iOS Apps for Teaching and Learning: ODEE Webinar

This webinar focused around the implementation of various iOS apps in teaching. The consideration is made to whether or not these apps are student-centers or instructor-centered tools, and the webinar discussed Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and the skills that each tool can illicit.

Apps that were demonstrated include:

Canvas Teacher

  • A mobile app designed to make adjusting your Carmen course, giving feedback and grading as easy as possible.

Notability

  • A fully featured note taking app that can sync audio with your notes. ($9.99 one time)

Clips

  • A mobile app designed to easily make short videos with text, graphics and effects

Adobe Spark Video

  • A mobile app designed to easily make great videos using video, photos, text, icons, music and voiceovers.

OneNote

  • Microsoft’s very powerful note taking app that you can use for free with Office 365.

Explain Everything Whiteboard

  • A mobile app designed to communicate visually in a myriad of ways. ($9.99 one time)

30/30

  • A task manager and timer that can be used many ways

AutoDraw

  • A web based app that uses artificial intelligence to provide you with professional drawings you can use many ways.
  • AutoDraw’s Website: http://www.autodraw.com

Swift Playgrounds

  • An app to learn and experiment with the basics of the Swift programming language.

Anchor

  • A super easy way to create a Podcast and post it to Apple Podcasts and Google Play Music.

Adobe Spark Page

  • Create a beautiful web story with text, photos, video and themes.

 

 

Turn-It-In: How to Interpret a Similarity Report Webinar

This webinar explained Turn-It-In similarity reports, how to interpret similarity scores, and how to implement filters within the Feedback Studio.

Important take aways from the webinar include:

  • Similarity scores are NOT absolute
  • It is more helpful to view the live online system, as if a student downloads a report it may show different things at different times depending on when they submit compared to their classmates and the deadline
  • A raw score of 0% is not necessarily a good thing. It can indicate; an incomplete submission, missing references, missing words, falsified references, essay mills, online tools, etc.
  • Large scores can also indicate a cumulative total of a lot of small or larger matches, complete or almost complete copies, using other students’ work, resubmitting an assignment from a previous submission, etc.
  • Promote the “reference rainbow”
  • Filtering can be applied to remove quotes or references
  • Quotes MUST be included in ” ” in order to be counted
  • There are still several way students try to get around the software; back translation, paraphrasing tools, older textbooks, shared work, reusing assignments, etc. so academic judgment is always required

Link to webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2327&v=wXX0KXZHzSc

 

Decoding the SEI: How to Favorably Impact Student Perceptions of Learning

 

The Student Evaluations of Instruction (SEIs) provide feedback to Ohio State instructors at the end of each term. Understanding this feedback can assist instructors in improving their course design and student learning. The four part webinar reviewed each of the questions within the SEIs and how to interpret results including;

  • what elements of teaching the SEI is actually asking about,
  • how the SEI questions align with scholarship on how teaching can promote learning,
  • suggest specific strategies for favorably impacting your SEI results, and
  • how you might choose what to focus on once you receive your results

 

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Simplify your Teaching Life Using Office 365

A webinar presented ways to integrate Office 365 into your course using standard programs (Word, Powerpoint, etc).

Learning Goals included:

  1. Describe what Office365 is and what it can be used to do.
  2. Design assignments to use Office365 and Carmen.
  3. Enable group activities and collaboration with Office365.

Recording: http://u.osu.edu/distanceeducation/2018/02/22/odee-delta-webinar-simplify-your-teaching-life-with-office365-2162018/

 

Digital Flagship Webinar

Presenter: Cory Tressler, Director of Learning Programs and Digital Flagship

This webinar gave an overview of the new Digital Flagship initiative at Ohio State and answered questions from participants regarding the implementation of the program. It included all aspects of the initiative from the incoming freshman and the iPad Pro to the new design lab for app creation. Learning objectives included:

  • Walk through an overview of the high-level goals of the Digital Flagship initiative.
  • Recognize aspects that affect their departments as well as opportunities to be involved.
  • Identify key points of the program that focus on teaching and learning at Ohio State.

The initiative has three main components: Student technology, Coding, Enterprise Design Lab

Student technology: all freshman AU18 will be receiving the iPad Pro with apple keyboard, Apple Pencil and a suite of apps during orientation

Coding: This will primarily consist of the Apple coding language, Swift, and will be available to the entire OSU community. OSU is exploring ways to implement the course as a industry credential/certificate baring work at your own pace. AU18 launch of Swift playground with the goal of FY19 for the certification program.

Enterprise Design Lab: A physical location that will be built for those that are interested in app development with experts on hand for coding help. This will be available for everyone. SP18 app development project 1 took place with AU18 Goa for app development project 2.

Webinar Recording: https://carmenconnect.osu.edu/p85i2euixuw/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal