Scheduled Workshops for Faculty

To help prepare our faculty for the challenges of meeting the needs of today’s students, we want to ensure that they feel comfortable with appropriate teaching methodologies and educational technologies.

Below is a list of upcoming workshops with links to attend. Many times, only a few people can attend; if we have a better idea of how many people are coming, we can better plan the workshops.

Poll Everywhere & Kahoot!

Poll Everywhere is an audience response system that uses mobile devices, Twitter, and the Web. Responses are displayed in real-time to promote discussion. Here is an interesting video where a medical faculty member demonstrates how to use polling: https://www.polleverywhere.com/videos/in-the-wild/polling-in-medical-case-study. A nice ‘value added’ here is how he uses PowerPoint to create a ‘choose your own diagnosis’ presentation. This technique has been used in some of courses, and students seem to enjoy it.

This session explores why we use audience polling as one of our classroom assessment techniques. We will look at how Poll Everywhere can be used to obtain useful feedback on what, how much, and how well students are learning. We will review how to create, share and present with Poll Everywhere, and introduce some of the other innovative types of polls to maximize students’ attention.

A short success story from a medical educator: https://www.polleverywhere.com/use-cases/brainstorming, using brainstorm polls in Poll Everywhere.

In addition to learning about Poll Everywhere, Kahoot! is another type of audience response system that we use here at the Chicago campus. While the interface of Kahoot! may look juvenile, we can assure you the students love it, as long at it is used sparingly. Come learn more about how to use both Kahoot! and Poll Everywhere.

Dates

Monday, July 9, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Attend

https://uichicago.webex.com/meet/max

Note: To use WebEx, you can download the WebEx client to whatever computer you are using. If you do not have administrative rights to your computer, you can also use a smartphone or tablet (go to your respective app store and download the Cisco WebEx Meetings App. You can also attend via a web browser if you cannot download the WebEx client.

Osmosis

Osmosis is a web- and mobile-application that makes medical education more efficient by (a) consolidating the best available educational content like videos, practice questions, and articles into a single learning environment; (b) providing tools for students to write, share, and curate their own practice questions and content; and by (c) using advanced learning science to deliver this content so that students can absorb, retain, and employ it as easily as possible.

By integrating different kinds of content, like videos, USMLE-style practice questions, memory anchors and reference articles, Osmosis makes content stickier and helps students prepare simultaneously for Class Exams, Board Exams, and Clinical Practice. It also helps them crowdsource their own content and materials, for more engaged, active, and collaborative learning.

Osmosis delivers high-quality content from medical experts as well as through partnerships with world-class leaders in medical education. Osmosis delivers relevant content alongside course documents; generates customizable quizzes; and suggests daily flashcards and questions based on a student’s curriculum, schedule, and quiz-performance history.

So…why should you care? You can use Osmosis to see what students are studying and how they are using your lecture content. There are also a lot of resources in Osmosis that you can incorporate as preparatory work for active learning sessions.

Dates

Monday, July 9, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Attend

https://uichicago.webex.com/meet/max

Explain Everything

Explain Everything is a mobile app that can be used to create short tutorials / information videos to be used as prep material. You can even use it to record a short video as a response to student questions in class. This app has being used extensively by Dr. Elliot Kaufman to record explanatory videos on genetics.

The mobile app for iOS and Android is available for purchase prior to the workshop from the Apple App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/explain-everything-classic/id431493086?mt=8) or the Google Play store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explaineverything.explaineverything&hl=en). Make sure you come with the app installed on your device (and bring your device!) I also recommend putting a PowerPoint presentation that you typically use in Box; we will show you how to connect Explain Everything to your Box account to retrieve it.

Dates

No dates currently scheduled

Attend

https://uichicago.webex.com/meet/max

PowToon

PowToon is the world’s leading, most user-friendly and most intuitive animation software (according to them!). With PowToon, anyone – even if you don’t know a pixel from a proxy server – can create engaging, animated videos with a professional look and feel. Here is an example that we made – be kind with your comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yt87m6nT0k&t=15s

Dates

No dates currently scheduled

Attend

https://uichicago.webex.com/meet/max

Camtasia

Camtasia is a powerful program that allows you to go seamlessly from storyboarding to responsive eLearning design. It can be used to create interactive preparatory material for courses, tutorials for departments, etc.

Create amazing screencasts or tutorials that run seamlessly across desktops and mobile devices.

You can obtain Camtasia for your UIC workstation by going through the UI webstore: http://webstore.illinois.edu. Click on Unit Purchases and look for Camtasia. Someone in your department will need a C-FOAPAL account to purchase it. Want to learn more about it before trying it out? Lynda.com through UIC has a whole series of tutorials on how to use it. Go to http://go.uic.edu/Lynda and log in with your netid and common password, and search for camtasia.

Dates
TBA

Echo Personal Capture

The college uses Echo360 to record in-class activities so students can watch them later for review. With Echo Personal Capture, it is possible to pre-record a micro-lecture for students to watch as preparatory material before they come to your in-person activity. Come learn the multiple ways you can use this service.

Dates

No dates currently scheduled

Attend

https://uichicago.webex.com/meet/max