On-Demand Workshop Videos
While many opportunities for training and professional development are synchronous, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers this collection of videos for those who cannot attend our workshops or want an on-demand overview. Additionally, our collection of brief video tutorials can be found on the Toolkit Shelf. And the CTL Blog also offers some videos in its Quick Look series.
Workshop videos listed below are arranged chronologically. Use the drop-down menu to navigate to videos for a specific academic year. Optionally, you can search our entire collection by title and/or key words.
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October 2016
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Topics included: the pedagogical rationale for including images; the selection of images, sources, and related legal concerns (including a review of how to find sources that meet copyright law); and an introduction to best practices for incorporating images so that your materials are universally accessible.
October 2017
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In this workshop, our medical illustrator joined us in leading a discussion on the power, purpose, and clarity of images in lectures and other classroom artifacts. Takeaways included the pedagogical rationale and implications for incorporating images in your course materials; design considerations, including being mindful of the accessibility principles of Universal Design for Instruction (UDI); and pointers on finding image sources whose permissions include appropriate exceptions to copyright protection. The session's distributed documents are available as PDFs: Legal Concerns handout & Image (Open Access) Resources.
April 2018
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This workshop focused on dissecting and understanding different types of rubrics, and examining their benefits for both faculty and students. Strategies for building and integrating the rubric were discussed. The session's takeaway gave participants a better understanding of creating and using a rubric that sets clear expectations for students, all while streamlining grading practices. The session's handouts are available as PDFs: Designing a Basic Rubric, Example Rubrics.
Shakespeare to Spielberg - Using Techniques from Film & Stage to Make your Presentations More Impactful (1h 20 min) | handout
February 2019
Brian Klaas
This Toolkit workshop, facilitated by Brian Klaas, introduced techniques for creating and presenting engaging and impactful lecture presentations — lectures that are easier for the brain to encode, process, and retrieve when needed — by utilizing directorial and editing techniques from both film and the stage. Techniques including personas, pace, and composition (including focusing on the right information at the right time) were discussed as parts of a planned, cohesive design that can develop into an emotionally arresting presentation.
Strategies for Aligning Course Workloads with Credit Hours (57 min recording) | presentation slides
December 2018
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This session explained our credit hour structure and also discussed the difficult nature of estimating course workloads -- especially time beyond the in-class lecture or online lecture media. In addition to recommended best practices for aligning the student workload with course objectives, several resources were offered to assist in strategically estimating learning time across credit hours and platforms. The distributed resources, including the workload worksheet, are available through the BSPH Course Resources internal website (login required).
All Academic Years (AY)
October 2018
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The Toolkit introduced principles that help remind and encourage us why we should be concerned with Universally Accessible Content. It also presented several specific practices that should become our routine for presenting and authoring materials that are better for everyone. We want to foster a culture that routinely employs simple steps to reach and include more people across more platforms.
October 2018
Dr. Mary Fox
In this Toolkit session, Dr. Mary Fox gave a firsthand account regarding how she is using topical environmental health policy issues as case examples and case studies while teaching the Risk Sciences and Public Policy certificate program. Her presentation, which did not focus on the case study research method, highlighted a variety of assignment formats that develop both qualitative and quantitative skills including analyzing specific examples using coal combustion waste and pesticide mixtures in foods. Dr. Fox also relayed anecdotes on how the students' experiences with these assignment types have allowed them to apply what and how they learned to employment and other professional experiences.
The CoursePlus Gradebook Tool (59 min) | presentation slides
September 2018
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This session focused on the CoursePlus Gradebook tool, including its customizations, its tie-ins to other CoursePlus tools, its most recent upgrades including extra credit options, and more.
May 2018
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This Toolkit Workshop highlighted the benefits of using the online Gradebook as both a means of record-keeping and as a pedagogical choice in opening communication with and fostering motivation in your students. Various research findings and sample scenarios were discussed to lead participants to further consider how they might best use the Gradebook. As a part of this Toolkit, we demonstrated specific features of the CoursePlus Gradebook module.
Preparing a PowerPoint for Narration in the Studio
April 2018
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This session brought members of the CTL Technical Writing, Audio Production, and Instructional Design Teams together to offer helpful tips for developing and delivering a narrated PowerPoint lecture in preparation for a CTL studio recording. The benefits of modularization, good slide design, strategies for accessibility, and recording best practices were highlighted while focusing on the 3 P’s – Planning, Preparation, and Performance. While the session was geared for preparing and recording a lecture in the CTL studio, the shared strategies and techniques can be applied to narrating a PowerPoint with any teaching and learning platform.
View Preparing a PowerPoint for Narration in the Studio:
Section A: Planning (7:42)
Section B: Preparation (8:05)
Section C: Performance (5:50)
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April 2021
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The CoursePlus PathFinder tool is a powerful option for faculty to actively engage their students with the curriculum while promoting critical thinking in a student-centric approach. This workshop included an overview of the tool, highlighting the steps faculty should take in creating a viable path structure such that students receive meaningful feedback as they interact with the activity; the pedagogical rationale of implementing the option; and a first-hand faculty perspective from Brittany Feijoo (International Health). [Please note that the first few minutes of this session were not included in the recording.]
Dean's Office Faculty Workshops: Best Practices in the Virtual Classroom (56 min) | transcript
Keywords: BSPH virtual classroom, pandemic
March 2021
Philip Jordan, PhD; Jennifer Applegate, PhD ’20, MSPH ’12; and Beth McGinty, PhD
Continuing the theme of Strategies for Moving to a Virtual Classroom, Elizabeth Stuart, PhD, Associate Dean for Education, facilitated a conversation with some of our distinguished colleagues, discussing several best practices arising from the many lessons learned in the first year of the pivot to the virtual classroom. Faculty reflected on their personal experiences and discoveries in finding what works best both for the students and the faculty teams in the "new" online environment we were all forced to adapt to one year ago.
Providing Multiple Means of Engagement with CoursePlus Tools for Self-Regulation (35 min) | transcript | presentation slides
March 2021
Celine Greene, Brian Klaas
In this Teaching Toolkit workshop, CTL highlighted some CoursePlus options for students' self-regulation as applied to the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework's principle of providing multiple means of engagement. Our newest CoursePlus feature, In-Lecture Quizzes, was highlighted as one of the things that may be purposefully incorporated into a course as a means for students to internalize what they've learned and to understand how they, as individuals, learn best.