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VoiceThread Advanced: Skills and Ideas

Date: Tue, Nov 26, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

This training is designed for faculty members who have mastered all of the basic technical aspects of using VoiceThread, but would like to see some alternate pedagogical approaches. We will take a deep dive into some uses cases that demonstrate how to incorporate elements of storytelling and game-based learning into your VoiceThread activities. We will discuss playback settings like "one conversation" and timed comments, and we will have an open Q&A throughout the training.

Dr. Raelynne Hale: Using VoiceThread for Language Courses

Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

In this session, Dr. Raelynne Hale from Kansas State University will showcase a variety of VoiceThreads from her language courses. Dr. Hale is an Assistant Professor and Spanish Language Program Co-coordinator.

Hypothes.is Overview

Date: Thu, Jan 9, 2025
Time: 09:00 AM - 09:55 AM

We will discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading visible, active, and social. Topics covered in this session include:

  • Learning how students can look up difficult words or unknown allusions in a text and share their research as annotations.
  • Pre-populating a text with questions for students to reply to in annotations or notes elucidating important points as they read.
  • Have students identify formal textual elements and broader social and historical contexts at work in specific passages.
  • Have students share their personal opinions on a controversial topic as discussed by an article.

You can join this Canvas course to follow along in Hypothes.is assignments and get access to resources.

Using VoiceThread in Canvas

Date: Tue, Jan 21, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

In this workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Canvas course as lessons, discussions, or assessments. This will be a hand-on workshop where you can follow along with the activities and add VoiceThreads into your course modules.

Intermediate Hypothesis: Leveraging Social Annotation in the Age of AI

Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM

The emergence of cutting-edge technologies, like ChatGPT, has sparked a critical conversation throughout the education industry. In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will show you how to leverage social annotation to encourage authentic, process-oriented engagement with your course materials. They’ll also share best practices for using social annotation with AI writing tools and demonstrate how to set up hypothesis-enabled readings in your LMS. Participants can expect to leave the webinar armed with concrete assignments to implement in your courses right away.

You can join this Canvas course to follow along in Hypothes.is assignments and get access to resources.