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Using Card Sorts as Pre- and/or Post-Assessments
Using Card Sorts as Pre- and/or Post-Assessments
Prof. Beth LaVigne (SOE/SW) - "Using Card Sorts as Pre- and/or Post-Assessments" - The Card Sort strategy gives students the opportunity to work with vocabulary, terms, and concepts. Students sort cards with the terms and concepts into categories based on meaning. Sorting the cards gives students a structure to talk meaningfully with one another about content and helps teachers check for understanding.
Jamboard Presentation Slides
Jammin' with Jamboards and Google Forms: Student Check-ins
Jammin' with Jamboards and Google Forms: Student Check-ins
Prof. Judi Roux (SOE/SW) - Everyone (students and instructors) benefits from relationships within the classroom. Using check-ins to gauge student understanding and emotional well-being encourages resilience and improved learning outcomes.
Accommodate Presentation Slides
Accommodate 101
Accommodate 101
Hannah Bober and Sadie LaPlante (Center for Equal Access) - "Accommodate 101" - Join The Center for Equal Access as we walk through how to best use Accommodate and its features. Learn tips and tricks that help you know students have what accommodations, where to see which students are using their testing accommodations and more.
Sharing and Organizing in your Google Drive
Sharing and Organizing in your Google Drive
Greta Jenkins (Center for Teaching and Learning) - “Lost in the File Forest: Sharing and Organizing in your Google Drive” - Are you feeling lost in the forest of files? Where’s that project plan from 2 weeks ago? Did that shortcut create a new copy of the file? I made a copy of the worksheet, but where is it? This session will equip you with an understanding of Google Drive’s helpful features and the skills you need to effectively take charge of your sea of documents.
No supporting materials were used in this session.
Maintaining Your Scholarship Agenda in Busy Times
Maintaining Your Scholarship Agenda in Busy Times
Kevin Vaughan (Theology & Religious Studies), Pablo Palafox (Chemistry), Amber Schlater (Biology), Leah Prussia (Social Work) - Panel Discussion: Maintaining Your Scholarship Agenda in Busy Times - Description: The panel of faculty colleagues will discuss the difficulties faced by full-time faculty members in pursuing an active research agenda and some of the strategies they use to address them.
Google Sites to Support Courses and Student Professionalism
Google Sites to Support Courses and Student Professionalism
Kelly Erickson (Occupational Therapy) - “Google Sites to Support Courses and Student Professionalism” - Description: Learn how Google sites provide a professional presentation for a variety of materials and resources for students (and others!) in a layout that is more accessible than an online folder system. See how sites have been used for course resources (especially useful for inter-linked courses across semesters), professional presentations, and training resources for adjunct faculty and community partners.
Engaging Assessment-Assignment Options in Brightspace
Engaging Assessment-Assignment Options in Brightspace
Join Tom to learn about some assessment/assignment options for students in Brightspace that strengthen student engagement.
Open Educational Resource (OER) Textbook Options
Open Educational Resource (OER) Textbook Options
Kevin McGrew (Director, Library) - Open Educational Resource (OER) Textbook Options - Description: As the cost of textbooks continues to soar, come to hear about some Open Educational Resource Textbooks that could be great alternatives for your courses.
Please contact the Library with any questions you have regarding integrating OERs, or materials currently in the Library's collection, into your course materials. Resources Mentioned in the session:
Formative Feedback for Student Writers
Formative Feedback for Student Writers
Learn about the role of feedback for students’ writing in a variety of assignments. Engage in reflective discussion as we share research-based practices and examples.
Creating Campuses for All: Fostering Open and Respectful Exchange
Creating Campuses for All: Fostering Open and Respectful Exchange
Dr. Jonathan Freidman from PEN America presents.
Bringing Mental Wellbeing into the Classroom Setting
Bringing Mental Wellbeing into the Classroom Setting
Sarah Wells (Counseling) - This session will examine the University of Texas strategies to support student mental wellness in the classroom setting. Video, lecture, and discussion format.
Veritas Innovation Awards
Veritas Innovation Awards
Heather Brown, Lupe Linares, Kevin Quarmby - Come learn about the work of last year's Veritas Innovation Award winners, as Dr. Heather Brown discusses her STEM Dignitas, Dr. Lupe Linares discusses diversifying the voices in her course American Short Story, and Dr. Kevin Quarmby discusses connecting Shakespeare to the legal system.
Culturally Responsive Classroom Mindfulness
Culturally Responsive Classroom Mindfulness
Judi Roux - Mindfulness practices in the classroom help students (and instructors) focus and manage their own emotions. Various strategies will be discussed and practiced to be used in culturally responsive classroom activities.
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