Spring 2019
Interactive Technologies for Evaluating Student Learning ~ Presented by Rene’ Hauser
Frequent testing of student knowledge is beneficial for both students and faculty. This session will provide exposure to a variety of web-based interactive testing platforms. This will be an interactive session.
Learn, Study and Review with Kahoot ~ Presented by Jennifer Eastman & John Steve
Please join us for a hands on learning experience with Kahoot! Kahoot is a game-based learning platform, free for educators. Their motto is “Play, learn, have fun and celebrate together.”
In our presentation we will walk you through how to sign up, create unique Kahoots, as well as how to search the Kahoot database for free, editable Kahoots created by educators worldwide.
Check out Kahoot for yourself.WhatsApp & Zoom: video conferencing ~ Presented by Jim Mahar
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile devices and computers.
With
WhatsApp you'll get fast, simple, secure messaging and calling for free*, available on phones all over the world This workshop will discuss these tools what they are and how you can use them in the classroom, in your online course, and more. Excel Grade books. How to use Excel to calculate grades ~ Presented by Anne Foerst
Do you have several assignments per semester? Do you weigh them differently? This workshop will help you to create a spreadsheet that you can from then on use in every class in every semester to let EXCEL do the calculating for you.
We will use IF, VLOOKUP, COUNTIF and charts. These functions can then be used in many other EXCEL applications as well.
Backward Course Design ~ Presented by Paul Barretta
Backward Course Design is a method of developing courses (and syllabi) that is based on a learner-centered approach driven by a learning-objective structure. It gets its name from the idea that one begins with the ultimate objectives of a course, then works backward toward course content and methods.