2021 Summer Institute

What’s New this Fall? Updates from ITDS & OFA

Presenters: Dr. Yanling Sun, Assistant Vice President Instructional Technology and Design Services and Dr. Emily Isaacs, Executive Director of the Office for Faculty Advancement.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mays Imad

Teaching “After” the Pandemic: Perspectives on Trauma, Teaching, and Learning

Description: In this keynote address, Dr. Imad will draw on her research on stress, self-awareness, advocacy and classroom community in relation to cognition, metacognition, and ultimately student learning and success. Dr. Imad is a Professor of Pathophysiology and Biomedical Ethics at Pima Community College, the founding coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Center, and a Gardner Institute Fellow.

From Surviving to Thriving: Student Needs and Strategies to Build Learning Communities

Presenters: Dr. Jinxia He and Joe Yankus
Description: Join us for a conversation on lessons learned from pandemic teaching and how you can effectively facilitate learning communities while being compassionate, inclusive, and receptive to student needs. Specific strategies to incorporate before, during, and after the semester will be shared.

Lessons from the Pandemic: Normalize Equity and Inclusion in Your Teaching

Presenter: Julie Dalley
Description: The last year of teaching during an ongoing pandemic taught us many things, mostly about our own adaptability, fortitude, and that inequities that were once invisible became much more visible. The question of “video on or video off” may even seem like it won’t be relevant any more as we return to mostly in-person, F2F classes this fall. But the lessons we learned should not be discarded as a way to move back to the comfortable “before times” of teaching; the pandemic and our shift to online, remote learning enabled many of us to gain new understandings of our students outside of the class, to practice new teaching skills, and to use more inclusive teaching practices. These are skills we should now foster as the “new normal” of building courses that ensure accessibility, equity, and inclusive learning environments for all of our students.

Instructional Technology Playground for Student Engagement 

Presenters: Julie Dalley, Qian (Lora) Yao, Joe Yankus, and Becky Pataki
Engaging students in the learning environment with technology provides opportunities for a sense of community, accessibility, support, motivation, and an interest in learning. In this session you can pick from one of four tools to explore: Flipgrid, Padlet, Jamboard or Perusall. These sessions will be offered simultaneously from 2:00-2:30 and repeat from 2:30-3:00pm so you can attend two during this hour.

• Flipgrid – Interested in learning more about a new, video-based approach to online discussions? Join us for an overview of Flipgrid and learn how it is enhancing student engagement and inspiring asynchronous learner-to-learner interaction.
• Padlet – Interested in making online collaboration more interactive? Join us for an overview of Padlet, an online collaborative bulletin board, which allows students to interact by posting text, links, images, videos, and more.
• Jamboard – Join us for this basic overview demonstration on the Google Jamboard, highlighting the functionality of using this whiteboard collaboratively.
• Perusall – Explore Perusall, an online social annotation platform that engages your students in deeper reading, better note-taking and academic annotations, and peer-to-peer instruction across multimodal course content (reading, video, audio, graphical, and more!)

Canvas Tips and Tricks 

Presenters: Daniel Stratthaus and Patrick Scioscia
Description: Whether you are new to Canvas or not, there may be tricks that you were unaware of or possibilities in teaching your course that you have not considered. This presentation will showcase some of the features within Canvas that can take your Canvas skills to the next level.

Principles are Good, but Strategies are More Useful:
Strategies from the Montclair State University Principles of Teaching.

Presenters: This panel discussion will be led by Dr. Emily Isaacs, Executive Director of the Office for Faculty Advancement and feature advisory council members of the OFA:

• Dr. Danné Davis, Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
• Dr. Elaine Gerber, Associate Professor, Anthropology
• Dr. Kate Temoney, Assistant Professor, Religion
• Dr. Yanick Joseph, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing

Description: Faculty and advisory council members of OFA, representing diverse perspectives, will share the strategies they have successfully incorporated to provide a Supportive Environment for Learning (Principle 2), incorporated Inclusive Content and Pedagogy (Principle 4), and, to more fully realize the ideas of Universal Design for Learning (Principle 5).

Leveraging Canvas to Ensure Equal Access for All Students

Presenters: Pam Fallivene and Abigail Hunte
Description: This session will introduce a few simple ways you can use Canvas to help ensure equal access for students with disabilities in your courses. We will share some examples of student needs, general accessibility guidelines for various formats (Canvas, video, audio) as well as tools available to help you improve accessibility.

Post-Pandemic Students: Perspectives from University Leaders

Presenters: This panel discussion will be led by Dr. Emily Isaacs, Executive Director of the Office for Faculty Advancement.

• Dr. Dawn Soufleris, Vice President for Student Development and Campus Life
• Dr. Jaclyn Friedman-Lombardo, Director, Counseling and Psychological Services, Counseling and Psychological Services
• Dr. David Hood, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of University College

Description: University leaders who are working to prepare students for the fall return will report on the state of our incoming and returning students and the programs that have been developed to facilitate a successful return.

Tips for Creating Engaging Videos

Presenters: Joaly Garcia, Adjunct Faculty, Spanish and Latino Studies and Rosi Lamela

Description: Need ideas on what kinds of videos can engage students when creating course content? In this workshop Joaly Garcia will talk about how she used different elements of media to create content by asking her students what works. Joaly goes in depth about her experiences with different software and how to be comfortable with being on camera and going from teaching face to face to online. You will also learn different tricks on how to set up your own DIY environment to record from home by learning the basics of lighting, audio, and camera set ups. Join us to find out how creating videos can be fun for you and your students.

Instructional Technology Playground for Multimedia and Content Delivery

Presenters: Becky Pataki, Chris Petrillo, Terry Steckowich, and Keith Adams
Students learn better when information is delivered in diverse ways. This session will explore several multimedia and content delivery tools. You will have the opportunity to pick from one of four options: Panopto, Loom & YouTube, Zoom or Google Slides/PowerPoint. These sessions will be offered simultaneously from 2:30-3:00 and repeat from 3:00-3:30pm so you can attend two during this hour.

• Panopto –  Create videos using Panopto, an easy to use video platform which provides screencasting, lecture capture, and video content management.
• Loom & YouTube – Looking for ways to have students create quick video responses/presentations/screencasts and host them somewhere easily accessible? Come take a look at Loom, a free video & screen-recording software, and learn more about the sharing/hosting options YouTube has to offer!
• Zoom Recording Tips – In this session, we will be exploring Zoom as a way to record your class lectures and have them uploaded into Canvas. We will also be sharing some tips and Zoom features to enhance your recordings.
• Google Slides/PowerPoint –  If you have ever used any of the tools in the Google Suite, you know about their real time collaboration features, auto saving and revision history options. Slides is Google’s presentation tool that works seamlessly with PowerPoint and easily converts files from one to the other.