February Instructional Design Faculty Digest

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February 2022

Issue 06

Let's Make a Game Out of It:

Tools to Gamify the Classroom

Kahoot and Poll Everywhere are two e-learning tools that you can use to enrich your classroom with real-time trivia questions.

Gamification has been proven to encourage learning through low-stakes multi-sensory activities. Students feel more motivated and engaged.

In this session, we will explore the pedagogical reasons why you should gamification in the classroom. We'll discuss how Kahoot and Poll Everywhere are two digital gamification tools and ways you can employ them.

Join us on Zoom at 12 PM PST on Thursday, March 24th!

Meeting link:

https://usc.zoom.us/s/6549931132

Second-floor RGL Classrooms

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The monitors at the instructor stations in the RGL 2nd-floor classrooms were replaced and are now touch-enabled! The big class monitors are touch-enabled, too!

Classroom cameras are motion-tracking— if you find they start tracking the wrong person, you can control them from the instructor station on the lectern!

Teaching@Price on Blackboard

Teaching@Price is your one-stop shop for all resources relevant to your teaching at Price!
You can find the organization under "My Organizations" when you log on to Blackboard.

If you need access to the Teaching@Price,

please contact Matthew Barrile (📧barrile@usc.edu).

Having trouble locating the Teaching@Price organization on your Blackboard? Watch this video for help!

Blackboard 101: Locating Teaching@Price on Blackboard

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The Instructional Design Faculty Digest is a monthly e-blast bringing you updates on current happenings, important resources, and innovative e-learning tools and pedagogies.