iTeach May 2019 Agenda
Look here for the agenda and support resources from the 3-day iTeach session.
Category Presentations & Events
Practice object-based teaching
Though I've long practiced the technique of Object-Based Teaching (OBT) in face-to-face and online classrooms alike, I'd never really looked into the scholarship behind it until recently. I'd also not really considered the pedagogical principles behind it, nor whether my pedagogy needed any scrutiny and modification. It turns out that there were some aspects of my practice I needed to modify.
Innovation During Lean Times
This session is about finding ways to put new ideas into motion when time, resources, and energy are low. Let's have a conversation about strategies you can employ to innovate during lean times.
Themes, Plugins, and Advanced Topics in WordPress
Related Teaching Tips: Should you use WordPress? Prep your WordPress site for next semester Creating mobile-friendly content Five plugins to make your WordPress course site rock Student Publication
Blackboard Bootcamp iTeach+
Blackboard Bootcamp Are you interested in gaining experience with Blackboard? Perhaps your students have asked you use it more for your resources? Join us for a beginning Blackboard Bootcamp to get the basics. This is a hands-on workshop so bring…
Using Google Forms for learning activities
Explore creating interactive learning activities using the branching and quizzing features in Google Forms. Build a learning activity that will guide students through content and direct them forward to new content or to alternative content to help with their understanding.…
Updates on Google Classroom
Google Classroom helps teacher integrate Google Apps into their classroom. The classroom has space for creating assignments, discussions, grading and feedback. This will be a brief overview of how Classroom might be used in your Classroom. To access Google Classroom,…
Adding custom questions to Blue evaluation
Course evaluations will be available for student to complete about two weeks before the final day of instruction. This is your chance to get some really good feedback from your students about your course and your teaching methods. In this…
Science Labs for Online Classes
Take a look at a session conducted on best practices in online lab courses and how to facilitate them. Instructional Designer Dan LaSota has included a slide deck that outlines the session.
Teaching Writing in the STEM Classroom
Writing is a Process Learning to write well takes years. Accept the fact that students in your classroom are at wildly varying places along the path to being a good writer. Rather than teaching them to master grammar and spelling,…
Student feedback
In this presentation we talked about strategies for giving feedback, identifying tools to support your efforts and what quality feedback might mean for you and for your students. Presentation slides and recording links provided.