Join us for a discussion of group work online and hands on experience using the online tools in the Google Suite (APPS at UMass). This workshop is designed to give you a working knowledge of the tools available (Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets), their strengths and limits, and get you comfortable building an online space for your students to successfully collaborate to meet your pedagogical goals.

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Learn and get hands on experience creating activities and exploring ways to engage students in Echo360 beyond just recording a classroom lecture. This workshop will cover how to make engaging supplemental videos using Personal Capture, how to create and use activity slides, manage discussions, and measure student engagement.

This workshop is designed for users who have experience with Echo360 in the classroom, or who have already taken a Getting Started in Echo360 workshop.

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73 million Americans, or 26% of the US population, listen to podcasts monthly, and 17%, or 48 million people, listen weekly. If you’ve thought about doing your own podcast to promote your scholarship or research, but don’t know where to start, this workshop will walk you through the basics. We’ll cover how to plan, record, publish, and promote your podcast.

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Join us for a review of several feminist technology projects, recommendations, and tools in international activist spaces and discussion of how these conversations and methods may be relevant to the classroom space. Topics will include principles of technology access, safety and activist technology usage, and storytelling methodologies and will be drawn from the work of the Association for Progressive Communications (www.aps.org).

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JMP s a powerful statistical tool. It’s easy to use interface and multitude of functions made it easy for students and instructors alike to play with data, and see connections within data easily. Students gain the confidence to perform analyses as well as gaining a familiarity with data sets, making learning fun and relevant to them. Join us as we discuss approaches to designing activities using data, walkthrough of some of JMPs capabilities, and have a hands-on experience of using JMP for activities.

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73 million Americans, or 26% of the US population, listen to podcasts monthly, and 17%, or 48 million people, listen weekly. If you’ve thought about doing your own podcast to promote your scholarship or research, but don’t know where to start, this workshop will walk you through the basics. We’ll cover how to plan, record, publish, and promote your podcast.

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Create a public web presence for your teaching or research with WordPress, an easy-to-use platform for building websites and blogs. Common uses by faculty include scholarly portfolios, personal blogs,blogs authored by students as part of a course, public-facing course websites, and informational websites for labs, centers, or research groups.

In this hands-on introductory workshop you’ll learn the basics of the Dashboard control panel on Blogs at UMass, the WordPress service provided by UMass Amherst Information Technology.

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