Creating a Short Canvas Tips Video
Training in a Pandemic In my position as instructional designer, I have spent a lot of time working one on one with faculty to help them with their classes. As a part of the university’s Center for Teaching and Learning, we also provide training to faculty to support their teaching. While the need for training and support is greater than ever, the availability of faculty to participate in scheduled workshops is challenging. They are busy teaching classes, keeping up with grading and many just don’t have training as a priority in their live right now (Castleberry, Haines, et al 2018). Instead of providing hour long training sessions as we have in the past, the CTL decided that it would be better to make short (2 minute) videos that can go out on a weekly or bi weekly basis. The hope is that the brief videos will meet the need for new skills now and also act as “teasers” for larger workshops that the CTL will do when things get back to normal after the pandemic (Hromalik, Myhill, &...