Activities – Page 3

Using the Tech Kit in the Classroom

This brief video provides an overview of the equipment in your tech kit, and shows you how to set up the tech kit in your classroom.

Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Lecture/Presentations/Sharing Media/Synchronous

Trust Message Not Showing Up When Connecting iPad to Mac Laptop

To share your iPad screen in Zoom via a cable (or to do other things that require a wired connection between your iPad and your computer), you need to tell your computer to trust your device. You’re usually prompted for the first when you first plug your iPad into your laptop, but sometimes this doesn’t happen. Additionally, security changes in...

Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Synchronous/Whiteboard

Sharing Your iPad Screen via a Windows PC – Off Campus

The above video walks you through how to share you iPad screen in a Zoom meeting that’s hosted (joined) on a Windows computer. You essentially connect the two devices — your PC and your iPad — via the iPad’s AirPlay protocol. This will be useful for whiteboarding during synchronous classes, or when recording mini-lectures. Notably, this method only works at...

Annotation/Uncategorized/Whiteboard

Using Groups in Perusall

Overview In Perusall, you can organize students into groups that limit whose comments they see. This can be useful when you have a large class and want to reduce the volume of annotations any single student is seeing, or if you want to create smaller cohorts where students might assume certain roles (skeptic, synthesizer, etc.) as readers and responders. You...

Asynchronous/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

Getting Files Onto (and Off Of) Your iPad with Google Drive

Whether you’re using your iPad to annotate an article during class or recording a lecture over your Powerpoint slide deck, you’ll need a way to get documents onto (and off) your iPad. The best set up for this depends on a number of factors like what cloud storage or iPad apps you already use. In general, the easiest option is...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Lecture/Presentations/Sharing Media/Synchronous/Whiteboard

Introduction to Perusall – Workshop Recording

The above is a recording of the social annotation tools workshop, which focused on a Perusall, a platform that allows for in-line, threaded commentary on and discussions of texts. Formatted as a VoiceThread, the recording includes two “slides,” which you can toggle between using the arrows on the lower right. (Here is a direct link to the VT recording, if...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion

Recording Yourself with Zoom – Windows

This brief video shows you how to record yourself with Zoom on a Windows desktop or PC.

Asynchronous/Flipped Classroom/Lecture

Building Community

Many of us are wondering how we are going to build a sense of community in our classrooms, labs, student organizations, residence halls, etc., given the constraints of the remote and physically distant environment. Use the resources in this guide to learn how to encourage community in your online course and minimize students’ feelings of isolation.

Community Building

Accessible responsive teaching

This slideshow presentation by Melissa Fletcher provides information and resources for faculty on how to create a responsive, accessible, and supportive learning environment for their students.

Access and Inclusion/Syllabus Design/Workshops

Recording micro-lectures

Leah Witus shares the programs she uses to record and edit her lectures, as well as a clip of one of her video lectures for her Biochemistry course.

Asynchronous/Faculty & Staff Stories/Flipped Classroom/Lecture

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