Category: Professional Development

  • Microsoft Forms workshop

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    With Microsoft Forms, you can create surveys, quizzes, and polls that feature text, pictures and video. Others can respond using any web browser, even on mobile devices. As results are submitted, you can use built-in analytics to evaluate responses. Form data, such as quiz results, can be easily exported to Excel for additional analysis or…

  • Social Media 101 workshop

    Social Media 101: What is it? What’s it for? We’ll provide a basic overview of popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. We’ll explore examples of sites being used on campus such as the College’s official Facebook page, departments’ pages, etc. Facebook Facebook Help Facebook’s own FB About page Wikipedia’s Facebook entry “…”launched…

  • Winter Workshops for Staff & Faculty

    Faculty and staff, Warm up this winter by learning more about Microsoft tools and online communication. Thursdays: Microsoft Forms, Groups, and Skype These sessions are geared for staff and faculty interested in using intermediate level Microsoft tools. A basic understanding of Office 365 is helpful. These classes are held from 3-4p.m. in Andrews Library McCoy computer…

  • When Bad Video Happens to Good Professors workshop

    photo of MacBook laptop with iMovie software and a video of Kauke arch

    Learn about using iMovie and tips for creating a successful video assignment. This informal session will afford lots of opportunities for faculty to ask questions and have hands-on practice. Registration is appreciated. Visit our Events page. Workshop Resource Files Agenda Getting Started Why use video in the classroom? Use of digital storytelling represent broad ways in which individuals can…

  • When Video Falls Apart: Techniques for Creating Video Clips workshop

    If you would like to incorporate video into your course or classroom, join us to learn how to easily

  • Ohio 5 New Technologies – New Pedagogies

    Student Engagement Read 3 ways to increase student engagement in your classroom Rank the three ways on the provided sticky note Strategies for supporting better student presentations What is Good Presentation design? Plickers quiz Example one PowerPoint Face-to-face presentation: Three Minute Thesis Wooster’s IS Symposium 2017 and Technically Speaking from Denison U. Framing things as a…

  • Student Response

    Student response sites, systems, and apps can be used for informal, formative assessment in the classroom. They also provide a way to promote student-teacher and student-student interaction, even with large classes. What is formative assessment? Refer to Carnegie Mellon University’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation. The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide…

  • Teaching with iPads

    Apple TV In spaces with Apple TV, anyone can use AirPlay to wirelessly mirror a Mac computer or iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod) to a projector. For documentation, visit our support article. iPad Pro with Apple Pencil Presenting Digital whiteboard using NotesPlus app (paid. on Ed Tech iTunes account for trial). Features include handwriting, handwriting recognition, shape recognition, annotation…

  • Film Studies Workshop

    Mike, Emily and Jon got to show Dan Bourne, Jen Hayward, Deb Shostak, Margaret Ng, Jim Bonk, Greg Shaya, Rujie Wang, Peter Pozefsky, Ahmet Atay, Madonna Hettinger, Marion Duval, and Beth Muellner how to use iMovie to create a film out of the clips that they had shot using their iPhones. The faculty had organized…

  • Microsoft Excel Basics for staff

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    Agenda (may be covered in two sessions) Excel 2016 Quick Start (Microsoft Support) Basic Tasks in Excel (Microsoft Support) Tour of layout: task bar, formula bar, worksheet Define terms: cells, column, row, workbook, worksheet, active cell Entering data Cell reference Moving around in the worksheet: enter key, tab key, arrow keys Editing data: making a…