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Spring 2017 Workshops

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Introduction to Course Design with Canvas

Instructors: Gail Meinhold, Curry Mitchell, Robert Kelley, Sean Davis, Billy Gunn, Jim Julius
Friday, January 13 – 8:30 am – 9:50 am
Oceanside Campus – OC 4611

In this workshop, MiraCosta faculty experienced with Canvas will provide you with a guided tour of their classes and discuss (at a high level) the choices they made and the Canvas tools they selected when moving their classes from their previous course management systems to Canvas.

Hands-on Getting Started with Canvas

Instructor: Gail Meinhold
Friday, January 13 – 10:00 am – 10:50 am
Oceanside Campus – OC 4611

Get started with the basic set up of your Canvas class. Learn from experienced MiraCosta faculty the basics on adding and managing content, moving materials and activities from Blackboards, and creating assignments and using the gradebook.

Hands-on Canvas Course Design & Organization

Instructor: Billy Gunn
Friday, January 13 – 11:00 am – 11:50 am
Oceanside Campus – OC 4611

Learn the basics – and perhaps a bit more – from experienced MiraCosta faculty on how to use the tools that Canvas provides to help you design your class and organize your materials in ways that benefit students.

Hands-on Canvas Communication Tools

Instructor: Robert Kelley
Friday, January 13 – 1:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Oceanside Campus – OC 4611

Canvas offers a number of ways to engage your students in communication. Hear from experienced MiraCosta faculty on what they’ve learned about what Canvas offers with familiar tools such as Announcements, Groups, and Discussion Boards. In addition, Canvas may provide some new opportunities through its Calendar, Notifications, Syllabus, and Scheduler tools. Try them out for yourself, and add them to a course you are building if you wish.

All Hands on Canvas Open Lab

This workshop is designed to give you open time to work with Canvas in a supported environment. It’s intended that you attend one or more of the previous Canvas workshops held on this day and are ready to get to work on developing a class in Canvas, with the support of experienced Canvas users. In addition, attendees may benefit from exploring Canvas resources.

Friday, January 13
Oceanside Campus – OC 4611

Session 1:  2:30 pm –3:40 pm    Facilitated by Curry Mitchell

Tuesday, January 16
Oceanside Campus – OC 4612

Session 2:  9:00 am – 10:20 am   Facilitated by Sean Davis
Session 3: 10:30 am – 11:50 am  Facilitated by Robert Kelley
Session 4:  1:00 pm – 2:20 pm     Facilitated by Curry Mitchell
Session 5:  2:30 pm – 3:50 pm     Facilitated by Gail Meinhold

Blackboard Drop-In Open Lab

Instructor: Karen Korstad
Tuesday, January 17 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Oceanside Campus – OC 4611

Let’s talk Blackboard. Ask questions and receive instructional assistance with your Blackboard course. This workshop is drop-in so bring your laptops, course materials and questions. An excellent opportunity to network with peers and get expert advice while setting up for spring.

Blackboard: Reusing Course Materials

Instructor: Karen Korstad
Wednesday, January 18 – 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm
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Blackboard has several methods that can be used to copy course content from one Blackboard course to the next and/or to MiraCosta’s new Canvas CMS. Within this workshop we will explore methods to export and import an entire Blackboard course, export and import sections of the course, export and import tests only, and the use of the internal Blackboard course item copy tool

Creating Interactive Video with PlayPosit

Instructor: Jeff Ihara
Wednesday, January 18 – 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Oceanside Campus – OC 3606

PlayPosit is a tool with which one takes a published video, e.g., something you have on your YouTube channel, and adds interactive elements (multiple choice question, free response, fill in the blank question, etc.). This type of interactive video is a standard in MOOCs (like Coursera), and it adds an element of accountability to the student’s use of your instructional content. Student responses can be evaluated and results pushed to your grade book in the supported LMS–Blackboard for the spring or Canvas starting in the fall of 2017.

Hands-on Page Design in Canvas

Instructor: Curry Mitchell
Thursday, January 19 – 2:00 pm – 3:50 pm
Oceanside Campus – OC 4611

If you’ve started building a course in Canvas, you may find yourself wondering about how to get beyond basic text and standard Canvas module navigational schemes. In this workshop, experienced MiraCosta faculty will provide demonstrations and guidance in how to turn your Canvas course into an attractive learning environment that effectively helps students through the learning process.

Top Tips: Better Browsing and Internet Interaction

Instructor: Jim Julius
Thursday, January 19 – 4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Online via Zoom

This one-hour online workshop will be packed with practical tips, tricks, and tools to help you be a more effective citizen of the digital realm. We’ll explore keyboard shortcuts and menu items that everyone should be aware of when working in web-based tools. We’ll discuss how to use the Chrome web browser to efficiently and securely search for, access, and organize web-based resources. Participants will be encouraged to ask questions and share their own favorite tips and resources, too.

Additional Workshops of Interest to Faculty

Online Ed. Standards & Practices using CANVAS

Instructor: Annie Lee
Tuesday, January 17 – 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm
Oceanside Campus – OC 4612

The facilitator will share her learning experience from online course offered by @ONE to online educators. The facilitator has completed the Online Education Standards and Practices, 12 week online course, a course designed to introduce educators to design new courses, improve existing courses, and better facilitate online learning using the @ONE Standards for Quality Teaching using CANVAS as new LMS.

POT workshop: Teaching and Learning in Canvas

Facilitators: Robert Kelley, Sean Davis
Wednesday, January 18 – 1:30pm – 4:20 pm
Oceanside Campus – OC 4612

This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the perspectives of learning and teaching using the Canvas learning management system. Participants will learn how the system works through a series of practice activities, and explore how to facilitate contact with students, communicate expectations, encourage active learning, design assignments, and create good navigation. Additionally, participants will be introduced to basic LMS design principles tailored to Canvas.

Fall 2016 Flex Workshops

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Workshop: All Hands on Canvas

Friday 12/2 – 1:30-3:00 pm – OC 4611 – Curry Mitchell
Tuesday 12/6 – 2:30-4:00 pm – OC 4612 – Gail Meinhold
Friday 12/9 – 1:30-3:00 pm – OC 4611- Billy Gunn & Leola McClure
Tuesday 12/13 – 9-10:30 am – OC 4803B – Billy Gunn

This workshop is designed to give you open time to work with Canvas in a supported environment. A faculty member who has taught with Canvas will provide a very brief overview of Canvas in the first 10-15 minutes, and from there the time is open for you to become more proficient in your use of Canvas, and to work on developing a class in Canvas, with the support of experienced Canvas users.

From Blackboard to Canvas: Preview and Q&A

Instructor:  Robert Kelley & Sean Davis
Friday, November 18, 1:30 – 2:50 pm
Oceanside Campus – OC 4611

This workshop will focus on the differences and similarities between Blackboard and Canvas. We will provide an overview of two Canvas courses. Students will also give their perspective on their experience with both Blackboard and Canvas. Finally, we will have an open discussion, including a Q&A on the differences and similarities between Blackboard and Canvas.

All Hands on Canvas

Instructor:  Robert Kelley
Friday, November 18, 3:00-4:50 pm
Oceanside Campus – OC 4611

This workshop is designed to give you open time to work with Canvas in a supported environment. A faculty member who has taught with Canvas will provide a very brief overview of Canvas in the first 10-15 minutes, and from there the time is open for you to become more proficient in your use of Canvas, and to work on developing a class in Canvas, with the support of experienced Canvas users. In addition, attendees may benefit from exploring Canvas resources found at https://tic.miracosta.edu/campus-teaching-technologies/canvas/ .

Blackboard Drop-In Open Lab

Instructor: Karen Korstad
Monday, August 15,  9:00 am – 10:30 am
Tuesday, August 16, 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Oceanside Campus – OC 1253B

Let’s talk Blackboard. Ask questions and receive instructional assistance with your Blackboard course. This workshop is drop-in so bring your laptops, course materials and questions. An excellent opportunity to network with your peers while getting setup for the Fall 16 semester.

Blackboard Grade Center

Instructor: Karen Korstad
Online Monday, August 15, 4 – 5:30pm via ConferNow
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The Grade Center in Blackboard Learn is more than just a way to record student’s grades.  It is a dynamic and interactive tool, allowing you to record data, calculate grades, monitor student progress, and provide feedback.

After this workshop, instructors will be able to:

  • Create a column and record a student’s grade
  • Hide a column from a student’s view vs. hiding columns from the instructor view
  • View a single student’s data quickly, e-mail them, and hide sample student or TAs from the grade center view.
  • Create categories and associate them with columns
  • Organize the order of the grade center columns.
  • Filter the grade center by category, status, or view
  • Create a calculated column including a weighted total column calculated by category
  • Create smart views to quickly view grades by performance, user, or category
  • Create a grading schema and assign it to a grade center column
  • Add grading color codes to visually alert when grades are at a certain level or are in progress, needs grading, or exempt.
  • Create a grade center report that can be printed and distributed to a student
  • Download the grade center data for backup and working offline
  • Create a My Grades tool link in the Course Menu

Get to Know MiraCosta’s Online Class Guidelines

Instructor: Jim Julius
Online Monday, August 15, 2 – 3 pm via ConferNow
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Did you know that last spring, the Academic Senate approved a set of Online Class Guidelines? These were developed by the MiraCosta Online Educators committee “to inform online faculty of required elements for Distance Education classes, offer a means for instructors to develop and redesign online classes, foster conversation in departments about online instruction, and provide a foundation for improved faculty support.” This online session will provide an overview of the Guidelines, with clear information about required elements for MiraCosta distance education classes, as well as open discussion and sharing about the good practices and examples provided in the document which are “intended to encourage creativity and exploration”.

Orienting Students for Online Learning Success

Instructor: Jim Julius
Online Tuesday, August 16, 3 – 4 pm via CCC Confer
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Over 1200 students have attended MiraCosta’s Student Orientation to Online Learning (SOOL) since 2014. Come experience the online version of this orientation for yourself! You may learn some important information about MiraCosta’s online resources supporting student learning, and we’ll discuss how you can encourage and track your students’ SOOL attendance. We’ll also discuss potential next steps with online student readiness and support.

Top Five Tips for Creating Accessible Course Content

Instructor: Robert Erichsen
Wednesday August 17, 12 – 1 pm
OC 3516

Learn some simple ways in which you can lower digital barriers and allow all your students, including students with disabilities, full access to your course materials.

Accreditation and Online Education: What you Need to Know

Instructors: Jim Julius and Chris Hill
Online Thursday, August 18, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm via ConferNow
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During the accreditation process this fall, visiting team members may request access to any of our classes, including online access to any class that includes distance education. Distance education classes, programs, and support services have many specific accreditation standards upon which MiraCosta will be evaluated. During this session, you’ll be able to discuss these standards and ask questions about the accreditation process. We’ll also consider the big picture: How does online education help to fulfill MiraCosta’s institutional mission? How do accreditation standards reflect good practice in online education? Bring your questions, concerns, and open mind!

Goodbye, Blackboard and Moodle. Hello, Canvas!

Instructors: Jim Julius and Curry Mitchell
Online Thursday, August 18, 2:30 – 3:50 pm via ConferNow
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In spring 2016, MiraCosta faculty, staff, students, and administrators decided to move from Blackboard and Moodle to the Canvas course management system over the next two years. In this workshop, you’ll take a tour of Canvas and see how some MiraCosta faculty have already begun to put it to use. You will receive information on how you can begin to try Canvas out and where to go to learn how to use it. You’ll also get a quick recap of how the decision was made and what the timeline for our adoption process looks like. We’ll also briefly consider the bigger picture of what’s going on with Canvas and the Online Education Initiative across the California Community College system.

Spring 2016 Workshops

Spring 2016 Flex Workshops

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Blackboard Basics – K. Korstad
Online – Friday, January 15, 10:30-11:20 am via CCC Confer
Access here a few minutes before 10:30 am on 1/15 – see links at top of this page for help.
Screen Name (if necessary):  Your First and Last Name (i.e. Karen Korstad)
Passcode (if necessary):  169502
Handout: SP16-BackboardBasicsWorkshop.pdf

Get the key information needed to get up and running in Blackboard. With Blackboard, instructors create and manage course content, use publisher content, evaluate performance, and communicate with students. This workshop will introduce you to the fundamental course building and communications tools in Blackboard.

Course Management System Demonstrations – J. Julius et al.
Little Theater (OC 3601) – Tuesday, January 19, 9:30 am – 2:20 pm
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Access via old MiraCosta streaming system – Requires Silverlight, doesn’t work on Chrome
Recordings will be posted after the event concludes.

Participate in some or all of this day of course management system (CMS) demos, kicking off a process for MiraCosta to re-evaluate its CMS. We have been primarily using Blackboard for years, as well as supporting Moodle for some faculty. Our new Online Education Plan includes a directive to re-evaluate these systems; further, through the statewide Online Education Initiative, we have access to a system called Canvas (which many California Community Colleges are now moving to) at a greatly reduced cost. Thus, faculty and administrative leaders have agreed that it is time to conduct a thorough evaluation in line with our strategic goals for online education. An inclusive taskforce is being formed, and input will be widely solicited, beginning with this event. Schedule for the day:

9:30-9:55      Intro/overview conducted by MiraCosta CMS evaluation leaders
10:00-11:00  Canvas demo
11:05-12:05  Blackboard demo
12:05–12:45  Lunch provided
12:45–1:45   Moodle demo
1:50-2:20      Wrap-up conducted by MiraCosta CMS evaluation leaders

Note, the Blackboard demo will be focused on “Learn Ultra” which is their next-generation system and represents a significant change to the interface/user experience from our current system.

Screencasting with Techsmith Relay – K. Korstad
Online – Wednesday, January 20, 2:00-3:20 pm via CCC Confer
Access here a few minutes before 2:00 pm on 1/20 – see links at top of this page for help.

Techsmith Relay is a free screencasting tool available free to all faculty at MiraCosta. With a few simple steps you can record anything displayed on your computer’s screen with your voice narration, caption it, and post to YouTube or Screencast.com. Record on your own at home or in your office, or capture your in-class lecture with Techsmith Relay. Available for Mac, PC, mobile USB stick, Android, and iOS.

Online Education Initiative – What You Should Know – J. Julius, C. Mitchell, & C. Sleeper
Online – Thursday, January 21, 3:00-3:50 pm via CCC Confer
Access here a few minutes before 3:00 pm on 1/21 – see links at top of this page for help.

In summer 2014, MiraCosta College became one of 24 pilot colleges in the California Community College Online Education Initiative (OEI). The primary goal of the initiative is to increase access and completion by enabling students to more easily find, enroll in, and take high-quality online classes offered by colleges across the CCC system. Learn about what the OEI has accomplished, what resources are now available to ALL faculty and students, and what is coming our way in 2016 and beyond. Hear from MiraCosta’s faculty who have been teaching OEI pilot classes since last spring. Bring all of your questions for discussion!

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