Jan 2021 Sessions

9-9:15 a.m. - Welcome to 2021

Presenter: John “Sean” Condon, Ph.D, Interim Provost
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10-10:30 a.m. - Change your Mind, Change the World (and reduce the possibility of burnout)

Presenter: Sarah Benes, Ed.D., CHES, Associate Clinical Professor, School of Health Sciences
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10:45-11:45 a.m. - What’s Streaming? Access Video Content (and more) with McQuade’s E-collections

Presenters: Lyena Chavez, Head Librarian, McQuade Library, Frances Nilsson, Head of Resource Management, McQuade Library
Email Lyena Chavez; Email Frances Nilsson

10:45-11:45 a.m. - Creating Shareworthy Assignments to Promote Creativity and Engagement

Presenters: Michael Stroud, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair, Psychology and Kevin Salemme, Director of Media Instructional Services
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Noon-1 p.m. - Small Changes in Teaching Online

Presenter: Sarah Benes, Ed.D., CHES, Associate Clinical Professor, School of Health Sciences
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Noon-1 p.m. - Confronting Bias and Systemic Inequalities in the Classroom, One Crisis at a Time

Presenter: Simona Sharoni, Ph.D., Special Assistant to the President for Diversity & Inclusion, Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies Department
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9-10:15 a.m. - Escape in Zoom

Presenters: Janet Syed, Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning & Apple Teacher and Erin Courville, Instructional Designer - Apple Teacher 
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Put on your super sleuth hat, grab your iPad, and find clues to solve problems with your colleagues in an Escape room. Educational escape rooms are increasingly popular as players/students need to reach the finish by achieving the learning goals in a limited amount of time. Learn to leverage iPad apps to escape and eventually find your way out. Whether you are interested in fostering design skills, promoting teamwork, or creating a fun, interactive research experience, this session will put play into motion. Apps used in this session: Kahoot, WordArt, Notes, FlipGrid, Padlet.

10:45-11:45 a.m. - Creating Community and Promoting Engagement in the Hybrid Classroom

Presenters: Janet Syed, Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning & Apple Teacher and Erin Courville, Instructional Designer - Apple Teacher
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Learn ways to increase your presence to promote student engagement, how to develop a sense of community whether using face-to-face, or hybrid modalities. Discussion boards are a way for you and your students to interact with one another and build community as you explore course concepts. Creating interactive micro-lectures encourages peer to peer interaction and is an excellent way to build community. Making sure that all students are involved and participating whether with voices, written word, or interactive whiteboards is critical to learning. This session will explore how you can utilize Merrimack’s existing tools like Blackboard, Panopto, Jamboard, and Zoom to continuously engage students.

Noon-1 p.m. - My 2021 “I Wanna Be a Classroom Hero” Resolutions with Flipped Learning and
Optional Virtual Office Hours with the CETL Instructional Design Team

Presenters: Erin Courville, Instructional Designer - Apple Teacher and Janet Syed, Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning & Apple Teacher
Email Erin Courville; Email Janet Syed

Expanding your Edtech toolkit is best done incrementally. What would you like to start the New Year more comfortable and confident doing? Using your Apple Pencil to annotate slides? Creating entrance/exit polls for your students? Knowing what’s the buzz about Jamboard?

We’ve flipped the learning by creating short videos featuring some pretty cool tools that you and your students will find beneficial. Watch them and feel free to drop in to office hours at noon to ask pedagogical or tool based questions. Videos will be emailed once you’ve signed up. Tools included are:

• Using Lecture capture and video hosting with Panopto

• Having students create videos for a specific assignment? We’ll demo the workflow.

• Zoom - New features on security, breakout rooms & whiteboarding

• Polling using Socrative, Poll Everywhere, Survey Monkey, Soapbox

• Creating infographics (student assignments or for faculty use) in Canva

• Animoto for easy and quick video making & an Example Animoto

• Use EdPuzzle and add questions to existing videos like Ted Talks

• Make a mini-podcast with Synth

• Interactive whiteboarding with Jamboard

• Get organized with Notes and Apple Pencil