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Zoom Deep Dive: Polling and Breakout Rooms for Engagement

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Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkf--trjsiE9US74D7y2XgcWgHSFQJTT2y After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

How to Help Your Students with Zoom

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Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqc-uvrD4rHt1cPsxKZ00_uuAspv7Ror_r After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. (All attendees of this new class will receive 'free slides' to share with your students!)

Zoom Updates and Class Reports

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Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduurqDoqGNJguwYhFS8kbamfKXCEzZPh After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Helping Your Students with Zoom

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Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwuduigpzIqH9Cq5Fcct4-AE6p2EsG8QY-g After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Class Engagement with Zoom: Open Q&A

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Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcscOCvrzovEtZ0FcKkTsh8h6AK4sc_MqDN After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

“Ungrading” Workshop with Susan D. Blum

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***Hosted by Transformational Learning in the Humanities Susan D. Blum, the esteemed author of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (And What to Do Instead), will be giving a Zoom workshop open to all CUNY faculty. This is an excellent opportunity for everyone to explore alternative assessments as a way to empower student learning. Of course, it […]

Teaming: Tools to Facilitate Student Teamwork

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Hosted by Molly Kern (Management) and Minna Logemann (Communications) Join us to learn more about the Teaming website (https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teaming/), a resource designed to support students working on teams. We will walk through the structure of the website, highlighting the resources to be found in each of four phases, and will conclude with a lot of time for Q&A. […]

Designing Student Engagement with Zoom

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Discuss your ideas and challenges for building engagement into online synchronous class meetings. Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kfuqpqTMuE9DN5r6jVB40Zi7397lmKOSI After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Designing Student Engagement with Zoom

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Discuss your ideas and challenges for building engagement into online synchronous class meetings. Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudO-hpz0qGtV24MHkDOvTz5PFnmcaIaIZ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting

Engaging Students with Zoom: Breakout Rooms Deep Dive

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Review the teaming options in a Zoom synchronous class Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcumsrzkqGdG2AuMF_WsyFYiICIeNdgOh After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting

“It’s on the syllabus!”: How to Engage Students through the Course Syllabus

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A course syllabus is often your first line of communication with students. For many students, the syllabus is not only an introduction to what they can expect from the course, but also a reference guide on what they need to do to get through the semester. Two common beliefs about the syllabus permeate academia: syllabuses […]

Designing Student Engagement with Zoom

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Discuss your ideas and challenges for building engagement into online synchronous class meetings Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAldOuprD4qHdzNy8gJcWBMhoc-9p4YlvET After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Getting to Know You: Creating Icebreakers with the Digital Storytelling Tool StoryMap JS

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​In this hands-on workshop you will learn to create icebreakers and build community in your class with StoryMap JS. Baruch faculty from a range of disciplines have been successfully experimenting with this storytelling tool which works for any narrative with a geographical component. We invite you to this stand-alone session where you will learn what […]

Designing Student Engagement with Zoom

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Discuss your ideas and challenges for building engagement into online synchronous class meetings Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdeCvrD0iHNF0A59qJU4NZa94OCrYdcHn After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Assignment Scaffolding and Student Engagement

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Remote learning challenged us to rethink the ways our course content builds and culminates in assignments. This workshop will consider ways to integrate synchronous and asynchronous student engagement into assignment designs (such as low-stakes engagement opportunities, interrelated materials, staggered deadlines, and/or content remediation) and assessments (such as rubrics and guided peer review) and invite participants […]

Zoom Updates, End-of-Semester Clean-up, and Planning for Spring 2022

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Reviewing the latest Zoom updates, saving your recordings, and options for your Spring Online Classes Before attending this class please update your Zoom application to the latest version (5.8.3 or higher) Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElfuGtqD8vH9CXlpFSPE0D5K7YylAVD435 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Please Bring Your Phones to Class: Meeting Students Where They Are

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In this workshop, we’ll explore methods of utilizing students’ most available technology, the cell phone, as an asset in class instead of a distraction—and consider other ways that we might (1) take common course policies and remix them to foster active learning and student presence, and (2) encourage students to bring the mediums and media […]

“Work it, own it!” Promoting engagement by granting students more agency in your course

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Research in educational psychology prominently highlights the importance of students taking a more ‘active’ and ‘agentic’ role in the learning process, rather than merely being passive recipients of course content and lecture-based information. When they can ‘own’ it, they’ll be more likely to learn it and use it! Rooted in social-constructivist theory, this workshop will […]

Innovations in Fostering Student Engagement Showcase

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Thirty-eight faculty teaching across Baruch’s three schools participated in the CTL’s inaugural Fostering Student Engagement Seminar over the summer of 2021. This fully online Seminar provided an opportunity for faculty teaching in fully online, hybrid, and in-person modes of instruction to connect with one another and consider student engagement in their courses. This showcase highlights […]

Innovations in the Macaulay Honors Seminars

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Throughout their first two years of undergraduate study, Macaulay honors students take four required seminars that introduce them to the academic disciplines. The seminars feature creative inquiry and hands-on exploration of the city’s resources to understand the cultural, natural, social, and economic forces that shape the contemporary urban landscape. At this session sponsored by the […]

Getting Ready for Spring 2022: Capitalizing on your Zoom Assets

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Whether you're moving back to the classroom or teaching online, this class will help you move forward with Zoom.  So before the sugar cookie rush takes over your brain, join us to review what you can expect with the new CUNY login protocol for Zoom (coming Dec 28), how to save your recordings, what's new with […]

Zoom: Getting Ready for Spring 2022

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We'll review Zoom basics and get you ready for successful online classes in Spring. Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofuGprDkvGtYlKzy93Gq5dOlE-Y3MSBYF After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

4-Week Course Prep Guide: Week 1 Working Session

In preparation for the Spring 2022 semester, the CTL will host a series of synchronous online working sessions in concert with the 4 week Online Course Prep Guide*. These weekly zoom sessions will provide quiet time to virtually co-work on course prep. There will be breakout rooms available for discussion with a focus on topics […]

Zoom: Getting Ready for Spring 2022

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We'll review Zoom basics and get you ready for successful online classes in Spring. Host: Cathy Kawalek Register in advance for this meeting: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qcumgqDguGdNIqGxGi3MoHTlJ2PrkmUGe After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.