January 2021 ITE Workshop

Welcome session with Kamalika Sandell and the Office of Digital Learning: We will talk about preparations for the spring semester, as well as what’s new with digital teaching tools.

Presented by Kamalika Sandell

Instructional Videos and How to Make Them: Making video material for effective educational instruction takes a lot of time and effort. It does not require expensive tools. Except you. Given a computer with standard office-style tools, the additional equipment needed to make good instructional videos is a good microphone and a good video editing application. Two styles of instructional video are discussed, representing the quick and the impressive: Captured Handwriting (without the hand), and Video of the Book. The video construction process is described and demonstrated.

Presented by Andrew Pole

Slides: Instructional Videos and How to Make Them

Video Creation Summary

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Webex Teams: Learn more about Webex Teams, a collaboration tool that can be used to send messages, share files, collaborate on digital whiteboards and launch video calls. 

Presented by Justine Krawiec

Slides: Webex Teams

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Oral Assessments in the Undergraduate Engineering Courses: This session will present on experiences with the implementation of oral assessments in engineering classes with different enrollments.  It will also discuss the specific examples of the integration of the oral component into the exams and required support structure for successful and fair assessment, as well as feedback from the students involved in this innovative approach of the assessment.

Presented by Irina Molodetsky and Gennady Gor

Slides: Part 1 & Part 2

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Canvas Analytics: The new Analytics tool in Canvas can be instrumental in eliminating barriers that may sometimes exist between Instructors' perceptions of how learners may be engaging with content, and real time applications including students' interactions with materials provided during the learning process. The workshop offers an overview of the tool and how it may be used for informed decision making.

Presented by Itewari Ekpebu-Bryan

Slides: Canvas Analytics

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Teaching an Online Asynchronous Online Course – Lessons Learned: This session will explain how the instructor has structured an asynchronous technical online course to provide enhanced student learning – what appears to be working, why different enhancements were done, and what are some issues in this type of course delivery. Presentation Slides

Presented by Ron Rockland

Slides: Teaching an Asynchronous Online Course- Lessons Learned

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Academic Integrity and Assessment in a Converged/Remote Classroom: This talk will focus on two important topics:

1. Promoting an environment of academic integrity in our classroom, and 
2. Utilizing authentic assessment to minimize the reliance on exams.

Presented by Ashish Borgaonkar and Jaskirat Sodhi

Slides: Academic Integrity and Assessment in a Converged/Remote Classroom

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Avoiding Death by PowerPoint: This session will focus on strategies to keep remote students engaged.  Topics will include incorporating activities that promote regular and substantive interaction (RSI), tips to engage students, and strategies for effectively using synchronous collaboration tools.

Presented by Cassie Sardo and Amal Shah

Slides: Avoiding Death by PowerPoint

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How to Use the Converged Learning Classroom Technology: This session is taken from the Summer 2020 training series. This session will help faculty become familiar with the classroom technology used for converged learning, including what they can expect in the room, and what the students (remote and in person) will be able to see and hear. Topics will include Cisco rooms, OWL devices, and basic logistics of the technology.

Presented by Blake Haggerty and Jesse House

Slides: How to Use Converged Learning Classroom Technology

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