To support faculty transitioning from Zoom and Poll Everywhere to Microsoft (MS)Tools for instruction, we shifted the focus of our workshops in Winter and Spring 2025 from digital pedagogy to a more practical approach centered around MS tools. The workshops were developed in collaboration with SPU IT specifically to help faculty navigate this transition. We’ve offered both in-person and online
This workshop covers topics such as the concept of the multimedia principle, the importance of multimodal content, and provides both university-supported and free tools and resources, along with examples on how to create and use multimodal content.
The recording of the 2nd session from our Digital Belonging workshop series is now available for you below. Save the dates for the 3rd session of Digital Belonging – Feb. 14th for an in-person session at noon and Feb. 16th for an online session at 10 am. We’ll discuss “Digital Belonging III: How are your students doing? using early assignments,
For colleagues who were unable to attend our session on Digital Belonging I: Increasing your digital presence to foster student belonging last week, we have recorded the online session for you. This week, we are offering the second series of Digital Belonging, “Increasing Digital Community to Foster Student Belonging.” We invite you to join us either in person on Wednesday,
For colleagues who were unable to attend our live session on Poll Everywhere 101 this week, we’ve prepared an instructional video for you. In this workshop, we talked about what Poll Everywhere is, its practical applications in teaching, its various activity types, provide instructions for accessing it, and share information on its integration with Canvas. We also have detailed step-by-step
We hosted a Panopto 101 workshop this week. For colleagues who were unable to attend our live session, here is the instructional video created just for you. In this video, we covered the basics of Panopto, including examples of how to use Panopto in teaching, compared Zoom to Panopto, explained how to access Panopto, install the Panopto recorder app, share
International Open Education (OE) Week is here at SPU! ETM and the Library are hosting an OE event (a conversation on open and affordable textbooks) to celebrate the open education efforts at SPU. Research As part of the celebration at SPU, ETM’s associate director, Dr. Grace Seo, presented her recently completed dissertation research: Sustaining Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives in
In response to the overall success of Seattle Pacific University’s adaption to remote learning through the COVID-19 Pandemic and positive feedback to the voluntary faculty training through the Winter Academy, Educational Technology and Media’s Brennan Stewart and Debi Bearden sat down with a few faculty members to discuss their online learning experience, takeaways from the Winter Academy, and their working
Last week, ETM hosted daily hour-long conversations with participating staff and faculty at Seattle Pacific University, in conjunction with the Winter Teaching Academy. For more information about the Winter Teaching Academy, make sure to check out our previous post here: https://scholars.spu.edu/etm/2020/11/30/etm-winter-academy-2020/. During these open conversations, ETM, faculty, and staff came together to diverge on four key topics, reflecting the topics of the Winter Teaching Academy: Course Planning and Alignment,
ETM is offering an academy from November 30, 2020 through January 31, 2021. This academy was designed to be as flexible as possible. Modules do not need to be completed in order and participants can choose from four larger modules or 13 bite-sized modules. Participants who complete all four modules and have a 20 minute conversation with an Instructional Designer