EIU Faculty Development and Innovation Center

Upcoming Workshops

For webinar descriptions and registration, go to http://eiu.gosignmeup.com

October 27, 2021; 2:00-3:00 PM

Innovative Ways of Teaching with Perusall

Facilitators: Dr. Lu Ding, Dr. Linda Ghent, and Dr. Jim Bruehler
Location:  Online (Zoom)

Perusall is a social annotation tool that can be easily embedded in D2L Brightspace. Many faculty use it to replace asynchronous online discussions, and many of them use it before the class and bring in any topics that need to be further addressed in face-to-face meetings. Faculty have reported that Perusall has substantially increased student engagement in online discussions and students have also shown higher interest in participating in Perusall online discussions than traditional D2L online discussions. In this workshop, Dr. Bruehler and Dr. Ghent will showcase some of the innovative ways that they used Perusall in their classes. In addition, Dr. Ding will present some pedagogies of how to use Perusall in a class including how to prepare students and how to familiarize students with Perusall.

The webinar will conducted through Zoom at the time listed. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to registrants in the confirmation and reminder emails. We recommend saving the meeting link on your calendar for easy access on the day of the webinar.

A recorded version of the presentation will be available after the webinar for those unable to attend.

November 3, 2021; 12:00-1:00 PM

Level Up Your Research Process with Citation Management Software

Facilitator: Kirstin Duffin
Location:  4450 Booth Library E-Classroom

Grow your expertise with citation management software by attending this session on Zotero. Learn how Zotero can help you organize your sources, create formatted citations and bibliographies in seconds (really!), and collaborate with your research partners. Bring your own laptop if you’d like, or use one of the available desktop computers (tablet computers don’t yet support the full functionality of Zotero).

November 10, 2021; 1:00-2:30 PM

Getting to Know Kaltura

Facilitator: Jeff Cranstoun
Location:  4450 Booth Library E-Classroom

Kaltura is a video capturing, editing, and storage service available to every faculty, staff, and students at EIU. This workshop is aimed to empower participants to edit, caption, add a quiz to an existing Kaltura video, and embed this video in D2L. After registration, each participant will be sent a link to a video which demonstrates how to access Kaltura through EIU. Participants will capture and record a 5-minute video (a lecture or discussion) with talking and use this video during the face-to-face portion of the workshop while learning from the facilitator. At the end of this workshop participants will be able to capture and record a video in Kaltura, edit their video, add a quiz to their video, caption their video, and embed their video in D2L.

November 11, 2021; 3:00-3:45 PM

Online Course Tour - PSY 3780

Facilitator: JungSu Oh
Location:  Online (Zoom)

Hop on the virtual tour bus and join us as Dr. JungSu Oh takes us on a tour of his online course. JungSu's course, PSY 3780 - Abnormal Psychology, recently earned the Quality Online Course (QOC) certification from the FDIC and meets the QM Essentials standards from Quality Matters. JungSu will briefly highlight the design choices for his online course, such as use of self-introduction, start-up quiz, project guide, progress management, and organization of content. The webinar will include a 30 minute tour of the course followed by a question and answer session.

Intended Audience: EIU faculty and staff

The webinar will conducted through Zoom at the time listed. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to registrants in the confirmation and reminder emails. We recommend saving the meeting link on your calendar for easy access on the day of the webinar.

A recorded version of the presentation will be available after the webinar for those unable to attend.

Open Enrollment, Self-Select Meeting Time

Webinar:  Zoom Your Way

Facilitator: Julie Lockett
Location: Online (Zoom)

Want to know more about conducting Zoom meetings and using Zoom features? What about integrating Zoom in D2L for class meetings? Zoom Your Way is a one-on-one training session for EIU faculty and staff. The session is customized to meet your needs. You schedule the Zoom Your Way session at a time convenient for you. You select the Zoom topics you want to learn more about. After registration, you will receive an email with a link to schedule your session. You must use that link to schedule a meeting time convenient for you.

Topics include:

• Scheduling Zoom meetings
• Customizing the Zoom settings in your EIU Zoom account
• Hosting a Zoom meeting (includes audio, video, participants, and chat)
• Screen Sharing and Annotations (includes the whiteboard, sharing a PowerPoint and other screen sharing options)
• Polling
• Breakout Rooms
• Recording options
• Integrating Zoom in D2L
• Attendance reports for Zoom meetings