Tech For Teaching

April 20, 2021

Teaching Software, Hardware, and Cybersecurity

Reading Time: 2 minutes Apply these tips in your teaching to engage students and to monitor their progress during lessons. 1. Show students the Big Picture Always start with the big picture for a new unit of learning....

Lesson and Course Planning/Tech For Teaching

March 8, 2021

Encouraging Online Group Work Management with Microsoft Planner

Reading Time: < 1 minute Online Group Work Students’ ability to organize tasks and manage time can affect their online group work experiences. In online team situations, Hurst and Thomas...

Collaboration/Group Work/Tech For Teaching

January 15, 2021

Bring Your Best: Advice from Faculty on Online Synchronous Teaching

Reading Time: 3 minutes Tips suggested by faculty in a workshop, “Bring Your Best to Remote Teaching”

Faculty Stories/Hybrid/Online Synchronous/Reflective Practice/Zoom or Teams

January 13, 2021

Boost Engagement with Zoom Text Chat

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ideas and tips for using text chat to boost engagement and clear communication during remote synchronous meetings

Active Learning and Engagement/Hybrid/Online Synchronous/Zoom or Teams

October 7, 2020

Competitive and Gamified Quizzes

Reading Time: 5 minutes Educators across the globe use game-based quizzes to add a bit of competition and engagement to review, quizzes and retrieval practice activities. But what does the research say about these types of activities for learning? How can we best leverage them to improve student outcomes?

Gamification/Tech For Teaching

September 9, 2020

The Power of PowerPoint

Reading Time: 2 minutes Many studies have investigated the value of using PowerPoint as a lecture tool. PowerPoint’s strength is often the comfort we have as educators and learners...

Teaching Materials/Tech For Teaching

September 8, 2020

Building Accessible PowerPoint Slides

Reading Time: 6 minutes Tried and true, PowerPoint has been the best known presentation software for the last 30 years. Its strength is often the familiarity we have with using it, and many other apps and services are based on its look and feel.

Teaching Materials/Tech for New Faculty/Tech For Teaching

September 6, 2020

PowerPoint Jeopardy!

Reading Time: 2 minutes Bring in a new take on a classic trivia game by using a Jeopardy PowerPoint deck to gamify a review or test prep period. Download...

Gamification/Tech For Teaching

September 4, 2020

Using PowerPoint to Create Videos

Reading Time: < 1 minute Although we think of PowerPoint as being best suited to building slides, in reality, it has evolved into a video creation tool, as well. Easily...

Multimedia/Tech For Teaching

September 3, 2020

Create a Screen Recording with PowerPoint

Reading Time: < 1 minute This tip will show you how to use PowerPoint to record your desktop. Start by opening up a new, blank PowerPoint. In case you missed...

Multimedia/Online Synchronous/Tech For Teaching

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