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Monday, November 3, 2025

 

Dear Teaching and Learning Colleagues, 

 

We may still be turning our clocks back by one hour, but our semester charges forward! The Innovative Learning Center (ILC) remains committed to supporting you with practical strategies, educational inspiration, and tech tools tailored for teaching excellence. 

 

Looking ahead, we hope you’ll join the upcoming workshops and programs tailored to your unique teaching and learning needs:

• Evidence of Student Learning featuring Canvas Outcomes, this Wednesday at 10AM. This presentation in partnership with OAIR uncovers strategies for leveraging Canvas Outcomes to support effective assessment practices.
• Explore AI in your teaching practices through the W.A.V.E. AI Series (Workshops for AI Visionaries);
• And be sure to save the date for the Course Design Clinic in December! If you’re planning on refreshing a course or teaching a new one, join CELT & ILC for a deep dive into your course design. 

We’re energized by your creativity and dedication - keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the classroom. Let’s learn, design, and grow together!

 

Have a great week!

 

Bobbie Garner-Coffie, MSW, MLA 

Manager Instructional Technology

Innovative Learning Center 

Teach Anywhere Office Hours

 

Mondays and Thursdays | 12pm to 1pm

 

No appointments necessary, both online via zoom and in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Suite 300 for all pedagogy and academic technology needs.

Course Design Clinic

 

Wednesday | December 3, 10 , and 17 | 1pm - 3pm

 

Are you planning a new course or refreshing one you've taught before?

 

Join us for the hands-on Course Design Clinic in December.  Whether you’re brainstorming ideas, refining learning outcomes, reworking assessments, developing new content, or prepping for the spring term, join CELT & ILC teams for hands-on instructional support.  Stay as little or as long as you like—bring your questions, goals, and in-progress plans. 

(W.A.V.E.) Building a Second Brain with AI: Using RAG AI for Productivity and Efficiency 

Tuesday, November 11 | 1pm - 2:30pm | Hybrid

 

Build a persistent knowledge hub that thinks with you: note triage, spaced‑repetition flashcards, retrieval‑augmented writing, voice journals—anchored in “Second Brain” methodology and turbo‑charged with local LLMs and vector databases.

(W.A.V.E.) AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Tools for Making Confident Choices 

Tuesday, December 2 | 1pm - 2:30pm | Hybrid

 

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the fundamentals of Decision Intelligence, blending human intuition with AI's analytical capabilities to navigate complex choices confidently. Attendees will learn how to leverage AI tools effectively, mitigate cognitive biases, and maintain a human-centered approach in decision-making.

(W.A.V.E.) TopHat Ace: AI for Class Interactivity and Socratic Learning 

Tuesday, December 16 | 1pm - 2:30pm | Hybrid

 

A hands‑on showcase of Top Hat’s new ACE features: adaptive question authoring, auto‑graded short answers, sentiment analytics, and generative slide enrichment—plus tips to integrate ACE with Canvas and Tulane’s learning‑data policies.

By Blaine Fisher, Ph.D., MS, MA, NRP, PG-Cert

 

If you want to explain why geography matters to students, you can point at a map. Or you can hand them propellers, batteries, flight plans, and a sky. This ILC in the Field excursion took the second path. When Liz Camuti invited me to join a collaborative workshop in Myrtle Grove with the UPenn EM-Lab team, students from Tulane's Landscape Architecture program, and colleagues from River Science and Coastal Engineering, I jumped at the chance. The goal was old school and new school at once: learn what the land is doing and teach how to see it.

 

A living classroom at the edge of Louisiana

 

Myrtle Grove sits in Plaquemines Parish, the parish that shaped my childhood, where the highway narrows, the marsh widens, and the horizon becomes a rumor. Locals call a trip south "going down the road," said quickly, DTR, as if the syllables should know how to swim. I grew up farther down. After hurricanes reshaped too much of what we knew, my family moved upriver. For a few years they lived in Myrtle Grove. Hurricanes reshaped that, too. The coast edits, relentlessly.

 

So when Liz invited me to join her field workshop with the UPenn EM-Lab visitors, I said yes immediately. Liz is faculty in Tulane's Landscape Architecture program, which represents an exciting direction for the university. She and I have been collaborating on the bones of a Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing course tailored for designers who must work where water, sediment, and people argue for a living. The idea is simple: give landscape students the same analytic tools that engineers and scientists use, then ask them to design with reality's grain, not against it. That vision folds neatly into the program's Digital Media sequence and the advanced Spatial Data Analysis course that bridges Landscape, River Science, and Coastal Engineering, including drone operations and LiDAR data processing that lead to design decisions instead of pretty pictures.

 

Myrtle Grove is not a postcard. It's a diagnostic. You can watch subsidence in slow motion and storm memory in fast forward. Sediment gets starved. Marsh fragments. Shorelines slur. Every year redraws a childhood fishing map. The workshop plan was to collect UAV data over representative ground and water surfaces, establish ground control, and stitch the result into georeferenced models. On day two, the in-class portion would focus on Pix4D processing, quality checks against the control points, and basic interpretation for students who will carry these methods into studios and research.

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