Abstract: Engaging online students can be a challenge, but three tools, ThingLink, EdPuzzle, and FlipGrid, provide universally designed ways for students to access, manipulate, and submit material. This workshop will help instructors create learning objects using these three tools. The principles of universal design will be reviewed as well as assessment and data collection strategies.

Objectives

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: 1. Define Universal Design; 2. Create learning objects for online learning spaces; and 3. Develop assessment strategies for learning objects.

Topical Outline

1. Introductions 2. Hands-on Activity (warm up): Engagement Activity 3. Universal Design 4. ThingLink 5. EdPuzzle 6. FlipGrid 7. Assessment Strategies 8. Data Collection 9. Data Driven Change/Improvements 10. Summary/Wrap

Prerequisites

Must have a laptop (tablet is OK)

Experience Level

Intermediate

Qualifications

Beth Ritter-Guth is the Director of Instructional Design and Director of American Honors at Union County College. Prior to her administrative post, she was tenured in English at Lehigh Carbon Community College in PA. Her use of innovative technology and virtual worlds in the teaching of literature has been recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today, America Online, and Wired Magazine. She received the Nobel Educator of Distinction Award in 2012 and The Faculty of the Future Award from the National Association of Independent Schools in 2010. Beth's most distinctive work was in using Second Life to create 64 literary sims including Dante's Inferno, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day. Beth holds a BA in English, a BA in Communication, and a MA in English.