Summer Webinar Series at UPEI

Here’s a schedule of our upcoming webinars for faculty, sessionals and staff for July and August. More may be added from time to time so check out the full schedule regularly.

July

7th 10 am-12 pm — Moodle Gradebook Setup Clinic — Jason Hogan

The Moodle Gradebook can help you track grades in Moodle, share progress with students, and easily submit final grades to the Registrar’s Office. For this webinar, Jason will show his step by step process for setting up the Moodle Gradebook, as well as having some time after to set up participant gradebooks while demoing the process. This session will be hosted through Blackboard Collaborate — Register for the Session

8th 2–3pm — Web Conferencing with your Students: How to Use Blackboard Collaborate — Joel MacDonald

Blackboard Collaborate is web conferencing software that allows instructors to do many things to engage with their students. Free for faculty and staff at UPEI, Blackboard Collaborate can be used to both hold live sessions with participants as well as make recordings that can be watched at a later time. Share your presentation, use the interactive whiteboard, form breakout groups or conduct a poll, Blackboard Collaborate allows you to set up a complete virtual classroom. It’s simple, easy and reliable. Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, who also create accounts and provide tech support for Collaborate on campus, this webinar will take place on — Register for the Session

15th 2–3pm — Creating Interactive Content for your Moodle Course Page — Joel MacDonald

One of Moodle’s great recent features is access to the open-source content collaboration framework called H5P. H5P allows a user to create vivid online learning experiences that may help enhance learner engagement and interest within the online learning environment. Previous H5P workshops offered by the E-Learning Office have looked at interactive video and drag and drop interactions. In this new workshop we will introduce and show you how to create a few more popular H5P interaction types using images as the teaching tool.

Interactive content can increase learner engagement and also help increase learning. Adding interactive content to your course is now so very easy to do. You can make videos interactive, images interactive, presentations interactive, quizzes interactive. The sky’s the limit. In this workshop come learn how to get started creating your own interactive content. — Register for the Session

22nd 2–3pm — Gamifying your Online Course — Joel MacDonald

Games are compelling for young and old alike. Adding game elements to your course is one way of enhancing your students’ engagement. In this webinar you will learn about basic game elements and how they can be used in an online teaching environment. — Register for the Session

29th 1–4 pm — Interactive Lectures Online Workshop Series, Part I — Joel MacDonald

Our learners face many demands for their attention, so getting them to actively engage in their learning can be a challenge. How do you choose the best pedagogies? Today lectures and active learning have been cast as opposites. In fact, they can be quite effective when used together. Interactive lectures combine engaging lecture segments with selected active learning methods.

This intensive two-part workshop series, hosted through Blackboard Collaborate, will have you making your own content during the sessions and aims to give instructors the opportunity to experience first-hand the components necessary for creating interactive lectures. While it is good if you can attend both parts, you do not need to attend Part I to attend Part II.

Part one (July 29th), titled Better PowerPoints for Better Lectures, focuses on slide design and the creation of study handouts and is 3 hours in length. Part two (August 5th), titled Action-Oriented Learning Design, focuses on interactions that can be created in PowerPoint and on active learning techniques that will connect and solidify lecture materials and is also 3 hours in length. — Register for the Session

August

August 5th 1–4 pm — Interactive Lectures Online Workshop Series, Part II — Joel MacDonald

Our learners face many demands for their attention, so getting them to actively engage in their learning can be a challenge. How do you choose the best pedagogies? Today lectures and active learning have been cast as opposites. In fact, they can be quite effective when used together. Interactive lectures combine engaging lecture segments with selected active learning methods.

This intensive two-part workshop series, hosted through Blackboard Collaborate, will have you making your own content during the sessions and aims to give instructors the opportunity to experience first-hand the components necessary for creating interactive lectures. While it is good if you can attend both parts, you do not need to attend Part I to attend Part II.

Part one (July 29th), titled Better PowerPoints for Better Lectures, focuses on slide design and the creation of study handouts and is 3 hours in length. Part two (August 5th), titled Action-Oriented Learning Design, focuses on interactions that can be created in PowerPoint and on active learning techniques that will connect and solidify lecture materials and is also 3 hours in length. — Register for the Session

12th 2–3pm — Web Conferencing with your Students: How to Use Blackboard Collaborate — Joel MacDonald

BlackBoard Collaborate is web conferencing software that allows instructors to do many things to engage with their students. Free for faculty and staff at UPEI, BlackBoard Collaborate can be used to both hold live sessions with participants as well as make recordings that can be watched at a later time. Share your presentation, use the interactive whiteboard, form breakout groups or conduct a poll, BlackBoard Collaborate allows you to set up a complete virtual classroom. It’s simple, easy and reliable. Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, who also create accounts and provide tech support for Collaborate on campus, this webinar will take place on — Register for the Session