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.

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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.

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

Participate in the 2022 CELT Active Learning Institute

The Active Learning Institute (ALI), coordinated by Megan Myers (CELT Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures), will guide instructors to practice techniques and design strategies focused on active learning to implement in their courses.

The 2022 ALI participants will attend four 60-minute sessions held on Tuesdays (9–10 a.m., 2030 Morrill Hall): Nov. 15, 29, Dec. 6 & 13, and engage in the online asynchronous course from Nov. 15-Dec. 13. ALI includes two-course observations with feedback, and all participants will receive an Active Learning Certification from CELT. In addition, instructors who participate and provide feedback are eligible to receive $500 in professional development funds! To participate, please complete the 2022 CELT Active Learning Institute Registration form (Qualtrics) by Nov. 9 at 6 p.m.

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