In this workshop, participants will examine how Socrative and Poll Everywhere may be used to enhance student learning and engagement. Participants in this workshop are encouraged to bring a mobile phone, smartphone, tablet computer, chromebook, or laptop. (If you bring an android device or an iPhone or iPad, please download and install the Socrative teacher and student apps.

Developing Project-Based and Community-Based Learning Opportunities
Rooms: 326, 328, 336, 337 Sheldon Hall
Wednesday, August 20 2014
1:30-3:30

This is a group meeting designed for participant faculty (or potential participants) who will use the Calibrated Peer Review software system developed at UCLA. This system automates  the process of peer- and self-assessment of student written work. John Kane will provide an overview of the system and provide information on how to: add student users, create assignments, and evaluate the results.

This workshop will provide an informal discussion of the 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.

Frustrated when students give only cursory readings to the comments you write on papers or when they ask for an explicit blueprint for revision? Surprised at how they approach you for help?  Any advice you'd like to give them about how best to work with faculty on their written work?

This session, presented by Assessment Fellow Jennie Han, is a brief talk and discussion about how to create effective measures to assess analytic and research papers in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

This workshop will demonstrate how YouTube's automatic captioning service may be used to automatically create closed captioning to meet accessibility standards for short videos. This is particularly useful for faculty creating video content to support a flipped classroom.

This fall, students in selected classes in the School of Education were loaned iPads for educational use. In this project group meeting, participants will discuss the status of the project, discuss any problems or issues that have appeared,  and assemble plans for future workshops. Anyone interested in learning more about this project is welcome to attend.

In this session, John Kane and Dave Kahn will demonstrate how Splashtop Whiteboard (available on iPads and Android tablets) may be used to provide electronic whiteboard capability when wirelessly paired with desktop computers connected to classroom projectors. 

Dave Kahn will discuss some of the new features available in iOS 8 and Yosemite. These new operating system releases offer new possibilities for seamlessly working across devices.