Learning Environments hosts monthly sessions that highlight teacher successes with educational technology titled First Fridays. Today we are calling for short presentations from anyone who teaches at Rice (faculty, staff, and graduate students).
This series was developed for a variety of reasons including:
- Sharing educational technology successes in the classroom
- Opening discussions across disciplines
- Discovering new ways to implement ed tech in the classroom
- Connecting faculty, staff, and graduate student teachers
Over the past year the sessions have fulfilled these purposes with more scheduled for the Fall. You can see edited recordings of these sessions by going to Success Stories on the new Learning Environments website. The next First Friday is scheduled for September 2nd 2022.
We will accept both single presenter sessions and panel type presentations around a theme.
In the session we will ask:
- Tell us some background on your project/idea/use case
- What were your instructional goals/How did the project meet your learning objectives?
- What steps did you take to get it done?
- What was the outcome for you and for your students?
- What was your greatest challenge?
- What would you expand/change etc if you were doing this again? (if it is a closed project)
- What do you want to do with it in the future? (if it is ongoing or semester-based)
If you are interested in sharing your experiences with using technology in your courses (in any modality), please email teaching@rice.edu with a short description of what you would like to discuss.
The list of possible presentation topics below is not exhaustive:
- Gamification
- Digital Projects for students (video, audio/podcast, website creation, etc)
- Using videos in both asynchronous and synchronous teaching
- Tools that continue to be useful after the pandemic (Canvas tools, syllabus, assignments, design elements, quizzes, and classroom techniques)
- Zoom: Going beyond traditional use cases
- Assignments (what you are keeping from the pandemic, converting face-to-face to online, group assignments that worked)
- Course navigation
- Using online discussions
- Shared cloud documents (Google Docs etc.)
- Blogs, ePortfolios, websites