At Niagara College, we have a number of institutionally-supported tools for recording instructional videos.  In this session, we will review four of these tools - Camtasia, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, PowerPoint and VoiceThread - and compare their functionality, strengths and limitations so that you can select the tool(s) that will align best with your teaching needs....

Developing content for a course can take a lot of time and energy.  This workshop will explore ways to design course materials that can be reused across courses or from semester to semester.  We’ll look at options for developing content, tests, and assignments for reuse and will identify strategies for overcoming common challenges.   Please...

In this session we will explore ways to effectively communicate with your students in an online course to promote better understanding of course expectations and content, build trust and connection, and enhance motivation for learning. By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Enhance their communications to increase student trust and engagement....

Please note that we close registration one hour before the session begins. In this session, Kate Wiley, Accessibility Consultant with NC’s Health, Wellness & Accessibility department will share common accommodations questions and requests they hear most about, and the process behind accommodations requests. Participants will then have an opportunity to share and asks questions. Please...

At Niagara College, we have two main institutionally-supported technologies that can provide robust ecosystems for group work.  Both Blackboard and Microsoft Teams allow for the creation of groups and serve to aggregate tools that support synchronous and asynchronous group collaboration.  In this session, we will review and compare group functionality within Blackboard and Microsoft Teams...