ABSTRACTS - Room 213

All sessions take place in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus

The sessions in Room 213 are also broadcast online via Zoom. Please click the ZOOM LINK for any of the sessions below to join.

1-213-1 // Using Canvas LMS in Online Teaching

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Dushanthi Herath - Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Maryville University

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 213

A key to successful teaching and learning is student engagement. This session will introduce and demonstrate a few Canvas features that can be utilized in an online mathematics course to have students actively engage and participate in the course.

1-213-2 // Using Drawing Tablets with Zoom: Giving In-the-Moment Visual Feedback Online

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Sarah Hercula - Assistant Professor of English & Technical Communication; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 213

In this session, the presenter will discuss students’ use of drawing tablets as a tool enabling instructors to provide instantaneous feedback on students’ visual drawings during online synchronous instruction through Zoom. The presenter will describe her design of an online synchronous English grammar course with a focus on form-function tree diagramming: an analytical tool for grammatical analysis that involves students’ creation of hand-drawn visual diagrams. Sharing strategies for effective instruction in this setting and showing examples from her course, the presenter will explain how the technology works and suggest ways that this course setup might be adapted for use in other disciplines.

2-213-1 // Scaffolding A Capstone Project Online

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Cassandra Gail Loggins - Assistant Professor of Nursing; Southeast Missouri State University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 213

Can you motivate students to work on a capstone assignment week by week thereby preventing the last-minute submission of a weak assignment? Absolutely, you can motivate by innovating your online course design so that every reading assignment, quiz, activity, field experience, and discussion forum builds up the final assignment using a scaffolding design. This is a win-win strategy for faculty and students.

2-213-2 // Making More Inclusive Instruction with UDL

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Breanne Kirsch - University Librarian; Briar Cliff University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 213

This session will introduce the universal design for learning (UDL) framework and how it can be implemented in both traditional, face-to-face courses and online courses. UDL techniques will be described with examples that demonstrate how to make instruction more inclusive.

3-213-1 // Levelling the terminology field: Having students co-create meaning using Hypothes.is

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Fatemeh Mardi - Instructional Designer; University of Missouri

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.; Room 213

Often students get stuck understanding basic discipline-specific terminology that instructors assume they should know. Students can be provided a platform to unpack the meaning of phrases and sentences throughout their learning process. Hypothes.Is is a social annotation tool currently integrated into Canvas at UM campuses.

3-213-2 // Humanizing online grading: the surprising power of A/V feedback

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Gretchen Haskell - Instructional Designer; University of Missouri

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.; Room 213

As passionate as we all may be about what we teach, our passion surrounding grading can leave something to be desired. It should be noted, there’s a difference between "grading" and "giving feedback". “Grading” is an impersonal process of assigning numbers to learners' work. "Giving feedback" is a symbiotic interaction between learner and instructor. Research has credited A/V feedback with decreased feelings of isolation, increased motivation, student retention, content retention, and perception of instructor caring. Consideration of student accessibility needs will be addressed, as well as a walk-through of this process in Canvas.