FTTC 2024: Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference

This session will introduce a number of games that have been developed or adapted to increase student engagement across disciplines and fit various modes of instruction including lectures, discussions, reviews, and more! These games and accompanying resources will include digital options (PlayingCards.io, Google Dice, etc.) that can support remote learning as well as games played face-to-face (Chameleon, Jenga, etc.) that can encourage more interaction from students within the classroom.  Participants will also get to begin developing or adapting games for their own classes through “Game-Storming” sessions and prompts provided in a session workbook!  

H5P is a free tool that any faculty can use to create interactive course content. This session will allow participants to see how we created a customized, interactive experience/manual for students to supplement Anatomy lab activities.

Enjoy lunch as you listen to lightning round introductions (~5 minutes each) presented by faculty and instructional designers sharing their favorite tools for their teaching. Learn about new tools or new ways to use some favorites.

From 12:30- 1:00 participants in this session will hear from the following speakers:

Jana Gerard: Chrome Extensions that Save Time: Learn what a Chrome extension is, how to install extensions, how to be safe when selecting extensions, and be introduced to some extensions that help faculty and save time. These extensions include LastPass, TabCloud, Google Scholar, Google Translate, Ad Blocker, Equatio, and more.


Elizabeth Dorrsom: Encouraging Undergraduate Course Engagement Through Anonymous Programs: Participants will learn how to use Padlet, Quizizz, and Mentimeter to encourage undergraduate course participation.

Amanda Joyce: Using Google Alerts to Enhance Your Teaching: This session will focus on how instructors can use this tool to combat indecision and encourage discussion in the classroom with cat memes!

Jerol Enoch: Lucid and Figjam: What can you do with an infinite whiteboard? Well, the possibilities are in…credible. Come and see what Lucid and Figjam can do for you

They keep telling us that AI is the future of education. But how does AI actually work? When you type text into ChatGPT, an ensemble of technologies spring into action to predict the response you'll be happy with: we'll open the hood and take a look at them; and in doing so, we'll build intuition for where this technology is headed and what it means for your classroom in the near and long-term.

Can our teaching affect actual change in behavior?  In this session we will highlight the results of a study on what effect a targeted educational module on privacy literacy had on the social media sharing behaviors of 1st and 2nd year college students.  On a practical level, this presentation will demonstrate how YOU can easily implement some of the impressive features in the H5-P interactive book and the Perusall marking tool.

This session will show you how to use OneNote with MS Teams to help instructors teaching multiple sections set up their individual sections of master courses for asynchronous online instruction and communicate issues that may arise while teaching.