DUTTON INSTITUTE NEWS

Encourage more activity in your Zoom breakout rooms, add a Chrome extension to simplify your Canvas inbox and make using Speedgrader more efficient, and use Canvas Course Link Validator to scan your course for invalid or unresponsive links. Penn State Resources Worth Revisiting Penn State’s Instructor Guide for Upcoming Semester Course Planning site isn’t just for pre-semester planning! This is a one-stop resource for information about technology and training resources, best practices for teaching in remote modes, handling student absences, enforcing health and safety requirements, and many more relevant topics. The Penn State Keep Teaching site is full of up-to-date information about webinars, policy guidelines and documents, health and safety, and a variety of teaching topics.

This month's digest examines Zoom's Virtual Background feature, the “Silent Meeting", the Canvas Quiz Converter, Top Hat, seven ways to foster a sense of community in the online classroom, and more!

Student engagement is the focus of this month's Dutton Digest. And, you can get a few EdTech tips too.

Top Hat, Virtual Facilitation, Engaging Students, Studying Smarter and Not Harder, and Helping Students Flourish are all topics in this digest edition.

Engaging students is more important than every. Read on to learn about some new ideas for using Nearpod and video-based discussions.

Check out some great resources for student engagement, Zoom polling, teaching online with video, and "The Tree of Contemplative Practices."

Notes for developing instructor presence.

The Learning Design Team at the Dutton e-Education Institute is pleased to announce a newly developed resource, a Remote & Online Teaching Guide for Instructors, to assist with the transition from face-to-face offerings to remote or online delivery.