Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

Spring breakout 2017

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

Wednesday, May 17

Session 1
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Getting started with Prezi
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 202
Prezi allows you to create rich multimedia presentations using a simple online tool. In this hands-on workshop, participants will create a Prezi presentation that integrates text, images, and video. Participants may wish to create a free Prezi account at http://www.prezi.com before the workshop. We will also show how Powerpoint presentations may be converted into Prezi's format and how one can create a series of Prezi slides that can be posted online as a pdf file.

Session 2
Time: 1:00 - 2:20
Session Title: Blackboard Learn Open Session
Presenters: Kristen Flint, Kathi Dutton, and Doug Hemphill
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: NA
This hands-on workshop is an open session where the Blackboard Learn support team will work with you to prepare your course(s) for the upcoming semester. We will begin the session with a short Q&A session to address general questions, then work with you individually to address your course specific questions and concerns.

Session 3
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Prezi - Beyond the basics
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 202
This workshop is for those who want to learn about additional features of Prezi, including:

fade-in animations,
linking objects,
3D backgrounds and parallax effect,
reusable objects ("My Content"),
presentations over the web,
embedding a Prezi on a web site,
auto-play,
adding audio to a Prezi path to create an online narrated presentation, and
adding a background audio track to a prezi.

Session 4
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: SASSY Conversation
Presenters: Alicia King & Allison Peer
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/SPFXyX
Come and meet the SASS team! Student Academic Success Specialists, housed in the Office of Learning Services, promote student success by facilitating the development of independent learning and other self-management skills. Through effective partnerships with faculty and staff, we can empower students to utilize all of their resources as they work toward their academic and personal goals. Please come with your questions or suggestions on how we can better serve our student population together.

Session 5
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Boyer Model and the reality check
Presenter: Marcia Burrell
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/BAlcJK
Does your department personnel committee support the Boyer Model for research about your college teaching? Let's discuss and strategize.

Thursday, May 18

Session 6
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: Are We There Yet? Using Curriculum Mapping to Streamline Assessment
Presenter: Laura Donnelly
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/QG1xcp
Curriculum mapping can be used to identify gaps and redundancies in classes or to fine tune already strong programs. It can also make assessment a less painful task. This session will share examples of curriculum maps, lead participants through a curriculum mapping activity, and suggest ways for using curriculum maps to streamline assessment. Participants are encouraged to bring program and/or course learning outcomes for the activity.

Session 7
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: SUNY-Oswego CELT badge and certificate program
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/lSjxzU
The SUNY-Oswego CELT badge and certificate program will be discussed in this session. Participants will learn how to earn badges and certificates and how to save digital copies of these for personnel files.

Session 8
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Blackboard Learn Grade Center*
Presenters: Kristen Flint, Kathi Dutton, and Doug Hemphill
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/JYkMXr
This workshop provides an introduction to the Grade Center in the Blackboard Learn learning Management system. We will show you how to navigate the grade center, create a column, enter grades, and update the Total and Weighted Total Columns.

We will also demonstrate how to create a letter grade column that can be uploaded into MyOswego (that process is covered in a 1 pm workshop today).

*No prior Blackboard Learn experience is needed.

Session 9
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Uploading course grades to MyOswego
Presenters: Rameen Mohammadi and John Kane
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/vfu4kv
This hands-on session will demonstrate how course grades may be uploaded directly to MyOswego from either a spreadsheet or from Blackboard’s gradebook. Participants are encouraged to try the process themselves during the session.

Session 10
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Using MOOCs for professional development
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/D28lBu
This session will discuss the role that free MOOCs can play in professional development. Specific recommendations for MOOCs that provide support for the development of evidence-based instructional practices will be provided, along with suggestions on how to find MOOCs appropriate for your interests.

Session 11
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: I have %4#&s group work!
Presenters: Theresa Gilliard-Cook, Kristen Flint and Douglas Hemphill
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/ekrMF0
Are you interested in incorporating group work into your online course? Not sure where to start? Have you already incorporated online group work and encountered challenges?

In this interactive session/workshop, we will discuss the current research regarding groups in online courses. Based on the research, your questions, ideas and challenges, we will try to come up with tips, tricks and suggestions to help you to make yours and your students' group work experience positive and productive!

Session 12
Time: 3:00 - 4:30
Session Title: [BITS] Accessibility at Blackboard
Presenter: Blackboard webinar
Room: MCC 210
A Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series webinar on "Accessibility at Blackboard."

Friday, May 19

Session 13
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: Calibrated peer review
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording:https://goo.gl/eUBqkT
This workshop will examine the calibrated peer review software that SUNY-Oswego is evaluating this year. An overview of the calibrated peer review process will be presented. A discussion of lessons learned from two semesters of use and a discussion of student reactions (from a survey of over 300 students) will also be provided.

Session 14
Time: 9:00 -10:20
Session Title: Human Attachment 101
Presenter: Matt Dykas, Ph.D.
Room: MCC 210
This lecture will present information about the importance of human attachment, focusing principally on its scientific foundations and its practical implementation in parent-child relationships. This information will be presented in a user-friendly way, and is intended for anyone interested in learning more about parenting and caregiving across the lifespan.

Session 15
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Creating a calibrated peer review assignment
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 202
This session is a hands-on session in which faculty considering the use of the calibrated peer review system for the spring 2017 semester will create one or more peer-reviewed assignments. This requires that participants have an instructor account on the calibrated peer review server. If you do not yet have an account, please register for the workshop at least 3-4 days before the workshop so that an account can be created.

Session 16
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Introduction to Implicit Bias in the Classroom
Presenters: Evelyn Clark, Lisa Glidden, and Allison Rank
Room: MCC 206
This session will introduce how implicit bias impacts teaching in the college classroom. Participants will participate in the Harvard Implicit Bias tests and then will discuss how implicit bias impacts leading discussions, grading, and student-instructor interactions as well as strategies in identifying and combating implicit bias in the classroom.

Session 17
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Google hangouts
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
This hands-on session will focus on how the enhanced group text, audio, and video communication capabilities provided by Google Hangouts can be used to facilitate collaborative student (and/or faculty and staff) work, conduct online office hours, and facilitate guest lectures.

With the activation of Google Hangouts in the oswego.edu domain two years ago, we have a powerful tool to conduct text, voice, phone, or video conferences. Hangouts may be initiated from a computer or an iOS or Android device. Video calls initiated from a campus account are capped at 15 simultaneous users.

In this session, we will demonstrate how:

- Google Hangouts may be enabled on your computer (it is helpful, but not required, for participants to bring a laptop or an Android or iOS phone or tablet and headphones)
- to initiate and invite others to a hangout,
- to invite people to join a hangout from their phone,
- to join existing hangouts.

Educational uses of Google Hangouts for collaborative work, guest lectures, and online office hours will be discussed.

We will also demonstrate how YouTube Live may be set up to allow for live streaming and recording of Google hangouts.

Session 18
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Strategies for Addressing Conflict and Inequalities in a Diverse Classroom
Presenters: Evelyn Clark, Lisa Glidden, and Allison Rank
Room: MCC 206
This session will address how faculty members experience and address social inequalities within the classroom. Participants will be assigned a reading on how faculty address racial conflicts between students, the pros and cons of various approaches, and some suggestions about how to handle said conflict. The session will also address how these issues expand to other power differences and potential conflicts between students.

Session 19
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Know your resources: A guide to addressing concerning student behavior
Presenter: Katherine Wolfe-Lyga
Room: MCC 210
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/cLtxj1
This workshop will offer guidance to faculty and staff on identifying and accessing campus resources to support students of concern. Counseling Services, University Police and Dean of Students/ Behavioral Intervention Team referrals will be presented.

Session 20
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Tea for Teaching: Implicit bias
Facilitator: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
An informal discussion of issues associated with implicit bias.

A variety of high-quality black, green, white, and herbal teas will be available at this session.

Session 21
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: What did you just say? A discussion of in-class and out-of-class interventions to address disruptive student behaviors
Presenter: Katherine Wolfe-Lyga
Room: MCC 210
Faculty and staff can utilize each other to explore new intervention strategies for classroom management. This discussion will be facilitated by Kate Wolfe-Lyga, Director of Counseling Services.

Session 22
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Scalar and student writing
Presenter: Fiona Coll
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://zoom.us/j/7322667156
Scalar (scalar.usc.edu/scalar/) is an online authoring and publishing platform designed to allow for the production of media-rich writing with a minimum of technical expertise. This workshop will introduce you to Scalar's unique features and will feature a discussion of the possible uses of Scalar for individual and collaborative student writing.

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Meeting ID: 732 266 7156

International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=lUOFeB9MlK926SeFbT06GcZpfpGE9fx2

Monday, May 22

Session 23
Time: 9:00 - 9:20
Session Title: Introduction to Open Educational Resources & Creative Commons
Presenter: Laura Harris
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/AEgDPI
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching and learning materials that can be freely reproduced, modified, and shared. Most OERs are built on the framework of the Creative Commons, which is an alternative to traditional copyright. Come learn more about OERs and the Creative Commons, and why you should use them!

Session 24
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Session Title: Using Open Educational Resources in the Classroom
Presenter: Lisa Langlois
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/fgzZIW
Open Educational Resources are free...but they’re free like kittens, which means they can be a lot of work. Hear faculty members talk about their experiences in selecting and implementing open educational resources, and what effects they’ve seen in their classroom.

Session 25
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Creating Open Educational Resources
Presenters: Kristen Munger and Craig Delancey
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/1WJ1o8
Already familiar with OERs? Interested in creating your own, but don’t know where to start? Come listen to two faculty members talk about their experiences creating open textbooks with Open SUNY.

Session 26
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Blackboard Collaborate - Ultra
Presenter: Kathi Dutton
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/k5mcX5
Blackboard Collaborate is web-conferencing software that allows you to either present or participate in a conference all from the Web. Listen to or give a presentation from your office, home, wherever you can find a computer connected to the Internet! Common uses for Blackboard Collaborate include teaching, online workshops, online meetings, and general presentations.

Blackboard recently released an updated version of Collaborate called, Ultra. This newer version has a new streamlined interface and no longer relies on Java to run. This means that Blackboard Collaborate Ultra can run on Chromebooks and mobile devices.

This is a hands-on workshop in which you will learn how to use the new interface to upload presentations, view chat messages, take polls, use the whiteboard, and setup breakout rooms.

Session 27
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Fall 2017 OER pilot / Tea for teaching
Facilitators: Sean Moriarty and John Kane
Room: MCC 208
This session will provide an informal discussion of the Fall 2017 Open Education Resources pilot. Please stop by if you might consider participating in the pilot or are interested in using OER.

A variety of high-quality black, green, white, and herbal teas will be available at this session.

You may join the discussion remotely using Google hangouts: https://goo.gl/W3NuFP

Session 28
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Google Classroom
Presenter: Doug Pippin
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/N7EIT6
In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore the growing collection of tools that are now available in Google Classroom.

Session 29
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Writing Better Writing Assignments
Presenter: Allison Rank
Room: MCC 208
Faculty regularly bemoan poor student writing but often fail to assess the one component of student writing over which we have complete control - the writing assignment itself. This session offers a series of suggestions for how faculty can craft assignments that (1) fit the course's learning objectives and (2) clearly outline the professor's expectations.

Session 30
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Student metacognition: do students know what they know?
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 210
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/PmIVzg
In this session, research findings concerning student metacognition will be examined, This will be followed by a discussion of alternative strategies that may be used to help students improve their metacognition.

Session 31
Time: 1:30 - 1:55
Session Title: Intro to Starfish
Presenters: Rameen Mohammadi, Michelle Bandla, and Liz Schmitt
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/vkOEtN
Starfish is our early alert system that also provides the facility to connect students to resources as well. This workshop provides the rudimentary facilities that all faculty and advisors can benefit from.

Starfish provides....

students with their network of support,
instructors with the ability to raise concerns about students performance or their disposition,
advisors with a scheduling system for office hours, the ability to see student's status in their courses or potential concerns raised by their instructors, and develop and track success plans with their advisees on academic probation.

Session 32
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Advanced Intro to Starfish
Presenters: Rameen Mohammadi, Michelle Bandla, and Liz Schmitt
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/3FB9Qm
This session builds on the previous one and will be hands on. Attendees will login to Starfish, update their profile information, learn how to search for a specific student's information or add filters to see a subset of their students. We will also demonstrate what details are available about each student including the student profile, their tracking information, network of support, courses they are taking, and their success plans if they have them. Attendees, especially advisors, will be able to synchronize their Starfish calendar with their Google calendar, learn to add office hours, use the quick notes feature to document meetings with students, raise behavioral flags, add to-do expectations for their students, and develop success plans for their advisees. All attendees, especially instructors, will learn to raise flags manually on individual students or groups of students including using Zoom In feature of Starfish.

Session 33
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Research Assignments Without Thesis Statements: Unleash the Power of Questions
Presenter: Jim Nichols
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/cChdgX
In research assignments, students often get stuck on the idea of supporting a preconceived thesis, or worse, fall into mechanically reporting bits of information they have collected on a topic. They struggle with launching a genuine inquiry. This session will explore the Question Formulation Technique as a way to teach questioning, not only as a start for research but also as a driver for continued learning.

Session 34
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Improving student metacognition using an online discussion forum
Presenters: Judith Littlejohn and John Kane
Room: MCC 210
This workshop will focus on how an online discussion forum might be used to help students improve their metacognition and learning. John Kane introduced a weekly "metacognitive cafe" discussion forum in an upper-level labor economics course after attending a 2017 winter breakout workshop session provided by Judith Littlejohn (of GCC), who had recently developed and introduced this activity in her introductory online history courses.

In each of our classes, students shared their reflections in a weekly discussion forum on their learning practices, the relevance of the course material to their career objectives, research on teaching and learning, and how they were attempting to modify their learning practices to improve their success. This activity appeared to have been well received by students and seemed to increase the sense of community and engagement with the course content.

Session 35
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Quick Steps to Accessible Documents
Presenter: Kristen Flint
Room: MCC 202
This workshop will walk you through fixing the most common accessibility errors in documents. Bring a document of your own, or use a sample document to follow along.

Session 36
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): What is it and how can I integrate it into my class?
Presenter: Doug Hemphill and Amy McHugh
Room: MCC 210
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/Q07UrP
We will discuss what COIL is and how it has been successfully integrated into a number of courses.

Session 37
Time: 3:00 - 3:20
Session Title: Flipping the Classroom
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/dKgl9h
This session will provide an introductory discussion of possibilities for "flipping the classroom." Under this approach, low-level tasks and assignments are completed by students outside of class and class time is devoted to individual and/or group work on higher cognitive level tasks. This approach might use such tools as just-in-time teaching and team-based learning.

Session 38
Time: 3:30 - 3:50
Session Title: Tools for Flipping the Classroom
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/mxibip
This workshop will provide a quick overview of tools that are available to support the construction of flipped classrooms. This discussion will cover both content creation tools such as Jing, Camtasia, Panopto, Explain Everything as well as online content sources such as Khan Academy, Merlot, MOOCs, open access educational sites, and YouTube.

Tuesday, May 23

Session 39
Time: 9:00 - 9:20
Session Title: An Overview of Digital OZ
Presenters: Stephanie Pritchard and Leigh WIlson
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/9qvSUg
Digital OZ (digitaloz.oswego.edu) is a website that features exceptional student work. Students are nominated by faculty and staff to tell a story about their passion for their discipline or their involvement at SUNY Oswego.

Session 40
Time: 9:00 - 9:20
Session Title: Including a sustainability component in your course
Presenters: Tony Contento, Lisa Glidden, and Grace Maxon
Room: MCC 210
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/N2qhiC
Interested in infusing a sustainability component to your course? This session introduces: the way we define sustainability studies; potential resources; sample assignments

Session 41
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Session Title: Qwickly Attendance Manager
Presenter: Kathi Dutton
Room: MCC 202
Qwickly Attendance allows for faculty to easily record attendance in Blackboard Learn. Attendance is automatically entered in the Grade Center and can be recorded as either points/day, total points for semester, or as a non-graded item. Students can easily track their attendance. Other features include, custom attendance codes, student check-in with pin and timer and automatically generated emails for absences.

Session 42
Time: 9:30 - 9:50
Session Title: Lights, Camera, Learning
Presenter: Jason Hy
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/G79C6U
Do you use self made videos to enhance your online content, but are dissatisfied with how they look? Are you looking for ways to improve the quality and look of your recordings? Stop by and get some tips on how to take your videos to the next level.

Session 43
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: SPSS basics
Presenter: Adam Fay
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/dKdRp1
This session will provide a brief overview of the basics of using SPSS. Much of the session will focus on addressing the specific questions of workshop participants.

Session 44
Time: 10:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Collaborative projects
Presenter: Leigh Allison Wilson
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/Bphtdi
If you have an interest in pursuing a collaborative project--within a discipline or across disciplines--this short workshop can help you begin to plan for it. I'll share strategies and readings for getting started on your collaboration.

Session 45
Time: 10:00 - 10:20
Session Title: Implementation of make it stick: Retrieval Practice
Presenters: Alicia King and Allison Peer
Room: MCC 210
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/MYihC5
Retrieval practice, or purposefully bringing information to mind, can be incorporated by both professors and students alike. Whether instructors are quizzing students in class, or students are testing themselves while studying, the process of repeated retrieval helps strengthen neural pathways for future recall (Brown et al. 28-29). We will share resources and strategies for quick ways to incorporate retrieval practice into your instruction, as well as ways to encourage your students to employ retrieval practice as a primary study strategy.

Session 46
Time: 10:30 - 10:50
Session Title: Basics of video recording and editing using iMovie on iOS
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/jRxOo0
Participants in this session will explore the basics of using iMovie on iPads and iPhones.

Session 47
Time: 10:30 - 10:50
Session Title: Implementation of make it stick: Spaced Practice
Presenters: Alicia King and Allison Peer
Room: MCC 210
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/BsrYca
Don’t you hate it when students try to cram for tests? During this session, we will share resources and strategies for encouraging students to schedule shorter study sessions throughout the semester, promoting long-term retention of material. We will also discuss ways to appeal to students’ desires for free time, relaxation, and less anxiety--purposely scheduling and committing to spaced practice can help with all of these things!

Session 48 (rescheduled for Thursday at 11 in MCC 206)
Time: 11:00 - 11:20
Session Title: Kahoot Classroom Response Tool
Presenter: Michelle Bishop
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/gQhByi
Kahoot is a free online tool that provides quick feedback on student learning. Kahoot’s game design and instant feedback can mean increased student engagement. Learn more about using Kahoot to enhance your teaching and the student classroom experience.

Session 49
Time: 11:00 - 11:20
Session Title: Introduction to the Morgan Robertson Digital Archive
Presenter: Fiona Coll
Room: MCC 208
Morgan Robertson (1861-1915) was born in Oswego. A writer of more than 130 short works of sea-going fiction, Robertson is perhaps best known for anticipating the Titanic disaster fourteen years in advance in a story called "The Wreck of the Titan." This presentation will introduce the Morgan Robertson Digital Archive, a project aimed at generating the first scholarly edition of Robertson's work. Of interest to scholars and students of Oswego history, maritime history, early science-fiction, the history of science, and sea tales.

Session 50
Time: 11:00 - 11:20
Session Title: Implementation of make it stick: Interleaving
Presenters: Alicia King and Allison Peer
Room: MCC 210
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/BsrYca
If you haven’t heard of “interleaving,” don’t worry. . . it just means switching between ideas or topics while learning. During this session, we will help each other clarify our understanding of interleaving, and identify ways we can encourage students to vary their practice when studying. Here is what some recent students had to say about interleaving:
“At first I didn’t like switching from topic to topic but in the end I feel as if it made me study more effectively & not just spend 3 hours on bio or math.”
“Switching between topics helped keep things fresh and kept me from getting bored.”

Session 51
Time: 11:30 - 11:50
Session Title: Using Apple TV to project wirelessly from an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/MUngkr
In this session, we will examine how an Apple TV may be used to project wirelessly from an iPad or iPhone. (We will also briefly discuss how Google's chromecast may be similarly used on campus for Android devices - if paired with a wifi hotspot.)

Session 52
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Session Title: Labels and Filters - Automatically Organize Emails in Google Mail
Presenter: Nicholas Sperduti
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/6SXbAA
This session will teach you how to create and manage labels, automatically apply them to certain messages, and let you decide how they appear in your mailbox. For those frequent, but not immediately useful emails, we’ll show you how to create a filter that automatically; applies a label, archives it, skips the inbox, and marks it as read. The techniques taught in this workshop will allow you to better control and organize how messages appear in your mailbox by creating these custom labels and filters.

Session 53
Time: 1:00 - 1:20
Session Title: Using MOOCs for professional development
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/jLCu94
This session will discuss the role that free MOOCs can play in professional development. Specific recommendations for MOOCs that provide support for the development of evidence-based instructional practices will be provided, along with suggestions on how to find MOOCs appropriate for your interests.

Session 54
Time: 1:30 - 1:50
Session Title: Google Slides
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / Recording: https://goo.gl/IlTihz
Participants in this hands-on session will create a google slide presentation that may be used for class or conference presentations. Participants will learn how to import PowerPoint slides, create new slides, insert images, add animations and transitions, share the slides with others for joint editing/viewing, download the slides as PowerPoint or publish it to the web. The use of Google slide presentations with a backchannel for local or remote viewer participation will also be demonstrated.

Session 55
Time: 1:30 - 1:50
Session Title: Planning Practical Skills Course: Lessons from Vote Oswego
Presenter: Allison Rank
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/DjWtsg
This session reviews the opportunities and challenges of developing and teaching a practical skills course during the 2016 presidential election.

Session 56
Time: 2:00 - 2:20
Session Title: Strengthen your Security with Two-Factor Authentication
Presenter: Ursula Wilkinson
Room: MCC 202
“Two-factor authentication” has been mentioned frequently in recent news about website breaches and phishing scams. It’s a very technical-sounding phrase, but it is very important in today’s internet-driven world for keeping your online accounts secured. This session will explain what two factor authentication is, why you should use it, and how to set up two factor authentication for your LakerApps account.

Session 57
Time: 2:00 - 2:20
Session Title: Group Collaboration using Google Team Drive
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/KBMCmR
We now have access to Google Team Drive in our LakerApps Google Drive accounts. These drives allow a group of people to jointly "own" documents. In this session, participants will create and share Team Drive folders. Potential uses of this for committees, office, classes, and other collaborative groups will be discussed.
This tool makes it possible for collaborative groups to continue, preserving past work, after the departure of any members that originally owned the documents.

Session 58
Time: 2:30 - 2:50
Session Title: Windows 10: The Implementation
Presenter: Sadig Gulaghayev
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/D4uXI6
During this workshop, CTS will discuss its plans to roll out Windows 10, Microsoft’s newest operating system, to the campus.

Session 59
Time: 2:30 - 2:50
Session Title: Augmented reality apps
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 210
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/40H1Jm
This presentation will provide a brief overview of a variety of augmented reality apps available on mobile devices. The roles that these apps are beginning to play in education will be discussed.

Session 60
Time: 3:00 - 3:20
Session Title: New(ish) tools for livestreaming events
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/P5nExj
Participants in this session will explore the use of Periscope, YouTube Live, Facebook Live, and Panopto to livestream events.

Session 61
Time: 3:30 - 3:50
Session Title: Virtual reality on a shoestring budget
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/oBCcv0
This session will demonstrate how (relatively) inexpensive 360-degree cameras, YouTube, and Google cardboard devices allow students and instructors to create easily shared 360-degree images and videos. Potential educational uses of these tools will be discussed.

Wednesday, May 24

Session 62
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: Creating Online Submission Forms with Google Forms
Presenter: Nicholas Ross
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/GLNkHK
Need to create an online form to gather user data? Maybe for an event registration, RSVP, etc.? Wish the submissions could be automatically entered into a spreadsheet? This workshop will show you how to use the Forms application within Google Drive to accomplish all of that. We’ll review the basics of creating the form, how to embed it into a SUNY Oswego web page, how to receive notification when the form is submitted and finally how you can download the spreadsheet data for further manipulation.

Session 63
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: What does research tell us about clicker use?
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/eqP699
This workshop will examine some of the findings concerning the effect of clicker use on student learning outcomes. An overview of best practice will be provided. This workshop is designed for those who are considering using clickers in their classroom.

Session 64
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: How to Create and Protect Strong Passwords
Presenter: Ursula Wilkinson
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/ciXf40
Good password habits help deter the bad guys from getting access to your sensitive data, but let’s face it: it’s difficult to create really good passwords for each account we have, AND remember them. This session will teach you what a good password is, what a good password is NOT, several techniques for creating complex but memorable passwords, and most importantly: how to better manage the ever-increasing number of passwords we all have.

Session 65
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Integrating i>clicker and Blackboard
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 206
This workshop is designed for those that plan to use i>clickers during the Fall 2017 semester. Bring a usb drive on which you will store the software needed to run i>clicker. During this workshop, we will set up the Blackboard integration that allows students to register their i>clicker's id number and set up the software needed to automatically upload clicker scores into your online course gradebook.

Session 66
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Chrome in the Classroom and on Campus
Presenters: David Kahn and Michael Schifano
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/TRsUSR
This workshop will give an overview of how Chromebooks are being used around campus including everything from Kiosks to desktop computers.
Come learn how these inexpensive, yet power devices, seamlessly connect to our existing Google services as well as effortlessly integrate with our virtual application environment, Citrix.
Topics will include how the School of Education and the Schools of Business are currently using Chromebooks to enhance learning in their classrooms as well as promote online test taking in a fun, easy, and secure environment.

Session 67
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Integrating Library Resources in Blackboard Learn
Presenters: Kristen Flint and Laura Harris
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/M49vSP
This workshop will provide an introduction to integrating library resources into your Blackboard course. We'll show you how to incorporate a variety of different tools - ebooks, search boxes, videos, and more. We'll also leave time for questions you have about integrating specific content into your courses.

Session 68
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Professional use of social media
Presenter: Tim Nekritz
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/skzdJf
This session examines how social media may be productively used for professional purposes.

Session 69
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Windows 10 Training
Presenters: Matt Brooks and Sadig Gulaghayev
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/QZHXx9
Windows 10 is rolling out to the Oswego campus beginning in the summer of 2017. Come to this session to learn about Microsoft's newest operating system, and some of the newest features, along with some tips and tricks! We will review the look and feel of the campus build for a faculty/staff computer, as well as how our labs and instructional computers will be set up going forward.

Session 70
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Common Myths about Teaching and Learning
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/X5nTny
In this session, we will discuss some of the most common misperceptions that many faculty and students share about teaching and learning. Some of these myths are harmless, but others result in behavior that significantly reduces long-term knowledge retention and transfer.

Session 71
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Converting Multiple Choice Exams into Blackboard Pools
Presenter: Theo Rhodes
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/nWBGL8
Blackboard has a very specific format for uploading multiple choice questions to Pools, where they can be used to generate online quizzes and tests. This workshop walks through the process of converting existing exams in normal, print-ready format into a Blackboard-ready file. Scripts to automate the process will be explained and provided. (Note, this workshop focuses on Mac formatting, but the principles, if not the scripts, are applicable to Windows as well).

Session 72
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: International student needs and the support we have in place for them
Presenter: Ebru Altay and Gurdeep Skolnick
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/K7lMQu
Faculty will talk about their experiences with ESL/ESOL students in class. The challenges of working with this population and how to overcome these challenges, best practices for student success will be highlighted.

Thursday, May 25

Session 73
Time: 9:00 -9:50
Session Title: Setting Up and Using Panopto in the Classroom
Presenter:.Dan Laird
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/IviJm0
Setup and use of Panopto on campus is easy and a great resource to help your students succeed in your classes. In this class, we go over how to create an account and use the software on campus.

Session 74
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Course Evaluations in Blackboard
Presenter: Selena Miller and Kathi Dutton
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/vxo5XO
Are you ready to take the leap into online course evaluations? Are you free-falling in the world of Blackboard and Enterprise Surveys looking for some tips? Come learn the benefits to completing course evaluations through Blackboard. This workshop will walk you through some of the customization and other advantages of online evaluations, to prepare you to confidently implement course evaluations online.

Session 75
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Peer Reviewing in Blackboard
Presenter: Doug Hemphill
Room: MCC 202
Peer Review is a powerful teaching tool, and Blackboard include tools to facilitate this learning activity. This workshop will look at the options available in Blackboard, provide guidelines on which tool to use. when, and present instruction on how to use them.

Session 48 (rescheduled)
Time: 11:00 - 11:20
Session Title: Kahoot Classroom Response Tool
Presenter: Michelle Bishop
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/gQhByi
Kahoot is a free online tool that provides quick feedback on student learning. Kahoot’s game design and instant feedback can mean increased student engagement. Learn more about using Kahoot to enhance your teaching and the student classroom experience.

Session 76
Time: 11:30 - 11:50
Session Title: The State of Intellectual Integrity on Campus
Presenters: Associate Deans
Room: MCC 210
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/ZRl2Rs
An update on the facts and figures of intellectual integrity cases from the recent past, this session is meant to inform faculty on who and how many are committing acts that run contrary to the campus policy.

Session 77
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Learning Activities with Wikis and Blogs
Presenter: Doug Hemphill
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/OOHp8t
This session will cover some potential Learning Activities using wikis and blogs, and will provide instruction on how to use the internal Blackboard versions of these tools.

Session 78
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: New and improved online tools to facilitate academic dishonesty
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/tXxO4a
Technological improvements have it much easier for students to engage in academic dishonesty at a low cost. Students can quickly and easily find:

past copies of graded exams at sites such as CourseHero.com, Chegg.com, and Koofers.com,

get free answers to questions at sites such as Yahoo answers and Quora,
automatically "paraphrase" plagiarized papers to avoid pattern-matching detection at sites such as paraphrasing-tool.com and articlerewritertool.com,
evade pattern matching detection on plagiarized by switching characters to other character sets or embedding hidden characters,
find most publisher provided test bank questions on the web or on review apps such as Kahoot or Quizlet

Participants in this session will discuss methods of maintaining academic integrity in their classes.

Session 79
Time: 1:30 - 1:50
Session Title: Trello - Productively manage projects amongst peers
Presenter: Daniel Truong
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/sNF77q
This session will teach you how to use Trello, a free web-app service. Trello is used by professionals and project managers alike for managing large-scale projects. Trello allows you to divide a project up into specific tasks and assign them to designated team members. We'll go over how to sign up for Trello, as well as review example scenarios on how to best utilize Trello for your project management needs.

Session 80
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Alternative Text for Images
Presenter: Kristen Flint
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/XcqjKX
This interactive session will provide an overview of Alternative Text for images, and demonstrate how to verify/edit/create alternative text in your documents and presentations.

Session 81
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Tea for Teaching - Academic Integrity
Facilitator: John Kane
Room: MCC 208
Video conference link: https://zoom.us/j/7322667156
An informal discussion of issues associated with academic integrity.
A variety of high-quality black, green, white, and herbal teas will be available at this session.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/7322667156
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Meeting ID: 732 266 7156
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=lUOFeB9MlK926SeFbT06GcZpfpGE9fx2

Session 82
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: SafeAssign
Presenter: Kristen Flint
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/1Q9C9p
In this session, we will talk about the use of the SafeAssign tool in Blackboard to detect possible cases of plagiarism.

Friday, May 26

Session 83
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: Embedding questions in Panopto videos
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/1L7AZz
In this hands-on workshop session, participants will embed questions at locations they select in a Panopto video. Participants may use a video they already have stored in Panopto, use a video stored in the cloud or on a usb drive, or use short sample video files that will be provided. Workshop attendees will experience this process from both the student and instructor perspectives.

Session 84
Time: 9:00 - 9:50
Session Title: Discovering Your Family History: Using Research to Trace Your Family Roots
Presenter: Ray L. Morrison
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/Y6wx4u
Have you been interested in knowing where your family came from or want to know if you have any prominent ancestors in your family tree? This workshop will share the basics in getting started in developing a family tree, research techniques to get the best results, free websites with tons of genealogy data, and the use of DNA to enhance your results. This presenter has located over 5,000 of his ancestors in the U.S. and Europe and has experience with DNA testing. If you like research or want to know more about your family, this is the workshop to attend.

Session 85
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Creating Rubrics in Blackboard Learn
Presenter: Kristen Flint
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/gJU3Ii
This workshop provides an introduction to using Rubrics in Blackboard Learn. This hands-on workshop will focus on how to create a rubric, link a rubric to an assignment, and how to grade an assignment using a linked rubric. Do you have a rubric you would like to create in Blackboard Learn? Bring it to the session.

Session 86
Time: 10:00 - 10:50
Session Title: Develop Hi-Impact Course Improvements for Strengthening Student Learning Outcomes
Presenter: Susan Wright
Room: MCC 208
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/4YqzDE
Faculty and staff with a passion for improving instructional effectiveness and student success will appreciate this process. Learn how to map course learning objectives to summative exam items to create useful data from which to measure student learning outcomes. Quantitative and qualitative performance data target areas in need of improvement and drive meaningful decision making toward improving effectiveness in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Susan teaches accounting in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Law, School of Business. She is a member of the University Assessment Committee and the School of Business Assessment Committee. This work is a result of her participation in the 2016/17 University Assessment Fellowship program. She will share her experiences as a Fellow and provide encouragement for those interested in applying to the 2017/18 program.

Session 87
Time: 11:00 - 11:50
Session Title: Accessibility: Designing and Teaching Courses for All Learners
Presenters: Meghan Pereira (Buffalo State College) and Ginger Bidell (Western Governors University)
Room: MCC 210
Remote access: https://zoom.us/j/7322667156
With increased urgency, higher education, the federal government, and advocacy groups insist that online courses rightfully meet strict accessibility thresholds for all learners. Participants will engage in activities and content from the #AccessMOOC that will provide positive steps towards meeting this need, and closing the educational gap between students with and without disabilities.

Meghan Pereira is the Director of Instructional Design and Training at Buffalo State College. Meghan Pereira is the Director of Instructional Design and Training at Buffalo State and has been in the education field since 2000 as a teacher, instructional technologist, and an instructional designer. She has provided many workshops and presentations on online course development, web tools, ANGEL/Blackboard, mobile learning, web conferencing, universal design for learning and creating accessible content. Currently, Meghan is the External-Vice Chair for the Directors of Online Learning and Distance Learning Environments (DOODLE), and is a member of the SUNY FACT2 Council where she chaired the Online Accessibility Task Group and coordinated the FACT2 Symposium: Accessibility: Designing Access for All Learners. Meghan received her Master's degree in Instructional Systems Technology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from St. Bonaventure University.

Ginger Bidell is an Instructional Designer at Western Governors University. As an instructional designer, she has developed competency-based and traditional online courses and supported faculty in the development and design of online, blended, and face-to-face courses using the principles of Universal Design for Learning and accessibility best practices. Ginger holds a B.S. in Elementary and Social Studies Education and an M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction. Ginger served on the FACT2 Online Accessibility Task Group in 2014 where she helped to develop an accessibility website. Ginger has also co-presented accessibility webinars for the SUNY Center for Professional Development.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/7322667156
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,7322667156# or +16465588656,7322667156#
Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 732 266 7156
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Session 88
Time: 1:00 - 1:50
Session Title: Capitalizing on “the smartest person in the room” mindset in instruction
Presenter: Dr. Kathleen Gradel (SUNY Fredonia)
Room: MCC 208
Remote access: https://zoom.us/j/7322667156
Teaching conundrums….We have all heard that “sage on the stage” content delivery may not fully engage learners...but we have “peeps” who demand guided notes and expect PowerPoints! We know that more “hits” on concepts promotes more learning…but there is only so much time in a class session! We all strive for deeper learning and critical thinking…but doesn’t that translate into just the quest for an A!
This session is a fast-paced look at a few worthy tools and practices that can capitalize on the answer to the familiar question “Who’s the smartest person in the room?” (The room!). We’ll focus on collaboration apps/strategies, paired with smart engagement strategies, pushing learning off the podium and into the hands of learners.

Session 89
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Integrating Library Resources in Blackboard Learn
Presenter: Kristen Flint and Laura Harris
Room: MCC 202
This workshop will provide an introduction to integrating library resources into your Blackboard course. We'll show you how to incorporate a variety of different tools - ebooks, search boxes, videos, and more. We'll also leave time for questions you have about integrating specific content into your courses.

Session 90
Time: 2:00 - 2:50
Session Title: Other methods of adding questions to videos
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 206
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/741Wg0
This workshop is a follow-up to the morning workshop on adding quiz questions to Panopto videos. In this session, we will discuss and demonstrate other ways of adding quizzing to videos:

Using Camtasia or Captivate to create SCORM objects that can be loaded into Blackboard
Using TedEd to add questions to YouTube videos
Using quizzes in Google forms with segmented video links

The costs and benefits of each approach will be compared.

Session 91
Time: 3:00 - 3:50
Session Title: Using YouTube to generate closed captioning to meet accessibility standards for video content
Presenter: John Kane
Room: MCC 202
Livestream / recording: https://goo.gl/74sJmi
This hands-on workshop will demonstrate how YouTube's automatic captioning service may be used to automatically create closed captioning to meet accessibility standards for short videos. This is particularly useful for faculty creating video content to support a flipped classroom.