Discover how Read&Write, a comprehensive literacy support tool, can transform everyday academic tasks into efficient and manageable undertakings. With a large variety of features, Read&Write is designed to aid in your reading, writing, and studying experiences. This training will provide an overview into how to effectively use Read&Write in your academic work with a focus on how to apply the Read&Write features in your ICON site. Whether you're an instructor preparing course materials or a...

Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on how and why to use alternative text in your course site. We'll talk about why alternative text is important and practice writing alt text for images for your courses. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...

The Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards (ITTA) provide funding for innovative, results-oriented instructional technology projects that raise the level of teaching and learning at Iowa and have the potential to impact student success and retention. The University of Iowa Academic Technologies Advisory Council (ATAC) will accept proposals for ITTA from Thursday, Sept. 12, through Tuesday, Oct. 15. We seek projects that employ collaborative learning strategies and student use of...

Join this session to learn tools and techniques to gather student feedback using supported academic technologies such as Top Hat, ICON, and Zoom. Participants will learn how these tools can be used in synchronous and asynchronous environments, as well as which tools are better suited for various situations. Whether participants are looking for quick ways to check for understanding or collect more in-depth thoughts on their learning, attendees will be able to gather the information they need to...