Rebecca Brooks - Office of Accessibility

While a challenge for all of us, the year of remote and hybrid teaching presented additional challenges for students in need of accommodations and faculty needing to find accessible materials. Rebecca Brooks talks us through the challenges of creating accessible course content and provides tips for getting started.

Catherine Sprecher-Loverti - German

Catherine talks about how utilizing the rubrics feature in Google Classroom has simplified and streamlined grading student assignments.

Diana Leonard - Psychology

The New Google Sites transition is upon us! Diana shares her experience upgrading from Classic to New Google Sites.

Isabelle DeMarte - World Languages, French

Last year’s Faculty Technology Institute ‘Deep Dive’ track provided faculty time and resources to improve their online course presence. Isabelle shares her experiences overhauling her Google Classroom French 102 course, including what prompted certain changes and how students responded.

Meredith Kostek - Boley Law Library

Meredith uses several tech innovations in her teaching and outreach to students. These include EdPuzzle for asynchronous class structure, Google Forms for a choose-your-own-adventure learning lesson, Google Slides to create a digital escape room, and Prepare to Practice, a legal module that is part video tutorial and part assessment tool.

Jeremy McWilliams

Jeremy McWilliams from Watzek Library discusses the website he created as part of his collaboration with Amy Timmons to move the annual Rogers Summer Research Poster Session online. Hear what went well and lessons learned from Watzek Library’s experiences in creating “web hubs” for the Roger Poster Session and other academic showcase events.

Amy Timmins 

Amy Timmons describes how she moved the annual Rogers Summer Research Poster Session celebration online using Zoom. Hear how they structured the online event, what went well, and lessons learned that could be useful for others who may be planning virtual events showcasing student work.

Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell

In this recording from the October 29th Teaching Excellence Program Zoom Hour, Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell shares her thoughts and experiences after 9 weeks of hybrid teaching this Fall and how it’s influencing plans for classes next Spring.

Kellar Autumn

Kellar Autumn has not let hybrid learning slow down his research-based Biology lab. He shares the biggest challenges how he and his students have adapted, and his students share their research-in-progress utilizing bluetooth-based bio-sensors.

Sharon Torigoe

Above all, Sharon Torigoe wanted to preserve the small group dynamics that are essential to scientific study and research. Taking her experiences in the Spring term as a guide, she spent the Summer planning for the Fall finding the right combination of tech tools to facilitate group work.

Liz Stanhope

In her Spring ’20 upper-level math course, Liz Stanhope utilized the guided discovery method, serving as a coach for students working in groups and using notes to guide them through the curriculum. This continued into the fall, where students used DIY document cameras to share written work and notes.

Suparna Chaudhry 

Suparna discusses the podcast assignment she gave her students this semester.

Melanie Kohnen

Melanie discusses how Prezi Video, integrated with Zoom, was successful in her online classes.

Emily O’Sullivan

Emily O’Sullivan, Director of the Symbolic and Quantitative Resource Center (SQRC) shows us how she’s used the Discord digital community platform to facilitate remote tutoring and maintain communications with the center staff.

Peter Drake

Peter Drake gives a tour of his home remote-teaching space, which includes some rotating gaming pieces, ergonomic input devices, considerable monitor real-estate, and LOTS of adapters.

Mary Andrus  

In this video, Mary Andrus talks about using a combination of asynchronous and synchronous learning, social icebreakers, and clear class agendas to meet her Counseling students’ needs in a hyflex environment. Some of the tools she used

Liza Finkel

Liza discusses using Padlet, a web app that lets users post notes on a digital wall, this past semester at the grad school.

Bruce Podobnik

Bruce discusses using Zoom and Powerpoint to create introductory videos.

Todd Watson

Aine McCarthy

Teaching entirely remotely this term (from both home and office), Aine shares how she aligned her workspace with her teaching style and highlights the tools that made it possible.

Tamily Weissman-Unni

In this recording from the October 29th Teaching Excellence Program Zoom Hour, Tamily Weissman-Unni describes in detail how she configures both equipment in her JR Howard classroom and Zoom settings for hybrid teaching and shares strategies for managing student distraction and engagement.

Susan Mandiberg

Accepting early on that her classes would be entirely virtual, Susan sought to maximize teaching effectiveness while minimizing Zoom fatigue.