Teaching & Technology Day
Teaching & Technology day is a campus wide opportunity for you as a Wayne State University (WSU) instructor to learn about technology that can help you in the classroom or online. The event is meant to spark conversations about teaching & technology, give WSU instructors the rare opportunity to see the tools in action, and explore innovative tools and teaching styles that may be within or outside of your own academic department.
How can you participate?
Ask the Panel 12:00-2:30
RSVP for lunch to hear directly from WSU faculty about their experiences using technology in courses. This interactive session, moderated by Geralyn Stephens, Associate Professor - Clinical, College of Education and Faculty Liason to C&IT, will let you ask questions of these experienced instructors:
Michael Barnes, Associate Professor & University Privacy Officer
Erik Carter, Assistant Professor - Clinical & Director of Undergraduate Programs, College of Nursing
Norma Schropshire, Part-Time Faculty, School of Social Work
Laurel Whalen, Lecturer & Program Coordinator for Sport Management & Administration, College of Education
Following the panel the Provost will address attendees.
Attend a presentation 10:00-12:00 & 2:00-3:00
Three rooms will have faculty and staff from around campus demonstrating what they use in their classroom. No registration required, attend any session. Can't attend in person, register for the OTL Virtual Resources Hub canvas site to access the sessions virtually using conferences!
10:00-10:30 Hilberry D: Nicole Coleman, Mark Ferguson, Lisa Hock, Julie Koehler, Anne Rothe
How many German faculty does it take . . .? Creating an online culture course as a team
In the summer of 2019, the German area of CMLLC (Dr. Nicole Coleman, Dr. Mark Ferguson, Dr. Lisabeth Hock, Dr. Julie Koehler, Dr. Anne Rothe) received an OTL Educational Development Grant and a CLAS Online Course Development Grant to develop an on-line version of the German area's new cultural survey course, Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution: Transitional Moments in German Culture and History (GER 2710). Our goal was not only to create this course together but also to highlight the areas of expertise of the different members of our area. The course is being taught for the first time this semester. In this presentation, Dr. Ferguson, Dr. Hock and Dr. Koehler will discuss the planning and design process, things that went well and challenges we faced, the role of the course in our curriculum and department, and how the course is going so far.
10:00-10:30 Hilberry E: Norma Schropshire
Teaching in Social Work Education with VideoANT
Participants in this session will learn how social work students use ANTS and organize ANT farms. This teaching presentation demonstrates the use of video annotation in social work education by outlining a roleplay, peer review assignment in a social work course. VideoANT, is a Web 2.0/3.0 tool designed to create text-based annotations integrated within the timeline of a video hosted online. Several features will be briefly described regarding the integration of VideoANT into a social work course. VideoANT is useful for any content area.
10:00-10:30 Hilberry F: Perry Samson (U of M)
Lessons Learned Using Echo360 in Class
This presentation describes techniques used in Echo360 that have led to 1) increased level of student participation overall, 2) increased engagement in populations less represented in the sciences and 3) identify students at risk even before the first exam. Participants will learn what is the workflow with Echo360 to achieve these outcomes as well as the benefits that are expected.
10:30-11:00 Hilberry D: Laurel Whalen and Tiffany Edgar
Fostering Connectivity in Online Classes
In the online classroom, instructors must explicitly include design elements that foster meaningful student interactions in order to foster a productive learning community. This session will outline formal strategies that can be used to create student-to-student engagement, as well as informal activities that can help cultivate the feeling of community among students.
10:30-11:00 Hilberry E: Marcus Dickson and Mallory Smith
Avoiding the "Efficacy Cliff": Strategies for supporting EdTech use by later-adopting faculty
There is evidence that the efficacy of educational technology innovations declines over time. One likely partial explanation for this lies in "Isomorphic pressures," or pressure to be similar to others, which can lead faculty members to adopt educational technologies as they become more mainstream, though the faculty members may not not necessarily be committed to or well trained in the technology and the pedagogy that supports it. In this session, we'll focus on ways to support later-adopting faculty related to educational technologies.
10:30-11:00 Hilberry F: Regina Zibuck and Nathan Chavez
Class Notebook
Let your students cloud source notes. This tool lets students work together to take notes during class. Since it is integrated into Canvas, you can see what they write to help identify gaps in understanding.
11:00-11:30 Hilberry D: Fayetta Keys
How Can I Use VoiceThread?
We will learn about the many potential uses for VoiceThread for both face-to-face and online classes. Plus, because both faculty and students have access to create VoiceThreads, we will learn HOW to: We will learn about the many potential uses for VoiceThread for both face-to-face and online classes. Plus, because both faculty and students have access to create VoiceThreads, we will learn HOW to:
- Narrate a PowerPoint presentation with audio or video.
- Pose a question or topic and use it as a visual discussion board.
- Encourage student to student interactions.
- Create digital stories by narrating over images, videos and slides. Or, create collaborative stories with VoiceThread's collaboration features.
- Upload video to VoiceThread and gather reflections.
- Practice a foreign language.
- Use course content for students to create assignments and presentations, and Evaluate, review or critique an idea or a student assignment or presentation
11:00-11:30 Hilberry E: Bin Li
The Use of Synchronous Live Sessions in Online Teaching
I will discuss and share the use of synchronous live sessions in fully online classes, including the benefits and provide some examples.
11:00-11:30 Hilberry F
Microsoft
How can Office 365 tools like Teams and OneNote help you streamline class activities.
11:30-12:00 Hilberry D: Michael Barnes
MS Teams-work In and Out of the Classroom
This presentation will show tips for using Microsoft Teams that can aid in communication to be used both in the classroom and in other university work.
11:30-12:00 Hilberry E: Christine Huang and Nathan Chavez
Tutoring + Canvas = Student Success
The Academic Success Center and C&IT have partnered to integrate tutoring services directly into Canvas, displaying information about available tutoring appointments to students while allowing them to quickly and easily sign-up. This project has greatly increased the amount of students attending tutoring sessions and has been recognized as groundbreaking by Instructure (the parent company of Canvas). Join Christine Huang (Academic Success Center) and Nathan Chavez (C&IT) for an overview of the tutoring features as well as a screening of video produced by Instructure that highlights tutoring at WSU.
11:30-12:00 Hilberry F: Geralyn Stephens
Canvas on the Go! - Canvas Mobile - Teacher App
Tired of reading old magazines while waiting at the doctor's office, soccer practice or hair salon? The Canvas Mobile Teacher App has the potential to help maximize your moments. This session will highlight some of the App's features such as scoring assignments, monitoring Discussions and creating/responding to email correspondences.
2:00-2:30 Hilberry D: Carly Lesoski
H5P Demonstration
Checking knowledge and creating interactions in an online class can be challenging. This new tool that allows you to build 30+ different types of activities online. OTL has sponsored licenses for a pilot group of faculty to use it fully integrated with Canvas. Come see if you want to be one of the first to use it at WSU.
2:00-2:30 Hilberry E: Nicole Skwarek (iClicker)
Engaging students with iClicker
Think you know iClicker, think again. Come see the new features that are available to make your class more engaging.
2:00-2:30 Hilberry F: Chris Johnson (Instructure)
Utillizing the New Canvas Gradebook
Canvas' new gradebook is packed with new features. It makes grading more flexible and elevates the user experience. Come learn some tips and tricks on how to get the most out of the gradebook and get any questions you have about this feature answered..
2:30-3:00 Hilberry D: Erik Carter
Use of iClicker Reef to Enhance Lecture
The iClicker Reef is an intuitive engagement program that has a variety of useful perks, such as attendance based on GPS device location, as well as polling and quizzing using a variety of question types ranging from multiple choice, targeted, and short answer. In addition, data is collected so that you can analyze how well students are understand content based on questions you use in your course. Lastly, there is an integration of the program to Canvas.
2:30-3:00 Hilberry E: Tonya Thomas
21st Century Blended Learning with Canvas + Microsoft Teams
Offering usage best practices and real world examples that demonstrate the value of augmenting the student classroom/Canvas experience with Microsoft Teams
2:30-3:00 Hilberry F: Chris Johnson (Instructure)
Instructing on the Go
Using the Canvas Teacher Mobile App to streamline your daily interactions with your students. Allowing you to provide timely and engaging feedback that leads to improved student outcomes.
Visit the Vendor Fair 9:30-2:30
Hillberry ABC will host external and internal vendors that are involved in with educational technology at WSU. Drop in to talk about how they can help you.
Big Blue Button (Canvas Conferences)
Dell
Echo360
Instructure (Canvas)
Microsoft
Unicheck
Office to Teaching & Learning
Computing & Information Technology
"I found the demos and tables very beneficial. The discussion panel was great as it brought insight to what some other faculty are doing in their courses." - WSU Instructor