Instructor Nicole Solis from CSU Northridge, developed an assignment in which students practice visual notetaking skills and engage in a discussion. While reading a scholarly article students are to select at least 2 quotes and additional terms and concepts and arrange them visually including sketches, illustrations, or other ways of decorating their notes visually. Students use the Canvas Discussion forum for students to submit the assignment, but they can choose to create their notes on paper or using one of several technologies.

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Small Group Activity using Jamboard

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.1, QM Standard 6.3

Sonoma State University

Mark Gondree, an Instructor at Sonoma State University, developed a Google Jamboard activity to facilitate small-group collaboration. In this activity, student teams analyze small snippets of code featuring ARM assembly, to first recognize function prologues/epilogues, then analyze possible deficiencies (missing things), then suggest improvements (removing things that are strictly unneeded), and finally share-out. The code snippets are added as background images, making the text immune from accidental erasure or modification during the activity.

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Syllabus - Detailed Rubrics & Collaborative Teamwork Project with Choice

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.1, QM Standard 3.3, QM Standard 3.4

California State University, Los Angeles

Michelle Lopez, an Instructor from CSU Los Angeles, provides a detailed syllabus for CLS 1300. Included in the syllabus are very detailed rubrics and assignment instructions for two team projects that include collaboration and choice. Topics are related to policy and legislation and its' impact on diverse communities in California.

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TedED Activity: Does School Kill Creativity?

QM General Standard 4: Instructional Materials

QM Standard 4.5

California State University, San Bernardino

Title: Does School Kill Creativity? Description: This activity facilitates interactive learning and student participation with an online video. Using the TedED tool, it is able to increase the understanding of complex theories in developmental science, specifically the trade-off between learning and education, and respective cognitive outcomes. The link is embedded in Canvas, allowing for easy accessibility. The activity also includes reference to an additional scientific report that supports the theories discussed.

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TEDEd Lesson for Research Course

QM General Standard 4: Instructional Materials

QM Standard 4.5

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.3

San Jose State University

Robin Whitney, an Instructor from San Jose State University, uses a TEDEd Lesson to introduce the differences between qualitative and quantitative research. This lesson uses a short video instead of an assigned reading with questions embedded to actively engage students in the assignment.

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The Project Approach: Creating a STEM Focused Learner Bulb

QM General Standard 4: Instructional Materials

QM Standard 4.5

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

California State University, Channel Islands

Regan Bynder, Instructor from California State University, Channel Islands, created an interactive assignment supporting learner engagement with Playposit. Students will select 1 of the 4 videos provided, develop 3-5 questions they can ask about teacher practices, techniques, and activities used to support integration of science, technology, engineering and math concepts throughout the video, and create a learner bulb with their questions for peers to respond to.

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Updating the Hippocratic Oath (An Introductory Bioethics Assignment Using Hypothes.is)

QM General Standard 4: Instructional Materials

QM Standard 4.5

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

California State University, Channel Islands

Ronald Berkowsky, Instructor from California State University Channel Islands, created a low-stakes introductory assignment to be implemented in a bioethics course using the Hypothes.is platform. In it, students collaboratively annotate the Hippocratic Oath (i.e., one of the oldest known medical code of ethics) and suggest edits to make the Oath more reflective of modern perspectives and values. This assignment helps to underscore how ethical principles and behaviors in health and medicine have changed over time.

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Use of EdPuzzle to enhance Biology Lecture

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.3

California State University, Fresno

Michelle Abou Naoum, an Instructor from Fresno State, uses EdPuzzle to embed questions in videos to engage students and enhance learning.

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Use of Generative AI to aid Students in Creating Advanced Biochemistry Laboratory Protocols

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.3

California State University, Channel Islands

William Munroe, Lecturer from CSU Channel Islands, tested AI tools (poe.com and playlabs.ai) to assist students in creating laboratory protocols for the advanced biochemistry laboratory. Here, the AI chatbot helped students create a draft for their protocol assignment by summarizing peer-reviewed journal articles and product documentation. The format of the AI-assisted output included items students are requested include in their prelab assignment, such as a purpose, chemical mechanism for the experiment, a list of chemical reagents/safety section, and the experimental outline. Students were then asked to critique the AI-output for correctness and completion.

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Using AI tools to Help Write Introduction Sections for Laboratory Reports

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.3

California State University, Channel Islands

William Munroe, Lecturer from CSU Channel Islands, tested GPT4All (an AI tool) with helping students’ writing. The instructor tasked students to install a free utility (GPT4All) capable of interacting with a user curated pdf library. Students prepareed an initial draft of an introduction section using the AI tool and pdf sources for their lab report. After preparing the draft, students would then edit and revise the output for accuracy.

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Using TEDEd for Active Learning

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.3

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Sharonda Bishop, Instructor from Cal Poly Pomona, uses TEDEd to incorporate video learning of instructional material via Q&A, adding in-depth resources on the topic, and having a discussion board with the learners.

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Using VoiceThread to an Create Effective and Creative Assignment

QM General Standard 4: Instructional Materials

QM Standard 4.5

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

California State University, Channel Islands

Diana Lenko, Instructor from California State University, Channel Islands, used VoiceThread to create an assignment that encouraged peer-to-peer learning and enabled students to participate and collaborate using one of five powerful commenting options: microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload, and do it at their own pace. The collaboration tool is also fully integrated into Canvas, so students and instructors don't have to log in to the platform separately. By watching videos of exemplary speakers and exploring the key leadership concepts in action, students gained insights into the communication strategies and leadership attributes essential to effective leaders.

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Using VoiceThread to Create a Presentation for a Spanish Project

QM General Standard 4: Instructional Materials

QM Standard 4.1, QM Standard 4.2, QM Standard 4.5

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

California State University, Channel Islands

Samanta de Frutos García, an Instructor of Spanish at CSU Channel Islands, created a final project assignment for SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II. The template provides guidelines for students to create a VoiceThread presentation using vocabulary, grammatical constructions, and cultural knowledge learned in this course using the free Spanish textbook Libro Libre. This project assesses students’ ability to answer questions and report orally to demonstrate basic functional proficiency in Spanish, talk about familiar topics, compare and contrast cultural similarities and differences between the United States and Spanish-speaking countries, and present the information and cultural insights gained through the TalkAbroad sessions. This can be modified to fit any class.

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Windshield Survey Assignment

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.1

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.1, QM Standard 5.2, QM Standard 5.4

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.1, QM Standard 6.2

Sacramento State University

Michelle Dang and Lyndsay Anderson, Instructors from Sacramento State University, adapted an assignment for an online course using Flipgrid to have students present their community assessments from the lens of a public health nurse.

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