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We believe that good educational technology is faculty-driven. We are not here to promote technological tools. We are here to meet you where you live with solutions that technology can hopefully solve. It is your relationship with students, facilitated by technology, that we would like to support.
Innovative Strategies
| Engaging students with media | Canvas Studio | PowerPoint | Creating Exams in Canvas and Using Exam Analytics | |
| Sustaining students attention spans | In-video quizzing with Canvas Studio | PowerPoint animations | Poll Everywhere plug-in for PowerPoint | Forms: Google or Microsoft |
| Teaching remote students in real-time | Adobe Connect | BigBlueButton (Canvas conferencing) | Skype for Business | Using Canvas Outcomes for Program Assessment |
| Providing digital lectures on demand | PowerPoint to Stream | Canvas Studio | MS Sway | Avoiding and Detecting Plagiarism |
| Assessing performance recorded on video by students | Canvas Studio through Assignment submission | Techniques for Connecting to Students with a Webcam | Creating Differentiated assignments in Canvas | Web Conferencing Tools for Online Instruction |
| Recording students on video and assessing performance | Canvas Studio through private sharing. | Video editing with open-source software | Multimedia strategies for sustaining student engagement | |
Techno-Pedagogical Strategies
Here is a list of possible teaching strategies with technology that are possible with existing technologies at USF. Some strategies necessitate the need to buy certain supplies, such as a headphone with a wrap-around microphone, and/or an inexpensive webcam.| Techno-pedagogical strategy | PowerPoint | Canvas Studio | Canvas | Adobe Connect | BigBlueButton | Skype for Business | MS Sway | Stream | Forms (MS or Google) |
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| Engaging students with different forms of media | x | x | x | ||||||
| Sustaining students' attention spans | x | x | x | ||||||
| Teaching students in real-time | x | x | x | ||||||
| Providing lecture content on-demand | x | x | x | x | |||||
| Assessing student performance submitted on video by students | x | ||||||||
| Recording students performance and assessing through in-video annotations | x | ||||||||
| Recording screencasts for on-demand viewing | x | x | x | ||||||
| Branching paths of learning based on mastery | x | x | |||||||
| Gathering students responses in real-time | x | ||||||||
| Uploading original video productions | x | x | |||||||
| Importing YouTube videos | x | x | |||||||
| Creating in-video discussions | x | ||||||||
| Adapting chalk-and-talk for online delivery | x | ||||||||
| Gathering survey or quiz data from students | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Incorporating math equations | x | MS Form only | |||||||
| Record a self-introduction or instructional commentary | x | x | x | x |