Please review the tabs below to explore various presentations to help your students learn.

Blooket
Teaching with Timeline JS
High Performance Computing Resources
Using Notion
Using Plickers
Glean

Using Blooket to Engage and Assess Your Students

Blooket provides an interactive and engaging technology-based game format assessment tool that students may use to individually self-assess their knowledge of the content/topic. The teacher pre-makes the questions and answers for the topic/content. Students are then able to log into Blooket using a code and engage in the game of choice. Session participants will use technology (e.g., a smartphone or computer) to engage in a game of choice demonstration and game activity.

Presenter: Jamie Mahoney, Associate Professor, Department of Adolescent, Career and Special Education

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Teaching with Timeline JS

In this session, participants will learn how to use Timeline JS, an open-source timeline tool from the Knight Lab that embeds into most websites. This tool can be useful for faculty teaching any subject when they need to use historical perspectives.

Presenter: Leigh Wright, Associate Professor, Journalism and Mass Communications

Examples of Timeline JS

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High Performance Computing Resources in Teaching and Research

Murray State faculty have access to multiple high-performance clusters throughout the country through ACCESS and the Kentucky Cyberteam. Each cluster has different programs that can be used for teaching and/or research. As a Campus Champion, I will show session participants how to get started with them.

Presenter: Jonathan Lyon, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Using Notion to Create Learning Communities

Do you struggle to get students engaged in class discussions? Do you find discussion boards fruitless?

In this session, Professor, Latricia Trites, will demonstrate how the program Notion can be used to create dynamic, digital learning communities in the classroom. Having used discussion boards on Learning Management Systems such as Blackboard and Canvas with dismal results, the use of Notions has been a game changer.

Session participants will be equipped to engage students in interactive discussions that will foster their understanding of class content and create digital learning communities in the classroom.

Presenter: Professor Latricia Trites, English and Philosophy

Using Plickers to Actively Poll Class Responses

Are you looking for a technique to poll student responses to questions in class, while having them be more active than just pushing a button? Plickers may be a good option for your class.

Active learning is well established as a high-impact teaching technique. Receiving immediate feedback from students’ responses also allows a professor to immediately address misconceptions. While several different polling systems exist, most involve students simply pushing a button on an electronic device and some require a registration.

Plickers require no electronic devices, have no (or little) cost, and students do not need to sign up for an account. In addition, students are a little more active with Plickers than other polling systems. Individuals that sign up for this section at least one week in advance will receive a paper Plicker card via campus mail that they can use during the seminar (web camera required).

This session will equip attendees to do the following:

Set up a Plickers course.
Poll their classes’ responses.
Explore features such as graphing students' answers and gradebook.

Presenter: Dr. Jonathan T. Lyon, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Glean: How Students with Disabilities are Becoming More Confident Students

Are you interested in finding out about an innovative tool that is available to better assist students with disabilities to gain access to the information that you presented to them?

Join us in this session to discover the benefits of GLEAN, a powerful tool that approximately 100 Murray State students with documented disabilities are using to assist with taking notes in their lecture-style classes. GLEAN allows students to capture an audio recording of the lecture, and information gathered can be converted to a written transcript with one simple click!

Objective

Recognize how using GLEAN can help students with disabilities become more confident with their note taking abilities.

Discover how faculty can benefit from their students using GLEAN.

Presenter: Ken Ashlock, Director, Office of Student Disability Services