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Feb 3

Getting Comfortable with Interactive Digital Tools: Make and Take Session

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Online

Are you overwhelmed by the digital resources available? Unsure how to use them? Come learn about how using hyperlinks can help make your hybrid classes more interactive and less lecture. We will explore options such as using Google Docs, Forms, and Slides to create digital escape rooms, quiz games, and interactive notes. Register
Feb 3

Spring Virtual Book Club

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Online

This Spring 2021 Virtual Book Club will read and discuss, 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos: A Guide for Online Teachers and Flipped Classes by Karen Costa. Learn and discuss how you might use the tools you already have to create instructor-generated videos for your online classes that may boost course engagement levels. Book club members will be given a copy of the book. Register
Jan 29

Effective Online Group Work

Friday, January 29, 2021 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Online in Zoom

This session will offer an opportunity for instructors to discuss how they have used group work across course modalities and the challenges and benefits they have experienced in incorporating cooperative learning groups. Key considerations when developing both successful teams and effective projects/assignments will be shared.  Registration Link
Jan 22

If Your Lesson Was a Story, How Would You Tell It? Moving Beyond the Screencast in Online Learning

Friday, January 22, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Online in Zoom

In this session, we'll explore strategies for using video to enhance students’ engagement and interest in online learning. While Camtasia, Panopto, Screencast-O-Matic, and other tools provide ways to record and share online, how do these tools shape the nature of teaching and learning? What strategies might be used to create videos that move beyond the frame and into the real world, providing opportunities for students to learn in meaningful ways?
Jan 15

Speed Geeking - Engaging students in your online and hybrid course

Friday, January 15, 2021 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Online

Join several of our faculty for lightning round discussions on using a variety of technologies to help with student engagement in the online and hybrid classroom.
Jan 14

Combining Courses in AsULearn-Metacourses

Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Online in Zoom

Teaching multiple sections of the same course? Don't want to have to post course materials multiple times in multiple AsULearn course sites? Done this before, but heard about our new 'Metagroup Sync' tool and want to use it?
Jan 13

Teaching Online: Creating Orientation Videos with Kaltura

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 11:00am to 11:45am
Online in Zoom

Orientation videos can help welcome your students to the online course and provide some needed context for getting started. This session will provide participants with an overview of how to use the Kaltura Video Resource in AsULearn to post short videos to help orient your learners to the course and introduce yourself. Registration Link
Jan 13

Remind.com

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 10:00am to 10:45am
Online in Zoom

Remind is a real-time “text” messaging tool that allows users to communicate with groups, entire classes, small groups, or individual people. Users can write text messages up to 600 characters. Communication options include: text messages, smartphone app notifications, and emails. For teachers, this means being able to send out messages and reminders to students. For teachers, this means being able to send out messages and reminders to students.
Jan 12

Self Care with Technology

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

You've done the work of transforming your courses online. But with all this new technology, you're overwhelmed and exhausted, and you sense that your students are too. Your work/life balance is definitely not in balance. This workshop will offer strategies for making your online teaching more humane both for yourself and your students, so your work is more sustainable and maybe even more enjoyable in the long run. Registration Link
Jan 8

Hypothesis: Collaborative Annotation

Friday, January 8, 2021 - 10:00am to 10:30am
Online

As an integrated external tool in AsULearn, Hypothesis allows for collaborative annotation on online documents such as websites, or uploaded PDFs. Students can create annotations and reply to others. It enables sentence-level note-taking or critique on top of online classroom readings, news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and more. Register