Giving Meaningful Feedback on Learning in Canvas
OnlineWednesday, June 16, 2021 1:00-1:45 pm Pacific / 4:00-4:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Meaningful feedback is especially important to learning, as it provides students with detailed information about their work that helps guide them toward enhanced understanding of a subject, as well as mastery of the skills required to deliver a longer-term assignment in
Intro to the Language Schools Canvas Template
OnlineThursday, June 17, 2021 10:00-10:45 am Pacific / 1:00-1:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom DLINQ has created a custom Canvas template for Language Schools faculty to use to kick start their Canvas course design. The template includes many of the practices outlined in the Middlebury Online Course Design Rubric. In this session, we'll cover: How
Effective Communication in Canvas
OnlineThursday, June 17, 2021 11:00-11:45 am Pacific / 2:00-2:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Clear communication is an essential component of successful learning online. This session will introduce strategies for setting clear, respectful, and responsive communication practices for your online or hybrid course. In this session, we'll cover: Planning for consistency -- setting up regular
Asynchronous Community Building in Canvas
OnlineThursday, June 17, 2021 12:00-12:45 pm Pacific / 3:00-3:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom When we do not intentionally weave opportunities for social learning and community building into the design of our online learning spaces, participants may feel siloed and alone, making it difficult to engage with learning content or peers. While it can be
Social Annotation with Hypothes.is
OnlineThursday, June 17, 2021 1:00 pm-1:45 pm Pacific / 4:00-4:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Led by Becky George from Hypothes.is, this workshop will include: discussion of how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading visible, active, and social demonstration of how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to empower student writing,
Intro to the Language Schools Canvas Template
OnlineFriday, June 18, 2021 10:00-10:45 am Pacific / 1:00-1:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom DLINQ has created a custom Canvas template for Language Schools faculty to use to kick start their Canvas course design. The template includes many of the practices outlined in the Middlebury Online Course Design Rubric. In this session, we'll cover: How
Effective Communication in Canvas
OnlineFriday, June 18, 2021 11:00-11:45 am Pacific / 2:00-2:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Clear communication is an essential component of successful learning online. This session will introduce strategies for setting clear, respectful, and responsive communication practices for your online or hybrid course. In this session, we'll cover: Planning for consistency -- setting up regular
Asynchronous Community Building in Canvas
OnlineFriday, June 18, 2021 12:00-12:45 pm Pacific / 3:00-3:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom When we do not intentionally weave opportunities for social learning and community building into the design of our online learning spaces, participants may feel siloed and alone, making it difficult to engage with learning content or peers. While it can be
Using GoReact for Video-Based Assignments in Canvas
OnlineFriday, June 18, 2021 1:00-2:00 pm Pacific / 4:00-5:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom GoReact is an online video platform for student practice and assessment of performance-based skills, that integrates into Canvas. Instructors create the video assignments within Canvas, where students upload or record their video submissions. Instructors and/or peers then leave time-coded text, video,
Classroom Tech Open Houses – College Campus
Middlebury College campus VTThursday, Sept. 9, 2021 Location: Middlebury College campus Times: Vary (see below) Join DLINQ and ITS Media Services staff on Thursday, Sept. 9 for two classroom technology Open Houses. Some classrooms at the College received new technology systems over the summer, and, technology systems for projecting and videoconferencing vary across rooms. At the Open Houses,
TOHCS: Adaptability, Connection, and Equity (ACE): A Framework for Learning in Uncertain Times
OnlineFriday, November 5 , 2021 (New Date!) 8:30-9:45 am Pacific / 11:30 am-12:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Guest Facilitators Dr. Matthew Cheney, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies program at Plymouth State University Hannah Hounsell, Learning Advisor, Open Teaching & Learning Collaborative (CoLab) at Plymouth State University Members of
MIIS DiscoTech (Discover Technology)
Digital Learning Commons, Monterey McGowan 104 at 411 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA, United StatesDate: Thursday, December 2, 2021 Time: Drop by anytime between 1:00 and 4:00pm PT Location: DLINQ’s Digital Learning Commons & Design Space, McGowan 001 (you can enter either from Pacific or Calle Principal) The Office of Digital Learning & Inquiry (DLINQ) invites you to swing by our first “DiscoTech.” Inspired by community-based events originally developed
Getting Started With Canvas
OnlineTuesday, January 4, 2022 7:00-8:00 am Pacific / 10:00-11:00 am Eastern Online via Zoom New to Canvas, looking for a refresher, or need a question answered about designing assignments in Canvas? Join us at this workshop, where we’ll cover everything from how to create a Canvas site for your course, to importing templates, and setting
Active Teaching and Learning in Zoom
OnlineTuesday, January 4, 2022 1:00-2:00 pm Pacific / 4:00-5:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Live, synchronous online classes in Zoom can be sites of active learning and participation. This session will explore pedagogical practices for using Zoom to teach synchronous classes. Topics will include: Collaboratively establishing norms of communication in the classroom Active learning ideas,
Social Annotation in Canvas
OnlineWednesday, January 5, 2022 9:30 - 10:30 am Pacific / 12:30 - 1:30 pm Eastern Online via Zoom This session will introduce strategies for using social annotation to support meaningful student learning, including: planning social annotation activities tied to course learning goals facilitating and deepening social annotation activities exploring and choosing social annotation tools (Hypothes.is,
Active Teaching and Learning in Zoom
OnlineThursday, January 6, 2022 7:00-8:00 am Pacific / 10:00-11:00 am Eastern Online via Zoom Live, synchronous online classes in Zoom can be sites of active learning and participation. This session will explore pedagogical practices for using Zoom to teach synchronous classes. Topics will include: Collaboratively establishing norms of communication in the classroom Active learning ideas,
Getting Started With Canvas
OnlineThursday, January 6, 2022 1:00-2:00 pm Pacific / 4:00-5:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom FORMAT This is a flipped online workshop requiring some preparatory steps followed by a Zoom discussion. This session is for instructors who are new to building course sites in Canvas. Complete activities prior to the live session: We invite you to
Need to Go Hybrid? Strategies for Connecting On-Ground and Remote Students
OnlineTuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 12:30 - 1:30 pm Pacific / 3:30 -4:30 pm Eastern Online via Zoom In the fall 2021 semester, many faculty teaching primarily in-person classes on campus had to adjust their teaching for students who needed to participate in class remotely for a short time (for quarantine, or self-quarantine). In this workshop,
Faculty Showcase: Teaching with Canvas
OnlineWednesday, Feb. 2, 2022 12:30 - 1:30 pm Pacific / 3:30 -4:30 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Over the past year, Middlebury faculty have explored new ways of teaching and supporting learning using digital tools. In this show-and-tell session, join your colleagues to hear and see how they are using tools available in Canvas such
DesignPlus Tools for Canvas
OnlineWednesday, February 23, 2022 noon-1 pm Pacific / 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern Pre-Recorded Presentation & Activities/Live Q&A via Zoom Two of the major complaints that we hear about using Canvas is the limited control faculty have over the look and theme of the course, and the time it takes to configure and fill a course site.
