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KCEL’s Playing To Your Strengths as an Instructor Session – April 30th
On April 30th, 2020 KCeL offered its first Playing to your Strengths as an Instructor session. The session description is Faculty have a wealth of experience in teaching dynamic, face to face classes that include active learning experiences to engage students. Now, you might be wondering how to create these same experiences online. In this […]
Teaching with Technology- last meeting for spring 2019 semester- May 28 & 29
There was discussion about an event during the fall 2019 semester for faculty to showcase their online courses and/or to learn about online courses. We brainstormed about what would be of greatest interest to faculty. Some ideas were: a speaker from a community college a presentation including data about online course success statistics what skills […]
Sharing Technology Tools
Teaching with Technology FIG Meeting 2 of Spring 2019 Semester- May 7 and May 8, 2019 At our meetings, we reviewed various tools people have been using with their classes. Most were Blackboard tools. Here is a summary of the tools we shared with one another: Zoom: KCC has a zoom account for conducting video-conferences. […]
Teaching with Technology Spring 2019 Meeting 1
Teaching with Technology FIG Meeting 1 of Spring 2019 Semester- April 2 and April 3, 2019 We discussed the article, Gavassa, S., Benebentos, R,. Kravec, M., Colllins, T., and Eddy ,S. 2019. “Closing the Achievement Gap in a Large Introductory Course by Balancing Reduced In-Person Contact with Increased Course Structure” CBE-Life Sciences Education 18ar8: […]
TWT fall 2018 meeting 3
12.5. 18TWT FIG We talked about how to create engaging materials for students using Toondoo and Adobe Spark. Since this was our last meeting of the fall semester, we thought about what we would like to do for spring 2019. Some ideas were: conduct working sessions to create course materials Read a book together- iGen: […]
Meeting 2- SCORMs
At today’s Teaching with technology meeting, John Acosta gave us an introduction to SCORMs, shareable content object reference model. As John described it, a SCORM is like a box that you place all of your materials in so that they can be viewed together. The benefit of a SCORM is it allows you to organize learning […]
Meeting 1- October 2, 2018: Using Blackboard Reports to Gather Data about Student Progress
Dorina Tila showed the group the various ways data can be gathered about students using Blackboard analytics. We reviewed: Course reports: one option is user activity. A report can be generated for each student that shows the number of times that have looked at different areas on the course’s BB site Course Activity Overview: provides […]
Accessibility and Technology
The TWT FIG meeting on May 30th was presented by KCeL and Peter Santiago of Accessibility Services. Peter described how certain materials can be inaccessible to some learners. Tsubasa demonstrated how to make your course documents accessible. Click on Preparing accessible course materials for tips.
How has technology changed education?
The TWT FIG met on April 25th. We worked on an activity about how technology has changed education. TWT s18 worksheet how tech has changed ed Technology has definitely impacted how we teach and students learn, both positively and negatively. These include: access to information: students are now able to access information at almost anytime and […]
Digital Tools- 3/28 & 4/17
The TWT FIG held its first meeting on March 28th and April 17th in order to try to accommodate as many interested colleagues as possible. Here is a list of tools we discussed: Time toast – creates timelines Timelines can be created to digitally represent a series of historical events as a way to present […]
