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Small features can make a big difference! This session highlights powerful but often overlooked tools that improve communication, accessibility, collaboration, and feedback, with ideas you can immediately incorporate into your courses.  

You'll leave saying, "Wait...Copilot can do that?" Explore hidden capabilities in Microsoft Copilot that help faculty create engaging learning materials, accessible media, and interactive learning experiences without purchasing additional AI tools. New for this session, we'll also explore Copilot Notebooks and how they can organize, connect, and transform course content into meaningful teaching resources. 

Discover how AI-powered audio tools, including Adobe Podcast and Microsoft Stream, can transform both instructor-created course content and creative student assignments. Explore practical ways to incorporate audio into teaching, from AI-generated avatar voices and podcasts to narrated course materials, while learning how these tools simplify recording, editing, captioning, and production. Rob Caples from the College of Education will share how he integrated podcasts into one of his courses, highlighting the assignment design, student experience, and key lessons learned.

Leverage the power of OneDrive integration within Blackboard for crafting impactful collaborative activities that elevate student engagement in their courses. Engage in hands-on activities to gain practical experience with OneDrive integration in Blackboard, all while exploring creative opportunities for collaboration.

In this interactive workshop, we'll explore strategies for transforming face-to-face class sessions into active learning experiences that promote critical thinking, collaboration, and application. Participants will experience several classroom activities firsthand, including role plays, polling, structured discussions, and decision-making exercises, and leave with adaptable ideas they can implement in any discipline.  

Lunch will be provided, arrive at 11:45 to grab a plate prior to the start of the session!  

Looking for alternatives to traditional papers and slide presentations? Adobe Express makes it easy for students to create polished multimedia projects that emphasize creativity, reflection, and communication without requiring advanced design skills. Colleen Ebacher from Spanish and Latin American Studies will share how these tools were integrated into a course project and the impact on student engagement and learning. Participants will leave with assignment ideas, practical implementation tips, and adaptable examples for a variety of disciplines. 

AI tools offer several possibilities and several pitfalls for qualitative research. This workshop will consider each stage of qualitative research with regards to machine learning and generative AI, including problems that result from indiscriminate applications of AI.  Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.