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Flipped Classroom Blogs & Articles

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Below are some great resources about flipped classrooms and how to integrate this into your current teaching practices. If you have found any additional resources you would like to share, please, let us know!

Avoid These Five Rookie Mistakes When Flipping Your Class

How to Encourage Your Students to Actually DO the Pre-Class Work

Three Ways to Hold Students Accountable for Pre-Class Work

You Don’t Have to be a Technology Guru to FLIP Your Classroom: An ‘Unplugged’ Flipped Strategy

For additional articles visit the Flip it Blog.

Meet Keedra Smith

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Over the course of the next several weeks, we will be profiling a prominent member of the Teaching & Learning Center Staff. This week Keedra Smith, an Academic Technology Consultant for the TLC, took time out of her busy schedule to answer a couple of questions.

TLC: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Keedra Smith: I was born and raised here in Memphis, TN. I attended Hamilton High School, home of the Mighty Wildcats. After graduating from high school, I attended Middle Tennessee State University where I received my Bachelors degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Information Systems.
I am very family oriented and my family and I are very close.  I am the proud mother of a 7 year old son, whom I adore.  He has the key to my heart.

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Use of Simulation in the Classroom

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Use of Simulation in the Classroom

by Dr. Chasity Shelton, College of Pharmacy

July 8, 2016 • 12-1pm • GEB A304

These monthly sessions are aimed at providing faculty with knowledge about all aspects of educational simulation implementation. Faculty will provide an overview of an actual simulation implemented in the UTHSC Sim Center, discuss best practices in simulation education and provide simulation resources for faculty. By attending these sessions, Faculty participants will be able to 1) identify best practices in simulation pedagogy; 2) acquire knowledge of current UTHSC sim activities and 3) network with colleagues for potential inter-professional simulation activities.

Lunch will be provided.

CSHELTON

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TurningPoint Cloud Upgrade

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To all Current and Potential Users of TurningPoint Technologies (clicker technology). 

Action is required. 

During the week of June 27th to July 1st, UTHSC podia was updated to TurningPoint Cloud. Information Technology Systems (ITS) also replaced receivers and updated the podium computers with Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 2016.

Faculty and Students must be ready to use TurningPoint Cloud prior to the first day of class.  The Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) will provide training, tutorials, an up-to-date website, ongoing communication and support in the use of TurningPoint Cloud.

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You can’t teach that online, can you?

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Dr. Karen Adsit started off the day of our Showcase of Teaching and Learning by presenting You can’t teach that online, can you?  She covered several myths of online education, including the myth that online education is just a fad and it’ll never catch on and stay! After 20 years, this myth has been debunked!

Another myth is that I won’t know my students OR I need to be able to see my students to tell if they are learning. The challenge, as a faculty member in an online environment, is to work with your students so that both you and they are able to “see” that they are learning.

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20th Annual Online Learning Consortium International Conference 2014 – Reserve your virtual conference seat!

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UTHSC has a limited number of logins available for virtual attendee session access for sessions that will be streamed live from the conference taking place in Orlando, Florida. Please contact Kristy Conger (kconger@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2253) to request login information for your college/program/department.

Conference Dates: October 29th – October 31st (Please note the time difference – All sessions are scheduled for EST)

Conference Overview:

The 2014 Annual Online Learning Consortium International Conference (formerly known as Sloan-C) is one of the premier forums for online learning. This year’s conference program will offer a full complement of presentations that reflect the implications for the field of specific e-learning experience and practices. As online learning continues to expand and play a strategic role in innovation and improvement of higher education, participation in this conference also provides the opportunity for all who are concerned with the future of online learning to come together, collaborate and share experiences.

To see a list of online sessions that will be available to virtual attendees please go to: http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/conference/2014/aln/streamed_sessions

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Where Can I Find Flippable Moments in My Classes? – Magna 20 minute mentor

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Overview:

Spend 20 minutes on Where Can I Find Flippable Moments in My Classes? and you’ll discover flipping insights and strategies you can employ in any lesson in any course. Barbie Honeycutt and Sarah Warren ensure that after participating in this program, every participant can:

•    Define the flip using Bloom’s Taxonomy
•    Recognize a flippable moment in any class
•    Identify three places to look for a flippable moment in any course
•    Know when to flip and when to skip

To help you decide when to flip and when to skip, the presenters will share their own experiences of what they’ve tried, what worked, and what didn’t. These tales from the trenches will help you see the parallels to your own courses so that you can integrate flipping for greater success.

Information related to accessing the recording and materials for this session is located in the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll

Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions (Magna Online Seminar)

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Date: November 4, 2014
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A204
Click here to register: http://bit.ly/WBMCQ-11-04-14 

Overview:

Join us for Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions, a new Magna Online Seminar developed and presented by Jim Sibley, director of the Centre for Instructional Support at the Faculty of Applied Science at University of British Columbia. The presenter will guide you through the common question-writing pitfalls and instruct you in item analysis so you can examine the performance of your questions and determine how to refine them.

More specifically, you will learn how to:

•    Write better, more effective multiple-choice questions
•    Identify, analyze, and avoid common multiple-choice question pitfalls
•    Use Bloom’s taxonomy to more accurately target the cognitive level of multiple-choice questions
•    Apply item analysis to measure the effectiveness of multiple-choice questions

Read Jim Sibley’s article in Faculty Focus – 7 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Multiple-Choice Questions

Note: We are obtaining a recording of this session and will have it to share approximately 2-3 weeks after the live session. Let Kristy know if you would be interested in viewing it.

Digital Media & Copyright in Higher Ed: Reduce Risk & Avoid Liability (Higher Ed Hero Webinar)

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Register to attend: http://bit.ly/Copyright-Oct32014
Date: October 3, 2014
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A304

Overview:

The use of music, movies, and digitized textbooks on college campuses in and out of the classroom are an everyday occurrence. But are these resources utilized in a manner that do not infringe on copyright laws? When you can and can’t apply fair use for educational purposes is confusing. There are lessons to be learned from recent rulings on fair use that will help faculty and staff navigate copyright laws and avoid litigation and fines.

Join us for this 60-minute webinar where you will discover:

  • Clear instructions for making fair use determinations
  • What are your rights for copying DVD’s, CD’s, video clips & more
  • Online & hybrid courses: Tips for streaming video outside the classroom
  • How the internet changes fair use – exceptions & exclusions
  • Lessons learned from Georgia State, the Hathi Trust decision & others