Introduction: Resource Convenience Store

The Resource Convenience Store is a crowd-sourced clearinghouse of teaching materials intended to help instructors quickly access the many resources available at IUPUI and beyond. The rapid pivot to online teaching in the Spring of 2020 due to COVID left many instructors scrambling to do in weeks what normally takes months. Offices on campus, like the Center for Teaching and Learning, have a tremendous repository of resources available, many of which you will find linked here. IU instructors already skilled in online teaching generously shared their insights and techniques, while others quickly pivoted and developed new materials for their courses. Beyond IUPUI, many instructors shared resources on platforms like the Facebook group, Pandemic Pedagogy. When instructors are looking for help, they oven have a specific question or need: tips on how to successfully run Zoom break out rooms, examples of successful Canvas Discussion prompts, an editable rubric to use for Group Presentations, etc. All of these resources already exist, but they might be spread across different platforms and therefore more difficult to access. The Resource Convenience Store will help users find what they are looking for quickly and be on their way!

What we have tried to do here is consolidate this wide range of resources available from multiple sources into a user-friendly, easy to navigate electronic book, with a wide array of materials, from “just in time” inspiration for livening up Zoom sessions, to peer-reviewed soup-to-nuts assignments.

This Pressbook is organized in a way we hope will be of most utility to users. The first section, Gas: Tech How To’s, focuses on resources to help with tech tools like Canvas Commons, Canvas Studio, Zoom, Kaltura, etc. The next section, Snacks: Small Assignments, provides examples of classroom assignments: effective Canvas Discussion prompts, using social media in the classroom–the types of assignments or in class activities you might use on a weekly basis. The final section, Meals: Big Assignments, provides examples of larger projects that might be scaffolded over the course of the semester, like a research paper. Here we have included external resources like Clio, a map based encyclopedia that allows students to create and share research. We also hope to include here guidelines on how to have students create final projects in alternative formats, such as podcasts.

IUPUI Resources:

IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning

Faculty Crossing: Digital Teaching Repository

Teaching Online at IU

Canvas Studio

Tips for using this resource:

Because some resources included here could be included both in Gas and in Snacks, for example, and because Pressbooks does not allow us to create a Subsection devoted, for example, to Zoom strategies, we recommend that you make liberal use of the “search” function to help find what you are looking for!

This Pressbook will continue to grow. If you have resources or assignments for inclusion in this Resource Convenience Store, please fill out this Google form.

We hope to continue to improve this resource: if you discover broken links or other problems, please use this Google Form to report the problem.

About us:

The idea for this Pressbook came out of the experience of Rachel Wheeler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at IUPUI, as she looked for resources across campus to help in developing new digital pedagogical elements for her courses and found herself overwhelmed by the range of resources across many different platforms, many of which were focused on technical instruction in using particular tools, rather than examples of actual classroom usage. Wheeler was then able to partner with Jerry Daday and the Institute for Engaged Learning. IUPUI student Anna Comer has done much of the labor of assembling the collected resources into this Pressbook. If you have questions, please contact Rachel Wheeler at wheelerr@iupui.edu or Jerry Daday at jdaday@iupui.edu