Thursday Aug 18

Use Your Noodle, Put Google (Assignments) in Your Moodle

L. Fogle, S. Summers

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Tired of getting Google Docs from students that you can’t open? Want a more efficient way to provide feedback to students on their Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets? The Google Assignments activity in Moodle manages sharing permissions and provides a streamlined feedback process with the option for an interactive rubric.

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What do you find beautiful? A joyful assessment strategy

S. Chen, M. Fenn

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Students learn best and remain engaged when they have a positive emotional connection to the material. In this session, we will discuss implementation and results of asking students to express what they find beautiful or what resonated with them in courses across two different departments in the COVID era. Participants will be invited to make plans for implementation in their own courses.

Broadening Access for Students with Disabilities

C. Gordy, M. Ramirez

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This session is for instructors who are ready to go beyond providing required disability accommodations and begin the process of pro-actively making your classes accessible.

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Re-engage with your students by being more authentic and showing your humanity!

L. Paciulli

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Understanding the Pratfall Effect. Understanding the shift from building instructor credibility through formality and being the “sage on the stage” to the “guide on the side” philosophy (Morrison, 2014). Evaluating the benefits of authenticity and humanity while teaching. Listing examples of authenticity.

Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down: Using dashboards to visualize students' presentation strengths and areas for improvement

S. Warren

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Dr. Sarah Egan Warren will demo her interactive Tableau dashboards that she uses with her students to improve their in-person, hybrid, and online presentation skills. The dashboard serves two purposes: 1) to visualize feedback in a way that is actionable for the students and 2) to allow the instructor to track trends and sort by areas needing improvement. Although focused on presentation skills, using Tableau to visualize feedback/grades is applicable for any discipline.

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Incorporating UDL and Executive Functions into the Design of Online Asynchronous Experiences

C. Goller, C. Gordy

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When designing online learning experiences, goal setting and performance monitoring supports are often an afterthought. However, choice, access, and ability to plan effective learning strategies are critical components of a successful learning experience. In this session, we collaboratively define executive functions, access needs, and self-regulation to share strategies for supporting accessibility and performance monitoring that can be implemented in various courses.

An Introduction to 3-D Scanning

S. Waddell

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A quick introduction to the way we capture 3d objects through photogrammetry and LIDAR, and some reflections and thoughts about the uses of 3d content captured from the real world for classroom use. By the end of the session participants will have a better understanding of the process of 3D object capture, knowledge of what subjects make good candidates for the process, and insight into some of the uses of the technology in classrooms and for distance education.

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Best Practices for Onboarding & Offboarding Students

K. McInerney, M. Deal, C. Deaton, S. Noell

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With new storage limits coming to NC State’s Google domain this year, OIT is sharing advice on how to onboard and offboard students while keeping your important files intact.

3:20pm - 4:00pm Fifth Session Options

Making Reading an Interactive Experience with PlayPosit

R. Larson

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Leveraging Gradescope to Streamline the Grading Process

A. Howard, A. Sipfle

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