Past Session Themes

Extending and Expanding the Classroom with Technology

  • Organizing your course with an online course site
  • Selecting the right tool for the task
  • Social media for teaching and learning
  • Online materials: from blended to full online courses

Rethinking Course Content with New Technologies

  • Exemplary course design in Blackboard
  • Content: create your own or reuse?
  • Universal Design and accessibility
  • Creating video content for your course

Engaging Students in the Work of your Course

  • Who are those students in your course?
  • Utilizing student created content in your course
  • Supporting active learning with technology
  • Flipping the classroom

Supporting Communication and Collaboration with Technology

  • Ways to get the conversation started and keep it going online
  • Technologies to support student-to-student collaboration
  • Facilitating group work online
  • How is a blog different than a discussion board?

Responding To and Assessing Student Work

  • Response systems as an assessment tool
  • What about rubrics?
  • Video/audio commenting on student work
  • Supporting group assignments with technology