ALL SESSIONS are from 10:00 am - 11:00 am

SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT) Recap - Monday, June 6, 2022

Roberta (Robin) Sullivan, UB Libraries

The annual SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT) http://cit.suny.edu is the highlight of the SUNY community where colleagues share a variety of topics related to the effective and innovative uses of instructional technology. Members of the UB Educational Design Collaborative (EDC), and others from UB, will engage in an informal conversation about what they learned at this year’s conference. This discussion will include topics relevant to faculty, Librarians, and instructional support professionals.

Peer Evaluations  Tuesday, June 7, 2022 

Todd Sage, School of Social Work

Peer review can be an important part of the learning process, allowing students to develop skills in giving good feedback and reflecting upon their own practice. Todd will describe how he uses GoReact and Perusall to get students to collaborate, interact and build a learning community to facilitate the development of their professional skills for Social Work practice.

Beyond the Template: Creating Robust Web Resources for the Classroom with Google Sites  - Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Michael Kicey, UB Libraries

The pandemic has raised expectations and expanded possibilities for online teaching: students have come to expect a baseline of well-designed and well-curated online content to support their coursework, and a number of freely available, low-threshold web design tools have expanded their range and deepened their offerings in ways that help instructors meet or exceed these new expectations. These tools also present parallel opportunities for faculty to collaborate with librarians in the creation of appealing, fully-featured online guides to scholarship to accompany their courses, which can significantly deepen student engagement with course content. In this webinar, I will describe how I created a robust and attractive course site for an introductory class in ancient Greek language and culture as well as a wide-ranging online guide to authoritative scholarship on ancient Greek civilization, both using the free and easy-to-use Google Sites platform.

Understanding Regular & Substantive Interaction (RSI): OSCQR 4.0 is here! - Thursday, June 9, 2022

Rob Piorkowski and Alex Pickett, SUNY Online

The SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR) ( https://oscqr.suny.edu ) has been updated to assist campuses, instructional designers (IDs), and faculty ensure that online courses can demonstrate designs comply with the new US Department of Education regulation requiring Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) between online learners and their instructor(s). You will be provided with an overview of OSCQR and the tools and information to improve the instructional design (including RSI) and accessibility in online courses.

Designing and Delivering Awesome Presentations - Friday, June 10, 2022

Jen Bement and Doug Stoll, School of Management

Presentation skills are crucial in and out of the classroom for coursework, interviews, and in many careers. Jen Bement and Doug Stoll (School of Management) created a wonderful series in their hybrid PMBA Communications course to assist students build these essential skills and how to combat typical presentation fears students have. This workshop will reveal some best practices for teaching a unit on presentation skills, with a focus on what makes presentations good (or bad), and how to get good at them.

Incorporating Career Competencies into your Courses - Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Jessica Kruger, School of Public Health and Health Professions
David Gray, College of Arts and Sciences

Creating students who are career-ready is everyone's job. Engaging students in career readiness competencies or NACE competencies is key to ensuring students think about and engage in skills that will result in a career after graduation. This presentation will focus on how two faculty have worked with the Career Design Center and engaged students in career readiness competencies.

Multimodal Learning and Visual Methods of Instruction - Wednesday, June 15, 2022

David Bruce, Graduate School of Education (GSE)

Multimodality examines how people communicate and interact with each other, and involves the complex interweaving of various modes such as text, image, audio, color, gesture/movement, speech, etc. These modes can be combined in different ways, presented through a range of media, and can be utilized in the classroom to engage a variety of learners. Dr. David Bruce, an Associate Professor in the Learning and Instruction department of the Graduate School of Education, has completed extensive research on multimodality and visual methods of instruction and will be sharing his experiences and ideas.

Accessibility & Advanced Universal Design (UDL) - Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Derek Farkas, School of Public Health and Health Professions

This session will share info and resources about Accessibility & Advanced Universal Design (UDL).

Beyond the Paper: Intro to Digital Options for Class Projects - Thursday, June 23, 2022

Natalia Estrada, UB Libraries

The class paper is a traditional way to assess whether students understand course content. This traditional mode of assessment can often cause more stress and anxiety and even discourage students from learning the subject matter. Alternative digital projects let students demonstrate their mastery of the class subject, while also giving them a chance to find joy and creativity in creation. Digital Scholarship Librarian Natalia Estrada will introduce faculty to tools and practices such as digital exhibits, game creation, and podcasting, as well as how partnering with the UB Libraries can help in planning these projects.

Immersive Xperiences (IX): Shifting Time, Space, Things & Learning (Creating 360° Virtual Tours) - Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Roberta (Robin) Sullivan, UB Libraries

We will consider how the affordances of simulations add value to today’s learning landscape to shift time and space to create authentic learning experiences to engage and motivate learners. Simulated environments using new genres of technology allow viewers to make choices and affect outcomes. Simulations are no longer restricted only to those who have access to expensive virtual labs.

Flipgrid for Self-Reflections & Video Responses - Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Dianna Cichocki, School of Management

This session will share info about using Flipgrid for Self-Reflections & Video Responses.

Ways to Integrate ELN Digital Badges into Courses - Thursday, August 4, 2022

Christina Heath, Experiential Learning Network (ELN)

UB Experiential Learning Network (ELN) Digital Badges were intentionally designed for seamless course integration. Join this session to explore the ways you can enhance your students' experience by integrating projects and digital badges in your courses. Already have a project as part of your course? Learn how to embed the ELN Digital Badge modules into your existing syllabus so students can earn a badge along the way. Looking for an alternative to an exam, traditional paper or extra credit project? Work with ELN to customize a project experience for your class, or give students the option to participate in a project from ELN’s Project Portal. https://buffalo.edu/eln

Building Great Learning Objectives - Monday, August 8, 2022

Jeremy Jungbluth and Mary Odden
Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT)

This lab-style workshop will unpack the elements of good learning outcomes which are the backbone of effective teaching and learning. Participants will work in real-time in a ‘make-over’ format to transform existing learning outcomes. Well-written learning outcomes are essential to align course objectives with course learning activities, material and resource selection, assessments, and successful accreditation reviews. Join us and bring your current learning objectives along with you!

The Attendance Conundrum (Faculty Panel by members of UBTaLCK) - Tuesday, August 9, 2022

UBTaLCK, is an acronym for UB Teaching and Learning Community of Knowledge, a Community of Practice aimed to assist faculty with best pedagogical practices and classroom strategies.

Faculty Panelists (tentative):
Sarah Ford, College of Arts and Sciences
Grady Gambrel, College of Arts and Sciences
Stuart Inglis, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Jessica Kruger, School of Public Health and Health Professions
Jennifer Zirnheld, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

A panel of faculty from UBTaLCK will address the attendance conundrum by sharing their challenges, insights, and opinions. Please join this informal and lively discussion of how faculty from various disciplines and class sizes handle the daunting task of tracking attendance. Come and share your ideas and strategies.

Organizing Your Panopto Videos - Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Kevin Hartman, School of Management, and Beth Fellendorf, UBIT

You've used video a lot for your teaching the last couple years and created some really useful content. There’s no reason to stop using that content just because the pandemic is slowing down. From asynchronous recordings made in your office or home to classroom lecture recordings, find out how to organize and reuse your Panopto recordings in future semesters.

Emerging Teaching Technology Assessment Initiative (ETTAI) - Thursday, August 11, 2022

Thomas Slomka, Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT)

The Emerging Teaching Technology Assessment Initiative (ETTAI) is a partnership to provide a collaborative and coordinated process to review, assess, and make recommendations on existing and emerging technology at UB. The ETTAI will be a gateway to a stakeholder-driven process to streamline comparing, requesting, and implementing new technologies and innovative teaching practices.

Escape Rooms for Engaging Learning Activities  - Monday, August 15, 2022

Archana Mishra, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

In medical education, simulation is an effective tool for students to begin to understand what challenges they may face with their future patients, while also learning about working in team-based environments. Dr. Archana Mishra, a clinical associate professor and clerkship director who serves as associate program director for the internal medicine residency at the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, has developed innovative escape room simulation activities and games for her medical students and residents. She will share her experiences, provide an overview on developing such activities, and address how she aids students in creative thinking and problem solving through escape room simulations, games, collaborative learning, and other active learning strategies.

Designing Effective Poster Presentations - Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Fred Stoss, UB Libraries

Poster presentations are integral tools facilitating communication of ideas. Posters are NOT pasting a scholarly article on foam-core and discussing it. Effective poster presentations represent a "...well-designed, eye-catching, and engaging..." display of information in a brief format in classrooms, conferences, symposia and workshops. This workshop provides ideas and resources for the design of effective poster presentations. It includes resources from journal articles, books, and Internet sites that focus on the planning, design, construction, and presentation of a poster. We will "design" a poster as a single PowerPoint slide. [NOTE: this workshop is available for in-class presentation for student poster projects.]

Learning Management System (LMS) Transition: A Brightspace Sneak Peek - Wednesday, August 17, 2022  

Michelle Connolly, Curriculum, Assessment & Teaching Transformation (CATT)

Come learn more about UB's upcoming move from Blackboard to Brightspace. You will hear more about the timeline and learn more about why we are making this move. Plus you will be able to have a quick preview of the new LMS and what things you can do to prepare.

How Can We Support Students' Success: Organizing, Planning Time, Creating Priorities, & Notetaking - Thursday, August 18, 2022

Jim Jensen, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Christine Tinnesz, College of Arts and Sciences
Tony Defranco, SUNY OER Services

iSucceed began at the University of Buffalo as an IITG-funded regional partnership between UB, Buffalo State College, and Erie Community College. The goal of this OER resource is to help students access self-paced, skill-building modules to boost college-level learning skills, and ultimately to scale this across the SUNY System. The developers of the iSucceed OER course resource successfully: • developed course content to share with students that is open, shareable, and portable • provide this content in a modular format • make the content adaptable and able to be used by multiple disciplines at multiple institutions

EndNote 20 for Beginners - Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Amanda McCormick, UB Libraries

This workshop will teach you to use EndNote 20 software for collecting, storing, organizing, retrieving, and automatically formatting references to journal articles, books, and more in your papers. In this introductory-level workshop, you will learn how to directly download references into your own personal EndNote library from major research databases like EBSCO and Web of Science; how to attach full-text PDFs of articles to these records in EndNote; and how to use EndNote with Microsoft Word to automatically insert and format in-text citations and end-of-the-paper references in your papers in over 6,000 citation styles, including ACS and APA.