C3-2-1 Newsletter – Week Fifteen!
Hello, Faculty Community!
***You are receiving this newsletter because you are a faculty member at MiraCosta College. I, Sean Davis, am the coordinator of our C3 Teaching and Learning Center***
Lots of local workshops being offered to help us out. People are amazing, right? We just keep going. Pretty remarkable.
3 resources related to teaching and learning, 2 online tips and tricks, and 1 question for reflection
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(3) Resources
1 Faculty Workshop: Hands-On Labs in an Online World – Thursday 12/3, 2 pm – 3pm
Lynne Miller, Anthropology, is organizing and facilitating this workshop. Here is a bit from her –
The workshop will feature four brief presentations:
- Barbara Juncosa will share her creative use of GoPro to demonstrate critical lab procedures.
- Paul Katson will show a video with the students’ at-home lab activities and associated worksheets.
- Scott Fallstrom will teach us how to use digital whiteboards to present material effectively.
- Dominique Ingato will share ideas for enhancing Labster simulations using virtual tools and activities.
Following the presentations, we will have plenty of time for discussion and Q&A, and maybe even some hands-on activities of our own.
And, yes, it will be recorded – I will distribute the link later in the week.
2. Tips and Tricks for Remote Proctoring
Sinclaire Tirona, Testing Services Coordinator, informed me about this workshop. Here is her message –
The Academic Proctoring Center (APC) will be hosting a flex-eligible workshop next week onTips and Tricks for Remote Proctoring. This workshop will be especially beneficial to any faculty transitioning from Proctorio at the end of the year or who just want to learn more about how we proctor remotely using Canvas and Zoom.
Details:
Tips and Tricks for Remote Proctoring
Tuesday, December 8th from 2 pm – 3 pm
Sign up here: https://forms.gle/D2pFnL2msmxpxVEN9
3. Document Accessibility Training (with an emphasis on Canva Documents)
Aaron Holmes, DSPS Access Specialist, let me know about this workshop he is facilitating next week. Aaron provided the following context and information –
If you are not familiar with Canva, it is a website that allows for the quick creation of fliers/images. Some departments are using Canva to create content for their social media accounts as well as physical fliers when we are on campus. Unfortunately, the documents and PDF files that Canva creates are not accessible right off the bat. That is where the idea of this training came from. To make sure that our digital content is accessible to all of our students, I am offering training on document accessibility. The training will cover the basics of document accessibility (Canva and Word/PDF will be the focus). The training will allow for a question and answer session and will be recorded so that those who cannot attend in real-time can still access the video.
Date: Wednesday, December 9th
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Length: 60-minute training, 30-minute question/answer
Zoom Link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99254075553
(2) Online Tips and Tricks
- 3 Ways to Humanize Your Online Course
This post provides practical and easy-to-use strategies to humanize your course and increase student engagement with each other and your class. - Ready Made Canvas Course Templates
Okay, I did not know this existed. So, there are some fantastic templates that you can easily plug into your course and make it “pop.” I made all my visuals and graphics myself. This resource would have saved me hours and hours. Oh well. I hope this helps y’all.
(1) Question
How do our students feel as we end this most unprecedented semester? Ask them.
Stay joyful,
Sean Davis
Joyful Teacher in Residence
Coordinator, C3 Teaching and Learning Center