Video Recording/Editing Beyond Panopto
OnlineFriday, August 28, 2020 8:00-9:00 am Pacific / 11:00 am-12:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Panopto is a key tool at Middlebury for producing and hosting screen recording projects and microlectures created by instructors and students. What are some other options for recording and editing video in addition to Panopto? In this workshop, we’ll introduce
TOHCS: Fall Check In
OnlineSeptember 25, 2020 9:30 - 10:45 am Pacific 12:30 - 1:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Grab a cup of coffee or your favorite fall beverage, and join us to share how things are going with your online and hybrid courses this fall! Open to faculty across the institution, this open session will provide a
Getting Started with MiddCreate: A Platform for Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy
OnlineOctober 20, 2020 10:00-11:00 am Pacific 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom What is MiddCreate and how can it benefit my teaching and research? Is MiddCreate different from Sites.edu? How is MiddCreate related to tools like WordPress? How do I install MiddCreate? If you’ve asked yourself any of these questions, we invite you to join us
TOHCS: Structuring Online Discussions for Equitable Learning
OnlineOctober 30, 2020 9:30 - 10:45 am Pacific 12:30 - 1:45 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Whose voices are most often heard in a typical discussion in your classroom? How equitably is that power distributed among the students and instructor? As Shafer (2017) points out, “Students who are called on over and over may come
TOHCS: Striving for Balance in Online Learning
OnlineNovember 16, 2020 12:15 - 1:30 pm Pacific 3:15 - 4:30 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Co-hosted by DLINQ & CTLR with guest facilitator Dr. George Veletsianos For many faculty, the experience of remote teaching this fall has raised questions around how to create a balanced course workload for themselves and for their students. Students,
Getting Started with Canvas
OnlineTuesday, December 1, 2020 noon-1:00 pm Pacific / 3:00-4:00 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
Designing Engaging Discussion Activities
OnlineThursday, December 3, 2020 12:00-12:30 pm Pacific / 3:00-3:30 pm Eastern Online via Zoom Asynchronous discussion boards can be a site of active learning and participation. This session will introduce strategies for creating asynchronous discussions (using Canvas and other tools) to support meaningful student learning, including: creating discussion board activities that generate actual discussion how
Creating Accessible Digital Materials
OnlineMonday, December 7, 2020 12:30-1:00 pm Pacific / 3:30-4:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom When creating or using digital materials in your course, you will want to ensure that those digital materials are accessible to the broadest range of learners. There are small steps that you can take in creating digital materials that may have
DesignPLUS Tools for Canvas
OnlineTuesday, December 8, 2020 11:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific / 2:00-3:00 pm Eastern Pre-Recorded Presentation & Activities/Live Q&A via Zoom Two of the major complaints that individuals express when 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
Advanced Canvas
OnlineWednesday, December 9, 2020 10:00-11:00 am Pacific / 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom During this workshop, we’ll discuss and demo Canvas features such as: Using the Canvas calendar for scheduling office hours and student meetings Using the Multi-Tool module builder, template builder, and due date modifier Determining the settings options on different page types
Screen Recording 101 with Panopto
OnlineThursday, December 10, 2020 11:00 am-noon Pacific / 2:00-3:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom This session will cover the basics of screen recording in Panopto, including: providing examples of how videos can be used to support online teaching and learning logging in and orienting to Middlebury Panopto platform installing Panopto desktop recorder client planning a
Social Annotation for Learning
OnlineFriday, December 11, 2020 12:30 - 1:30 pm Pacific / 3:30 - 4:30 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,
Supporting Learning Engagement in Online Courses
OnlineMonday, December 14, 2020 12:30 to 1:30 pm Pacific / 3:30 to 4:30 pm Eastern Online via Zoom What does engagement in an online course “look like?” This session will introduce you to the Community of Inquiry framework to support learner engagement in your online course. We'll cover strategies for incorporating the three elements of
Making Sense of MIIS Student Feedback on from Fall Survey of Online Learning
OnlineTuesday, December 15, 2020 noon-1 pm Pacific Online via Zoom As we approach the end of an unprecedented semester, we invite MIIS faculty to join us to consider what we can learn from our students’ experiences with online learning this fall, and how we might apply what we learn to help us continuously improve our
Setting Up a Canvas Discussion Board
OnlineTuesday, December 15, 2020 11:00-11:30 am Pacific / 2:00-2:30 pm Eastern Online via Zoom In this workshop, we’ll walk through the technological aspects of setting up Canvas discussion boards to create whole class and small group discussions. We’ll look at grading settings, setting up a peer review discussion, assigning discussions to groups, embedding media in
Speedgrader/Quizzes/Assessments
OnlineWednesday, December 16, 2020 10:00-11:00 am Pacific / 1:00 am-2:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom During this workshop, you’ll learn about: The New Quizzes tool in Canvas and its features SpeedGrader and how it integrates with Assignments, Discussions, and New Quizzes Strategies and options for conducting assessments remotely Additional Resources Feature comparison of Canvas old
Active Teaching and Learning in Zoom
OnlineThursday, December 17, 2020 11:00 am-noon Pacific / 2:00-3:00 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,
Getting Started with Canvas
OnlineTuesday, January 12, 2021 10:00-11:00 am Pacific / 1:00-2:00 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
Using GoReact for Video-Based Assignments
OnlineWednesday, January 13, 2021 1:30-2:30 pm Pacific / 4:30-5:30 pm Eastern Online via Zoom GoReact is an online video platform for student practice and assessment of performance-based skills. GoReact can be used for improving any skill that can be captured on video or audio, and has been used for language learning, language interpretation, ASL, speech
Advanced Canvas
OnlineThursday, January 14, 2021 10:00-11:00 am Pacific / 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Online via Zoom During this workshop, we’ll discuss and demo Canvas features such as: Using the Canvas calendar for scheduling office hours and student meetings Using the Multi-Tool module builder, template builder, and due date modifier Determining the settings options on different page types
