Connect to Success Summer Institute 2023.

Workshop: Teaching with Notability

Presenter

Elizabeth Ferrer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Basic Sciences, Samuel Merritt University

Resources

• N/A

Summary

The session will focus on how the Notability app can be a powerful tool for teaching and learning in person and remotely.

Abstract

With new technologies emerging, instructors are always seeking creative ways to keep their students engaged, provide resources, and interact with students inside and outside of the classroom. Notability is a great resource, with various abilities like recorded annotation functions and editability. The app can allow you to give engaging lectures, share notes with audio recordings, create assignments, provide feedback, screen record while using the app, and many others. The ability to modify content to provide accommodations to students, and allow them a resource which they can modify as well, makes it extremely flexible. The session will discuss and demonstrate using Notability with examples for lectures, recorded lectures, annotating and creating, and other functions for notes among others.

Learning Outcomes

1. Annotations as a teaching tool.
2. Live and recorded lectures with notability on an iPad.
3. Share notes and recordings.

Workshop Tags

 Specialty Apps, Specialty app basic iPad functions

Required Participant Experience

 Intermediate (practical application)

Activities

 Demonstration, Interactive Exercise

Required Devices

 iPad, Apple Pencil

Required pre-installed apps

 Notability

Presenter Biography

Dr. Ferrer is a faculty member in the department of Basic Sciences.She has taught anatomy to first year podiatric and physician assistant students at Samuel Merritt University. She is interested in the use of technology in anatomy teaching, whether in the lecture or the laboratory setting, and have experience teaching with Notability live, as well as synchronously and asynchronously through remote teaching.  

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Workshop: Learning with iPads in an Active Learning Classroom

Presenter

Rhea Kimpo, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor, Basic Sciences, Samuel Merritt University

Resources

• Access the C2S Institute 2023 Resources 

Summary

Active learning engages students through activities that invite them to think, discuss, investigate, and create. In this workshop, we will see how iPads in an active learning classroom are suited to support active learning.

Abstract

Active learning engages students through activities that invite them to think, discuss, investigate, and create. This contrasts with passive learning, which generally involves one-way transmission of information from instructor to student. Passive learning is traditionally associated with lectures or reading textbooks. Compared to passive learning, active learning has been shown to induce higher brain activity, potentially contributing to stronger long-term memory. Active learning in university classrooms have been shown to significantly enhance student learning in STEM fields. In this workshop, we will see how iPads in an active learning classroom are suited to support active learning. iPads, together with apple pencils, offer numerous opportunities for multimedia active learning activities. This workshop will show how iPads, apple pencils, and the app Notability in a classroom set up for active learning have enhanced students’ learning experience in graduate level neuroscience courses in Podiatric Medicine and Occupational Therapy. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to use iPads in an active learning activity, either in the active learning classroom or remotely via breakout rooms.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define active learning and give examples of active learning activities.
2. Compare and contrast active vs. passive learning.
3. Describe the impact of active learning on student’s experience.

Workshop Tags

iPad Basics, Specialty Apps, Clinical Applications, Active Learning

Required Participant Experience

Novice (limited experience)

Activities

Demonstration, Interactive Exercise, Discussion, Collaboration, Q&A

Required Devices

iPad, Apple Pencil, Computer for those attending via Zoom

Required pre-installed apps

Notability

Presenter Biography

Rhea R. Kimpo, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Basic Sciences, College of Health Sciences at Samuel Merritt University. She earned her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University. Her PhD and postdoctoral research focused on elucidating the neural mechanisms that mediate learning and memory. She teaches neuroscience to medical students and pathophysiology to undergraduate students at Samuel Merritt University. Her current research focuses on developing best teaching practices that enhance student learning and analyzing student behavior that correlate with student success.  

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The Faculty Development Committee is pleased to offer continuing education units to nursing and occupational therapy attendees at this event. If you wish to receive CEUs for attendance at Professional Enrichment Day, please the Workshop Feedback Surveys for the workshops you attend, and the Attestation Form at the end of the day.  To receive CEUs, you will be required to complete the feedback surveys at the end of the day.  Your certificates will be emailed to you within 90 days after the event.

Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 11258, for 5.0 contact hours. Attendance at this event is free of charge.