More Than a File Cabinet: Employing Canvas in your Face-to-Face Course

Canvas is often the main connecting point for online classes, but it has a lot to offer in-person, face-to-face courses too. While we know Canvas is great for curating documents and readings, it can also be used to bring new methods of connection to your course. We will discuss a few features Canvas offers…

Exploring Local Neighborhoods and STEM Teaching

In this Conversation, we will discuss strategies and tips for exploring diverse neighborhoods as a way of engaging students around the links between what they are concepts they are learning in STEM classes and the application of these concepts to people.  This will include a larger discussion of how broader questions of inclusion and social…

Same Script, Different Cast?: The Civic Case Against STEM Superheroes

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Course Micro-practices to Help You Become a More Inclusive Leader

Gain easy-to-apply strategies and tips for teaching and planning inclusively in all types of STEM classrooms.  Join facilitators for a discussion to spur your development as a leader in inclusion. Speakers: Enos Charles Inniss Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Kate S. Kelley PhD Candidate, Folklore Studies, Instructor, Department of Religious Studies Follow up to this Conversation:…

Teaching Science in a Post-truth World

Join a panel discussion about ways to empower your students to become scientifically literate and break down boundaries between each other.  Learn about difficult dialogues in the classroom, the impact of connection and relationship on content as seen through the eyes of students, and hands on activities to help students communicate science to the public, such as how…

April 10, 2018

Melanie Cooper Michigan

Zoom: Could it be useful to me?

We will explore and discuss the status of web conferencing at Mizzou. We recently started using Zoom as the recommended web conferencing tool for everybody on campus. It is being used in classrooms, conference rooms and far beyond. It is being used for a wide variety of purposes and is available to anyone who might…

“Promoting interactive learning through interteach” & “Making a personal connection in an online course: Using video feedback as a Canvas grading tool”

We will introduce two ways of conducting student-student and instructor-student feedback! Julie will discuss examples and student responses when using video feedback rather than written feedback on student assignments in an online biology course. This method not only can save you time and increase the depth of your feedback but also help to make the student feel more involved in the course. Bethany will introduce the foundation and components for the interteach model. She will also present data from a current interteach project being used in an undergraduate course.

If a picture = kiloword, does a kinesthetic activity = megaword? How to develop and publish kinesthetic activities

We will discuss two types of kinesthetic activities: one in which the student plays the part of a physiological molecule or sensor and one in which a mechanical simulator is used to generate “experimental” physiological data.  Participants will be asked to provide insights into the advantages and disadvantages of both of these approaches. We will also discuss…

How to Reach the Students that We Are Not Reaching: A Conversation about Effective and Inclusive Teaching

Many things that we do in the classroom affect how inclusive our courses are. Some teaching practices, for example, may increase the perceived isolation of students, while others may help overcome barriers. In this session, we will have a conversation about issues of students from underrepresented or underserved groups and about ways to improve their…