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The C3 Teaching and Learning Center is excited to present a new virtual offering that will help us connect with our colleagues by learning more about them! There is a fair amount of teaching and learning in each episode as well. 🙂 Enjoy!
Joyful Office Hours – Episode 1 – The Joyful Teacher is joined by guest CE (Career Education) Instructional Designer, Liesl Madrona. The discussion includes accessibility, making videos that students will watch, what it is like working with an instructional designer, and more!
https://youtu.be/w0zRmBNb9l4
Stay joyful,
Sean Davis Joyful Teacher in Residence Coordinator, C3 Teaching and Learning Center
***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***
October is a BIG month for celebrating and supporting several minoritized populations. Let’s promote, engage, and learn. Most importantly, we can honor the hard work folks are doing to bring justice to those who are denied it far too often.
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.
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If you have some resources, tips/tricks, and questions to share, please contribute to the newsletter using this C3-2-1 Form.
(3) Resources
LGBTQIA+ History Month The MiraCosta Social Justice and Equity Center (SJEC) is hosting a number of exciting events for LGBTQIA+ History Month. Be sure to check out the Virtual Library Display. There is still a fantastic slate of virtual events left this month, including Queer Games Arcade (tomorrow 10/21 from 3pm-4:30pm), Queer Musical Bingo (Friday 10/23 from 1pm-2pm), and several film screenings, just to name a few! Have fun and learn well. 🙂
Undocumented Student Week of Action We are in the middle of this critical week of action. Our UPRISE team and other advocates are hosting many Local Events, including student-led training, a virtual yoga session, entrepreneur workshops, and more! You can learn about Statewide Efforts here – there is some really useful downloadable content here, including marketing, advocacy, and resource materials.
This work goes far beyond this week. Learn more about MiraCosta’s UPRISE Program to be involved in supporting our students.
Global Mind Ed This resource suggestion comes from Edward Pohlert. Thanks, Edward! Here is a blurb on this organization’s mission and focus: GlobalMindED is a 501(c)(3) closing the equity gap by creating a capable, diverse talent pipeline with programs, content and courses for students from the least resourced backgrounds through connections to role models, mentors, internships, experiences and jobs that make them employment worthy, promotion ready and financially fit to navigate a hierarchical world. We serve low-income students, returning adults seeking badges/credentials, First Gen to college and inclusive leaders who teach them, work with them and hire them.
(2) Online Tips and Tricks
Canvas Commons The Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources. A digital library full of educational content, Commons allows Canvas users to share learning resources with other users as well as import learning resources into a Canvas course.
The Canvas App! This tool is useful in so many ways. You can download the Canvas Teacher App on your phone or tablet to access your courses, edit assignments/pages/discussions, and build your course content. Additionally, you can download the Canvas Student App to view your class as your students do to ensure content congruency and consistency across devices.
(1) Question
Is it enough to be aware of and learn about marginalized communities that we are not members of, or do we have to go deeper to get to a place of empathy and understanding? If we must go deeper, how are we engaging in that process?
Stay joyful,
Sean Davis Joyful Teacher in Residence Coordinator, C3 Teaching and Learning Center
***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***
I offer my gratitude to our colleagues for contributing to the newsletter this week. Let’s continue to cultivate a culture of sharing.
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
Mobile Hotspots from the Library! This email outlining how students can access mobile hotspots was sent out by Dean Scott Conrad at the beginning of the month. It is worth another round of promotion. Here is Scott’s message:
We have heard from many students their need for broadband access and the MiraCosta team including the Foundation, Student Services, Fiscal Services, Instructional Services, and AIS have been working to acquire funding and then find the difficult to buy right now mobile hot spots to address this critical need for our students’ success. The Library has received a shipment of new mobile hotspots from Verizon. We have filled demand from our waiting list and have more hotspots to loan. Please direct students needing broadband access to fill out a CARE referral with Student Services and our library team will be in touch with options for obtaining the device. If you have any questions, please contact Library Operations Manager Michelle Ohnstad at mohnstad@miracosta.edu. CARE Referral Form
Here is a description of their offerings from the website:
Pedagogies of Care: Open Resources for Student-Centered & Adaptive Strategies in the New Higher-Ed Landscape offers practical and engaging advice about what “next” should look like across higher education, from sixteen current and forthcoming authors in the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education book series from West Virginia University Press.
Collection editors Victoria Mondelli and Thomas J. Tobin note that the resources in Pedagogies of Care take many forms: “Our contributors created videos, audio podcasts, interviews, infographics, and articles. All are underpinned by a student-centered, evidence-based ethos.”
Lots of helpful stuff here. Check it out.
3C Media Solutions This resource suggestion and description come from Angela Beltran-Aguilar. Thanks, Angela!
3C Media is available within Canvas where you can directly embed videos from your 3C Media library using the Canvas rich content editor. The main benefit is that if you have videos that have been captioned by 3C Media, then it’s easy to embed them in Canvas. The videos from 3C are also distraction-free because they don’t take you out outside the Canvas LMS or prompt you to watch a “related” video as YouTube does. Some of the disadvantages are that videos embedded directly from 3C Media do not have the Studio Quiz or Analytics features.
Chat with Canvas Support Whenever you are having issues getting Canvas to do what you want it to do, you can simply click on Tech Help on the Universal Navigation Menu and start live chatting with the Canvas support team. Students can do the same! Additionally, you can receive consultation 24/7 via phone – (833) 345-2890
(1) Question
Are you a “halfway finished with the semester” or “halfway started with the semester” kind of educator?
Stay joyful,
Sean Davis Joyful Teacher in Residence Coordinator, C3 Teaching and Learning Center
Whew! You’ve just about made it to mid-semester. As you begin thinking about finishing fall well and looking ahead to another semester online in the spring, I want to remind you of various ways you can get support and enhance your professional knowledge and practice in online education.
Collegial Mentoring Available!
If you’d like to connect with a faculty colleague for any kinds of questions about online teaching – from getting a quick answer to a head-scratcher, to a more comprehensive conversation about effective practices and/or a walkthrough of a course – we have a dozen folks ready to help. Just fill out the form to request a mentor.
Career Education Faculty – Would you like professional instructional design support?
A strong workforce grant has given our CE faculty access to an outstanding instructional design expert, who has been working with many MiraCosta faculty for more than a year. She can help you with online course design guidance/advice and she can also work directly to make enhancements to your course(s), if you desire. Just reply to this email indicating interest and I will get you connected.
Adopting OER is a great way to support equity by lowering course material costs, and through greater flexibility to teach a course the way you think students will learn best, rather than being tied to the organization of a traditional textbook. Over 340 MiraCosta fall classes are listed in SURF as Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)– that is awesome! Want to get more involved with OER?
MiraCosta still has grant funds available to provide stipends, timesheet-based compensation, and/or instructional designer expertise to support efforts to reduce course material costs by at least 30% through the adoption of OER and other no-cost course material. Please reply to me if you would like to learn more.
The ASCCC is recruiting discipline faculty to support OER advocacy efforts by serving as Discipline Leads. “Our intent is to expand our discipline collections during the fall 2020 term and to increase our targeted advocacy efforts across all identified disciplines in the spring 2021 term. In order to meet these goals, we are now seeking Discipline Leads for disciplines that have never had a Lead and we will be seeking new Leads for the disciplines that have had a Lead previously. Read more about the disciplines we are recruiting, the Discipline Lead role, and the application process.”
Additional Upcoming Events, Courses, and Recorded Workshops
Check out our comprehensive set of recordings of past MiraCosta Online Education workshops. Viewing workshop recordings is always Flex-eligible.
FACCC is holding a statewide “Future of Distance Education” event on Friday afternoon, Oct. 23.See details and register.
@ONE provides comprehensive online teaching courses for CCC faculty. New courses are starting soon – check out what’s available. Departmental travel funds can potentially be used to pay for your registration in these courses; if you don’t have access to such funds please reach out to me for support from the Online Education budget.
What Additional Training Opportunities Would You Like?
As you think about your needs over the next few months in finishing out fall and preparing for spring, what kinds of training and support are you looking for? Please reply to me with any requests/suggestions. I will be collaborating with Sean Davis, Joyful Teacher in Residence, to plan online teaching workshops over the next two months.
Jim Julius, Ed.D. Faculty Director, Online Education
***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***
For our resources this week, we focus on the local (MiraCosta), regional (NCHEA), and national (NCORE) work being done to create more justice-oriented spaces in higher education.
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.
The Black Community Ally Training is a self-paced 4-part interactive training designed to increase participants’ understanding of anti-Black racism and strengthen strategies and skills to advance racial equity for the Black community at MiraCosta College.
The training is open to all MiraCosta employees (staff and faculty). Participants will work with a cohort of peers across 4-5 weeks navigating through 4 modules in a Canvas course. The training is designed for 1 module to be completed each week with approximately 2 hours of work expected in each module. The 4th module requires participants to attend a 1.5 hour in-person zoom session focused on how to apply and put into practice what you learned. Supervisors are encouraged to support staff/faculty interested in attending the live session during work hours. The BCAT is flex eligible.
Here is a part of the message sent out by one of the organizers – our own, Rachel Hastings:
Please allow me to formally invite you our Fall Tri Equity: Embodying Anti-Racism Conference on Saturday, October 24, 2020 from 8am – 8pm (Register here, Click Join Event). Tri-Equity features an array of Race and Equity scholars, gifting us with symposium style conversations and interactive trainings.
After investing in an exceptional amount of elbow-grease into embedding anti-racism into our institutional practices, all of “us” campus experts need a breather. Please consider our “come and go as you please” conference as an invitation to take a deep, cleansing breath while remaining 100% checked into the movement. Our conference is open to all governance, community members, and especially our students.
This session will help faculty gain an understanding of the needs of students in the online classrooms, how their individual situations during this time interface with the classroom learning environment, and through it all, how to keep your students engaged. We will provide tools and strategies that can help faculty adapt to their new online classroom and help students succeed.
I sent something out about this one on Monday, October 5. Check out that email for specific registration instructions.
Using Google Docs and Canvas in tandem can help you in several ways. If you embed your course schedule in Canvas using Google Docs, you can easily and instantly make changes to assignment and activity deadlines. Moreover, you can create collaborative opportunities for students to engage in and track their learning in real-time
Zoom has a new feature that allows you to use your presentation slides as your virtual background. I just tried it out and realized that if I want to use this, I will have to reformat my slides to account for my little head in the lower right corner.
Note: This software is in beta. Your presentation’s sounds, transitions, and animations are not supported at this time.
(1) Question
Since we know Spring will look much like this, do we want Spring to look much like this?
Stay joyful,
Sean Davis Joyful Teacher in Residence Coordinator, C3 Teaching and Learning Center
