Teaching with Innovative Learning Technologies (T.I.L.T.)

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Mastery Level: Basic
Facilitator: George; Training Specialist from VoiceThread
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Purpose: VoiceThread is a collaborative tool that allows participants to immerse in an active and engaging environment. Like a discussion board, with VoiceThread instructors and/or students can create, share and comment on images, PowerPoint presentations, videos, audio files, documents and PDFs using a microphone, webcam, text, phone and audio-file upload. In this workshop, participants will learn to create a VoiceThread by uploading media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others.

Objectives:

• Identify pedagogical implications of using VoiceThread to create interactive teaching and learning experiences.
• Learn to create a VoiceThread using various media, add narration and annotations, and share it with others.
• Discuss recommended settings and best practices that leverage the use of VoiceThread.

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Mastery Level: Basic
Facilitator: Dr. Sherita Love
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Purpose: As we move to a remote teaching and learning format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators are pushed to teach in a new modality using innovative strategies and technological tools to deliver their lectures, engage their students and facilitate discussions online. Synchronous online class sessions, where everyone joins a Zoom meeting at a scheduled time, is one way to create engagement when students are remote. In this workshop, we will explore the basics of preparing for a Zoom session and tips to ensure facilitation of a successful Zoom meeting.

 Objectives:

• Identify strategies and tips to keep in mind when preparing for a Zoom session
• Outline basic Zoom settings for meetings and recordings
• Learn to create and facilitate a Zoom meeting
• Discuss methods of verbal and non-verbal communication in Zoom
• Explore ways to keep Zoom meetings private and secure

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Mastery Level: Advanced
Facilitator: Samantha; Training Specialist from PollEverywhere
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Purpose: As we move to a remote teaching and learning format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators are pushed to teach in a new modality using innovative strategies and technological tools to deliver their lectures, engage their students and facilitate discussions online. Poll Everywhere is one such tool that can be used to enhance and amplify classroom discussion and participation in addition to assessing student understanding.

Objectives:

• Explain the meaning and purpose of audience response systems such as Poll Everywhere
• Understand theoretical perspectives informing the use of polls in online learning
• Identify engagement strategies using various Poll Everywhere question types
• Outline best practices for using polling techniques in distance education courses
• Experience Poll Everywhere from a user perspective
• Identify different question types in Poll Everywhere
• Learn how to create and setup an account
• Create a poll and embed it in a presentation
• Understand group/collaboration features for PollEverywhere from an instructor standpoint

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Mastery Level: Advanced
Facilitator: Samantha; Training Specialist from PollEverywhere
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Purpose: This is the continuation of the PollEverywhere Basics. This advanced level workshop is designed to highlight PollEverywhere in Asynchronous learning environments. Topics also include gamification and competitions.

Objectives

• Identify ways and the steps to gamify your classroom by creating a competitions
• Identify strategies for using PollEverywhere in Asynchronous Environments
• Demonstrate the steps for using PollEverywhere in Asynchronous Environments

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Mastery Level: Advanced
Facilitator(s): Drs. Cara Foldes and Sherita Love
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Purpose: As we move to a remote and hybrid teaching and learning format educators are pushed to teach in a new modality using innovative strategies and technological tools to deliver their lectures, engage their students and facilitate discussions online. Synchronous online class sessions, where everyone joins a Zoom meeting at a scheduled time, is one way to create engagement when students are remote. In this workshop, we will explore strategies to improve learner engagement online using Zoom tools such as polling, whiteboard and breakout rooms. 

During this workshop, we will also present faculty lead examples of the integration of advanced engagement tools in Zoom in a Team-Based Learning environment. 

Objectives:

• Define learner engagement and outline levels of engagement.
• Identify strategies to build community and foster interaction in a Zoom class.
• Use Zoom tools such as polling, whiteboard and breakout rooms to promote interaction and keep students engaged.
• Apply best practices for using polling, whiteboard annotations and breakout rooms in TBL environments.
   

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Mastery Level: Advanced
Facilitator: Dr. Sherita Love
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Purpose: Assessments are essential to the learning process to gather information on the effectiveness of instruction, student’s understanding of the course materials and achievement of the learning objectives. Assessments provide feedback to students on their learning and is also an incentive to improve academic performance. In an online environment, many instructors struggle with providing reliable assessment opportunities and grading to accurately gauge student learning. In this workshop, participants will learn about formative and summative assessments, characteristics of effective learner assessments and how to create online assessments/tests in Blackboard.

Objectives:

• Identify high-quality formative and summative assessment strategies used in online education.
• Create a test using different question formats, deploy and grade a test in Blackboard.
• Apply recommended best practices for assessing student learning in Blackboard.

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Mastery Level: Advanced
Facilitator: Dr. Sherita Love
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Purpose: A rubric provides a means to convey to students the expectations of quality for assignments and can help students organize their efforts to meet the requirements. Blackboard rubrics can be used to mark discussion boards, blogs, journals, wikis and Blackboard assignments. In this workshop, participants will learn about the pedagogical implications of using rubrics to assess students, best practice use, and create

Objectives:

• Define a rubric and explain the different parts of a rubric.
• Describe different types of rubrics, and the benefits of using rubrics in instruction.
• Discuss best practice tips for effective design and use of rubrics.
• Learn to create a rubric, associate it to an assignment, and grade using a rubric in Blackboard.

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Mastery Level: Advanced
Facilitator: Dr. Sherita Love
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Description

Purpose: Assessments are essential to the learning process to gather information on the effectiveness of instruction, student’s understanding of the course materials and achievement of the learning objectives. Assessments provide feedback to students on their learning and is also an incentive to improve academic performance. In an online environment, many instructors struggle with providing reliable assessment opportunities and grading to accurately gauge student learning. In this workshop, participants will learn about formative and summative assessments, characteristics of effective learner assessments and how to create online assessments/tests in Blackboard.

Objectives:

• Identify high-quality formative and summative assessment strategies used in online education.
• Create a test using different question formats, deploy and grade a test in Blackboard.
• Apply recommended best practices for assessing student learning in Blackboard.