Welcome to week 8 of winter term! |
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Teaching technology test kitchen |
What's the best recipe for your classroom? |
What's the best recipe for your classroom? Trying to figure out the right balance of tools? The Teaching Tech Test Kitchen event is for you! Come join us on March 9th for an experimentation hour featuring fun and emerging tools.
We will have rotating virtual demos of each technology available every 15 minutes throughout the hour for you to jump in and explore. What will we be covering? Take a look:
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ChatGPT is an AI language model good enough that author and educator Daniel Herman calls it “the End of High School English.” Come see ChatGPT in action and discuss what it means for your students to enter a world where machines will be able to write for them.
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Google Jamboard is a collaborative digital whiteboard that can be utilized in synchronous and asynchronous classrooms. This technology test kitchen will show you (1) how to use Jamboard, (2) when to use Jamboard and (3) examples of using Jamboard in synchronous and asynchronous classrooms.
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Not to be confused with Canvas, Canva is free graphic design tool that makes it super easy to create visual elements for your course. We’ll go over the basics, then build a homepage banner together based on a template you can use to design your own!
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Hypothesis is a social annotation platform that allows users to comment on web content. Faculty can use Hypothesis to foster collaborative critical reading practices. A Hypothesis plugin is now available in Canvas for all PSU users and can be used to digitally annotate any web page or PDF. You can also create a Canvas Assignment with Hypothesis.
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Spring course shells are here! |
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On "Trauma-Informed Pedagogies" |
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The PSU faculty book group is currently reading "Trauma-Informed Pedagogies: A Guide for Responding to Crisis and Inequality in Higher Education," by Phyllis Thompson and Janice Carello.
Do you have a question or topic you'd like to hear other PSU instructors discuss? Tell us about it.
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| Why were you interested in a book discussion group on this topic? |
"I've followed Janice Carello's work for several years, so I was excited to read the book in community with others. I like collaborative learning and the opportunity to talk about putting learning into practice. While I've lead a conference session on trauma-informed community-based learning and my dissertation research focused on trauma-informed organizational change within college food pantries and higher education student affairs, this book gives me the opportunity to specifically think about trauma-informed teaching in a way that I can take back to our department and reconsider our leadership development curriculum and learning."
- Angela Hamilton, Associate Directory of Student Activities and Leadership, PSU Student Affairs
| What is a quote from this book that is worth repeating? |
"[Faculty's] positions of authority mean that we may seem less trustworthy to historically marginalized individuals who have been traumatized or abused by other systems of authority." (p.24)
- Book group participant
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What is one idea from the book that has been most relevant to your teaching this quarter? |
"The most common impacts of trauma that can show up in the classroom: Difficulty focusing, attending, retaining and recalling; tendency to miss a lot of classes, challenges with emotional regulation, fear of taking risks, anxiety about deadlines, withdrawal and isolation. I and my department colleagues have been seeing some of these behaviors more frequently than before the pandemic."
- Book group participant
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What else are you reading? |
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| Spring term shells are here! If you want to get a jump on preparing your course for the new term, start by copying materials from a previous version of the course.
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| Special circumstances can make it necessary to reopen a quiz or give extra time to one or more students without reopening the quiz to the entire class.
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| You can share media recorded on your phone or tablet using Kaltura’s KMS GO application.
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Have you downloaded your Canvas Quick Guide? |
Having trouble keeping a handle on all of the Canvas settings? We have a Canvas Quick Guide you can now download and use for easy reference. Download now →
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