DL Webinars And Training Schedule

Each year, the UH Board of Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching is awarded to faculty members who “exhibit an extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity, and personal values that benefit students.” Join this webinar to gain some online teaching strategies and tips from four of the 2022 awardees across different disciplines.

Register: http://go.hawaii.edu/2GD

An introductory, self-paced online module designed by the UH Online Innovation Center (UHOIC) to assist faculty and staff in reviewing a wide range of topics and concepts related to online learning presented in an interactive and engaging online learning environment. Topics such as engaging tools, best practices, distance learning regulations, and policies are covered in this module.

The Digital Accessibility Professional Development Program is an online professional development program focused on Digital Accessibility for creating accessible digital documents for online course sites.

Throughout the semester, the UH Online Innovation Center (UHOIC) presents interactive and engaging webinars on a wide range of topics and concepts related to online learning. Additionally, they host the "Preparing to Teach Online at UH Module," an asynchronous self-paced module designed to assist faculty in developing an online course.

VoiceThread provides instructor-led training covering the basics of using VoiceThread to more advanced topics such as universal design for learning. There is also a large categorized library of on-demand webinar recordings covering a wide-range of topics in specific interests such as Art, Language Arts/Literature, Nursing, Online Courses, and more.

Zoom provides on-demand courses, live training, and short videos designed to give you just what you need when you need it.

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through knowledge, resources, and community-building opportunities. To create a profile (if you do not currently have one already set-up) follow the steps below:

Visit the Educause website (located at https://www.educause.edu/) and click the Login button.

Search for "University of Hawaii" and select "University of Hawaii." You will be prompted to authenticate with your UH username.

From the “Organization” drop-down list, select “University of Hawaii Systems Office.”

Innovative Educators provides professional development via online webinars on a myriad of subjects such as online classroom management, active learning in the online classroom, and more.

You will need to create a profile/account that is unique to you. Once you are logged in you will be able to view and register for upcoming live webinars and order on demand webinars.

Here is a link to the recording. Note that we have also added it to the UH Hilo VoiceThread webpage under the "Tutorials - Basics" section. Additionally, here are some helpful resources that George, our webinar facilitator, provided:

• a link to VoiceThreadʻs free workshop page where UH Hilo faculty or staff can register for upcoming sessions or view the archives on the right side of the page.
• a link to VoiceThreadʻs blog where you can find a number of guest posts from educators who use VoiceThread with their classes.
• a link to Voicethreadʻs YouTube channel. If you subscribe to their channel, you will receive the latest tutorials as soon as they are posted.

As a companion piece to the recent email you received entitled, "Highlighting Online Assessments," the UH Hilo Distance Learning Team is pleased to offer you a series of webinars to help you prepare your upcoming finals, create engaging discussions to assess learning, and provide a Gradebook for efficient feedback.

In these changing times, we would like to showcase some positive success stories by our educators. The presenters are familiar faces, from a wide variety of disciplines and departments, who will be sharing their online teaching strategies, experiences, best practices, and lessons learned. Additionally, there will be time for your questions and answers. We hope that these presentations will provide you inspiration and enlightenment!