Instructors understand that when students attend class regularly their chances of success are greater than students who do not.  Back by popular demand, may I present a solution for getting your students in their seats, on time—Hot Chips!  Hot Chips is a motivational game that takes about five minutes of class time.  This game is designed to increase attendance and punctuality, generate excitement, and get students in the mood to learn.  Instructors can design the game around their own content, build in extra credit, or use as an incentive program.

Effective technical writers develop usable, clear content by carefully decluttering and organizing their materials; online teachers can use these same strategies to promote student success. In this session, you’ll learn and practice some simple writing and revision strategies for improving your class layout, instructions, and communication. 

Have you noticed that more students seem to be struggling with even the minimum expectations of college like attending classes, studying outside of class and turning assignments on time?  Faculty and staff nationwide have been noticing these changes now that it has been two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started.  We’ll explore reasons for these changes and concrete ideas for how to better support students in our classes with a team approach with the Learning Commons staff.  This includes helping students to learn or re-learn the skills and habits for college success as well as guiding them to shift their mindset for increased motivation.  This is vitally important for equity and to close gaps particularly for students from marginalized populations disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.  

See how Google Sheets can be used in the classroom and in a synchronous environment to create digital worksheets or practice material to help students engage in learning. Google Sheets can be set up to offer students immediate feedback on their responses allowing instructors to help others. In addition a Google Sheets notebook can be used as a collaboration tool for in class group work or synchronous breakout rooms. 

The problems that students face in their everyday lives and workplaces are rarely solved by singular solutions and plug-and-chug procedures. How can instructors empower students to use course content knowledge to solve complex, real-world issues? In this workshop, we will explore problem-based learning (PBL) as a framework to engage students with authentic scenarios that require application of course topics. Additionally, we will examine what technologies and resources can be used to structure PBL activities. Let’s create some (productive) problems for your students.

Participants will have the opportunity to practice using SWIVL and explore the possibilities fo using the robot within their context, whether student affairs or instruction. 

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This session will present a reminder of why Ally has been added to courses, and to become familarized with the tool and it's useful features. Whether students are reading on their phone or tablet, using a screen reader, like to annotate and highlight, or like to listen to an audio version of thier lesso, Ally can automatically generate “Alternative Formats” from the course content and files so that students can download and engage with course content in a way that works best for them, their devices, and their study tools. WebAim training will also be promoted for those wanting to learn more on "fixing" content. We will highlight GAAD Day as a way to promote the upcoming scheduled events during the Spring.

For attendees of this session, you may access content and resources during this time HERE. 

Are you looking to Jump-Start your career? Are you interested in forming faculty partnerships for professional growth and connection opportunities? If you have been at Aims for three years or more, this opportunity is for you! Through this Peer Partnership program, build connections with colleagues who share similar goals, explore resources together, share knowledge, and build a community of support. This program is a matching of two (or more) faculty members who would like to collaborate and progress on a common professional development goal. The Peer Partnership program aims to build a supportive peer-based community based on shared interests and career experience of faculty in their mid-career/advanced-career phase.