Summer Workshops

Workshops

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Intro to Canvas and Online Assignments/Activities (self-paced)Work with us as we go over the basics of Canvas course organization, critical internal tools and the use of assignments and activities. Focus on your content, while utilizing the LMS in ways that are effective and efficient.
Leveraging Multimedia (self-paced)The Goldilocks Principle (not too much, not too little, just right) applies to using multimedia in instruction and learning activities: the right amount, the targeted content, and the impetus for further engagement will determine its success. We will go over finding and creating your own video, images, audio and interactives as well as adding them to your Canvas course.
Canvas Gradebook & SpeedGrader: Grading and Feedback (live workshop)As a follow-up to the Intro to Canvas and Online Assignments/Activities, join this workshop to learn how to configure the gradebook to provide students up to date information on their progress in the course. Learn to organize assignments into groups, set percentage weights, add extra credit, and activate drop the lowest score. See SpeedGrader in action as you practice efficient grading workflows, providing students timely feedback. Learn to view the gradebook in a variety of ways to gather the information needed to answer student questions and track the progress of students.
Low Bandwidth Teaching (live workshop)Work with us to look at technical, and human bandwidth as you teach. This session will include simple analysis of activities to utilize while you think through teaching well online. Useful elements include pedagogical organization to support technical opportunities for managing limited bandwidth of all kinds. Join this flipped session - watching quick videos first, before a deeper Q+A session with CTL Instructional Design.
Humanizing Online Learning and Teaching (live workshop)Humanizing online supports the non-cognitive components of learning to create connection and empathy that fuel engagement and rigor. This workshop will explore a variety of humanizing strategies and tools that support the connection between the cognitive and affective domains that are essential to learning. You will have an opportunity to engage in at least one humanizing strategy and walk away with a toolkit of ideas curated by peers in this session.
Teaching Today’s Learners (self-paced)

Coming June 20!

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Pivotal Pedagogy (self-paced)

Coming June 20!

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Engaging Learners Using VoiceThread (self-paced)

Coming June 20!

Consider the engagement benefits of using VoiceThread. Innovative technological tools, programs, and software can be used to promote student engagement, motivation, and ultimately enhance the quality of the learning experience for all students. See what VoiceThread has to offer.

 

Engaging Large Classes Online (live workshop)It’s difficult enough to engage students in traditional large lectures, but doing so in online instruction can seem daunting.  However, with a few structures in place and a clear sense of purpose, teaching large classes online can be intellectually engaging and even enjoyable for students and instructors alike. This session will begin by exploring the meaning and variations of engagement because how we think about this concept will determine, in large part, how we approach course design and instruction. It will then outline different structural actions faculty can take to increase efficiency to maximize the time we have so we can focus on student learning.  It will end with an exploration of and practice with specific teaching technologies that solicit student engagement in different and dynamic ways.
Transparent Assignment Design + Rubric (live workshop)Transparency in assignment design is fundamentally about managing expectations. Transparent assignments lay out the skills we want students to practice, the insights we want them to come to, and the criteria for doing successful work. When students know what is expected of them (intellectually and behaviorally), they tend to report higher levels of confidence in doing academic work, a greater sense of belonging, and are able to better articulate the skills they are building as they progress through the course. Teaching in digital environments makes transparency even more important to give our attention to. Based on research from the Transparency in Teaching and Learning (TILT) project at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, this session will explore simple transparent design strategies that can be easily incorporated into the digital teaching environment.
Writing Better Test Questions (live workshop)

Coming June 20!

Writing test questions is a critically important and challenging skill to develop. Few of us, however, have been taught how to write test questions or design the types of assessments that get students to the place of understanding we wish to see. Well written test questions can reinforce learning, assess content mastery, and even positively motivate. Reciprocally, unclear or poorly written questions can not only frustrate students, they can actually deter learning as students may focus on the wrong content or fall back on ineffective study strategies. This session will explore those characteristics that make learning-centered questions and use the affordances of Canvas features that can help further the learning we want to see. In the end, we want to develop test questions that move students toward mastery of content, not how well they can take a test.