UAF CTL Staff

Emerging ideas, Favorites, Teaching Tips

Instruction beyond the bounds of the semester

Geophysical Institute research professor Jeff Benowitz shows undergraduate Pat Terhune how to use a geologic compass on a rock outcrop near their camp above the Chedotlothna Glacier

Without practice and application, students can rapidly forget course material between academic semesters. Instructors can counter this effect by pointing students to and creating their own, opportunities to engage with subject matter during the breaks.

UAF CTL Staff
July 13, 2017

Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Find Open-licensed Media for Your Course

Engage your students by incorporating polished, open-licensed, stock media in your course to help build interest and garner attention. The curated resources in this Teaching Tip will show you where to find eye-catching images, video and audio.

Favorites, Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Create dynamic video presentations with Kaltura CaptureSpace

Kaltura CaptureSpace is a screen recording and presentation tool available free to all UA students, staff and faculty. Learn how to use it for your class.

Best practices, Teaching Tips

Guide students through your course

A few well-placed visuals may help students find their path through your course. Consider providing both a course calendar and a course map to guide them.

Emerging ideas, Teaching Tips

Giving students choice

What happens when we put students in the director’s seat in terms of what, when, and how they learn and what might that look like in a course? There are many examples of democratizing the educational experience through a range of institutional and classroom levels and across the K-20 progression. There are likewise many opinions on this idea from steadfast proponents and those in opposition. In this Teaching Tip, we’ll take a brief look at imparting more academic power to students – the benefits, practical considerations, and potential pitfalls.

Favorites, Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Collaborative annotation brings context and conversation

Annotating helps a reader engage with, analyze, and comprehend a text. Online, collaborative annotation tools afford these benefits plus the opportunity to interact with peers and other annotators around the world.

UAF CTL Staff
June 1, 2017

Favorites, Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Interface literacy for faculty and students

You probably use hundreds, if not thousands, of gestures, keyboard commands and icons every day to navigate the web, perform various actions on a device and interact with others. Doing this in a skilled way is called interface literacy, and it’s an emerging literacy that faculty not only have to acquire themselves, but also must impart to their students.

UAF CTL Staff
May 26, 2017

Best practices, Teaching Tips

Free online resources for professional development

Many of us don’t have the luxury of attending software training workshops or classes to learn how to use products like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Excel. Having access to just—in—time training is really important in helping us get our jobs done. Finding reliable resources to help learn to use software and technology in your teaching and learning can sometimes be a challenge.

UAF CTL Staff
May 22, 2017

Presentations & Events

Virtual iTeach+: Mobile Apps for Learning

Virtual iTeach+ May 17, 2017 Join us on YouTube Live at Virtual iTeach+: Mobile Apps for Learning. Do you encourage mobile device use in class? How and why do you allow it? In this session, we will talk about ideas…

UAF CTL Staff
May 17, 2017

Presentations & Events

Staff Recognition & Development 2017: WordPress Basics & Practical Application

In this session you’ll see WordPress basics such as making a post, making a page, working with themes. Ready to begin your own WordPress site? Janene will coach you on your first steps. If you have a WordPress site you’ll…

UAF CTL Staff
May 16, 2017

Best practices, Favorites, Teaching Tips

Caption your course videos to benefit everyone

Video captions benefit everyone and make a video more useful as well as accessible. Making your videos accessible with captions meets the needs of all students.

UAF CTL Staff
May 11, 2017

iTeach Session

Advanced Collaboration in GAFE

Alternative Uses Activity Based on an activity designed by J.P. Guilford in 1967, this activity is meant to exercise creativity (old idea, see what I did there?).Activity: In 2 minutes imagine as many new uses for an everyday object…

UAF CTL Staff
May 11, 2017