address topics such as how to practice empathy and compassion for students while maintaining rigor and academic quality, how to create inclusive class environments, the future of higher education and the role of the faculty in a post-pandemic world, and what future learning spaces might look like (both physical and/or virtual).
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Gear-up Workshops
Gear up workshops are designed to give NSU faculty, students, alumni, and the general public an opportunity to engage with publishers, researchers, and librarians.
- Power Publishing Day (Jan. 2022)
- SAGE Explorer (Feb. 2022)
- Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Digital (Mar. 2022)
- Mastering Downloadable Resources for Work and Fun (Apr. 2022)
- Tips for Getting Your First Grant (Oct. 2022)
- Creating and Working with Open Education Resources (Nov. 2022)
- Learn More About OERs – Open Education Resources (Nov. 2022)
Faculty Book Clubs
Understanding How Learning Works
Creating Self-Regulated Learners