2020 Winter Breakout Schedule

Monday, January 13

Session 1: An Introduction to Cooperative Learning
9:00 - 4:00 / 215 Penfield
Presenter: Dean Kristin Croyle
Cooperative learning is an instructional approach where students work together in small groups to improve their own learning, and each other's learning, through the instructor's thoughtful design of learning experiences in the classroom.  Application of cooperative learning principles in class can increase student performance and enjoyment of class as well as increasing student attendance and retention. If you have struggled with having students work together, with some students doing almost all of the work and some doing almost none, this session will provide you with the tools to structure student group work so that all students are engaged, contributing, learning, and building cooperative relationships with their peers.

Tuesday, January 14

Session 2: Planning a Quarter Study Abroad Course: Q&A
9:00 - 9:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenters: Casey Raymond and Jeff Schneider
Recording
We hope to answer your questions about planning a study abroad course, based on our experiences leading 17 trips to 8 different locations. 

Session 3: MathType for Accessible Equations
10:00 -10:20 /Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Casey Raymond
Recording
During this session, I will introduce how MathType can be used to create accessible mathematical equations.

Session 4: Beyond Student Evaluations of Teaching: Building a Rich Teaching Portfolio
10:00 - 10:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Liz Schmitt
Recording
In this workshop Liz will discuss some of the concerns and literature about student evaluations of teaching (SETs), and what to consider when revising a SET instrument. She will also discuss other materials to build a richer teaching portfolio to evaluate teaching in both summative and formative ways.

Session 5: Internet Tools for Academic Dishonesty: Implications for Course Management and Design
11:00 - 11:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Liz Schmitt
Recording
This workshop builds on prior CELT workshops discussing various internet tools that facilitate academic dishonesty. Using a case study from Fall 2019, Liz discusses the discovery and response to widespread student use of a cheating site, and how to manage and design around this problem both during the affected semester and looking ahead to future semesters.

Session 6: The State of Intellectual Integrity on Campus
1:00 - 1:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenters:  Paul Tomascak, Jenn Knapp, and Kris Munger
Recording
An update on intellectual integrity policy violations from the recent past year, this session is meant to inform faculty on who and how many are committing acts that run contrary to the campus policy. Additionally, we will discuss the reporting system that we use to make reporting easier and improve the ability to track serial violators.

Session 7: Neurodiversity 101
1:00 - 1:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Lynne Rhys
Recording
This session will provide an overview of autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and other types of neurodiversity. We’ll talk about myths and misconceptions, as well as some of the challenges faced by the neurodivergent community. Finally, we’ll explore accessibility strategies for both work and school.  

Session 8: Choosing classroom learning materials - Options, Options, Options
2:00 - 2:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenters: Paul DiVita, Dan Laird, Laura Harris, and Sean Moriarty
Recording
Over the last few years, the College has worked towards providing instructors with a myriad of options for providing their students with the best and most affordable learning materials. The College supports Open Educational Resources, free materials, inclusive access, e-texts and textbooks. Additionally, the library has worked with instructors to ensure students have access to as much of these materials as they can afford.

This session will describe the options and the pros and cons of each. It will also discuss how instructors can work with the bookstore to ensure students obtain the materials for the lowest price and the instructors obligations to ensure the College stays in compliance with the Federal Government’s Higher Education Affordability Act (HEAO).

Session 9: The Free Waymaker Personal Learning System 
3:00 - 3:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
In this session, participants will explore how the free Waymaker personalized learning system can be used in place of a textbook in many introductory level classes. The presenter’s experience in using this system in a large face-to-face and a smaller online class will be discussed.

  

Wednesday, January 15

Session 10: Open Pedagogy Panel
9:00 - 9:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenters: Margaret Schmuhl, Marcia Burrell, John Kane
Recording
Participants in this panel will discuss the open pedagogy projects that their students engaged in during the fall 2019 semester as part of our participation in a SUNY IITG grant project organized by SUNY-Oneonta.

Session 11: Creating an Open Pedagogy Project
10:00 - 10:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter:  John Kane
Recording
Open pedagogy projects involve student creation and public sharing of their intellectual products. Student created open pedagogy projects often take the form of blogs, podcasts, videos, publicly posted research projects, collating and annotating online content, and the creation of study materials (such as glossaries, study guides, or other learning materials). These projects can increase student engagement and motivation, provide authentic learning experiences, and can help reduce the incentives for academic dishonesty. In this session, participants will explore the wide range of open pedagogy projects that can be used to enrich classes in all disciplines. Examples of open pedagogy projects and tools that facilitate these projects will be shared.

Session 12: Hypothesis
11:00 - 11:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this hands-on session will learn how to use Hypothesis, a free web annotation tool that can be used by individuals and groups to annotate, tag, collate, and discuss web content. These annotations may be private, public, or set to a specific group (such as a whole class or a group within the class). Hypothesis is frequently used in open pedagogy and open education projects and can be used as an alternative to online discussion boards, to collate and annotate web resources, or to provide peer or instructor feedback on student work. Participants in this session will also explore how Blackboard integration of Hypothesis simplifies the use of Hypothesis for some applications that are not intended for public viewing.

Session 13: Engaging Students in Large(r) Classes
1:00 - 2:20 / 215 Penfield
Presenter: Dean Kristin Croyle
Recording
It can be a struggle to think about how to best engage every student in larger classes, and to help them feel connected to the class and to the instructor and their peers.  This session will introduce some straightforward and immediately usable strategies to engage every student every day in class, whether that class has 40 or 400 students enrolled.

Session 14: Incorporating Sustainability Into Your Syllabus (yes, YOU!)
2:30 - 3:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenters: Kate Spector and Lisa Glidden
In this interactive workshop, we introduce several mechanisms for integrating and enhancing sustainability related activities, events, and themes into academic courses. Bring a syllabus you would like to update.  

Session 15: Prior to the Search
2:30 - 3:50 / 215 Penfield
Presenters: Nancy Concadoro, Rodmon King
Recording
The goal of any search is to successfully appoint the most qualified candidate. Every faculty and professional search provides us with the opportunity to attract the greatest candidate pool so to identify our future colleagues. Every search should be viewed as a strategic opportunity to enhance our faculty and professional staff, increase our campus diversity, embrace our institutional mission and realize our institutional vision. There are several steps that must be taken prior to the onset of any search. The successful outcome of any search has its foundation in the preparation that occurs prior to posting the job vacancy announcement/long advertisement.

 

Thursday, January 16

Session 16: ACUE Roundtable Discussion
9:00 - 9:50 / 215 Penfield
Presenters: ACUE participants
Recording
In this session, participants in the 2019 ACUE cohort will discuss how the ACUE professional development program has affected their interactions with students.

Session 17: ACUE: Active Learning Strategies for the College Classroom
10:00 - 10:20 / 215 Penfield
Presenter:  Jessica Harris
Recording
The following strategies can increase active learning in the classroom and help incorporate different learning systems to engage a variety of learners: think, pair, share, role-play, the muddiest point, team-based learning, jigsaw, one-minute paper, popcorn activity, and problem-based learning. A breakdown of each learning activity and how to use it in your own classroom will be discussed.

Session 18: ACUE: First-Day of Class Activities
10:30 - 10:50 / 215 Penfield
Presenter: Liz Dunne Schmitt
Recording
Liz will discuss several first-day of class activities that were discussed in the ACUE course: An electronic version of the "Parking Lot," an early email, and a video tour of Eco 340-ON1.

Session 19: New(ish) features in Google slides
10:30 - 10:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this hands-on session will explore the real-time voice captioning and audience participation tools available in Google slides. The audience participation tools provides opportunities for backchannel discussions as well as real-time feedback and interaction with groups of any size.

Session 20: Effective Use of Starfish for Instructors and Advisors
11:00 - 11:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenters: Corie Sievers, Christina Vasquez, Rameen Mohammadi
Recording
A basic or refresher training for any advisors (or any department) interested in learning more about utilization and implementation of Starfish. Discussion on basic setup, use and advanced features.

Session 21:  Basics of video recording and editing using iMovie on an iPhone or iPad
11:00 - 11:20 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Participants in this session will explore the basics of using iMovie on iPads and iPhones.

Session 22: Using Exams as Learning Tools
11:30 - 11:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
How much learning takes place during your exam and when you return the exam? Do students get back their exams and either feel relieved or depressed, but otherwise pay little attention to the exam? In this workshop, we’ll explore how two-stage exams may be used to provide students with a more  productive and engaging learning environment. A portion of this session will also discuss the use of exam wrappers (and the somewhat mixed evidence on their effectiveness).

Session 23: A Student-Created Book Project
1:00 - 1:20 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: John Kane
Recording

This session will focus on lessons learned during a 2019 spring-semester economics capstone project in which students collaboratively created a book on the causes and consequences of growing income inequality. A discussion of how Google docs, Pressbooks, and Hypothesis were used during the multistage writing process will be discussed.

Session 24: A Student-Created Podcast Series
1:30 - 1:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
This session will discuss how a student-podcast series was created by students in an online introductory economics class during the fall 2019 semester. 

Session 25: Teaching Squares
2:00 - 2:20 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Maggie Schmuhl
Recording
This session will be used to introduce and organize teaching squares among interested faculty. A teaching square brings together four faculty from different disciplines who take time to observe each other’s teaching over a period of time and culminates in an informal coffee or tea meeting to discuss the techniques and practices used in the classrooms of their colleagues. This continuing growth opportunity offers faculty an informal setting to discuss and reflect on classroom dynamics and teaching techniques employed in the classroom.

Session 26: Tools for creating and sharing open pedagogy projects
2:30 - 3:20 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: John Kane 
Participants in this hands-on session will explore free (or nearly free) tools (such as Google Docs, Hypothesis, Pressbooks, Wordpress, and Google Sites) that facilitate the collaborative creation and sharing of open pedagogy projects. Each participant will create free accounts for the platforms that they may wish to use and will explore the use of these tools.  

Session 27: Kahoot!
3:30 - 3:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this hands-on session will explore the use of Kahoot! to provide students with an engaging form of retrieval practice. 

Friday, January 17

Session 28: Phishing: How to Avoid the "Phish Hook"
9:00 - 9:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Ursula Wilkinson
Recording
Phishing is one of the top ways for hackers to compromise your computer, online accounts, and personal data.  A good defense is built around knowing HOW the attackers do what they do, and why. This session will explain phishing techniques, so you can spot the scam before you fall victim.  You will also learn how to report phishing emails, as well as how to safely follow up if you think an email may be legitimate.

Session 29: Student Metacognition: Do students know what they know?
9:00 - 9:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
In this session, research findings concerning student metacognition will be examined, This will be followed by a discussion of alternative strategies that may be used to help students improve their metacognition.

Session 30: That mini-computer in your pocket: Is it Secure?
10:00 - 10:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Ursula Wilkinson
Mobile devices are ubiquitous in today's digital world, and can offer tremendous convenience in our daily lives.  We sometimes forget, however, that they are really just mini-computers, with all the risks that they entail, PLUS the added risks of extreme portability and high theft value.  This session will cover what you should do to keep your mobile devices secure.

Session 31: The problem: 100+ students in class, so how do I get the students actively involved in their own learning?
10:00 - 10:50 /123 Penfield
Presenter:  Bill Bosch
Recording
We will look at organizing the team structure so that we can keep all the students involved and methods to evaluate both the individual and team. You will leave with specific ideas that you can implement this semester. Presenter is the Founding Director of CELT. 

Session 32: PlayPosit
11:00 - 11:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Susan Germer, PlayPosit
PlayPosit is a powerful tool that allows you to easily embed a wide variety of questiontypes in any video stored in the usual places (YouTube, Ensemble, Vimeo, Panopto, etc.). This platform is used at a growing number of institutions to facilitate flipped classroom instruction, provide interactive activities in online classes, ro replace campus clicker systems, and to certify the completion of online training programs. PlayPosit integrates with Blackboard (and other LMS systems). This tool will be demonstrated by a representative of the company during this session.

Session 33: Tips to Improve Student Evaluations and Student Learning
11:00 - 11:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Bill Bosch
Recording
We will present a variety of ideas you can implement right away in your classroom this spring,  Many of these can be done without much work and can be very effective in improving your evaluations for the semester. Presenter is the Founding Director of CELT.

Session 34: Eyes to the Prize: Publicizing and promoting campus activities via Oswego Today, the events calendar
11:00 - 11:50 / 215 Penfield
Presenter: Tim Nekritz
Recording
The best news is good news about our campus community and the outstanding opportunities, activities and stories. Maybe it's a special event or incoming speaker. Maybe you've published something or spoke at a conference. Or maybe you have students who just accomplished something remarkable. How do you let people know? In this session, Tim Nekritz, the director of news and media for the Office of Communications and Marketing, will talk about options via this office or other avenues to let your news shine.

Session 35: Inclusive Pedagogy and Practice
1:00 - 3:50 / 215 Penfield
Presenter: Rodmon King
The focus of this session will be solution-focused small group work regarding classroom and department climate.  The content of the workshop will be drawn from case studies compiled from actual situations at other institutions that have been anonymized.  The session will focus on developing skills and solutions that can be used in similar situations and contexts.

Tuesday, January 21 

Session 36: Introduction to Accessibility
9:00 - 9:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenters: Fiona Coll and Rebecca Mushtare
Recording
Contextual set-up: legal issues, campus strategies, intro to AF program. General intro to barriers via student personas/examples. 

Session 37: Evidence-Based Course Design: Retrieval Practice
9:00 - 9:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Many decades of research consistently finds that retrieval practice is an important tool in building long-term recall. Participants in this session will explore a wide variety of ways of providing students with frequent opportunities to implement retrieval practice without significantly increasing instructional workload. These methods include: mastery quizzing, adaptive learning systems, classroom polling, brain dumps, exit tickets, and many simple short classroom activities.

Session 38: Five Easy Strategies for Removing Barriers to Access
10:00 - 11:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Fiona Coll and Kate Percival
This section outlines five easy strategies that will help you prevent the most common barriers to access. For each: problem in the wild, a good experience in the wild,  a way to make a good experience. Use google and grackle.

Session 39: Evidence-Based Course Design: Interleaved and Spaced Practice
10:00 - 10:50 /123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Interleaved and spaced practice have both been show to be effective in encouraging student long-term learning. Participants in this interactive session will discuss how these powerful techniques may be introduced into their classes.

Session 40: Roundtable Discussion: Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom 
11:00 - 11:50 /123 Penfield
Presenters: Participants in the MOOC
Recording
Participants in the Teaching and Learning in the DIverse Classroom MOOC will reflect on what they've learned by participating in Cornell's EdX MOOC on this topic.

Session 41: Assistive Technology in Your Pocket
1:00 - 2:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Carrie Mocyk
Introduction to assistive technology built into your personal technology.

Session 42: Reducing the Achievement Gap
1:00 - 1:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
This session will focus on evidence-based methods of reducing the achievement gap between first-gen and continuing generation students. Among the methods discussed: adaptive-learning and personalized learning systems, a variety of forms of retrieval practice, open educational resources, growth-mindset messaging, peer instruction, and inclusive classroom instructional practices.

Session 43: Remediation Team
3:00 - 3:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenters: Kate Percival, Carrie Mocyk, and Starr Wheeler
Recording
Online course accessibility is addressed through the viewpoint of Accessibility Resources, the Instructional Design team, and the Digital Accessibility Analyst. We'll discuss how our responsibilities fit together, our remediation process, and how it affects faculty who teach online courses.

 

Wednesday, January 22

Session 44: Word, Powerpoint, and Accessibility
9:00 - 10:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Kate Percival
Recording
In-depth exploration of accessibility strategies of Word and Powerpoint.

Session 45: Moderating and Evaluating In-Class Writing Workshops
9:00 - 9:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Stephanie Pritchard
Recording
Writing workshops help students learn how to give and receive feedback, how to talk to each other, and how to consider opportunities to revise their writing. In this session, we'll explore several models you can use to productively utilize class time to work on writing. 

Session 46: What Would Your Department Want from a Writing Minor?
10:00 - 10:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Michael Murphy
Some faculty in English and Creative Writing have begun talking about developing a minor in Public and Professional Writing designed for students across campus who want to cultivate their writing skills for application in the workplace, civic life, and other public contexts. If this is something you think students in your major might have an interest in, we'd love to know what your department thinks such a minor should include. Come talk with Michael Murphy, Director of College Writing, about what might benefit your students, and hear about what we've been thinking. 

Session 47: Blackboard Ally (an accessibility tool)
11:00 - 11:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Kathi Dutton
Introduction to Ally.

Session 48: Building Ties Between the Library and Your Department: A Case Study
11:00 - 11:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenters: Kenneth Nichols, Karen Shockey, and others
Recording
During the Fall 2019 semester, the English Department Writing Fellows and Penfield's Instructor Librarians collaborated to improve communication with regard to what each cohort expects from required ENG 102 library sessions.  

In this presentation, we will inform others about what we learned from our collaboration and how those lessons can be applied to other departments that require similar library sessions.  More importantly, the librarians will express needs and offer strategies as to how to strengthen their relationships with other departments across campus.  

Session 49: Videos & Captioning
1:00 - 1:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Dan Laird, Michele Thornton
Recording
Panopto, Ensemble, YouTube.

Session 50: Writing Instruction as Public Service
1:00 - 1:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Robert Early
As instructors at a public university, SUNY Oswego faculty may think of ourselves as public servants.  How might this identity--that of public servant--inform our approaches to writing instruction throughout the disciplines?  This session invites participants to share and discuss various answers to that question.  

Session 51: Establishing an Inclusive Classroom Culture
2:00 - 2:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Fiona Coll and Allison Rank
Recording
Strategies for countering academic ableism in the classroom.

Session 52: How to Incorporate the ORI Book into Your Class, No Matter Your Field
2:00 - 2:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenters: Kenneth Nichols, Ola Kraszpulska, Lisa Glidden, and Laura Donnelly
Recording
The Oswego Reading Initiative is a cross-disciplinary opportunity to engage the campus community (and especially First-Year students) in a common discussion.  In this workshop, we will offer strategies to help instructors in any discipline to incorporate the 2020 ORI book into their syllabi and class activities. Participants will be encouraged to engage in the exchange of ideas. Participants will also receive a free copy of the ORI book.

Session 53: Belonging in College: Confronting the Distance Between Students and Academia
3:00 - 3:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Amanda Trainham
This session will discuss and showcase different methods we, as educators, can use to help students understand their place in college. Through both informal and formal writing, students can become more engaged with their class material, which can create a sense of belonging and understanding in a classroom they may feel disconnected from. The session will be discussion focused, with an exercise to help instructors understand how writing can be used to increase student performance and understanding.  

Session 54: Roundtable discussion with accessibility fellows
3:00 - 3:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenters: 2019 Accessibility Fellows
Informal conversation about Accessibility Fellow experience.

Thursday, January 23

Session 55: Zoom: New Campus Standard for Video Conferencing
9:00 - 9:20 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Tami Bullard
Recording
Zoom is a simple and reliable cloud platform that provides remote audio and video conferencing services. It is now the new campus standard. Zoom is ideal for conducting candidate interviews, meetings, or bringing “outside” guests into your classroom. In this session, we will cover the steps in using Zoom; establishing an account, hosting a meeting, as well as screen-sharing and recording. Best practices of video conferencing will also be discussed.

Session 56: The Odd, The Bad and The Ugly: Responding to student behaviors in a culture of fear
9:00 - 10:20 / 215 Penfield
Presenters:  Elizabeth Droz, PhD, Associate Dean of Students and Kate Wolfe-Lyga, LMHC, Director of Counseling Services

  • Participants will identify how our culture influences distorted perceptions of campus safety

  • Participants will join with colleagues about experiences of struggle or discomfort in responding to student behaviors

  • Participants will identify methods of applying empathy to interventions with students demonstrating problematic behaviors

  • Participants will identify the college’s infrastructure in supporting faculty and staff in addressing escalating behaviors

Session 57: Using MOOCs for Professional Development
9:00 - 9:20 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recordng
This session will discuss the role that free MOOCs can play in professional development. Specific recommendations for MOOCs that provide support for the development of evidence-based instructional practices will be provided, along with suggestions on how to find MOOCs appropriate for your interests.

Session 58: Zoom: Best practices for our campus.
9:30 - 9:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: Tami Bullard
Recording
Zoom has been a staple of our campus for a year now. In this session, we will go over the common uses of Zoom at SUNY Oswego and how to use them as best as possible for interviews or for classroom projects. 

Session 59: Using Podcasts for Professional Development
 9:30 - 9:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
You can listen to podcasts while commuting, flying, exercising, walking, or performing household chores. This time can be used productively to help stay current with policy debates, effective teaching practices, and pretty much any topic of interest. In this hands-on session, participants will explore and subscribe to podcasts that are relevant to their own interests.

Session 60: Introducing Timber Adopt - the new learning materials submission process
10:00 - 10:20 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Paul DeVita
Recording
The College is moving away from the old textbook/learning materials submission process which depended on Google Docs to a new application titled Timber Adopt. This session will describe the new process and application and show how faculty and departmental administration can use it to submit their information and orders. It will also describe how instructors can work with the bookstore to ensure students get the best value and price for their materials.

Session 61: New software, new operating systems, and CTS
10:30 - 10:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: David Kahn
Recording
Discuss the new features of macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and Microsoft's Windows v1903, for faculty and lab computers as well as the additional third party software CTS installs on these machines.

Session 62: Using Rubrics to Provide Transparent Assessment of Student Work
11:00 - 11:20 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
This hands-on workshop will discuss how rubrics in Blackboard Learn helps students how their discussions, papers, presentations, and other work will be (and how it has been) evaluated by their instructor. A short demonstration of how to create and use a rubric will be provided.  Participants will use the rubric tool to create their own rubric during this session.

Session 63: Adobe Licensing Changes and the Home Use Program
11:00 - 11:20 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: Nicole Decker
Recording
On November 30, Adobe software licensing changed from a serial number based model to a named user model.  This new model includes a new means of installing and entitling employees to the applications. The Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App is used to uninstall old serial number based software and install the new named user software which requires authentication using your SUNY Oswego credentials.  In this workshop, we will discuss the licensing changes for SUNY Oswego owned employee and computer lab devices as well as personal devices. We will also demonstrate the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App. 

Session 64: Effective Use of Starfish for Instructors and Advisors
1:00 - 1:50 / Library Classroom 101
Presenters: Corie Sievers, Christina Vasquez, Rameen Mohammadi
A basic or refresher training for any advisors (or any department) interested in learning more about utilization and implementation of Starfish. Discussion on basic setup, use and advanced features.

Session 65: Why use clickers?
1:00 - 1:20 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this session will have a hands-on experience with using i>clickers while learning about the remarkably strong evidence of their effectiveness in increasing student learning and engagement across diverse disciplines.

Session 66: Integrating i>clicker and Blackboard
1:30 - 1:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
This workshop is designed for those that plan to use i>clickers during the Spring 2020 semester. Bring a usb drive on which you will store the software needed to run i>clicker. During this workshop, we will set up the Blackboard integration that allows students to register their i>clicker id number and set up the software needed to automatically upload clicker scores into your online course gradebook. 

Session 67: Flipping the classroom
2:00 - 2:20 / 123 Penfield
Presenters:
Recording
This session will provide an introductory discussion of possibilities for "flipping the classroom." Under this approach, low-level tasks and assignments are completed by students outside of class and class time is devoted to individual and/or group work on higher cognitive level tasks. This approach might use such tools as just-in-time teaching and team-based learning. 

Session 68: Tools for flipping the classroom
2:30 - 2:50 / 123 Penfield
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
This workshop will provide a quick overview of tools that are available to support the construction of flipped classrooms. This discussion will cover both content creation tools such as Jing, Camtasia, Panopto, Explain Everything  as well as online content sources such as Khan Academy, Merlot, MOOCs, open access educational sites, and YouTube. 

Session 69: Setting up a YouTube Live Session to Schedule and Livestream a Guest Lecture or Event
3:00 - 3:20 / Library Classroom 101
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
In this hands-on session, participants will learn how to schedule and livestream a guest lecture or event.

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