Reading Across the Curriculum

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Reading Across the Curriculum

Do your students really know how to effectively complete their readings? We shared ways to help students focus: read/think/highlight/analyze. Specifically, 1) how to prepare students for reading comprehension and analysis, 2) proper highlighting techniques, and 3) using analyzed information to pull out main concepts and talking points. Additionally, we shared: 1) how students should study and 2) how they can predict questions for exams from the text.

Reading Across the Curriculum Handouts
Reading Across the Curriculum Event Recording
Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Peggy Takach, from the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University discusses the question: Do your students really know how to effectively complete their readings? Techniques were shared to help students focus on read/think/highlight/analyze.

Giving Voice in a Loud World: Using Video to Support Individual Reflection and Peer Exchange – featuring Ingrid Erickson

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Giving Voice in a Loud World: Using Video to Support Individual Reflection and Peer Exchange - featuring Ingrid Erickson

FlipGrid is a online space for group interaction that allows students to create brief video diaries and share them with one another. Not only does this promote the value of thoughtful reflection at the individual level, it also enables sociality and peer learning at the group level. And it’s fun!

Giving Voice in a Loud World: Using Video to Support Individual Reflection and Peer Exchange Handouts
Giving Voice in a Loud World: Using Video to Support Individual Reflection and Peer Exchange Event Recording
Assistant Professor Ingrid Erickson describes using FlipGrid as an online space for group interaction that allows student to create brief video diaries and share them with one another. Not only does this promote the value of thoughtful reflection at the individual level, it also enables sociality and peer learning at the group level.

Assessment Series 1: Backward Design, Rubrics First – featuring Megan Oakleaf

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Assessment Series 1: Backward Design, Rubrics First - featuring Megan Oakleaf

In this session, attendees considered rubric content and design before they began determining assessment activities and in-class structure. Discussion included types of rubrics (analytical and holistic) and why you might choose one type over another. Rubric examples of each type were distributed.

Backward Design, Rubrics First Handout

Assessment Series 2: Backward Design, Imagine Your Classroom

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Assessment Series 2: Backward Design, Imagine Your Classroom

This session focused on different ways to assess learning in the classroom such as balancing rigor with different student expectations of explicit assessment. Attendees received a matrix that can be used as a guide to map an interconnection of rubrics and assessment activities in a big picture view of the course and how it functions.

Backward Design, Imagine Your Classroom Handouts
Backward Design, Imagine Your Classroom Recording
In this session, Peggy Takach, Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at the iSchool at Syracuse University discussed different ways to assess learning in the classroom such as balancing rigor with different student expectations of explicit assessment.

Assessment Series 3: Backward Design, Finally Blackboard – Using Interactive Rubrics in Blackboard Learn

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Assessment Series 3: Backward Design, Finally Blackboard - Using Interactive Rubrics in Blackboard Learn

 

 

This session focuses on using Interactive Rubrics in Blackboard Learn – What they are, how to set them up, and how to grade using them.

Using Interactive Rubrics in Blackboard Learn

 

Using Interactive Rubrics in Blackboard Learn Event Recording

 

Director of Instructional Design and Technology Integration, Jeff Fouts, from the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University discusses Interactive Rubrics in Blackboard - What they are, how to set them up, and how to grade using them.

IceBox Talk: Group Learning Techniques – featuring Bei Yu

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IceBox Talk: Group Learning Techniques - featuring Bei Yu

This IceBox talk by Bei Yu, Associate Professor, introduced several groupwork techniques, such as how to form groups, prime group members on good collaboration behavior, and lead combined individual/group exercises through Blackboard discussion forums.

Group Learning Techniques Handouts
Group Learning Techniques Event Recording
Associate Professor Bei Yu introduces several groupwork techniques, such as how to form groups, prime group members on good collaboration behavior, and lead combined individual/group exercises through Blackboard discussion forums at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.

Using the Reports in Blackboard Learn to Better Understand User Interaction

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Using the Reports in Blackboard Learn to Better Understand User Interaction

This session considered the purpose of measuring student engagement. Activities were identified that not only engaged students but also produced quality analysis, which is critical to designing and adapting both online and face-to-face courses. Some of the questions that we will show you how to answer are: •When are students logging into my course? •Which course resources/tools are being used most frequently? •Which discussions boards generate the most traffic? •What are the patterns of performance in an online assessment? •What are some of my opportunities for improvement?

Using the Reports in Blackboard Learn to Better Understand User Interaction Handouts
Using the Reports in Blackboard Learn to Better Understand User Interaction Event Recording
Director of Instructional Design and Technology Integration, Jeff Fouts, from the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University discusses using the reports in Blackboard to better understand student interaction in a Blackboard course.

Effective Questioning: Working Towards a Thinking Classroom

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Questioning Techniques

This session focused on creating engaging student questions using Bloom’s Taxonomy as the basis. The following concepts were discussed during this session:
• Students learn key concepts better when they have opportunities to actively monitor their understanding.
• Knowledge is socially constructed and people learn best in supportive social settings when working with peers.
• Students become better learners when we challenge them to answer questions that require the use of higher order thinking skills.

Questioning Techniques Handouts

Exemplary Course Design in Blackboard

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Exemplary Course Design in Blackboard

The Exemplary Course Design in Blackboard session focused on best practices in four main areas: Course Design, Interaction & Collaboration, Assessment, and Learner Support. The session was supported by an Exemplary Design Program Rubric

Exemplary Course Design in Blackboard Handouts

Slide Decks

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Slide Decks

This session focused on engaging and creative ways to build a slide deck. Whether you are using PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, etc. this session gave some new, creative ideas to creating your presentation slides.

Slide Decks Handouts