Workshops

This page offers links, examples and information about employing assessments that are alternatives to the common practice of requiring students to write a paper or prepare a PowerPoint presentation. || Student response devices or "Clickers" can add interactivity and increase student engagement. Learn how to add these devices to your existing instructional content. This link will bring you to the resources that are used during the Clicker Boot Camp. If you want to use the Clickers and have not attended Boot Camp, send a message to request that training to imfacultylab@howardcc.edu with a few optional dates and times, and we'll be in contact to schedule that with you. || (Sample question list with some multiple choice, true/false questions with correct answer indicators.) || Workshop (PDF) || Previously created polling slides using TurningPoint (Clicker) software, **will NOT** work on the new version of the software which is in all classrooms - unless you follow the steps outlined in this short workshop. Learn to update your content NOW for the new version of TurningPoint v5.2.1. || Includes- Faculty Information Form (FIF) and its application, how to interpret data collected, how it may influence faculty professional development. || Wondering if and how Pinterest might support Bloom's Taxonomy? See this. ||
 * ** Adobe Connect ** || Would your students benefit from a virtual guest speakers; would your group like to meet with other faculty at a distance? Adobe Connect is a powerful, free alternative to Skype. ||
 * **Adobe Connect- Host (PDF)** || Use this document to setup a sharing, discussion, and/or collaboration meeting, invite participants, adjust audio and video, make guests presenters, share screens or documents, and to help you setup meetings. ||
 * **Adobe Connect- Participant **
 * (PDF)** || Give this document to your students or participants to help them access your meeting, setup audio and video, share their screen as a participant or presenter, share a document, raise their hand, use chat, and exit the meeting. ||
 * **Alternatives to Papers and **
 * PowerPoints** || Effective assessment is an essential part of all curriculum. It is ongoing and should be enlightening for both the student and the teacher. Too often assessment is a reflection of how much a student can remember, not what they have actually learned. Rather than informing the student of what he knows and does not know, some assessments become punitive.
 * **Camtasia Relay (PDF)** || Camtasia Relay is a screen recorder which allows users to capture lectures, and narrate PowerPoints. Learn how to get the software, how to use it in classrooms or any other computer, and how to host and feature the recordings in Canvas. ||
 * **Clickers: Boot Camp (v5.2.1)** || Know what your students know... Create and run polling slides with PowerPoint and student response devices.
 * ** Instant Feedback Anywhere, Anytime ** || Want to involve your students more, easily build a sense of community in your classroom, and find out what your students think, or know? Want to poll without running a PowerPoint presentation, and instantly display the responses? Use //**Anywhere Polling**// and the Clickers while you display anything else on the screen. Hands-on, it’s quick and easy to learn and use, and students appreciate the interaction in class.
 * **Clickers: Your Clicker **
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 * ====** Clickers: Advanced v4.3.2.1178 (PDF) **==== || Designed for faculty who have had some training in Clickers--this workshop focuses on saving and retrieving collected data as well as designing questions to provoke critical thinking. ||
 * **[|Clickers & Other Assessment]**
 * [|Tools] ** || Assessment informs faculty and students about a student's level of understanding. It can also be engaging, discussion provoking and quick! Use this Canvas course site to see how clickers, cellphones and various software applications are being used to assess student learning. ||
 * **Clickers & Other Assessment **
 * Tools Quick Comparison Guide **
 * (PDF)** || This handout is a quick comparison guide of the capabilities for each of the tools used to create assessment activities in the Canvas course site above. Tools on this handout are listed in alphabetical order rather than the sequence in which they are introduced and used in the workshop. ||
 * **Clickers: Extreme Makeover **
 * Edition (PDF)** || Turning Point is upgrading and improving! Come participate in a demonstration and evaluation of some new clicker technology. Vote on what resources HCC should have. Some of the optional features are: Instructor controls presentation with a FREE app on an iPad, iPhone, iTouch, or Droid mobile phone. Points or scores awarded for participation in a polling session can become data in a column in a Canvas grade book. Take 5 minutes at the beginning of class to have students click to associate themselves with a specific clicker, their responses are then tracked for you to run analytical reports. Ask questions orally, poll and collect data without using PowerPoint while students use Clickers to respond. ||
 * ** Connecting the Dots- remotely ** || Share face-to-face conversations with students and others at a distance. Host webinars, conduct interviews or even collaborate with colleagues in real-time and at no cost. See Video Conferencing. ||
 * **DH202- The Future of Learning **
 * Spaces (movie)** || This brief presentation shows elements of HCC's Learning Studio and concludes with a demonstration of the 3D document camera that will be standard in all teaching spaces in the Health Sciences building. ||
 * **Getting to Know Your Classroom** || Classrooms on the HCC campus have a number of different technology setups. These resources will help you identify and use your classroom projection equipment, including the document camera. ||
 * **Glogster: Create Online Posters** ||  ||
 * **Google Hangouts: Hanging Out **
 * with Faculty -- Google's Free **
 * Alternative to Skype** || Experience Google's new free service that allows up to ten participants to video conference and screen share. ||
 * **IDEA Workshops** || Resources shared by Dr. Shelley A. Chapman to support faculty with IDEA
 * ** N-Wing: Teaching in the **
 * N-Wing? **
 * N206 N224 N228 ** || Orientation to N206, N224, N228. ||
 * ** @Pinterest ** || Would your students benefit from using, or creating, a board of visual bookmarks focused on one topic or theme, with comments and threaded discussions? Reserve your spot for a hands on exploration of Pinterest, one of the most popular social networking sites. Create your own engaging, authentic, learning experiences that can be shared through your pins to resources. Forbes refers to Pinterest as the third most popular social networking site, after Facebook and Twitter.
 * **PowerPoint & ARTstor: 1 minute **
 * Album** || Would you like to incorporate art, photos, or maps from some of the world's largest museums to improve engagement? Join us, hands-on in a lab, to learn to use images from the ARTstor database to create a PowerPoint presentation using a feature that takes 1-minute to create an unlimited number of slides, each with one image. ||
 * **PowerPoint Tips and Tricks** || Strategies for developing and delivering your PowerPoints more efficiently. ||
 * **PowerPoint: Practical Strategies **
 * for Adding Interest** || Designed for the novice or intermediate PowerPoint user who wants to include media such as YouTube videos, links to websites and other enhancements in their PowerPoint presentation. ||
 * **Prezi: Getting Started** || Prezi is a non-linear, online presentation tool. This handout provides you with the necessary information to create your own Prezi presentation. ||
 * **Screencast-O-matic: Record **
 * Your Screen & Webcam** || This free, web-based service allows you to record your screen, or webcam, to create a movie that you can publish to YouTube, or save to your own computer. This document assumes you have gone to http://www.screencast-o-matic.com, have created an account, that you are logged in to Screencast-o-matic using the Internet Explorer browser, your headset is plugged in, and you are ready to begin recording. ||
 * **SMART Board: Getting Started** || The SMARTBoard is an interactive whiteboard that allows users to control the instructor’s station computer using touch interactions on the whiteboard surface. Join us and learn how to manipulate images, annotate, and interact with the instructor’s station computer using the SMARTBoard. Specific teaching strategies using the SMARTBoard will also be covered.

View resources and instructions related to using the SMARTboard and SMART notebook software in your instruction. ||
 * **SMART Podium - Self-Paced **
 * Online Professional **
 * Development** || The new Health Sciences Building classrooms and labs are equipped with a SMART Podium interactive display. The SMART Podium has a stylus (pen) that allows users to manipulate images, annotate, and interact with their computer. In order to assist faculty members learn this technology, a series of modules has been created. Completing each of the modules will provide faculty members with a sufficient amount of knowledge and skills that will allow them to independently use the SMART Podium. ||
 * ** @WebEx ** || Connect with people at a distance with this free, self-service, no hassle, web conferencing for up to three (3) people. ||
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 * **Wordle: Making Word Clouds** || Learn to use this free tool to automatically generate an interesting looking word cloud by typing or pasting text. Uses might include having students paste a passage to examine persistent themes, illustrate the primary elements of an assignment or course, or having students create an autobiographical word cloud. ||
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