Presentations & Agendas
iTeach Agendas
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Current Agendas
iTeach2 - May 2017
Archived Agendas
iTeach - May 2016
Monday, May 9 |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Orientation | Dan | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Legos | Madara | |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Break | ||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Introductions and Showcase Courses | All | |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings | Christen | |
| 11:30 – Noon | Essential Questions leading to Measurable Evidence | Heidi | |
| Noon – 1:00 | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Essential Questions leading to Measurable Evidence continued | Heidi | |
| 1:30 – 2:45 | BIs, EUs, EQs, & LOs Socrative Tool | Owen/Christen&Heidi | |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Break | ||
| 3:00 – 4:00 | Personal Learning Environments | Kendell | |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | End of Day Wrap Up | Dan | |
Tuesday, May 10 |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome Back | Dan | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Information Fluency/LAC a Three Legged Stool/Iterative process | Jen/Kendell | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Whose Domain is it Anyways? Copyright & Fair Use (and Creative Commons) | ||
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Embedding Exercise | Sean | |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | Lunch | ||
| 12:45 – 2:15 | Create Your Own Domain: Video | Sean | |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Break | ||
| 2:30 – 4:00 | Create Your Own Domain: Screencasts
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Janene | |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | End of Day Wrap Up | Dan | |
Wednesday, May 11 |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome Back | ||
| 9:00 – 10:15 | Learning Taxonomies | Heidi | |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Break | ||
| 10:30 – 10:45 | FERPA: Things You Should Know Before Students Go Public | Karina | |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Online Discussions: Managing and Moderating | Sean | |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | Lunch – Peter Westley – Hangout On Air | Owen | |
| 12:45 – 1:45 | Collaborative Google Docs: Small Group Participation | Christen | |
| 1:45 – 2:45 | Synchronous Communication: Small Group Presentation | Janene/Kendell/all | |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Break | ||
| 3:00 – 4:15 | Engagement and Critical Thinking: Immersive Roleplay | Owen/Sean/Dan | |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | End of Day Wrap Up | Dan | |
Thursday, May 12 |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome Back | ||
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Where Students Publish: an Overview | Christen | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break | ||
| 10:15 – Noon | Assessment | Owen | |
| Noon – 1:00 | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Technology Fair: Explore Available and Upcoming Tech | Sean | |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Back to Information Fluency: Can you do it all? | Madara | |
| 2:00 – 3:00 | Revision, Feedback and Failure | Kendell | |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Break | ||
| 3:15 – 4:15 | Blackboard Gradebook | Chris B. | |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | End of Day Wrap Up | Dan | |
Friday, May 13 |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome Back | Dan |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Architecture & Design | Jen |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Calendars and Schedules & Syllabus | Heidi |
| 11:00 – Noon | Quality Matters | Chris L |
| Noon – 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Two forms: | Dan |
| 2:00 – 2:15 | Break | |
| 2:15 – 3:15 | Reflection | Dan |
| 3:15 – 4:30 | Presentation | Dan |
iTeach - October 2016
Tuesday, October 4 |
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8:00 – 8:30 |
Dan & Madara |
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8:30 – 9:15 |
Madara |
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9:15 – 9:45 |
Heidi | |
| 9:45 – 10:00 |
Break |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Christen |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
Madara |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 – 2:00 |
Heidi |
Big Ideas, Enduring Understandings, Essential Questions, and Measurable Evidence |
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2:00 – 2:45 |
Jen | |
| 2:45 – 3:00 |
Break |
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3:00 – 4:00 |
Chris L |
Information Fluency & the LAC: a Three Legged Stool/Iterative process |
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4:00 – 4:30 |
Chris L |
Whose Domain is it Anyways? Copyright & Fair Use + Creative Commons |
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4:30 – 4:45 |
Dan | |
Thursday, October 6 |
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8:00 – 8:15 |
Dan |
Welcome Back |
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8:15 – 8:45 |
Sean |
Embedding Exercise |
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8:45 – 9:45 |
Christen | |
| 9:45 – 10:00 |
Break |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Sean |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
Christen |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 – 1:45 |
Janene |
Online Discussions: Creating Community, Generating Participation |
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1:45 – 2:30 |
Heidi | |
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2:30 – 3:15 |
Sean |
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| 3:15 – 3:30 |
Break |
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3:30 – 4:45 |
Dan & Madara |
Engagement and Critical Thinking: Immersive Roleplay |
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4:45 – 5:00 |
Dan |
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Tuesday, October 11 |
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8:00 – 8:30 |
Dan |
Welcome Back |
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8:30 – 10:00 |
Owen |
Assessment Slides – Reflection Activity |
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Break |
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10:15 – 10:45 |
Madara |
Revision, Feedback and Failure |
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10:45 – 12:00 |
Kendell |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 – 1:15 |
Kendell |
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1:15 – 2:15 |
Heidi |
Pedagogy Meets the Calendar: Practical Considerations for High Falutin’ Ideas |
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2:15 – 2:45 |
Jen |
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| 2:45 – 3:00 |
Break |
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3:00 – 4:00 |
Chris B |
Blackboard Gradebook |
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4:00 – 4:45 |
Dan |
Individual Course Focus |
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4:45 – 5:00 |
Dan |
End of Day Wrap Up |
Thursday, October 13 |
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9:00 – 9:30 |
Dan |
Welcome Back |
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9:30 – 10:30 |
Owen | |
| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
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10:45 – 11:15 |
Dan |
Instructor Presence, Announcements, Office Hours, Being there, Staying Sane |
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11:15 – 12:00 |
Kendell | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 – 2:00 |
Dan | |
| 2:00 – 2:15 |
Break |
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2:15 – 3:15 |
Dan | |
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3:15 – 5:00 |
Dan |
Presentation |
Presentation Resources
Below you’ll find any number of presentation resources that our Instructional Designers have used during things like iTeach+, various iTeach sessions, and many of the other faculty devlopment activities that we routinely do.
Using Google Forms for learning activities
Explore creating interactive learning activities using the branching and quizzing features in Google Forms. Build a learning activity that will guide students through content and direct them forward to new content or to alternative content to help with their...
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Updates on Google Classroom
Google Classroom helps teacher integrate Google Apps into their classroom. The classroom has space for creating assignments, discussions, grading and feedback. This will be a brief overview of how Classroom might be used in your Classroom. To access Google Classroom,...
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Adding custom questions to Blue evaluation
Course evaluations will be available for student to complete about two weeks before the final day of instruction. This is your chance to get some really good feedback from your students about your course and your teaching methods. In this session we'll look at how to...
read moreScience Labs for Online Classes
Take a look at a session conducted on best practices in online lab courses and how to facilitate them. Instructional Designer Dan LaSota has included a slide deck that outlines the session.
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Teaching Data Visualization Part 2
How can you guide students through the creation of a successful presentation of data? What are some common pitfalls? How can data visualization be interactive online? If you engage your students with processing and presenting data and would like to find and discuss a variety of the available tools that can help students share their data in a way that is visually appealing and interactive when online, this session is for you. We will also talk about the growing number of machine learning tools now available for processing and visualizing big data.
read moreBetter Discussion and Test Questions
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read moreTeaching Writing in the STEM Classroom
Writing is a Process Learning to write well takes years. Accept the fact that students in your classroom are at wildly varying places along the path to being a good writer. Rather than teaching them to master grammar and spelling, your goal should be to help your...
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Student feedback
In this presentation we talked about strategies for giving feedback, identifying tools to support your efforts and what quality feedback might mean for you and for your students. Presentation slides and recording links provided.
read moreData Visualization
Questions for Discussion Why is data visualization important in your field? What tools do you use to generate images? What do your data visualization assignments look like right now? What tools are available to your students? How can your department or small groups of...
read moreBlackboard weight grades
The presentation: The recording (through Bb...
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