Thought Leadership
Leveraging Supplemental Resources to Engage, Empower, Elevate, and Extend: Higher Education
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Supplemental resources are additional items we provide our students to support their learning. Often nonrequired, these resources can have an impact on student learning. When used for optional activities, these supplemental resources can motivate students to explore topics of interest to them, helping them to take ownership of their learning. By taking away the stress that comes with additional requirements, students are left with the freedom to choose their learning.
The key is carefully selecting the right resources and embedding them in the right places, whether your courses are online, face-to-face, or a hybrid mixture of both.
Join instructional designer Waneta Hebert to explore what supplemental resources are and how they can be leveraged in any academic-level course modality to:
- Engage students with the power of choice.
- Empower students to explore their interests.
- Elevate struggling students with additional support.
- Extend high-achieving students to new heights.
Teach Outside the Box! Finding Instructional Materials in Unexpected Places
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As instructors or designers, it can be easy to fall into a rut of looking for instructional materials in the same places, but if we don’t explore beyond what we already know, how can we ever improve? In this webinar, instructional designer Waneta Hebert helps you break through the bubble of your comfort zone to find instructional inspiration in unexpected places. Learn how to find and use nontraditional and non-subject-specific resources such as upskilling resources in your courses.
Solving Instructional Needs with ADDIE and Supplemental Materials
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Planning for a new semester or a new lesson can feel overwhelming. Where should you begin? What resources should you use? How will you know that it’s working? Join instructional designer Waneta Hebert on a guided tour through the ADDIE model, an easy-to-follow instructional design method that can simplify the design process for anyone. This webinar covers what course designers should prioritize to keep lessons simple and engaging. Learn about research-based strategies for incorporating supplemental materials into your course design.
What I Wish I Knew: Advice for Emerging Teachers and Those Who Support Them
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The first year in the classroom can be both terrifying and exciting. First-year teachers have dreamt of standing in the front of their own classrooms and imparting knowledge on the next generation, but that first year is often fraught with obstacles. Presenter Waneta Hebert will share from her own experience of relocating from Ohio to Texas as a first-year teacher and how she not only survived, but thrived in the field of education. Now as an adjunct instructor, she will discuss how to support future teachers as they prepare to embark on their own teaching journeys.
De-Siloing K–12 Schools: Maximizing Partnerships and Resources to Enhance Curriculum Development
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Academic officers, curriculum specialists, educational technology coaches, and librarians in many districts exist in separate silos with little communication and collaboration between them. In this webinar, instructional designers Waneta Hebert and Karina Quilantan-Garza discuss how all of these departments can build partnerships to shift usage of underused technology and resources. Viewers will learn about how communication and collaboration can strongly influence course development and support information literacy in the classroom.
Professional Development
Easy Accessibility: The Plus-One Approach to UDL
Houston Community College
Description: The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines are a vital resource for ensuring that your course is accessible for all learners, but re-designing a whole course can be overwhelming. Instead, start with just one problem area in the course and improve it with UDL. Consider your course. Is there one place where students always have questions, tend to get things wrong, or ask for additional explanations? Bring that problem area to this workshop, and we’ll work together to apply the One-Plus Approach to improve learning for ALL your students.
Canvas & The Flipped Classroom
Houston Community College
Description: Put your students at the heart of the learning experience by implementing a Flipped Classroom Model with Canvas. Move the presentation of information outside of the classroom and into the Canvas LMS where students can access it anytime and anywhere. Optimize the time spend in the classroom with active engagement, collaboration, and hands-on learning. Position yourself as a facilitator for student learning by providing targeted in-the-moment interventions. Come to this session to explore this research-based strategy to help your students take ownership of their learning!
Coffee Corner: Tips for Spicy Lectures
Houston Community College
Description: Join us for this ten-minute session about student-centered strategies to improve class lectures.
Coffee Corner: GroupMe for Collaboration and Communication
Houston Community College
Description: Join us for this ten-minute session about using the mobile instant messaging tool GroupMe to foster communication and collaboration among students.
Conference Presentations
Sharing the Love: Open Educational Resources for All
Hebert, W., & Ramirez, A. (2022, April 7-8). Sharing the love: Open educational resources for all [concurrent session]. Texas Distance Learning Association Conference. Galveston, TX.
Conference: Texas Digital Learning Association (TxDLA)
Description: Do you already love using Open Educational Resources? Having a hard time convincing others to see the benefits? Discover research-based strategies for encouraging others to incorporate OER to create engaging material for instruction or training. OER can save time, money, and effort for both instructors and learners.
Reducing the Barriers to UDL: Making the Case for Access
Hebert, W., Silva, C., & Khan, S. (2022, April 7-8). Reducing the barriers to UDL: Making the case for access [concurrent session]. Texas Distance Learning Association Conference. Galveston, TX.
Conference: Texas Digital Learning Association (TxDLA)
Description: Do you embrace Universal Design for Learning to reduce barriers to learning but have a hard time explaining why it is such important work to your colleagues? Come to this session to explore some simple strategies to encourage reluctant faculty to view UDL as the benefit it is.
Teacher/Students Leading Student/Teachers
Hebert, W., Gronseth, S., Zhang, H., Nguyen, P., Ugwu, L., & Thompson, J. (2021, November 4-5). Teacher/students leading student/teachers [roundtable]. Association for Educational Communications & Technology International Convention. Chicago, IL.
Conference: Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT)
Description: It is well-known that many pre-service teachers are taking classes taught by graduate student instructors. The experiences of those graduate student instructors are not as well documented. This panel of graduate students currently teaching in teacher preparation programs will explore their perspectives regarding benefits and challenges through the lens of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK).
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