Our workshops are designed for faculty who want to learn technology tools in the context of how they can be used in college classrooms, using examples of how they have been used by Hunter colleagues. We update them each semester as technology tools and instructors’ needs change. Workshops are listed below by date offered. You can also view them grouped on our Workshop Categories page.
Please use the registration links to let us know that you will be joining us. We change registration links to links to resources or recordings after the date of the workshops.
October 2022 Workshops
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Workshop
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Wed.
09/28/2022
11:00 – 12:00 PM
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Setting up your Blackboard Grade Center
Become a power user of the Grade Center! This workshop can save you time and eyestrain, especially if you are teaching a large class. Join us to learn how to customize your “instructor view” of the Grade Center. Choose what columns to see and in which order they appear. Create and assign categories so that each assignment gets its correct weight in the final grade. Finally, use smart views and color–coding to view the grades of small groups of students and find out who might need special attention.
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Fri.
09/30/2022
12:00 – 1:00 PM
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Multimedia alternatives to final papers
A term paper does not have to be the way to end a term. Consider allowing students to demonstrate the results of their learning and research in multi-modal, multimedia formats. Perhaps a narrated slide presentation, a video, or an infographic can be acceptable alternatives. We will discuss tools that students can use to create alternatives to papers, and introduce Genially as an example tool that allows integration of text, images, audio, and video.
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Mon.
10/03/2022
12:00 – 1:00 PM
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Hypothesis Introductory Workshop
The Hypothesis team will discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading visible, active, and social. In addition to sharing pedagogical best practices for collaborative annotation, they will demonstrate how
Hypothesis can be used with course readings in your LMS. Participants can expect to come away from this session with a clear idea about how they can start incorporating collaborative annotation into their courses to improve student success.
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Tues.
10/04/2022
9:00 – 10:00 AM
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Multimedia alternatives to final papers
A term paper does not have to be the way to end a term. Consider allowing students to demonstrate the results of their learning and research in multi-modal, multimedia formats. Perhaps a narrated slide presentation, a video, or an infographic can be acceptable alternatives. We will discuss tools that students can use to create alternatives to papers, and introduce Genially as an example tool that allows integration of text, images, audio, and video.
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Fri.
10/07/2022
12:00 – 1:00 PM
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Creating tests in Blackboard and choosing test settings
Blackboard Tests have been commonly used as review exercises, self-assessment tools, and low-stakes quizzes. This is an introductory workshop on how to create a test, add questions, and make it available to students. We will help you choose appropriate settings for how to present the test, when to take it, how long to keep it open, and what feedback to show students when they submit their answers.
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Wed.
10/12/2022
9:00 – 10:00 AM
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Padlet for resource collection & interactive activities
What can Padlet NOT do? It is a versatile tool for collaborating and posting notes that include text, images, links, and videos. At Hunter, Padlet is widely used for ice-breaker activities, for sharing resources, and for collecting student work. In this workshop, we will review samples of successful and innovative activities designed by Hunter professors, and discuss appropriate formats and settings for different kinds of assignments.
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Wed.
10/12/2022
12:00 – 1:00 PM
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Creative ways to use social annotation in your courses
In this workshop, our team will lead participants in a discussion about various discussion protocols and active learning strategies that can help make social annotation more engaging and fun. Participants will come away from this session with a variety of ways to creatively use social annotation in their courses.
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Tues.
10/18/2022
9:00 – 10:00 AM
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Creating question pools for quizzes that draw questions randomly
This is an advanced workshop on Blackboard’s testing functions. Giving tests that draw questions randomly from a bank of questions can be one strategy to mitigate cheating. These tests go beyond presenting questions or answer choices in different orders. When questions are drawn randomly from pools of questions, each student gets a different test. Question pools require careful preparation with questions grouped by difficulty level and topic. Let us help you tackle this challenge!
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Tues.
10/18/2022 7:00 – 8:00 PM |
Asynchronous online modules for when you can’t make it to class
Learning modules are a collections of carefully sequenced and chunked teaching materials, activities and assessments. They are the building blocks of hybrid and online courses but also useful to replace sessions of in-person courses when weather, conferences or health issues require alternatives. Professors design these learning experiences and students complete them within a specified period of time, usually a week. At this workshop, we will discuss how to create learning modules and review examples of modules created by Hunter professors.
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Wed.
10/19/2022
7:00 – 8:00 PM
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Padlet for almost everything to be collected and shared
What can Padlet NOT do? It is a versatile tool for collaborating and posting notes that include text, images, links, and videos. At Hunter, Padlet is widely used for ice-breaker activities, for sharing resources, and for collecting student work. In this workshop, we will review samples of successful and innovative activities designed by Hunter professors, discuss examples of icebreakers you can use in your course and showcase appropriate formats and settings for different kinds of assignments.
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Thurs.
10/20/2022
4:00 – 5:00 PM
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DIY captioning for Zoom, VoiceThread, and YouTube
Adding captions is no longer an onerous task for professors creating videos. Many tools that we use now generate automatic captions that can be quickly reviewed and easily edited for 100% accuracy. Join us for a workshop on where to find captions and how to edit them on Zoom, VoiceThread, and YouTube.
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Fri.
10/21/2022
11:30 – 12:30 PM
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Hypothesis Collaborative Workshop
This workshop will help faculty who have already been using the Hypothesis tool to discuss increased ways you can leverage the abilities of Hypothesis. The Hypothesis team will lead participants in a discussion about how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used in their specific disciplines and with their specific teaching and learning objectives. Participants can expect to come away from this session with a clear idea about how they can expand their usage of collaborative annotation in their courses to improve student success.
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Wed.
10/26/2022
10:00 – 11:00 AM
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Setting up your Blackboard Grade Center
Become a power user of the Grade Center! This workshop can save you time and eyestrain, especially if you are teaching a large class. Join us to learn how to customize your “instructor view” of the Grade Center. Choose what columns to see and in which order they appear. Create and assign categories so that each assignment gets its correct weight in the final grade. Finally, use smart views and color–coding to view the grades of small groups of students and find out who might need special attention.
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