PROFFCourses
Supporting Student Learning
ZoomSupporting Student Learning June 23 @ 10:00 am - 10:40 am CDT This 45-minute presentation and discussion will focus on the following topics: Supporting students with learning challenges Communicating with students Facilitating group work Making room for student input Event Details Presenter: Tho Nguyen Academic Unit: School of Nursing and Health Science Bio: https://sonhs.umkc.edu/directory/tho-nguyen/ Event format descriptions are […]
The 21st Century Student: Engaging Students with Effectiveness and Positive Indelibility (Session 1 of 3)
ZoomAs educators, we have many rich experiences that will help us connect to the 21st-century student in ways we may not have seen. Students have needs that we don't understand. We have to realize that we, too, have to learn something new every day to help us understand the needs of those we teach. This […]
Media Walk Through for Managing Video and Other Production Projects Online (working title)
July 7 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT Event Details Presenter: Caitlin Horsmon, Associate Professor, Film & Media Arts & Chair, Department of Communication Studies Academic Unit: College of Arts and Sciences Bio: https://cas.umkc.edu/directory/Horsmon-Caitlin/ Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses. Registration Link After signing up for this event, you will receive an email confirmation. […]
PROFFcourses T-shirt Pick Up – Cherry Hall
We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8! Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues. Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes behind Cherry Hall on the Volker Campus (west doors). I […]
PROFFcourses T-shirts – Cherry Hall
We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8! Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues. They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes behind Cherry Hall on the Volker Campus (west doors). I will set out t-shirts in the morning […]
PROFFcourses T-shirts Pick Up – Cherry Hall – RAINED OUT 7/29/2020
We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8! Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues. They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes behind Cherry Hall on the Volker Campus (west doors). I will set out t-shirts in the morning […]
Rained out – PROFFcourses T-Shirts – Health Sciences District
RAINED OUT - STAY TUNED FOR ANOTHER DATE This is a low-tech operation - Alexis, a mask, a camp chair, and a box of t-shirts 6 ft away - outside With rain predicted over 60% chance all morning, today's t-shirt pick up will be delayed. We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8! […]
Transforming Effective Face-to-face Teaching Strategies to the Online Format
ZoomTransforming Effective Face-to-face Teaching Strategies to the On-line Format Dr. Karyn Turla and Dr. Tara Allen combined have over 50 years of teaching experience, both at the undergraduate and professional levels. Many of the courses they teach are taken by students who are required to take professional board exams to receive licensure. It is the […]
Think-Pair-Share Questions for Facilitating Active Learning in Face-to-Face and Online Courses
I will present my emergent strategy for facilitating collaborative `active learning' in a large-enrollment, asynchronous online course utilizing Canvas, Panopto, and Zoom. I will briefly share my motivations and guiding principles for fostering active learning (it's what the students do that matters, fundamentally) in my courses at all academic levels as a means to achieving […]
Communication, Engagement, and Community
Collaboration and online interactions. Learner to learner interaction can be achieved by assigning small group projects, by requesting responses to discussion board postings and by engaging students through peer-evaluated assignments or critiques (QM Standard 5.1). In this session, we will discuss our experiences with a variety of interactions and online engagement, such as peer-evaluated assignments, […]
So Are You Burnt Out?!
So you are burnt out?! Identifying and understanding burnout in faculty members. This presentation will provide an overview of burnout and secondary trauma while helping you to identify strategies for self-care. Agenda: Open discussion about faculty experiences with burnout and secondary trauma Laurel will present on: Vicarious & Secondary Trauma Sarah will present on: The […]
Project Based Learning Across Asynchronous and Face to Face Landscapes
July 24 @ 12:30 - 1:15 PM CDT Project-based learning (PBL) is a teaching and learning method that fundamentally develops 4 C's of 21st Century Learning: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. In this interactive presentation, I talk about PBL strategies to transform classroom teaching into a high impact educational practice. Event Details Presenter: Majid Bani […]
Making Courses Format Flexible for Fall – Seriously?
Event Details The need to design our courses as format flexible this fall is bringing anxiety for many. Format flexible adds intentional online elements to the course structure, so should there be a need to transition, we teach and students engage in online learning rather than remote learning. Join us for a conversation on the challenges […]
Use of Webcams in Online Learning and Student Privacy
Event Details Use of Webcams in Online Learning and Student Privacy Many faculty have asked questions about how to manage the use of cameras, including whether or not they can require students to have cameras, and whether or not they can require students to turn on the cameras during synchronous class meetings. While the policy […]
