Explain Everything
Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard app, perfect for recording unique and engaging instructional videos. Join Media Studio Production Designer Eric Lonn to explore the capabilities and best uses of this tool.
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Best Practices for Media Recording
Recording your own instructional content at home? Want tips on lighting, staging, tools, and more? Join Media Studio Production Designer Eric Lonn to learn how to turn your home recording space into the best media studio it can be!
Bridging Social Divides with 21st Century Learners
Examine the psychological impacts of attention-grabbing media and how this correlates to students’ maintaining attention and motivation in their college courses. How can we as faculty design our courses to recognize and integrate the online contexts that students navigate daily?Faith…
Supporting Student Mental Health
Learn about successful, evidence-based practices for supporting students’ mental health across the curriculum at UAF. This Community Seminar was hosted by Mat Wooller, Director of Alaska Stable Isotope Facility and founder of UAF’s The Well, Jen Peterson, Assistant Professor of…
Incorporating Career Development into Courses
Amanda White, Program Director of Applied Management, and Madara Mason, Associate Director of Teaching and Learning at UAF CTL, hosted a Community Seminar on “Incorporating Career Development into Courses.” They share about how to infuse small activities or ideas to help…
Discovery-Based Group Learning
Gordon Williams, Professor of Mathematics, hosted a Community Seminar on “Discovery-Based Group Learning,” highlighting the techniques he has used in his UAF courses to keep students engaged in group projects. Dr. Williams shares about facilitating effective group work in face-to-face…
Contract-Based Grading
Sarah Stanley, Director of University Writing, and Deborah Rinio, Instructor in Library Sciences, hosted a June 2020 seminar on “Contract-Based Grading.” In addition to sharing applications of this collaborative approach to grading in their own courses, Deborah and Sarah shared…
MATH 122 Spotlight Course
Dr. Latrice Bowman is an experienced online instructor and mathematician. She has been teaching for CTL for several years and has worked hard to make incremental changes that enrich her course. These days, her course is full of studio-quality instructional…
Course Spotlight – ART 262
Allison Zhang teaches the History of World Art II as though she is guiding students through a museum as they learn to be curators themselves. In this course developed by Zoë Jones (see also History of World Art I), each…
Course Spotlight – MUS 200
In this Course Spotlight from June 2020, we chat with Lisa Kljaich about her Explorations in Music course. Lisa Kljaich has been teaching online for a long time. Originally, her Explorations in Music was a combined exploration with Art and…
Course Spotlight – ART/COJO 464/664
In this Course Spotlight from July 24, 2020, Jason Lazarus shares his History of Photography course with us in a two-part recording. Jason is a professional photographer who teaches a variety of advanced photography courses for the Art Department and…
Course Spotlight – EDSE/PSY 488/648
In this Course Spotlight from July 10, 2020, Jenn Wagaman shares her EDSE/PSY 448/648 course, Understanding FASD – Designs and Intervention Strategies. This cross-listed course stays focused with clear objectives, an extremely comprehensive syllabus, and a simple structure in Blackboard.…