Take a guided tour through the many tools that make up Web 2.0, including (but not limited to) collaborative web tools, podcasting, and social networking. On this tour participants have the opportunity to look around, ask questions, and ponder the possibilities of integrating new tools into your instruction for the purpose of enhancing student engagement and/or collaboration.
Learn how to use ICON’s Content tool to make course materials and related links available to your students in a timely, easily accessible manner. Get hands-on practice with uploading and posting files (single and multiple). Create Content Modules (folders) to organize student links to these files, as well as to external websites or related ICON quizzes, discussions, etc. Learn the difference between the Manage Content and Manage Files area of you course and find out how to restrict content availability to certain times or students, how to change content display settings, to how to copy content from another icon course, and how to add links to Library Reserve materials.
Learn about the three ways ICON can calculate grades and the different kinds of grade items you can choose from. Then build a simple grade book from start to finish: enter display settings for yourself and your students; create a custom grade scheme to convert percentages to letter grades; create new grade items (columns) and organize them into categories; enter grades manually; and calculate and adjust final grades.
Get hands-on practice in working with ICON communications tools. Learn how to create a forum for class Discussions; add an event to the Calendar; create a Dropbox folder for posting, collecting, and grading assignments; set up a Chat to conduct online office hours or host a distant guest; send Email messages to groups or the entire class—and more!
Get up and running with TurningPoint. These sessions are ideal for all users who are looking to gain a basic understanding of our software and hardware components. By the end of the session, you will be ready to use TurningPoint. Training will cover the following topics:
• Hardware Setup • Pre-Presentation Procedures • Creating Basic Interactive Presentations • Understanding Common Settings • Running Interactive Presentations • How to Produce, Save and View Submitted Data Reports • TurningPoint AnyWhere
Wikis and blogs are two HawkID and password authenticated tools offered by the University of Iowa. This session centers around discovering the many uses and benefits of wikis and blogs in your instruction as well as pondering the possibilities for enhancing students engagement and collaboration with these tools.
Now that we have adopted one student response system campus-wide, we would like to explore how clickers can be integrated into courses, the pedagogy behind clicker use, and best practices for using clickers in a university setting.
Learn how to export your clicker results in TurningPoint and import them into using the new D2L scheme which
Expand your TurningPoint knowledge beyond a basic user! Learn how to enhance your presentation and take full advantage of TurningPoint’s numerous capabilities. Instructors will further explore the many advanced features offered within the TurningPoint software, including proper implementation to maximize effectiveness. Advanced user topics will include:
• Parser • Creating Picture Slides • Data Slicing and Demographics • Comparative Links • How to Create and Run Competitions • Settings • Session Management • Advanced Uses
