2022 Winter Breakout Workshop Schedule

Monday, January 10

Session 1: Accessibility at Oswego
Time / Location: 10:00 - 11:20
Presenters:  Carrie Mocyk, Kathi Dutton, and Accessibility Initiative team members.
Remote access: Recording
This session will introduce you to the digital accessibility initiative at SUNY Oswego, including resources available to you and the colleagues you can reach out to for consultation and support as you make your own digital corner of SUNY Oswego more accessible.

Session 2: Here's What I Do: Giving Feedback to Student Writers
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenters: Michael Murphy, Kenneth Nichols, Stephanie Pritchard, and Amanda Trainham
Recording
In this discussion-based session, we'll talk about our approaches when we respond to student writing: how we deliver feedback (for both global problems or sentence level concerns) and what we've learned from our students once they receive our comments.

Session 3: 5-day Accessibility Challenge Kick Off
Time / Location: 11:30 - 11:50
Presenters:  Casey Raymond, Michele Thornton and Kate Percival
Recording
As much of our lives continue to move online and into virtual environments, understanding digital accessibility is more critical than ever. During this challenge, you’ll receive step-by-step guidance on how making minor changes to your digital documents can have a big impact on accessibility.

Session 4: Tapping Into Your Leadership Strengths
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenter: Dean Croyle
Recording
This session is designed for faculty and staff who are interested in learning more about their own leadership strengths.  Completion of a leadership inventory prior to the session (roughly one hour of time) is required for participation and will be provided in advance.]  Each of us practices leadership in many capacities -- in the classroom, in our departments, in community organizations -- and developing and utilizing our own individual leadership strengths can help us to be more effective in our leadership roles.  This session will utilize a leadership inventory to help each participant become more aware of their individual strengths and how those strengths can be used to their advantage.  It will also address the myth that we all need to be good at everything to be effective leaders.

Session 5: Accessibility Discussion Group
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Recording
Not certain where to start with accessibility or what it’s all about? Have some questions about the basic terminology, principles and foundations behind why SUNY Oswego has made such a strong commitment to building a campus culture of Accessibility?  For this session, please first read “From Accommodation to Accessibility: Creating a Culture of Inclusivity.” and then join us for our afternoon’s discussion group to share your reactions and key takeaways.

Session 6: Recovery Ally Training
Time / Location: 2:00 - 3:20
Presenter:  Trisha DeWolff
Recording
Recovery Ally Training is intended for both students and staff who want to be an ally for those in recovery from substance abuse. Recovery Ally training educates participants on Addiction 101, addressing stigma associated with addiction, how to be an effective ally and resources for recovery.

Session 7: Accessibility Drop-In Office hours
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Moderators:  Work Group on Accessibility Practices
No recording
These sessions are opportunities to get help from campus experts on your digital accessibility challenges and hurdles. Sessions are offered daily and will be staffed by members of the Workgroupon Accessibility Practices.

Session 8: Tips & Tricks: Using Handshake to Post Your On-Campus Opportunities
Time / Location: 3:00 - 3:50
Presenter: Tina Cooper
Recording
New to using the Handshake system? Join Tina Cooper, Internship Coordinator, in a discussion about best practices when posting your on-campus opportunities, utilizing your user account, and marketing your opportunities.

Tuesday, January 11

Session 9: Exploring the D2L BrightSpace Sandbox
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:50
Presenters: Rameen Mohammadi and John Kane
Recording
Participants in this season will request a sandbox account from D2L BrightSpace by: visiting the DLE Brightspace Sandbox login screen, selecting the option to register an account , and logging in with your SUNY-Oswego login credentials.).  (We encourage you to do this before the session.)  During the workshop you will export one of your Blackboard courses and import that into D2L Brightspace. Your sandbox account will then contain a demo course (provided by D2L and your own exported course.) This session is not intended to provide training in the use of D2L (that training will be provided by SUNY and D2L as we move forward with the transition. It is primarily designed to allow you to explore some of the features we will be gaining with D2L and (we hope) relieve any anxiety you may have over the transition to a new learning management system in the midst of a global pandemic.

We should note that the D2L sandbox account provides a generic version of D2L without any of the integrations that will be available during the actual migration (such as integration with publisher content, Panopto or similar video service, i>clicker integration, etc.).

Session 10: Smartphones...for Learning!?!?!? Leveraging smartphones for student engagement with Kahoot!
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:50
Presenter: Dan Truong
Recording
Are you tired of your students getting distracted by their smartphones or mobile devices during lectures? Do you have a remote synchronous course that you want to foster active engagement with? Before you bring the ban-hammer down on personal mobile devices, leverage them instead! Using Kahoot, you'll be able to come up with snap-questions, in-class surveys and pop-quizzes that will require students to use their phones, tablets or laptops to participate in. This session will be interactive in-order to highlight the strengths of using Kahoot in your class. Recommend having your cellphone on-hand to participate.

Session 11: Google Docs/ Word/Structured Content
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenter: Casey Raymond
Recording
Headings and styles, two features built into Google Docs and Microsoft Word that are easy to use, help you to organize documents, make them more readable, and much more accessible.

Session 12: D2L Update
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenters: Sean Moriarty, Jill Pippin, Greg Ketcham, Nicole Decker, Kathi Dutton, and Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Recording
Members of the Digital Learning Environment (DLE) Steering Committee will provide updates regarding the migration from Blackboard Learn to D2L’s Brightspace. Time will be provided for Q&A.

Session 13: Level Up: Accessible Color and Contrast
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenter: Rebecca Mushtare
Recording
Color can be an effective and useful tool for communication but also can’t be the only way to communicate information. . This session will walk through how to use color in combination with other visual indicators to make effective charts, graphs and other visual materials.

Session 14: Podcast discussion: Transparency in Learning and Teaching
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Moderator: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this session are asked to either listen to or read the transcript of  the 12/14/2021 ThinkUDL podcast on Transparent Design with Mary-Ann Winkelmes. Participants in this session will discuss the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework and how it can be implemented. (You can also engage in a discussion of this podcast in the CELT Blackboard group using Perusall (available by selecting Content, Podcast Discussion Group, and then clicking on the link to this podcast.) 

Session 15: How we view disability: a brief timeline
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenter: Laura Harris
Recording
This session will provide a brief overview of the major models of disability. We will also discuss how these models of disability have influenced and reinforced policies and standards. The session will conclude with a discussion of diversity-informed models of disability and how they can be applied in higher education.

Session 16: Introduction to LinkedIn Learning
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Presenters: Daniel Laird, CTS; Kaitlyn Jackson, LinkedIn Learning
Recording
LinkedIn Learning is an online learning partner that SUNY Oswego has partnered with to offer high-quality training to supplement the content in your courses. An easy integration tool allows faculty to add videos directly to their online courses through Blackboard. In addition to student content, LinkedIn Learning has three libraries (business, creative, and technology) to not only support student success but also support your own professional learning with courses on Microsoft Office, time management, DE&I, wellness, etc.

Session 17: Accessibility Drop-In Office hours
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Moderators:  Work Group on Accessibility Practices
Not recorded
These sessions are opportunities to get help from campus experts on your digital accessibility challenges and hurdles. Sessions are offered daily and will be staffed by members of the Workgroup on Accessibility Practices.

Session 18: Social media account check-up
Time / Location: 3:00 - 3:50
Presenter: Tim Nekritz and Alex Dukat
Recording
Do you have questions about running an institutional social media account? Do you know if your content is accessible? Is your content not working as well as you want it to? Do you wonder if it's worth (still) having an account in [insert name of channel]? Are you struggling to create relevant posts? Do you want to move beyond just posting for the sake of posting to strategic storytelling? Tim Nekritz and Alex Dukat, who run SUNY Oswego's main social media channels, invite you to an interactive session to give you answers and ideas.

Wednesday, January 12

Session 19: Pulling a "Bob Moritz": How to broadcast and record guest lectures with Zoom
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:50
Presenter: Dan Truong
Recording
Bob Moritz, Global Chairman of PwC and famous SUNY Oswego alum, is a frequent guest speaker for the School of Business. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has all but disrupted the opportunities for Bob to give his guest lecture series to students on the SUNY Oswego campus. With Zoom, we're not only able to continue this tradition, but also open up multimedia opportunities not thought possible before. If you are interested in hosting a VIP lecture series for your department, please attend this session so that way you are better equipped to handle any challenges that may come up.

Session 20: Building a Personal Faculty Website with Google Sites
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenter: Dan Truong
Recording
Back in mid-2021, Rocky - the campus web server used for hosting personal websites was decommissioned. Moving forward, there are multiple other services that can be used to host personal faculty websites with. One such service is Google Sites: a free and easy-to-use WYSIWYG website builder. Even if you aren't familiar with HTML, Google Sites is easy enough to get your website up and running in no time!

Session 21: Descriptive Hyperlinks
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenter: Todd Graber
Recording
This session will focus on creating useful and highly readable and accessible hyperlinks in any document you create or share from email, to Google Docs, to Powerpoints and beyond

Session 22: Planning for Migration from Blackboard to D2L
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenters: Theresa Gilliard-Cook, Carrie Mocyk, and Douglas Hemphill
Recording
As the campus plans for migration from Blackboard Learn to D2L’s Brightspace, so should you!  In the first half of this workshop, the ID team will discuss ideas and suggestions on how you can prepare your courses.  The second half of the session will provide opportunities for individuals and small groups to meet with an ID to discuss specific issues or concerns.  

Session 23: Making Google Forms that do the work for you
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenter: Casey Raymond
Recording
Would you like to use Google Forms to perform tasks, such as complete documents from user inputs, send emails based on user inputs? This session will give a quick overview of some of the automated tasks that you can have Google do for you.

Session 24: Podcast discussion: Burnout
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Moderators: Dean Croyle and John Kane
Recording
Participants in this session are asked to either listen to or read the transcript of the 9/8/2021 Tea for Teaching podcast on Preventing Workplace Burnout with Dean Croyle.  Participants in this session will discuss strategies for mitigating burnout as we work through a global pandemic. 

Session 25: Level Up: Captions & Previously recorded videos
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenter: Catalina Iannone
Recording
This session will discuss the steps for creating closed captions for videos on YouTube with special emphasis on methods for captioning languages other than English.

Session 26: Safe Zone Training
Time / Location: 2:00 - 3:50
Presenter: Shelly Sloan
Not recorded
A safe zone (or safe space) is a confidential place where all people can bring their authentic selves and feel safe, welcome, and included. Some takeaways from this program include:

1. Explain the difference between sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
2. Define terminology used to describe sexual orientation, and gender identity/expression.
3. Identify ways to create an inclusive classroom and campus space for LGBTQ+ students.
4. Explore ways to support LGBTQ+ people in the coming out process.

This session is 2 hours long.

Session 27: Accessibility Drop-In Office hours
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Moderators:  Work Group on Accessibility Practices
Not recorded
These sessions are opportunities to get help from campus experts on your digital accessibility challenges and hurdles. Sessions are offered daily and will be staffed by members of the Workgroup on Accessibility Practices.

Thursday, January 13

Session 28: Getting Started with OneNote
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:20
Presenter: Dan Truong
Recording
Want a bonafide way to manage documents and class notes without needing to print them out or cluttering your PC? Look no further than Microsoft OneNote: a free and easy-to-use note management system. Say goodbye to a messy desktop or documents folder! 

Session 29: Automate Attendance Check-In with Smartphones & Google Forms
Time / Location: 9:30 - 9:50
Presenter: Dan Truong
Recording
As more and more of SUNY Oswego are opening back up, live lectures and guest talks are making a comeback on-campus. You might want to take attendance of your class or issue extra-credit to students who attend a special guest event. With students increasingly using smartphone technology for their daily computing needs, you too can also leverage smartphones to automate attendance-taking of lectures or special guest events. Using Google Forms, QR Codes and a student's smartphone camera, you can confirm that a student has attended an event and leverage that data for grading purposes. 

Session 30: Text Equivalents for Images
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenter: Kate Percival
Recording
Learn how to make images, pictures, figures, and other non-text elements usable by assistive technology

Session 31: Learning To SOAR
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:20
Presenter:  Zachary Vickery
Recording
This session will provide an overview of the Open Access Policy, the SUNY Open Access Repository (SOAR, https://soar.suny.edu/), and demonstrate the submission process for faculty here at SUNY Oswego. Time will be left for questions from the audience.

Session 32: Risk Management Scavenger Hunt:  The World Is Our Classroom!
Time / Location: 11:30 - 11:50
Presenter: Kathleen Locklear
Not recorded
In a pre-COVID world,  the "Risk Management Scavenger Hunt" was an in-person (group) activity that led up to an individual written assignment.  The switch to online (asynchronous) learning required some adjustments.  Although these changes initially seemed challenging,  the end result was a modified activity that  provided students with greater flexibility to engage with the assignment.  This presentation will discuss adjustments made to the assignment and also "lessons learned" from the forced changes due to COVID. 

Session 33: Level Up: Formulas/Math Equations
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenter: Casey Raymond
Recording
Mathematical equations need to be usable by assistive technologies and MathML is one method to achieve content accessible to all. The MathML can be the text equivalent or serve as the code to create the equation in a Web browser. This session will show a few techniques to create MathML.

Session 34: "Fishbowls" promote student engagement with scientific papers
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:20
Presenter: Nick Sard
Recording
In this session I will share my experiences and resources (e.g., detailed rubric, etc.) associated with using fishbowls as a tool to promote student engagement with the scientific literature. I would like to hear from others about their experiences using this type of instruction tool.

Session 35: Accessibility Drop-In Office hours
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Moderators:  Work Group on Accessibility Practices
Not recorded
These sessions are opportunities to get help from campus experts on your digital accessibility challenges and hurdles. Sessions are offered daily and will be staffed by members of the Workgroup on Accessibility Practices.

Session 36: Names not Numbers: Learning Names without Faces
Time / Location: 2:30 - 2:50
Presenter: Michael Chaness
Recording
Everyone agrees that learning student names is an important part of creating community inside the classroom space; however, some folks are just "bad with names".  With mask wearing required and many of us teaching large format classes (50 or more) the process of learning names has never been more difficult - or more necessary.  This breakout workshop will discuss strategies for learning/remembering student names as well as the potential outcomes for embracing these best practice guidelines. 

Session 37: How to Export Your Videos from Zoom and Panopto
Time / Location: 3:00 - 3:20
Presenter: Dan Laird, Media and Design Specialist, CTS
Recording
For many online products that allow you to store video files, there are sometimes limits or retention policies we must adhere to. In this workshop, we are going to show you how to export your videos from Zoom and Panopto into your own means of storage so you can have copies of your materials indefinitely.

Session 38: Managing a student book creation project
Time / Location: 3:00 - 3:20
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
During the spring semesters of 2019, 2020, and 2021, students in economic capstone classes chose to collaboratively create book projects. In this session, we'll discuss how the project was selected, how tasks were allocated, and how Google docs, the Hypothesis tool in Blackboard, and Pressbooks were used to create the final product.

Session 39: Managing a student podcast project
Time / Location: 3:30 - 3:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Each student in an online introductory microeconomics class created two podcasts (either individually or with one or two partners) during the Fall 2019, 2020, and 2021 semesters. In this session, we'll discuss how this project was broken down into a series of manageable steps. Participants will receive copies of the instructions provided to students at each stage of the project, the rubrics that were used to provide feedback to students, and copies of the google forms that were used to collect the audio files, transcripts, abstracts, and other relevant information.

Friday, January 14

Session 40: Open Pedagogy Projects
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Open pedagogy involves student creation rather than consumption of educational content. Participants in this session will explore ways in which open pedagogy projects can be used to increase student engagement and learning. Examples of open pedagogy projects at Oswego and elsewhere will be discussed. Resources for the creation of open pedagogy projects will be shared.

Session 41: SUNYCreate - a domain of one's own
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Beginning with an IITG grant in 2019-20 and continuing with the support of SUNY Oneonta and SUNY OER services, faculty on 4 campuses have piloted a variety of uses of a shared SUNY instance of a Domain of One's Own project. Each participant in this program received a server account that allows the installation of Wordpress, Omeka, Scalar, PressBooks, Drupal and much more. Participants in this hands-on session will create an account and explore the possibilities that this provides for open pedagogy projects within a class or institution.

Session 42: Accessibility Checkers
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenters: Jean Hallagan and Dan Laird
Recording
Not sure how accessible your digital materials are? This session will walk you through the basics of using accessibility checkers you have available to you in order to improve the accessibility of materials you share with others. Tools covered will include: Grackle (Google Suite), Microsoft Office , Acrobat Professional, and Blackboard Ally.

Session 43: Academic Integrity Policy
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenters: Paul Tomascak, Kristen Munger, Jenn Knapp, and Raihan Khan
Recording
In spring 2021 the Faculty Assembly approved substantial changes to the campus Intellectual Integrity policy (now known as the Academic Integrity policy). The Associate Deans will discuss and answer questions about these policies during this session.

Session 44: Level Up: Improving PDF Accessibility
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenter: Kate Percival
Recording
Using PDFs to share articles or other course materials with students? This workshop will introduce basic techniques you can use to minimize barriers for students that you may not be aware they are facing.

Session 45: Introduction to Panopto
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Presenter: Dan Laird, Media and Design Specialist, CTS
Recording
If you've never heard of or used Panopto before, or just want a refresher on the basics of the platform, this workshop is for you. Panopto is the video platform on campus that allows to store all your videos in their online cloud service, as well as using their recorder to create new videos for your courses. It has many great features that allow you to easily share video content with students in your courses with only a few simple steps.

Session 46 : Accessibility Drop-In Office hours
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Moderators:  Work Group on Accessibility Practices
No recording
These sessions are opportunities to get help from campus experts on your digital accessibility challenges and hurdles. Sessions are offered daily and will be staffed by members of the Workgroup on Accessibility Practices.

Session 47: Non-traditional grading structures
Time / Location: 3:00 - 3:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this session will examine alternatives to traditional grading systems, including: mastery learning, specifications grading, contract grading, and ungrading.

Tuesday, January 18

Session 48: Flipping your class
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
In this session, participants will examine what is meant by a "flipped classroom" approach and how to successfully flip your own class.

Session 49: Polling
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this session will explore how polling can be used in any class to create an inclusive learning environment, assess prior knowledge, provide immediate feedback to students and instructors, stimulate student curiosity, and increase student engagement and learning.

Session 50: Psychology of Accessibility Needs
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenter: Emily Bovier
Recording
This session will cover the psychological basis of individual differences in accessibility needs (e.g., cognitive function, mental health, learning capacity). We will discuss classroom pedagogy and advocacy, and have an open brainstorming session regarding challenges/strategies in implementing these approaches.

Session 51: Getting started with iClicker Cloud
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
This workshop session is designed to provide an overview of the features of i>clicker cloud. Participants in this workshop will explore the features of the i>clicker cloud polling platform, set up their own instructor account, and to connect this platform with the roster and gradebook in one or more of their Blackboard courses.

Session 52: Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI)
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenters: Theresa Gilliard-Cook, Carrie Mocyk, Douglas Hemphill
Recording
As of July 1, 2021, updated regulations have been provided by the US Department of Education regarding distance learning and regular and substantive interaction.  This short presentation will provide the necessary information regarding the updated regulation, impact to online teaching faculty as well as time for Q&A.

Session 53: Embedding questions in videos
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenter: John Kane
No video: technical problems
This session will focus on why it may be useful to embed questions in videos, demonstrate the use of this technique, and provide an overview of three tools that will allow you to easily embed questions in your videos: Panopto, EdPuzzle, and PlayPosit.

Session 54: Let's Talk about Course Structure in Online Courses
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenter: Greg Ketcham and Theresa Gilliard-Cook
Recording
Now is the perfect time to talk about course structure in Oswego’s online courses as we are planning the migration to Brightspace.  This session will be an informal focus group to consider the importance and necessity of structure in fully online courses.  Discussion will include supporting literature and current best practices of course organization, layout, navigation, and wayfinding.

Session 55: Hypothesis
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that allows you and your students to jointly annotate digital text documents. There are two versions of this tool, a version which resides in Blackboard and an open public version. We'll examine each version during this workshop. Faculty often use this tool within Blackboard to allow students to jointly engage in close reading of a text while sharing their questions and reactions within the text itself. When used within Blackboard, it can also provide a convenient platform for peer review of student written work. The open version of Hypothesis is often used by instructors to allow students to collate, annotate, and tag materials stored on the web. In this session, participants will set up a hypothesis assignment within Blackboard, create a personal hypothesis account, learn how to create and join groups, and will examine various use cases.

Session 56: Accessibility Drop-In Office hours
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Moderators:  Work Group on Accessibility Practices
No recording
These sessions are opportunities to get help from campus experts on your digital accessibility challenges and hurdles. Sessions are offered daily and will be staffed by members of the Workgroup on Accessibility Practices.

Session 57: Evidence-based teaching practices
Time / Location: 3:00 - 3:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Students learn more when your class incorporates retrieval practice, spaced practice, interleaved practice, and metacognitive reflection. Participants in this session will discuss how we can implement these effective teaching practices.

Wednesday, January 19

Session 58: Free adaptive and personalized learning textbook replacements
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this session will examine how the free Waymaker personalized learning and the OLI adaptive learning platforms can create an inclusive and supportive learning environment that has been documented to increase student learning and to significantly reduce achievement gaps for first-generation and Pell-eligible students.

Session 59: Accessible Emails
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:50
Presenter: Kate Percival
Recording
This session will explain how to incorporate basic accessibility principles into emails. Learn how to boost your email accessibility quickly and easily by using techniques such as chunking, using lists, embedding links, writing in clear language, and more.

Session 60: Creating an inclusive classroom environment
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this session will examine a variety of simple techniques that can be used to create a more inclusive classroom climate. 

Session 61: The Impact of Intersectionality on Mental Health
Time / Location: 10:00 - 11:50
Presenter: Kyle Dzintars, Anneke McEvoy, and Tekhara Watson
Recording
This two-part workshop will explore and define intersectionality and help participants develop an understanding of how issues connected to intersectionality affect college students and mental health. Building upon these understandings, presenters will further provide intentional strategies, actions, and conversations toward helping  diverse members of our community feel seen, heard, and supported.

Session 62: Enhancing Student Engagement Using Tangible Materials and Objects in the Classroom
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenter: Zachary Gold
Recording
This session will demonstrate teaching strategies developed for my new course HDV 343: Early Childhood Play Behavior. Children learn and develop cognitive and social-emotional skills through active engagement with their environments, including manipulation of toys and other objects during play experiences with caregivers, siblings, and peers. University students also benefit from process-focused learning with tangible materials. In this session, Professor Gold will use a variety of large and small play materials from his research lab, such as wooden blocks, jumbo-size erector sets, balls, ramps, and chutes. Participants will learn how to (1) use objects in class to demonstrate concepts, (2) facilitate student participation and motivation through project-based activities, and (3) identify important teaching moments within these active learning processes.

Session 63: 3 Pillars of motivation: Belonging, Agency and Structure
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenter: Rebecca Mushtare
Recording
In this session we'll discuss how our courses materials, learning activities and the structure of our courses and can hook into key student needs to promote motivation.

Session 64: Tips & Tricks for Home PC Maintenance
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenter: Matt Brooks
Recording
With the current environment and more folks working from home in a hybrid way, this workshop is designed to provide some instruction on basic Windows PC maintenance to keep your system running optimally, with some tips & tricks. Designed for in-person and video attendance.

Session 65: Internet Tools for Academic Dishonesty: Implications for Course Management and Design
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Presenter: Liz Schmitt
Recording
This session will focus on how to prevent and address issues of academic dishonesty.

Session 66: Accessibility Drop-In Office hours
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Moderators:  Work Group on Accessibility Practices
No recording
These sessions are opportunities to get help from campus experts on your digital accessibility challenges and hurdles. Sessions are offered daily and will be staffed by members of the Workgroup on Accessibility Practices.

Session 67: Relationship-Rich Education
Time / Location: 3:00 - 3:50
Presenters: Leo Lambert and Peter Felton
Recording
In this session, Leo Lambert and Peter Felton, the authors of Relationship-Rich Education, will discuss the role played by student relationships with peers, faculty, and college staff on student success.

Thursday, January 20

Session 68: Perusall Pilot
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
We will be running a pilot of Perusall, a social annotation tool, this spring. Perusall allows faculty to upload audio, video, podcast, and other content to the Perusall platform and students discuss this content within the Perusall platform. Perusall offers features that are similar to Hypothesis, but Perusall is available at no cost to the campus. Perusall provides instructors with a record of each student’s engagement with the content. If you are interested in exploring the use of Perusall this semester, join us for this session.

Session 69: Queers in Your Classroom
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:20
Presenters: Micah Audycki, Ezra Wingard, and Charlie Lacker
Recording
An overview of LGBTQ+ topics with a focus on being an ally to students.

Session 70: Two-stage exams
Time / Location: 10:30 - 10:50
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 71: Creating a welcoming and inclusive syllabus
Time / Location: 11:00 - 11:50
Presenter:  John Kane
Recording
This session will examine a variety of strategies that you might use to create a syllabus that invites students to your class learning community, helps shape an inclusive learning environment, and provides a useful resource for students.

Session 72: Office 365 - Campus & Home Use (Drop-In Session)
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:20
Presenter: Matt Brooks
Not recorded
General question/answer session regarding our Oswego campus move toward Office 365 for classroom computers and employee computers, as well as how to get Office for use at home!

Session 73: Using appointment slots in Google Calendar
Time / Location: 1:30 - 1:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Appointment slots in google calendar may be used to allow students to sign up for specific time blocks on your calendar. Participants in this session will learn how to set up appointment slots and share appointment options with their students. (These appointment slots can be set up on a recurring basis for an entire semester when used for regularly scheduled office hours.)

Session 74: Introduction to SUNY Oswego's Multifactor Authentication Project
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Presenters: Sean Moriarty, Mike Pisa, Nicole Decker
Recording
This workshop will provide an introduction to SUNY Oswego's multifactor authentication (MFA) project.  MFA allows enhanced security authentication into technical services by using some type of confirmation in addition to a password. This could be a text message to your phone or email address.  In addition to being a local project, SUNY is requiring it for certain systems including the replacement to the Blackboard learning management system, Desire2Learn.  We will be discussing more about what MFA means, what data we need to protect, and what services will be further protected with MFA.  

Session 75: Accessibility Drop-In Office hours
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Moderators:  Work Group on Accessibility Practices
No Recording
These sessions are opportunities to get help from campus experts on your digital accessibility challenges and hurdles. Sessions are offered daily and will be staffed by members of the Workgroup on Accessibility Practices.

Session 76: Easily create educational videos
Time / Location: 3:00 - 3:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
Participants in this session will explore ways in which they can create and share educational videos with their students simply and efficiently using a laptop (or desktop with a webcam or microphone), chromebook, or mobile device.

Friday, January 21

Session 77: Fight the Slump: Student Engagement Strategies
Time / Location: 9:00 - 9:50
Presenters: Lyn Blanchfield, Mallory Bower, Kristin Croyle, Fehmi Damkaci, and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
Recording
Struggling with getting your students to engage in discussion, turn in homework, or show up for class?  Join us for a session where we can share strategies and hear some good ideas from colleagues.  This is a repeat and extension of a session delivered in November.

Session 78: Free (or nearly free) edtech tools
Time / Location: 10:00 - 10:50
Presenter: John Kane
Recording
This session will provide participants with an overview of a collection of free (or nearly free) edtech tools that can be used to support effective instruction.

Session 79: Curriculog Demo
Time / Location: 10:00 - 11:20
Presenters: Rameen Mohammadi, Tracey Green, Sandra Bargainnier, Lerret LeMay, and Eric Goodnough
Recording
We are preparing to roll out this product for managing changes to college curricula. Curriculog is designed to allow for submission of new courses, course updates, as well as, new programs and updates to existing majors/minors. Workflow is also managed by the system for review and approval by the administration, Councils, and committees. We expect a partial roll out in spring and want the opportunity to familiarize the faculty with the tool.

Session 80: ACUE Presentations: Creating a Supportive and Inclusive Learning Environment
Time / Location: 1:00 - 1:50
Presenters: Genevieve Alorbi, Star Mattison, Kenneth Nichols, Michelle Storie, and Andrea Vickery
Recording
The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Effective Teaching Practices course is a campus-wide, year-long course where faculty learn about and implement approaches that involve deep learning and improve student engagement. Each presenter in this breakout session will present on one of the approaches they implemented in Fall 2021 with the goal of creating a supportive and inclusive learning environment. General topics covered include leading the first day of class, promoting a civil learning environment, ensuring equitable access to learning, helping students persist in their studies, checking for student understanding, and providing useful feedback.

Session 81: Calling All Gamers: Exploring academic program possibilities around Esports and Gaming
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Presenter: Dean Merchant
Recording
This is a discussion about the possibilities of starting an academic program around the ever-growing world of Esports and Gaming. A look at Shenandoah University's programs may provoke some thoughts - they offer programs in ESports Management, Esports Media and Communication as well as others.  This will be a brainstorming session for those who have knowledge, expertise and/or experience in this new world.

Session 82: Accessibility Drop-In Office hours
Time / Location: 2:00 - 2:50
Moderators:  Work Group on Accessibility Practices
No recording
These sessions are opportunities to get help from campus experts on your digital accessibility challenges and hurdles. Sessions are offered daily and will be staffed by members of the Workgroup on Accessibility Practices.