Technology Test Kitchen

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Office of Academic Innovation

Learn about new technologies and tools for teaching at PSU in this fun, fast-paced session.

What's the best recipe for your classroom? Trying to figure out the right balance of tools? The PSU Tech Test Kitchen event is for you!C﻿ome join us on March 9th for an experimentation hour featuring fun and emerging tools. We will have rotating virtual demos of each technology available every 15 minutes throughout the hour for you to jump in and explore.

T﻿his event is for PSU faculty and will take place on Zoom. Please be sure to use your pdx.edu email to reserve your spot. Your Zoom link will come to you through your eventbrite ticket. You are invited to reach out to oai@pdx.edu with any accomodation needs or questions ahead of the event.

Agenda

Introduction  & Welcome

ChatGPT is an AI language model good enough that author and educator Daniel Herman calls it “the End of High School English”. Come see ChatGPT in action and discuss what it means for your students to enter a word where machines will be able to write for them.

ChatGPT 

Not to be confused with Canvas, Canva is free graphic design tool that makes it super easy to create visual elements for your course. We’ll go over the basics, then build a homepage banner together based on a template you can use to design your own!

Canva

Google Jamboard is a collaborative digital whiteboard that can be utilized in synchronous and asynchronous classrooms. This technology test kitchen will show you (1) how to use Jamboard, (2) when to use Jamboard (3) examples of using Jamboard in synchronous and asynchronous classrooms.

Jamboard

Hypothesis is a social annotation platform that allows users to comment on web content. Faculty can use hypothesis to foster collaborative critical reading practices. A Hypothesis plugin is now available in Canvas for all PSU users, and can be used to digitally annotate any web page or PDF. You can also create a Canvas Assignment with Hypothesis.

Hypothesis

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