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Information to Know
Information to Know
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We were lucky to have the national online teaching expert, Flower Darby, present on Wednesday, January 13, 2021. See the section below for recordings and resources.
Sessions are short and direct (30 - 60 mins) to help you learn and develop new skills efficiently. See the full schedule and details in the accordion list below.
Slides, if applicable, for each session will be shared during the beginning of the sessions. Each session in the accordions below has a link to the recording and slides.
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Session Details
Session Details
Monday, January 11th
Monday, January 11th
- 9:00 am - 9:30 am: Brightspace - Beginners
Customize your Brightspace profile and settings for automatic course notifications and integration with your Google drive.
Quickly create content with CSS templates and add files with drag & drop ease.
Use the Instructor Checklist to review settings before opening your course.
Session Resources:
- 9:30 am - 10:30 am: Engagement Strategies - Panel Discussion
- 10:30 am - 11:00 am: Brightspace - Semester Start Checklist
- 11:00 am - 11:30 am: Brightspace - Making Sure Students see Their Grades & Your Feedback
Presentation by Jenean O'Brien.
Update your Grades Settings to ensure students see their current grades.
Connect Grade Items to assignments, discussion topics and quizzes.
Post your feedback on assignments where students can easily see it.
Share with students how they can view their feedback.
Session Resources:
- 11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Brightspace - New Ways to Communicate and Interact with Students
Use the Activity Feed instead of Announcements to allow students to communicate with you and classmates about class updates.
Add Intelligent Agents to customize feedback for student progress while saving yourself time. Email students quickly from several sites in your course.
Session Resources:
Tuesday, January 12th
Tuesday, January 12th
- 9:00 am - 9:30 am: Surviving Covid - Teaching Efficiently
- 9:30 am - 10:30 am: The Wonders of Google to Interact with Students - Panel Discussion
Panelists: Melanie Talaga, Beth LaVigne, Audrey Devine Eller, Heather Brown, & Scott Seagroves.
Learn how your colleagues are using different Google applications to increase student interactions synchronously and asynchronously, face to face and virtually, including simple Doc commenting, Paint, and Jamboard.
Session Resources:
- 10:30 am - 11:00 am: Grading: Save Time with Specs Grading, Rubrics, & Schemas
- 11:00 am - 11:30 am: Student Video Submissions and Peer Review - alternative to VoiceThread
Presentation by Nikki Schutte, Heather Brown, and Nancy Gabres.
Learn how your colleagues are using new ways for students to submit video assignments and provide feedback to each other.
You can use this tool for skills demonstrations, presentations, peer feedback, and more.
Session Resources:
- 11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Formative Assessments that Impact Summative Assessments
Wednesday, January 13th
Wednesday, January 13th
- 9 am - 1 pm: Flower Darby - Online Best Practices and EDI
National online teaching expert Flower Darby (author of Small Teaching Online) will be with us, focusing on best practices in online teaching, framed in equity, diversity and inclusion.
Learn more about Flower Darby on her website.
Thursday, January 14th
Thursday, January 14th
- 9:00 am - 9:30 am: Zoom: New Features & Virtual Backgrounds
Presentation by Meg McBride.
New Virtual Backgrounds and Filters provide more options for participants to share their video and reduce background distractions, including using presentation Slides as your backdrop.
New features allow spotlighting multiple participants (great for group presentations), and customizing the order of participant tiles.
New breakout room settings allow participants to join any room, and open up more options for group work.
- 9:30 am - 10:30 am: EDI - Classroom Action - Follow-Up to Flower Darby
Presentation by Dr. Amy Bergstrom.
- 10:30 am - 11:00 am: Powerful Synchronous Discussions
- 11:00 am - 11:30 am: Powerful Online Discussions
- 11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Making Videos & Student Presentations (Video Note, YouTube, Captioning)
We look forward to learning with you!
We look forward to learning with you!
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