Teaching with Innovative Learning Technologies (T.I.L.T.)

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led 
Level: Basic 
Facilitator: Jessica Klotman, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: Padlet is a collaborative tool where learners actively engage by creating and sharing posts related to course content. Like a virtual bulletin board, learners can post, comment, and upload a variety of media (e.g., files, images, videos, links, drawings, gifs). During this workshop, participants will learn to create a Padlet as well as best practices for increasing engagement in-person, online, and in hybrid formats. 

Learning Objectives: 
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the pedagogical benefits of using Padlet to engage learners online. 
• Create a Padlet board, attach a variety of media, use recommended settings, respond to a post, and share the board with others.  
• Apply best practices for using Padlet to build community and increase collaboration. 

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Glenn Bridges, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: PowerPoint can enhance your presentations by providing a roadmap, reinforcing what you say, and allowing you to use graphics and other multimedia to clarify understanding and support different learning styles. When presenting scientific information, presenters must possess the skills to clearly convey information and learning objectives without overwhelming respondents. This workshop will explore effective layout/ formatting skills and tools that create dynamic and impactful slides, including audio, animations, and transitions.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Use professional design and layout templates to create engagement
• Reformat slides for effective message delivery
• Organize layers and understand effective layering techniques
• Create templates for future use
• Use PowerPoint Transitions
• Insert graphics, audio, diagrams, and charts in a presentation
• Apply best practices for using PowerPoint

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Raphael Macapinlac, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: VoiceThread is a collaborative tool that immerses participants in an active and engaging environment. Like a discussion board, with VoiceThread instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on images, PowerPoint presentations, videos, audio files, documents, and PDFs using a microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload. In this workshop, participants will learn to create a VoiceThread by uploading media, commenting on and annotating that media, and sharing it with others.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Identify pedagogical implications of using VoiceThread to create interactive teaching and learning experiences
• Learn to create a VoiceThread using various media, add narration and annotations, and share it with others
• Discuss recommended settings and best practices that leverage the use of VoiceThread

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Glenn Bridges, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: Moving to remote and hybrid teaching-and-learning formats, requires educators to teach use innovative strategies and technological tools to deliver lectures, engage students, and facilitate discussions online. Synchronous online class sessions, where everyone joins a Zoom meeting at a scheduled time, is one way to engage remote learners. In this workshop, we will explore strategies to improve learner engagement online using such Zoom tools as polling, whiteboard, and breakout rooms. We will also present faculty lead examples of integrating the advanced engagement tools in Zoom in a team-based learning (TBL) environment. 

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Define learner engagement and outline levels of engagement
• Identify strategies to build community and foster interaction in a Zoom class
• Use Zoom tools such as polling, whiteboard, and breakout rooms to promote interaction and keep students engaged
• Apply best practices for using polling, whiteboard annotations, and breakout rooms in TBL environments

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Samantha, Poll Everywhere Trainer
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Description: Poll Everywhere is a tool that can be used to engage your learners in online and in-person instruction.  Integrating Poll Everywhere in your instruction can enhance student participation, amplify classroom teaching, and allow you to assess student understanding.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Explain the meaning and purpose of audience response systems such as Poll Everywhere
• Understand theoretical perspectives informing the use of polls in online learning
• Identify engagement strategies using various Poll Everywhere question types
• Outline best practices for using polling techniques in distance education courses
• Experience Poll Everywhere from a user perspective
• Identify different question types in Poll Everywhere
• Learn how to create and setup an account
• Create a poll and embed it in a presentation
• Understand group/collaboration features for Poll Everywhere from an instructor standpoint

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Raphael Macapinlac, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: Are you looking for a way to efficiently assess learner understanding  regardless of the teaching modality (hybrid, online, and/or face-to-face)?  Do you give exams that will be graded by multiple professors? Blackboard tests may be option for you.  In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore how to  use the Test feature in Blackboard to disseminate and manage your formative and summative assessments. 

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Identify formative and summative assessment strategies used in online education
• Create a test using different question formats and deploy/grade a test in Blackboard
• Apply recommended best practices for assessing student learning in Blackboard

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Glenn Bridges, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: PowerPoint can enhance your instruction by providing a roadmap, reinforcing what you say, and allowing you to use graphics and other multimedia to clarify understanding and support different learning styles. This workshop will explore effective layout and formatting skills and  tools that can create dynamic and impactful slides, including audio, animation, and transitions.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Use design and layout templates to create engagement
• Format slides for effective message delivery
• Organize layers and understand effective layering techniques
• Use effective graphics, audio, diagrams, and charts to a presentation
• Use animation, embedded video, and other multi-media
• Apply best practices for using PowerPoint

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Raphael Macapinlac, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: A rubric provides a means of conveying to students the expectations of quality for assignments; it can also help students better organize their efforts to meet the course requirements. Blackboard Rubrics can be applied to discussion boards, blogs, journals, wikis, and assignments. In this workshop, participants will learn about the pedagogical implications of using rubrics to assess students, best practice use, and create

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Define a rubric and explain the different parts of a rubric
• Describe different types of rubrics and the benefits of using rubrics in instruction
• Discuss best practice tips for effective design and use of rubrics
• Learn to create a rubric, associate it to an assignment, and grade using a rubric in Blackboard

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Raphael Macapinlac, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: Did you know that you could increase participation and collaboration in an online, hybrid, or even a face-to-face course using the Discussions and Groups features in Blackboard? During this hands-on workshop, you’ll be introduced to the Discussions and Groups features in Blackboard.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Explore the effectiveness and possible uses of Blackboard Discussions to build communities and engage students online
• Learn to create a discussion forum in Blackboard, respond to a discussion thread, apply recommended settings, and review and assess student participation in the discussions
• Apply best practices for setting up and managing effective discussions online

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Raphael Macapinlac, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: VoiceThread is a collaborative tool that immerses participants in an active and engaging environment. Like a discussion board, with VoiceThread instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on images, PowerPoint presentations, videos, audio files, documents, and PDFs using a microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload. In this workshop, participants will learn to create a VoiceThread by uploading media, commenting on and annotating that media, and sharing it with others.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Identify pedagogical implications of using VoiceThread to create interactive teaching and learning experiences
• Learn to create a VoiceThread using various media, add narration and annotations, and share it with others
• Discuss recommended settings and best practices that leverage the use of VoiceThread

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Glenn Bridges, Senior Instructional Designer
Registration Form

Description: Moving to remote and hybrid teaching-and-learning formats, requires educators to teach use innovative strategies and technological tools to deliver lectures, engage students, and facilitate discussions online. Synchronous online class sessions, where everyone joins a Zoom meeting at a scheduled time, is one way to engage remote learners. In this workshop, we will explore strategies to improve learner engagement online using such Zoom tools as polling, whiteboard, and breakout rooms. We will also present faculty lead examples of integrating the advanced engagement tools in Zoom in a team-based learning (TBL) environment. 

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Define learner engagement and outline levels of engagement
• Identify strategies to build community and foster interaction in a Zoom class
• Use Zoom tools such as polling, whiteboard, and breakout rooms to promote interaction and keep students engaged
• Apply best practices for using polling, whiteboard annotations, and breakout rooms in TBL environments

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Glenn Bridges, Senior Instructional Designer
Registration Form

Description: PowerPoint can enhance your instruction by providing a roadmap, reinforcing what you say, and allowing you to use graphics and other multimedia to clarify understanding and support different learning styles. This workshop will explore effective layout and formatting skills and  tools that can create dynamic and impactful slides, including audio, animation, and transitions.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Use design and layout templates to create engagement
• Format slides for effective message delivery
• Organize layers and understand effective layering techniques
• Use effective graphics, audio, diagrams, and charts to a presentation
• Use animation, embedded video, and other multi-media
• Apply best practices for using PowerPoint

Teaching Modality: Online Live – Instructor Led
Level: Basic
Facilitator: Raphael Macapinlac, Senior Instructional Designer
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Description: Assessments are essential for gathering information on effectiveness of instruction, student understanding of the course materials, and achievement of learning objectives. Assessments provide feedback to students on their learning and are also an incentive to improve academic performance. In an online environment, many instructors struggle with providing reliable assessment opportunities and grading to accurately gauge student learning. In this workshop, participants will learn about formative and summative assessments, characteristics of effective learner assessments, and how to create online assessments/tests in Blackboard.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to

• Identify high-quality formative and summative assessment strategies used in online education
• Create a test using different question formats and deploy/grade a test in Blackboard
• Apply recommended best practices for assessing student learning in Blackboard