Category: Workshops

Registration

Starting in fall 2018, MiraCosta faculty no longer need to sign up for Flex activities in advance. After attending a Flex workshop, record your participation on your Flex transcript under the “Record Activities” tab, selecting the “Scheduled Activities or Workshops” activity type. Visit the Flex website for more information.

Archives

After Flex week, go to the Workshop Archives to see recordings and resources from workshops below that were held online.

Friday 8/10/2018

Canvas: Just the Basics for Beginners

10 – 10:50 am
Karen Turpin
Audience: Beginners
Format/Location: Hands-on in OC 4611 OR Simulcast online via ConferZoom

This hands-on workshop is designed to give an overview of the basic tools to get started with Canvas. Learn how to create announcements, review & sort your student roster in Canvas, create your profile, message students, create assignments, and sort & record grades in the gradebook. Participants will have time for hands-on work applying what they have learned in this workshop.

Canvas: Where can you go and how do you get there?

11:00 – 11:50 am
Sean Davis and Jim Julius
Audience: Beginners to Advanced
Format/Location: Hands-on in OC 4611 OR Simulcast online via ConferZoom
Resources: Slides from Jim | TIC Canvas page

In this workshop, participants will get an overview of the possibilities for creating inviting, inclusive learning environments in Canvas. Participants will get an overview of the many resources available to faculty that MiraCosta, Canvas, the CCC system, and others provide. Participants will identify Canvas tools and practices they would like to learn more about, and will determine which resources seem most useful to support their professional learning in those areas.

All Hands on Canvas, on campus or off

1:00 – 2:50 pm
Jim Julius, Karen Turpin, Sean Davis, and Curry Mitchell
Audience: Beginners to Advanced
Format/Location: Hands-on in OC 4611 OR Simulcast online via ConferZoom

This workshop is designed to give you open time to work with Canvas in a collaborative, supported environment. Attendees may be in-person in a computer lab, or online from anywhere, with opportunities to interact with fellow participants and Canvas experts. This workshop is intended to be useful for anyone from beginners to advanced Canvas users, and is open entry/exit – show up anytime and stay as long as you like. Come with your Canvas questions and your fall classes-in-progress!

Monday 8/13/2018

Explore Canvas Assignment Options

3:30 – 4:20pm
Karen Turpin
Audience: Beginners to Advanced
Format/Location: Online via Zoom

Did you know Canvas Assignments has many customizable options? Learn how to quickly and efficiently create assignments with the basic options. We will then explore the expanded options of display grade as, submission type, availability

What Should a MiraCosta Online Teaching Certification Resource Look Like?

4:30 – 5:20 pm
Jim Julius
Audience: Beginners to Advanced
Format/Location: Online via ConferZoom

In spring of 2019, Jim Julius will undertake a sabbatical project to develop a Canvas-based resource that can serve as

•  a Distance Education (DE) Handbook for all MiraCosta faculty teaching DE classes
• and as a certification resource for MiraCosta faculty who are looking for preparation to teach online.

In this session, Jim will provide an overview of typical DE handbook and certification resource content and activities in California Community Colleges. He will outline some of his ideas and goals for the project. Most importantly, this session is intended to be full of discussion, feedback, and input from participants about what they think will be essential and useful in a MiraCosta online teaching handbook and certification resource.

Using Zoom to Teach and Learn Synchronously Online

6:00 – 7:20 pm
Rick Cassoni and Jim Sullivan
Audience: Beginners to Advanced
Format/Location: Online via ConferZoom

Zoom wizard Rick Cassoni will demonstrate all of the ways Zoom can enhance teaching and learning in both online and onsite classes. Participants will learn about and participate in discussions, conferences, and small group breakout sessions — all of which can be done more effectively than ever in Zoom.

Tuesday 8/14/2018

Getting the Most Out of Canvas

3:30 – 5:20 pm
Jim Julius, Curry Mitchell, and Billy Gunn
Audience: Beginners to Advanced
Format/Location: Hands-on in OC 4611 OR Simulcast online via ConferZoom

This workshop will give you insight into some tools many MiraCosta faculty find useful in working with Canvas: Turnitin (to improve student citation and decrease plagiarism); Google Drive (to help manage class materials and collaborative work); and Canvas pages (to increase the creative and visual possibilities for presenting course materials in Canvas). The workshop will also give you open time to work with Canvas in a collaborative, supported environment. Attendees may be in-person in a computer lab, or online from anywhere.

Wednesday 8/15/2018

Canvas: Just the Basics for Beginners

1:30 – 2:20 pm
Karen Turpin
Audience: Beginners
Format/Location: Hands-on in CLC 131

This hands-on workshop is designed to give an overview of the basic tools to get started with Canvas. Learn how to create announcements, review & sort your student roster in Canvas, create your profile, message students, create assignments, and sort & record grades in the gradebook. Participants will have time for hands-on work applying what they have learned in this workshop.