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Choose your instructional tool adventure webinars

Choose your instructional tool adventure (30-minute teaching topics)

CELT’s Choose Your Instructional Tool Adventure focuses on various instructional strategies found on the CELT website and demonstrates practical ways to incorporate these tools in a Canvas course. Instructional support staff from across campus will facilitate each 30-minute byte. These 30-minutes builds on concepts covered on the CELT instructional strategies pages.

 

30-minute teaching topics

Series Objectives

  • Identify tools to help instructors manage a blended or online classroom.
  • Align tool usage to course objectives.
  • Implement inclusive pedagogical components into a course (e.g., inclusive examples, accessibility, and Universal Design for Learning principles).
  • Locate ISU’s teaching and learning support resources.

Individual Workshop Objectives

  • Access CELT web resources specific to online teaching and learning.
  • Identify the most appropriate tool to implement a strategy in their course.
  • Create sample content using the tool.
  • Locate proper support for the selected tool.
Find additional opportunities to review CELT’s Upcoming Events website. For support, contact CELT or your local instructional staff.

Discover features for a number of the ISU Instructional Tools via the training opportunities from ISU vendors.

Design and facilitate activities for all learning environments.

A listing with applications that have been proven to meet the ISU’s security, accessibility, and purchasing standards.

Map out an intuitive hybrid course and prompt students with announcements, Katie Fulton, M.A.

Map out an intuitive hybrid course and prompt students with announcements, Katie Fulton, M.A.

Katie Fulton, M.A., Associate Teaching Professor and Online Learning Coordinator (English) here at Iowa State. Fulton shares how to map out an intuitive hybrid course and prompt students with announcements in this Tip for Teaching video (3m 22s).

Discover more ideas on the Hybrid Learning page and Communication Strategies page.

Keep Your Students Engaged (Teaching Tip)

Photo of Students using educational technology in the English language classroom by Iowa State University licensed under CC BY 4.0

A reoccurring theme in CELT focuses on best practices for engaging students in the classroom. As we move forward this semester, these suggestions may help keep your students engaged with the course and its content.

  • Ask for feedback: Solicit feedback in real-time from students to gauge understanding of new course material.
  • Host student (office) hours: Provide students with great access by offering office hours virtually and in person.
  • Plan thoughtful group work: Use the table on the CELT website to see if group work is the most appropriate method of use and follow the tips for facilitating successful group work.
  • Develop participation as a skill: Review the Gillis (2019) framework for ways to reframe participation as a skill that can be practiced, strengthened, and valued by students.

If you are looking for more ways to increase student engagement, check out the CELT website or attend a CELT event.

One event to consider is the webinar taking place on Sept. 8 from 3:10-4 p.m. discussing creating an inclusive learning environment. Creating an equitable and inclusive classroom can foster engagement and encourage student involvement. More information, including how to register, can be found on the CELT Event page.

With a joy for teaching, 

Sara Marcketti

Full Teaching Tip

View the published CELT Teaching Tip: Keep Your Students engaged (September 1, 2022 – Constant Contact) page.

Prefer a Print Version?

To view the Teaching Tip as a printable document with web addresses, download the CELT Teaching Tip for September 1, 2022 (PDF).

Iowa State CELT jobs posted

Iowa State University is restructuring its online education staff from academic colleges into a new unit that will become part of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT); read the Inside Iowa State University restructures online education programs under CELT umbrella article. We have hired our senior managers (Susan Arendt, Iowa State Online, Matt Carver, Enterprise Instructional Technology, Lesya Hassall, Course Design and Quality, and Clark Coffman, Instructor Development). Now we are trying to expand our staff in the following areas within CELT:

  • Iowa State Onlineincluding marketing, new programs, corporate outreach, business development, and student success functions.
  • Instructor developmentincluding core support for instructors, training for faculty and graduate students, faculty fellows, and the inclusive classroom program.
  • Course design and qualityincluding instructional design, quality, and faculty support.
  • Enterprise instructional technologyincluding media production, Canvas administration, learning tools integration, and online testing centers.

Would you share the following positions with individuals that you think would be interesting? Individuals can type the title* or requisition number into this site: https://www.jobs.iastate.edu/ to apply for positions. Thank you, and looking forward to chatting with you soon!

Iowa State Online                                                     

  • R9555 E: Communication Specialist II (Communications Specialist II)  
  • R9563: Graphic Designer II (Graphic Designer II)
  • R9554 E: Student Services Specialist II (Student Services Specialist II)  
  • R9592 E: Graduate Student Services Specialist II (Graduate Student Services Specialist II)

Enterprise Instructional Technology Unit  

  • R9565: Manager Media Production (Manager Media Production)
  • R9568: LMS Software Developer (Software Developer II) 
  • R9569: Data Analyst II (Data Analyst II)  
  • R9579: Testing Center Supervisor (Instructional Technology Specialist III)
  • R9571: LTI Process Management (Instructional Technology Specialist II)  

Course Design and Quality Unit  

  • R9589: Manager Online Instructional Design (Manager Instructional Design)
  • R9590: Manager Faculty Support (Manager Instructional Design) 
  • R9594 E: Instructional Technology Specialist II (Instructional Technology Specialist II)  
  • R9556 E: Instructional Designer II (Instructional Designer II)

Staff posting: Open 9/30 – Closes 10/8 

  • R9592 E 
  • R9594 E 
  • R9554 E 
  • R9555 E 
  • R9556 E 

Staff posting: Open 10/3- Closes 10/11  

  • R9563 
  • R9568 
  • R9569 
  • R9571 

Management positions: Open 10/3-Closes 10/20 

  • R9589 
  • R9590 
  • R9579 
  • R9565 

* HR position title is listed in parenthesis

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