Category: C3 Newsletter

Welcome Back Faculty,

I am the Interim Coordinator of our C3 Teaching and Learning Center

I hope this first week back is as productive, stress-free, and enjoyable as possible during a time of continued upheaval. I want to start by thanking Denise Stephenson, Debby Adler, the PDP Committee, and the amazing FLEX week presenters for bringing us such relevant and exciting topics. I know many of you are in the middle of teaching (or even reworking) your courses for the mostly online start to our semester. As isolated as some of us may be feeling, know that you are not alone. My hope is to find creative ways to connect with you and to help you connect more with one another.

These weekly newsletters feature 3 resources related to teaching and learning, 2 online tips and tricks, and 1 question for reflection.

(3) Resources

1. Watch the FLEX Week Keynote with Fabiola Torres or consult the Becoming Equity Champions resource she created for MiraCosta. If you’re feeling motivated, consider taking more courses with Fabiola and her peers through @ONE’s Equitable Online Teaching series.
2. You’re teaching online, and you want to run an idea by someone. Connect with a MiraCosta Online Mentor. And, our Instructional Designer Nadia Khan is offering drop in times this week, too (or schedule a consultation with Nadia year round)! These options are all free, easy, and super helpful!
3. With the many changes, it can be hard to keep up. It’s difficult to fully imagine just how much this is impacting our students. Here are some quick resources that you may want to have handy to share with students:
   Spring Return to Campus information for Students
   Student Support Guide 2022
   Student Online Academic Readiness workshops
   CARE Emergency Grants and Technology Requests

(2) Tips & Tricks

1. Are you struggling to connect with your online students? Try Pronto – this quick Canvas/Pronto video will you get started.
2. Turn videos into interactive experiences using Studio. Learn to use Studio Quizzes and Annotations.
   

(1) Question

1. How are you connecting with your students and colleagues? How would you like to better connect?

Looking for archived resources, tips/tricks, and questions?

Revisit the past editions of the C3-2-1 Newsletter.

Want to share? 

If you have some resources, tips/tricks, and questions to share, please contribute to the newsletter using this C3-2-1 Form.

With recognition and respect,

Lauren McFall
Interim Joyful Teacher in Residence/
Coordinator of the C3 Teaching and Learning Center
Web Services + Emerging Technology Librarian

Hello, Faculty Community! 

This week I have 3 haunting resources, 2 tricks and treats, and 1 frightening question for reflection. Not really. It is just Halloween and stuff. 

Looking for archived resources, tips/tricks, and questions?

Revisit the past editions of the C3-2-1 Newsletter here. 

Want to share? 

If you have some resources, tips/tricks, and questions to share, please contribute to the newsletter using this C3-2-1 Form.

(3) Resources

1. Angela Davis speaks! 

CalEndow recently hosted the venerable and iconic Angela Davis – a personal hero of mine. It was so great to attend this session live and I am happy to share this talk with you. Here is a description of the session from the hosts:

Dr. Angela Davis joined CalEndow Live on October 20 to discuss why building stronger communities is essential to the struggle for racial, economic, and gender justice. In this hour-long conversation, she described how the prison abolition movement has evolved to meet this moment in history and how art helps build People Power.

2. Five Minute Fixes

This website is based on the Five Minute Fixes workshop presented by Laura Paciorek (Child Development) and Lisa M. Lane (History) earlier this semester. Click here to view the workshop recording. They are adding more fixes all the time, so come back for more! 

Do you need help with these or anything related to teaching your classes online? Contact any of our faculty helpers for free help, anytime.

3. Fostering and Sustaining Inclusive Classrooms for Students of Color

Dr. Shaun Harper, the founder and executive director of USC’s Race and Equity Center, has released the resources, training material, and webinar recordings from the California Community Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance series. You can take these lessons at your own pace. This resource is the second session in the series. The first session was featured in a previous C3-2-1 Newsletter.

(2) Online Tips and Tricks

Special Note: This section of the newsletter will be featuring MiraCosta’s new (new to this role but not new to MiraCosta) full-time instructional designer, Nadia Khan! Nadia will be contributing video tips and tricks as one of many ways to introduce you to her and the awesome service she is providing to our campus community. Welcome, Nadia! 

1. Converting word documents to fillable PDFs (approx. 3.5 minutes)

2. Quiz and Annotate Video on Studio (approx. 5 minutes)
This video provides tips on how to embed quizzes into Canvas Studio videos. It also shows how to annotate Studio videos and add Studio quizzes to Speedgrader

(1) Question

Are we ensuring our students are learning? And, when answering the question, are we thinking about “learning” in ways beyond the discipline-specific content in our classes?

Stay joyful,

Sean Davis
Joyful Teacher in Residence 🙂

Hello, Faculty Community! 

Let’s get right into it.

These weekly newsletters feature 3 resources related to teaching and learning, 2 online tips and tricks, and 1 question for reflection.

Looking for archived resources, tips/tricks, and questions?

Revisit the past editions of the C3-2-1 Newsletter here. 

Want to share? 

If you have some resources, tips/tricks, and questions to share, please contribute to the newsletter using this C3-2-1 Form.

(3) Resources

1. Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Allyship Training

We are fortunate to have a new offering joining our robust family of ally training – the MiraCosta APIDA Ally Training. I am signed up for the first cohort and I hope to see you there! 🙂 

Here is a description of the training from the organizers – 

The APIDA Ally Training is a FLEX-eligible six-week asynchronous Canvas course that asks for a one- to two-hour commitment each week. Through a collection of videos, articles, images, and interactive discussion board forums, this training is designed to enhance participants’ awareness of diverse APIDA histories, cultures, identities, and responses to recent influxes of anti-APIDA hate crimes. The training culminates with lessons and activities that will generate ideas for strengthening allyship and advocacy for MiraCosta’s–students, faculty, and staff–who identify as APIDA.

2. Undocumented Student Action Week

October 18-22 is Undocumented Student Action Week and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office is hosting a series of events and webinars celebrating progress, recognizing current efforts, and looking forward to the challenges ahead. Plan on attending these events to learn more about the history of landmark legislation, significant data, and use, and how to better serve our students. 

For local resources, training, and information pertaining to our undocumented and mixed-status population, please visit our UPRISE Program

3. SAFE Topics is Back! Kinda…

Our homegrown podcast is back for a 3rd season. To kick things off, we interview MiraCosta employees about being back on campus. Additionally, we have a mini-series on a much-discussed teaching modality – HyFlex. Other episodes coming soon will include discussions on Ethnic Studies, the Transitions Program, Ungrading, and much more. 

Thanks for listening! 

(2) Online Tips and Tricks

1. Adding captions back into videos when moving a YouTube video to Studio

If you’d like to use features of Studio with a YouTube video, such as adding quiz questions or discussion onto the video, you probably know it’s easy to add a YouTube video into Studio. Unfortunately, if the YouTube video has captions, they aren’t retained in Studio. However, you can use the free website downsub.com to download a caption file from the YouTube video and then upload that file back onto the Studio video you’ve created by uploading the YouTube video, and voila! Captions have returned.

2. Using Embedded Google Docs in Canvas

You can easily embed Google Docs into your Canvas course to provide students with documents, assignments, and activities that can change in real-time without unnecessary uploads and downloads. Doing this can help with changing class schedules, syllabus addendums, and collaborative assignments. 

(1) Question

How can we focus on process over outcomes? Ultimately, which one is more important?

Stay joyful,

Sean Davis
Joyful Teacher in Residence 🙂