Workshops and Events
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10
9:30-11:00am
Teaching with Technology: Canvas and Poll Everywhere
Dr. Dana Bryant, Business Analyst, Academic Technology Services
Stephanie Parisi, Assistant Director, Online Education, CFDE
Have you ever been curious about how to best use interactive polling technology in your classes? This session will cover the basics of using Canvas and Poll Everywhere to poll your students in real time. It will address challenges and offer first hand experiences from the instructor perspective. This session will provide an engaging discussion and strategies for using innovative technology in your classrooms.
11:15-12:45pm
Maximizing the Minutes Through Active Learning Strategies
Dr. Jeff Galle, Director, Center for Academic Excellence, Oxford College
Active Learning includes an array of classroom activities and learning strategies that require students to do work in the classroom with current course content and to reflect on the meaning of the activity they have undertaken. This workshop will encourage an exploration of active learning in a four-part sequence: 1) frame the context through definitions and examples of active learning strategies; 2) participants will explore the application of one or more of the actitivies/strategies to one or more of their classes, create an exercise for students to reflect on what they have done, and then compare results with others in the workshop; 3) as a full group participants will offer individual examples and discuss challenges and tradeoffs of using these activities; and, 4) a summary will be provided along with suggestions of next-steps in using these and other activities.
2:00-5:00pm
Navigating Difficult Conversations
Dr. Ellen Ott Marshall, Associate Professor, School of Theology
This double session begins with a primer on engaging conflict in the classroom. Participants will complete a self-assessment in advance and explore connections between pedagogical goals and classroom conflicts. After an overview of best practices and reactive strategies, the second part of the workshop will focus on proactive strategies. As you gear up for the fall semester, how can you also prepare your class and yourself to engage conflicts in pedagogically constructive ways?
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11
9:30-11:00am
Teaching with Primary Evidence: Archives & Objects
Gabrielle Dudley, Instruction Archivist & QEP Librarian
Dr. Clare Fitzgerald, Senior Manager of Educational Programs at Michael C. Carlos Museum
Dr. Eric Varner, Associate Professor, Art History & Classics
An archivist from the Rose Library and an educator from the Carlos Museum in tandem with a faculty member will lead a session focused on opportunities to incorporate archives and objects into your teaching. The session will include an introduction to archival methods that can impact research and teaching and will discuss examples for innovative assignments using primary sources for a wide range of disciplines.
11:15-12:45pm
Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses
Dr. Penelope Howards, Associate Professor, Rollins School of Public Health
Current students have grown up in a digital world where they have had access to information on demand and are used to communicating instantly. As a result, it has been argued that the traditional lecture approach to education is less effective with these students. However, many faculty are expected to teach large classes, in which interactive teaching styles are challenging to implement. Further, these classes often need to cover material that is foundational for more advanced classes, which limits the time that can be spent on time-intensive interactive activities. In this session, we will discuss the use of polling apps as way to engage students in medium (50 students) to large lecture (>150) courses. The use of a polling app is a time efficient way to ask students questions about the course material in real time. Polling can easily be incorporated into existing lectures as a first step to a more interactive classroom.
2:00-3:30pm
Handling the Paper Load: Responding to Student Writers
Dr. Joonna Trapp, Senior Lecturer, Emory College
In this session participants will learn about current research in teaching and learning about best practices in responding to student writing. Additionally, they will explore strategies to lighten the paper load and make responding to writing less burdensome. Sharing of ideas and practices among participants will be encouraged.
3:45-5:00pm
Best Practices for Developing Multiple Choice Test Questions
Dr. Andy Kazama, Lecturer, Emory College
Question: What will participants learn from this interactive session?
a. Best practices for test design
b. Ways to utilize Emory’s newly updated Testing and Evaluation Center
c. Synergistic methods for creating test questions via student crowd-sourcing
d. All of the above*
* This question was NOT written using “best practices”…Find out why at the session!
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