Event Archive

When/Where	Event
Monday Nov 23, 2020 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Alternatives to discussion forums: Padlet and Voicethread Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning) In this quick tech talk, we will explore Padlet and Voicethread and you can get ideas to finish out this term or to use in the Spring. [Details...]
Thursday Nov 19, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Thoughtful Thursdays - Finishing Strong: End-of-the-semester Check-in Presenter(s): Paul McPherron (English and ACERT); Sarah Byosiere (Psychology) The end of the Fall 2020 semester is near! Join ACERT and the Educational Technology Team to recap your teaching and learning successes and discuss ways in which we can help students in online classes reflect on what they have learned. [Details...]
Thursday Nov 19, 2020 10:00 am - 11:00 am Online - Please register for details	Interactive activities for the asynchronous class Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning) Join this workshop for idea and interactive activities to implement for the synchronous (real-time) class in a virtual setting. [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Screencast-O-Matic Presenter(s): Abigail Torres (Center for Online Learning) This workshop will introduce participants to Screencast-O-Matic as a tool to create these short lectures or explanations by adding narration to slides, documents or websites. [Details...]
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Set-up your Final Grade in Blackboard Presenter(s): Mowmita Jabir (Technology Resource Center) Join us for a workshop that will introduce tips and provide clarifications on best practices for using Blackboard to help navigate and set up the final grades in Blackboard. [Details...]
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Tech Tuesdays - Padlet Power! Multiple Applications for this Versatile Tool Presenter(s): Laura Baecher (Curriculum and Teaching) Padlet, a virtual bulletin board, has a variety of formats and can be used for synchronous and asynchronous interactivity. In this quick tech talk, we will explore some applications and you can get ideas to finish out this term or to use in the Spring! [Details...]
Monday Nov 16, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Create a Test re-using Blackboard Questions Presenter(s): Mowmita Jabir (Technology Resource Center) Join this workshop to get tips for using Blackboard to create tests re-using Blackboard questions. [Details...]
Friday Nov 13, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Online	Virtual Panel on Alternative Student Assessments Presenter(s): Linda Bradley, Romi Kher, Amit Mehrotra, Rifat Salam Join us on this virtual panel to discuss alternatives to student assessments and advice on making that transition to alternative methods. [Details...]
Friday Nov 13, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Module-Making and Week Zero Camp Reunions Did you participate in one of the many Module-making or Week-zero camps held during summer 2020? Have your students gone through the modules that you carefully designed? How did everything go? Unqualified success? Some things need tweaking? Come to one of the three camp reunions we are hosting and share your insights from the first weeks of the fall semester as well as get a refresher on the tech tools you started experimenting with. [Details...]
Friday Nov 13, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	DIY Captioning for Busy Professors (Voicethread & YouTube) Presenter(s): Abigail Torres (Center for Online Learning) At this online workshop, we will show you how to modify the automatically generated captions provided by VoiceThread and YouTube so that they are accurate. [Details...]
Thursday Nov 12, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Thoughtful Thursdays - Collaborations in the Time of Covid: Thoughts from the Libraries Presenter(s): Stephanie Margolin (Hunter College Libraries) & other representatives from the Libraries In the shift to remote learning, we are seeing more collaborative integration of information literacy instruction across the disciplines. What lessons have we learned for more effective collaborations both online and when we return to in-person instruction? [Details...]
Thursday Nov 12, 2020 10:00 am - 11:00 am Online - Please register for details	Reuse your Blackboard Course Content Presenter(s): Mowmita Jabir (Technology Resource Center) Join us in today's workshop on making most of what you already have and created by revamping and reuse your Blackboard Course Content. [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Module-Making and Week Zero Camp Reunions Did you participate in one of the many Module-making or Week-zero camps held during summer 2020? Have your students gone through the modules that you carefully designed? How did everything go? Unqualified success? Some things need tweaking? Come to one of the three camp reunions we are hosting and share your insights from the first weeks of the fall semester as well as get a refresher on the tech tools you started experimenting with. [Details...]
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - Please register for more details	Tech Tuesdays - Learn about Loom!!! (not to be confused with Zoom)! Presenter(s): Sarah Byosiere (Psychology) Loom? Do you mean Zoom? No, we really do mean Loom! Come and join this quick tech talk about the extremely user friendly screen-recording tool Loom. Loom can be used to pre-record lectures in a variety of formats and is great for delivering presentations. Bonus, it is currently free for students and educators! [Details...]
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020 10:00 am - 11:00 am Online - Please register for details	Interactive activities for the synchronous (real-time) class Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning) Join today's workshop on plethora of ideas and interactive activities to implement for the synchronous (real-time) class in a virtual setting. [Details...]
Monday Nov 9, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Module-Making and Week Zero Camp Reunions Did you participate in one of the many Module-making or Week-zero camps held during summer 2020? Have your students gone through the modules that you carefully designed? How did everything go? Unqualified success? Some things need tweaking? Come to one of the three camp reunions we are hosting and share your insights from the first weeks of the fall semester as well as get a refresher on the tech tools you started experimenting with. [Details...]
Monday Nov 9, 2020 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Tips & Tricks of Blackboard Presenter(s): Mowmita Jabir (Technology Resource Center) This workshop will introduce you to tips for setting up your Blackboard grade center for your online, hybrid, or in-person class using Blackboard. [Details...]
Thursday Nov 5, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - Please register for details	Thoughtful Thursdays - Post COVID Remote Teaching : A Space to Think and Create Presenter(s): Gina Riley (Special Education), April Kisamore (Special Education, ABA); Lauren Schnell (Special Education, ABA) Have you grown to love teaching remotely? Or, will you be the first in the classroom when in-person classes resume? Join us for a discussion of what aspects of teaching remotely we want to maintain and whether online programming will be a COVID trend or here to stay. We’ll discuss pros, cons, and potential program-based changes. [Details...]
Thursday Nov 5, 2020 9:00 am - 10:00 am Online - Please register for details	Hypothesis for Annotations Presenter(s): Abigail Torres (Center for Online Learning) Join us in this workshop to find out more about Hypothesis and how to use it through your course Blackboard page. [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 4, 2020 10:00 am - 11:00 am Online - Please register for details	Alternatives to discussion forums: Padlet and Voicethread Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning) In this quick tech talk, we will explore Padlet and Voicethread and you can get ideas to finish out this term or to use in the Spring. [Details...]