Bovay Seminar Series: Generative AI for Teaching and Learning Community of Practice

• When: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, from 12:00-1:00 p.m., in-person.
• Description: We invite instructors across disciplines to come together as a community of practice to build expertise around teaching in the age of generative AI. These monthly lunches will provide an opportunity to learn more about GAI as it applies to multiple disciplines, hear what other instructors have tried, ask questions and share ideas. We’ll learn about the interests of those thinking about, teaching with (or against), and researching GAI at Cornell. At this fourth meeting, we hope to continue discussing instructors’ needs and share experiences. Refreshments will be provided.
  • This series is co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching Innovation and the Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay Program in the History and Ethics of Professional Engineering.

Getting Started in Canvas

• When: Thursday, March 27, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., on Zoom.
• Additional dates: We are offering fifteen sessions this spring! Visit Getting Started in Canvas for more dates and times.
• Description: Explore ways to use Canvas to facilitate student learning. This workshop will address how to create and share announcements, post a syllabus, add and organize content in ways that help students succeed, and publish your course.

Introduction to Podcasting: Part One

• When: Friday, March 28, 2025, from 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., in person. 

• Description: Podcasting is becoming an increasingly popular alternative assignment type as well as a way to communicate to a wider audience. This workshop is a two-part introduction to podcasting. Part one will cover the basics of planning and recording a podcast. Part two will cover ways to edit a podcast. The goal is not to be an extensive introduction to how to design a podcasting assignment. Rather, it is meant to give instructors an idea of the steps and considerations that you, or your students, will need to take when creating a podcast.

  While this workshop is a two part series, participants are free to attend just one, depending on their needs. If you plan on attending both, please register for both. Part two will be held Friday, April 4, 2025, from 10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m., in person. 

Getting Started in Canvas

• When: Thursday, March 13, 2025, from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., on Zoom. Register for Getting Started in Canvas.
• Additional dates: We are offering fifteen sessions this spring! Visit Getting Started in Canvas for more dates and times.
• Description: Explore ways to use Canvas to facilitate student learning. This workshop will address how to create and share announcements, post a syllabus, add and organize content in ways that help students succeed, and publish your course.

Getting Started in Canvas

• When: Wednesday, March 5, 2025, from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., on Zoom.
• Additional dates: We are offering fifteen sessions this spring! Visit Getting Started in Canvas for more dates and times.
• Description: Explore ways to use Canvas to facilitate student learning. This workshop will address how to create and share announcements, post a syllabus, add and organize content in ways that help students succeed, and publish your course.

Exploring Digital Immersive Learning through Extended Reality (XR)

• When: Tuesday, March 4, 2025, from 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m., in person. 

• Description: Join the Creative Technology Lab (CTL) and the Center for Teaching Innovation for a facilitated panel discussion and hands-on demonstrations of faculty projects that explore immersive learning experiences, including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, in teaching. Faculty will share what sparked their interest in an immersive learning approach and how their teaching has evolved along with their students’ learning experience. We encourage faculty from all disciplines to attend and bring questions and ideas from your own area of expertise. 

  Panelists include James Spinazzola (Music, A&S), Denise Osborne (Romance Studies, A&S), Paulina Velázquez Solís (Art, AAP), Ryan Tapping (Physics, A&S). Hands-on demonstrations will be available before and after the panel to help you learn more about ongoing projects. No experience with immersive tools is needed. Light refreshments will be provided. Doors open at 2:30pm. 

Getting Started with Online Peer Reviews

• When: Tuesday, March 4, 2025, from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., on Zoom.
• Description:The workshop will begin by introducing examples of how student peer review and group member evaluation activities can be implemented in teaching. Then, we’ll pass it over to our FeedbackFruits representatives to demonstrate how to set up these activities using the FeedbackFruits tools. We will then discuss the best practices and available resources to help make these peer learning activities effective for student learning. Participants will be able to ask questions and discuss use cases with CTI facilitators and the FeedbackFruits representatives.

Getting Started in Canvas

• When: Thursday, February 13, 2025, from 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m., on Zoom.
• Additional dates: We are offering fifteen sessions this spring! Visit Getting Started in Canvas for more dates and times.
• Description: Explore ways to use Canvas to facilitate student learning. This workshop will address how to create and share announcements, post a syllabus, add and organize content in ways that help students succeed, and publish your course.

Introduction to Grading in Canvas

• When: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, from 1:00-2:00 p.m., on Zoom.
• Description: Want to make sure you can display grades to students throughout the semester? Come learn the basics of preparing your Gradebook and using the SpeedGrader. Set yourself up for smoother grade management and clear communication of grading to students. 

Getting Started with Online Peer Reviews

• When: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., on Zoom.
• Description:The workshop will begin by introducing examples of how student peer review and group member evaluation activities can be implemented in teaching. Then, we’ll pass it over to our FeedbackFruits representatives to demonstrate how to set up these activities using the FeedbackFruits tools. We will then discuss the best practices and available resources to help make these peer learning activities effective for student learning. Participants will be able to ask questions and discuss use cases with CTI facilitators and the FeedbackFruits representatives. 

Getting Started with Poll Everywhere

• When: Tuesday, January 21, 2025, from 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m., on Zoom.
• Description: Learn how to use Poll Everywhere, Cornell’s new polling tool that is available for free to all instructors, support staff, and students. This workshop will offer demonstrations of the main features, including how to create and launch polls and how to connect Poll Everywhere to your Canvas courses, as well as hands-on activities. For more information on this workshop, visit Poll Everywhere.

Best Practices for moving from Gradescope 1.1 to 1.3 for Instructors

• When: Friday, January 17, 2025, from 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m., on Zoom.
• Description: During the summer of 2024, CTI upgraded the link between Gradescope and Canvas (often called an LTI) from LTI 1.1 to 1.3. The 1.3 integration links Gradescope to Canvas more closely and has increased security among other behind the scenes improvements. This workshop will focus on some best practices when using the new 1.3 LTI integration for those who have used Gradescope in the past and may be copying content or assignments from past semesters.

Demonstrating Learning through Digital Storytelling

• When: Thursday, January 16, 2025, from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m., on Zoom.
• Description: Digital storytelling allows story creators and their audiences to transform and engage through the power of narrative. They are also becoming an increasingly popular alternative assignment type. This 90-minute workshop is an introduction to designing and assessing Digital Storytelling assignments. Whether you’d like to explore providing students with options for making and demonstrating knowledge or want to help students communicate complex ideas in meaningful and creative ways, understanding how to assess these assignments is an important part of the process.

Getting Started with iClicker

• When: Wednesday, January 15, 2025, from 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., in-person.
• Description: Learn how to use iClicker, a classroom polling tool that is available for all Cornell instructors, support staff, and students. This workshop will offer demonstrations of iClicker's main features, including how to set up the iClicker instructor software and launch polls. The workshop will also cover how to connect iClicker to Canvas courses alongside hands-on activities. For more information about this workshop, visit Getting Started with iClicker. 

What's New in Learning Technologies

• When: Thursday, January 9, 2025, from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., on Zoom.
• Description: Attendees will learn about new learning technologies and updates to existing learning technologies.