Ed Tech Trends/Exploration

Innovation Playground: Engage & Energize with Interactives

Come play and explore interactive tools to enhance classroom engagement during this session — some tools inspired by suggestions from iPlay participants! The Innovation Playground series is open to all UH faculty and staff to attend. Please register with your Google@UH email address below to access the Zoom webinar credentials. Resources will be made publicly available on this event page after the session. Please note that the session will not be recorded as the majority of the session time will be dedicated to individual exploration. Visit our Innovation Playground webpage for more information on what to expect during the session and to learn about upcoming sessions.

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Innovation Playground: AI Multimedia Adventures

Come play and explore AI-based tools that simplify creating multimedia content (text, images, videos, audio, songs) during this session! The Innovation Playground series is open to all UH faculty and staff to attend. Please register with your Google@UH email address below to access the Zoom webinar credentials. Resources will be made publicly available on this event page after the session. Please note that the session will not be recorded as the majority of the session time will be dedicated to individual exploration. Visit our Innovation Playground webpage for more information on what to expect during the session and to learn about upcoming sessions.

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Innovation Playground: Lamakū (Brightspace) Blastoff!

Come play and explore UH’s new LMS, Lamakū (by Brightspace D2L) during this session! The Innovation Playground series is open to all UH faculty and staff to attend. Please register with your Google@UH email address below to access the Zoom webinar credentials. Resources will be made publicly available on this event page after the session. Please note that the session will not be recorded as the majority of the session time will be dedicated to individual exploration. Visit our Innovation Playground webpage for more information on what to expect during the session and to learn about upcoming sessions.

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Innovation Playground: Extended Reality (XR)

Come play and explore during this session! The Innovation Playground series is open to all UH faculty and staff to attend. Please register with your Google@UH email address below to access the Zoom webinar credentials. Resources will be made publicly available on this event page after the session.

Please note that the session will not be recorded as the majority of the session time will be dedicated to individual exploration. Visit our Innovation Playground webpage for more information on what to expect during the session and to learn about upcoming sessions.

Register Now!

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Innovation Playground: Miro and Figma

Come explore these free (for Educators) All-in-One [or Multipurpose] Tools for Design, Collaboration, Whiteboard, and more! The Innovation Playground series is open to all UH faculty and staff to attend. Please note that the session was not recorded as the majority of the session time will be dedicated to individual exploration. Visit our Innovation Playground webpage for more information on what to expect during the session and to learn about upcoming sessions.

Session Resources (requires a Google@UH account to view):

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Online Teaching Excellence (OTE) Phase 1: Course Design

Description:
OTE Phase 1: Course Design (previously known as OCDR in the summer of 2023) has been revamped and will be available as an online asynchronous, self-paced course beginning on 3/11/2024. This phase focuses on essential online teaching principles, and guides participants through planning and designing a learner-centered and outcomes-aligned online course. NOTE: This phase is facilitated in Laulima and is open to all UHCC faculty and lecturers.

Successful completion of all required deliverables by 5/13/2024 will qualify eligible participants for a $300 overload pay. (Eligibility subject to HR verification.) Sign up by 3/10/2024.

View the OTE program phases table to learn more and sign up!

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Innovation Playground: H5P

Come play and explore H5P during this session! The Innovation Playground series is open to all UH faculty and staff to attend. Please note that the session was not recorded as the majority of the session time will be dedicated to individual exploration. Visit our Innovation Playground webpage for more information on what to expect during the session and to learn about upcoming sessions.

Session Resources (requires a Google@UH account to view):

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Work Smarter Not Harder: Level Up AI Prompting

Description:

Entering prompts into AI tools may appear to be a simple process, but it can be tricky to refine. Curious at all to see how the same prompt produces different outputs across various tools like ChatGPT, Bard, Adobe Express, Dall-E, etc.? Join this webinar to improve your prompting skills and discover some strategies and frameworks to enhance usage in different contexts.

Presenters:

  • Shane Jackson, Undergraduate Program Advisor, NAWSON Office of Student Services, UH Mānoa
  • Matt Parcon (Moderator), Instructional Designer, UHOIC

Webinar Resources

*This event is co-sponsored by the UHM Center for Teaching Excellence.

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Teacher to Teacher – New Features of Padlet and Go2Knowledge

Description:

Discover exciting new features from Padlet and take your learner engagement to the next level with custom interaction, board template, and file export updates. Learn about professional development opportunities from Go2Knowledge, including live and on-demand webinars on teaching strategies, AI, and much more. Open to all UHCC faculty and staff.

View the flyer for more information on how to attend! 

Presenters:

  • Avree Ito-Fujita (Instructional Designer, UHCC System)
  • Helen Torigoe (Instructional Designer, UHCC System)

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Innovation Playground: Same Tools, New Features

Come play and join this session where we return to the Generative AI tools covered last semester (or tools we haven’t had a chance to explore yet) and delve into their exciting latest capabilities. This session is perfect if you want to stay up to date on the latest and greatest features. Visit our Innovation Playground webpage for more information on what to expect during the session and to learn about upcoming sessions. Please note that the session was not recorded as the majority of the session time was dedicated to individual exploration.

Session Resources (requires a Google@UH account to view):

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