Time and Location:

Thursday, October 17, 2019
Economic Development Core Facility
8:00 am - 3:15 pm

8:00 am -8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 8:35 am

Welcome, logistics, potential conference takeaways and listening to student voices

Dr. Sara Marcketti, Director, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT)

8:40 am - 9:00 am

Canvas at ISU: Where we have been and where we are going

Amy Ward, Program Coordinator, CELT
Jane Hamblin, Canvas Customer Success

Look at the ground we have covered in the past two years since we transitioned to the Canvas learning management system and get excited about Canvas new developments!

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Canvas at ISU

9:05 am - 9:35 am

Lessons learned: Implementing hybrid learning to advance nursing education

Dr. Ginny Wangerin, Clinical Assistant Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition

The presentation describes the process of building a new academic major for hybrid delivery in Canvas. Strategies for student engagement, program concurrency and assessment of learning is shared along with the lessons learned.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Lessons learned

9:35 am - 10:05 am

Getting your engineering course Quality Matters certified

Dr. Jennifer Shane, Associate Professor, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu, Assistant Teaching Professor, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

Quality Matters (QM) is a non-profit faculty-driven organization concerned with the online and blended course quality and control. This presentation discusses the QM certification process for an engineering online course which was developed around the QM course design standards and is centered on student learning experience.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Getting your engineering course Quality Matters certified

10:05 am - 10:15 am: Break

10:15 am - 11:15 am: Lightning Talks (Round I)

Ten-minute presentations on using Canvas and technology for teaching and learning

Attractive functional homepages in Canvas

Lisa Lund, Instructional Designer, Veterinary Medicine Administration

Quickly upgrade your Canvas homepage with images and navigation buttons for a functional Canvas course that has easy to find content.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Attractive functional homepages in Canvas

Using webinar services for synchronous classes

Ann Bugler, Director of Online and Distance Learning, College of Human Sciences

Want to be prepared for managing your online synchronous class sessions? Good webinar practices can help to engage your students and provide a consistent quality learning experience.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Using webinar services for synchronous classes

Blueprints

Gretchen Anderson, Program Coordinator, CELT

A Canvas Blueprint is a template that can be used for large enrollment courses with separate course shells to quickly distribute content. A quick overview will get you excited about this Canvas functionality.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Blueprints

The life of a ticket in the Solution Center

Megan Jensen, Program Coordinator, Solution Center

Learn how ISU's Solution Center receives, ingests and resolves your Canvas-related requests for assistance. The presentation explains how Solution Center works with departments and vendors to provide ISU's users with the best experiences.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): The life of a ticket

Automated written corrective feedback for supporting students and instructors across curriculum

Dr. Jim Ranalli, Assistant Professor, English

Grammarly is a cloud-based writing enhancement tool that is being piloted at ISU in writing-focused and writing-intensive courses across seven different departments. The presentation discusses the strengths and shortcomings of Grammarly and suggestions for curriculum integration.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Automated written corrective feedback

11:20 am - 12:15 pm: No data left behind (keynote)

Dr. Courtney Vengrin, Coordinator of Assessment and Educational Faculty Development Veterinary Clinical Services

With learning management systems, we have thousands of data points at our fingertips. From data on the performance of our students to data on teaching effectiveness, a wealth of information is readily available. But are we utilizing these data to create an accurate picture of teaching and learning? How we use and present data matters!

⏸ Presentation slides (pdf): No data left behind

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch and networking

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Communicating teacher presence in a course about diversity

Dr. Rachel Ruble, Associate Teaching Professor, Communication Studies

Connecting with students in an online course can be challenging. This may be especially true when content covered may be seen as polarizing or controversial. This presentation explains how one professor has utilized Studio, Canvas video platform, to create social presence in her online course on Communication and U.S. Diversity.

⏸ Presentation slides (ppts): Communicating teacher presence

1:30 pm- 2:30 pm: Lightning Talks (Round II)

Ten-minute presentations on using Canvas and technology for teaching and learning

Interactive speaking online with GoReact

Dr. Katherine Fulton, Associate Teaching Professor, English

The presentation describes the benefits of having students deliver presentations through GoReact, a video discussion platform, and the many options it provides for instructors who want to create dynamic and interactive presentation assignments.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Interactive speaking

Hat Trick: Benefits of Top Hat for students and instructors

Dr. Jessica Ward, Assistant Clinical Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine

This lightning talk highlights uses of Top Hat, an interactive teaching platform, in large and medium-sized classroom environments within the context of the instructor's content are of veterinary clinical cardiology.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Hat trick

Team activities in Top Hat

Tanya Austin, Career Services Coordinator, Ivy College of Business

Discover how to introduce teamwork to students in a large enrollment business sing Top Hat, an interactive teaching platform.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Team activities in Top Hat

Augmented reality

Dr. James Nemiroff, Lecturer, World Languages and Cultures
Dr. Jacob Larsen, Director, Language Resource Center

Explore how the HT Reveal augmented reality app impacts Spanish language learning using the example of a student poster project in a Spanish literature course. PH Reveal enables students to incorporate different kinds of visual rhetoric in digital posters enhancing their language learning experience.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Augmented reality

Grading the quality of peer evaluations in Canvas: a workaround

Dr. Rebecca Cademartiri, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Discover a brilliant Canvas workaround allowing students to evaluate the work of their peers while freeing up the instructor's time for grading and analyzing the quality of peer feedback.

⏸ Presentation slides (pptx): Grading the quality of peer evaluations in Canvas

Create effective discussion groups with VoiceThread

Dr. William Carter, Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures

Integrate VoiceThread to support discussion groups and video journals as the presenter explains how this tool made a difference in student engagement in his asynchronous online Holocaust course.

⏸ Presentation slides: Create effective discussion groups in VoiceThread

2:25 pm -3:10 pm

Panel: Open Education Resources (OER) Trailblazers share their stories

Dr. Evrim Baran, Associate Professor, School of Education
Dr. Lori Biederman Adjunct Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Abbey Elder, OER Librarian
John Wierson Textbook Buyer/ Supervisor University Bookstore

Join a panel discussion on the impact of OERs on learning and teaching and why OERs might be a good option for your classroom.

⏸ Panel notes (docx): Open Education Resources (OER) Trailblazers share their stories