Thursday 6/9
10am - 11:50am - Concurrent Sessions
Session A
Baking Accessibility into Your Course Is A Recipe for Success: Universal Design for Learning and Accessibility
Presenter: Sam Evans, CAE, MBA
Description: This session will explore the fundamentals of digital accessibility, including:
Building on your campus Canvas LMS and MSFT Office tools we will learn about and make your own content more accessible.
Create accessible documents.
We will focus on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Caption videos
Learn how to use several free and low-cost tools to create SRT files and how to sync them in YouTube Studio
Create transcripts for podcasts and other audio only content
Using our same low-cost tools, understand how and why transcripts enhance the engagement and make audio-only content accessible
Best practices for inclusive survey design
We will learn about the pros and cons of format and question types and why your survey design can impact your feedback success.
Accessible email tips
Yes! Even email has its own accessibility best practices for accessibility.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
Create and modify documents and content to make their own content more accessible.
Discuss ways accessibility makes content accessible, but also enhances engagement for everyone.
Session B
Show Me, Don't Tell Me: The Relevance of ePortfolios in Today's Learning
Presenter: Miko Nino, Ph.D., Director of Online Learning, University of North Carolina Pembroke
Description: ePortfolios are a powerful tool in education, since they provide a testimony of the curricular and cocurricular learning in students. Through the showcasing of artifacts and thoughtful reflections, students can demonstrate any kind of skill, make connections between the classroom and their careers, and develop metacognition. In this session, participants will explore ePortfolios, how they can be used in instruction, the kind of assessments that are suitable for ePortfolios, and how to develop ePortfolio-centered experiences and courses. In addition, participants will get more information about the ePortfolio Initiative for Career Success (EPICS) at UNCP and how they can get involved and be part of it.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
Value ePortfolios as an effective pedagogical tool
Design ePortfolio-based instruction and assessments
Assess students’ knowledge through ePortfolios
12pm - 12:50pm - Lunch Break
1pm - 2:50pm - Concurrent Sessions
Session A
Insider Secrets of PowerPoint Pros
Presenter: Mike Taylor, Learning Consultant, Nationwide
Description: PowerPoint is way more powerful with far more hidden tools and features than 99% of its users realize. In the right hands, PowerPoint can be a powerful tool for creating amazing designs. In this session, you’ll learn about some of the tools and techniques that put the “power” in PowerPoint and how to create presentations that will amaze your audience. Some of the topics for this session include rethinking your print and downloadable documents, replacing Photoshop with PowerPoint, animations, transitions, and the magic of Morph.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
Create learning experiences and content with advanced PowerPoint features
Session B
Zoom Escape Rooms
Presenter:
Alexander Salas, Learning Experience and Instructional Systems Designer
This workshop is designed to enable participants to add creativity and engagement to their learning experiences by simulating escape room games with Zoom Meetings technology. Given some handy job aids and intense online collabos of creativity, learners will be able to create an escape room-like game thus creating a highly engaging learning experience. Learners will be guided through gamification mechanics of escape rooms like achievement, discovery and puzzles and bring those to life with their teammates. For example; after a short brainstorming storyboarding session, participants can create an escape room sample relevant to their workplace needs.
Activities will include using Zoom breakout sessions and interactivity elements to enable an escape room “feel” in virtual online delivery.
Learning Objectives:
Create a short escape room strategy using Zoom Meetings
Apply gamification escape room and other mechanics in virtual delivery
Activate existing knowledge in learners with playfully challenging interactivity
Presenter: Dr. Todd Nicole, Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning, UNC Chapel Hill
Description: The influence of lifelong learning units has primarily focused at the program level, often driving new offerings that seek to reach new or returning students. This new lens of lifelong learning, however, is not just a way to maintain or grow enrollment but rather a way to understand the student journey and our potential impact. It speaks to how society and students conceive of and use higher education and provides strategies for keeping institutions sound and programs viable. Lifelong learning is a concept that can be applied even at the course level, a “lifelong pedagogy” that can benefit all types of courses and learners. In this session, we will review the trends that have created the concept of “lifelong learning,” consider the implications for what comes next at the institutional level, and then turn our attention to how faculty can apply these same concepts at the course level in ways that can enhance core subject-matter learning objectives of courses and curricula.