Online Pedagogical Webinars
Alternative Forms of Assessing Student Understanding via Blackboard Discussions
Presented by: Lisa Zawilinski, Education Department, ENHP, and Regina Graziani, Paralegal Studies, University Studies
Tuesday, March 24th at 2:30 p.m.., Webex Meeting
Join us to share ideas how the discussion board in Blackboard might include more than simple text-based student replies. We will share examples of ways that discussion board work can include the use of sketches, concept maps, and other options. Participants will create or modify an existing forum or thread to increase student options for responding. They will also create a list of possible reply types for future use.
Taking the Best of the Studio Classroom into Online Education: Simple Ways to Maintain Hands-on Learning and Rigorous Critical Feedback through Online Teaching
CTEI-sponsored e-workshop by Carol Padberg from the Hartford Art School
Friday, March 27th at 9:30 a.m. Webex Meeting
Carol Padberg will present strategies for students and faculty to maximize the opportunity of online learning, and turn the corner from seeing online pedagogy as second best to seeing it for what it is: another excellent learning space. In this presentation and discussion, Carol will present a range of techniques that she has used since she first taught online in 1996 when she offered her course, Visual Journals: A Space of Possibility at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In addition, this presentation will include techniques for critiquing studio art online, suggestions for helping students to continue their studio art practices at home, as well as advice on creating clear assignments with specific learning goals for online teaching.
Carol now leads the Nomad MFA learning community which utilizes distance learning and immersive residencies. Pointers from the Nomad MFA faculty will be included in this presentation. Over the years Carol has brought what she has learned into a series of peer reviewed papers and presentations, including “Expanding Possibilities: Using Online Technology in Studio Art Courses” (2006) and “Doing the Same Thing, Differently,” co-written with Rebecca Alm, in the panel chaired by Padberg and Alm at the 2007 College Art Association Conference called “The Cyber-Space of Hands-on Studio Learning: Theory and Praxis.” Carol sees online learning as fortifying students’ abilities to be independent and confident artists in the world. One of her favorite attributes of online learning is that it reinforces equal engagement among introverts and extroverts, and fosters a different type of thoughtfulness in critiques. She looks forward to sharing with faculty the hidden benefits of online learning strategies.
"Thanks to the following colleagues for sharing their online teaching philosophies and practices:
Rebecca Alm, Amanda Carlson, Christy Gast, Kathleen Heideman, Billie Lee, Mary Mattingly, Nico Wheadon, and Caroline Woolard"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ctiy5r7e6umjkcw/zoom_0.mp4?dl=0
Tech Tools for Art and Design Critique: Providing Feedback on Drawings, Sculptures, Models/Maquettes
CTEI-sponsored webinar by Julie Chen from the College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture
Friday, April 3rd at 3:00 p.m. Webex Meeting
Maybe your classes aren't normally taught in a classroom setting? Maybe your assessments are not multiple-choice or word bank tests, but with projects that involve process, drawings, and physically built objects in a studio environment? Maybe you rely on that group interaction and feedback? Join us to explore and share the different possibilities of working online, synchronously, or asynchronously. Combine sharing apps and websites. Combine that with screen sharing and annotation tools for live feedback. NOTE: Students are required to have camera phone or home scanner.