{"id":4783,"date":"2014-11-13T12:59:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2014-11-13T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:59:49","slug":"pod-2014-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/pod-2014-leverage\/","title":{"rendered":"POD 2014 Leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols<br \/>\nI attended my first POD conference last week and the theme was Leverage.\u00a0<a title=\"pod\" href=\"http:\/\/podnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> POD <\/a>is our faculty development organization and such a wonderful group of people.  I returned with a number of ideas and tools, not only for online teaching, but teaching with technology and general faculty development best practices as well.<\/p>\n<p>I'd like to share a couple of links with you.\u00a0 You'll be able to see the conference theme is well-used in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"conference presentations\" href=\"http:\/\/wikipodia.podnetwork.org\/pod-2014-conference\/presentations-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Most of the presentations from the conference are available on wikiPODia.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"teaching with technology\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1bUrXfxPHf0AHlRpDcv_tDALbd-IMm4LBcYdJTG4-ZnQ\/edit\" target=\"_blank\">Great notes were taken at our Teaching with Technology \"birds of a feather\" meeting.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One fun tool I learned about was 3M's Post-It Plus app.  If you use post-it notes in workshops or classes and the students have to affix them to a board in order to see the responses from the entire group, this nifty app will allow you to snap a photo of the post-it-filled board.  It then digitizes each note and allows you to organize them and share the board with everyone else.  Here's a demonstration:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"158\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l_GbqcPTcjU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I'll be sharing more goodies from the conference in upcoming posts.  Meanwhile, let us know if you try this app or find something that interests you in the conference links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols I attended my first POD conference last week and the theme was Leverage.\u00a0 POD is our faculty development organization and such a wonderful group of people. I returned with a number of ideas and tools, not only for online teaching, but teaching with technology and general faculty development best practices as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/pod-2014-leverage\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"POD 2014 Leverage\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[134,309],"class_list":{"0":"post-4783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"category-faculty-development","8":"tag-faculty-development","9":"tag-teaching-with-technology","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-1f9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5475,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/cat-news-january-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":4783,"position":0},"title":"CAT News: January 2015","author":"Bart Everson","date":"January 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Celebrating Twenty Years This spring, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) continues to mark its 20th anniversary year. 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