Do I Have Covid? Health & Science Misinformation in the Wild (of the World Wide Web)
Health and science misinformation is dangerous, and the repercussions have become life-threatening, especially since the world started battling COVID-19. Join us as we discuss the:
value of science in our society and the ways misinformation threatens it
processes involved in scientific discovery (specific to COVID-19)
importance of data in the dissemination of scientific information
methods to discuss science and information literacy issues
Here are the details:
When: Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 12pm Where: Misinformation Series Forum #2 Hosts: Kristine Arquero, Maha Gebara-Lamb, Dominique Ingato, Joe Salamon, Lauren McFall
In this week’s episode, hosts Sean and curry introduce and welcome Mana Tadayon, the SAFE Topics’ newest co-host! Mana first joined us as a guest on the One Word Conversation episode with students on “Leaders” (S2E3). In today’s release, we welcome Mana as a part of the team and we can’t be excited enough! Listen in and join us in welcoming Mana!!
What is it about community college that keeps you coming back for more?
The immediacy of impact on the campus community.
Every single class has a new set of people and that’s amazing.
There is agency and autonomy in the work we do – is it the same for students?
What’s missing or makes community college harder?
Canvas and the “to-do” list.
Having passion and the energy to get through bad things.
The trap of “we did it, so we can do it.”
Teachers still come in nervous and with imposter syndrome.
To care or not to care.
What does community college promise to students and to teachers?
What does the Associated Student Government promise students?
The S.A.F.E. Topics Team
curry mitchell – Faculty, Letters (Co-host) Sean Davis – Faculty, Sociology (Co-host) Mana Tadayon – Student, ASG President (Co-host) Kelly Barnett – Intern and Music Technology Student (Audio Editor) James Garcia – Associate Faculty, Sociology (Show Notes, Online)
Spring break is just about here, hooray! I haven’t been throwing a lot of info at you this spring, so this email has a lot of quick and useful items … please take a look!
I’m offering a final set of Student Orientation to Online Learning workshops the week after break. These are especially to support students starting in 8-week classes but of course are open to all.
Professional Learning Opportunities & Save-the-Dates:
MiraCosta
Friday, April 30, save the date for a local online event recognizing and celebrating our efforts (especially over the last year) to offer equitable online learning to our students, and deepening our skills, knowledge, and commitment to this ongoing work. Look for more details coming soon!
June 21-23 is the Online Teaching Conference. It’s virtual and $150 registration is open now. If you would like support to attend, just reply to this email and I’ll hook you up!
Aug. 4-6 a new free online conference called Cal OER will take place. A call for proposals will be open soon – I’ll send an email with more info when it’s out.
Online technology tips and updates of note:
Zoom now offersautomatic live captioning/transcription in addition to transcribing recordings. Meeting hosts have to enable this every time you start a meeting.
MiraCosta’s Canvas system now includes an Immersive Reader feature at the upper right of every Canvas page (Pages only, not assignments, discussions, or other Canvas tools). Immersive Reader supports Universal Design for Learning by providing tools supporting student comprehension of course material, including language translation options and (high-quality!) reading aloud of content on pages.
Office 365 is now available as an integration in our Canvas system. This enables quick access to your OneDrive files for adding to Canvas as content, as well as tools for collaboration and assignments using Office 365 files. To learn more, start with our Office 365/Canvas integration instructor guide on the TIC site . The bottom of that page includes links to resources supporting students as they get started with Office 365.
This page provides guidance on teaching with Zoom, and assumes some basic familiarity with Zoom. Visit the Getting Started, Getting Help, and Using Zoom with Canvas page for details and technical information about getting started with Zoom at MiraCosta College, including how to set up integration of Zoom within Canvas.
Zoom Teaching Tips: Inclusion, Equity, Privacy, Security, and more
Please note that some of the following resources may refer to the version of Zoom that MiraCostans used in fall 2020 or earlier; MiraCosta Zoom is now hosted at https://miracosta-edu.zoom.us rather than https://conferzoom.org.
Teaching with Zoom (Fall 2020 workshop) – CSIT faculty member Rick Cassoni provides a 1-hour overview of Zoom, from the beginnings of signing up for a Zoom account, to recommended settings within your account and creation of meetings, to the basics of using Zoom for both live and recorded online instruction.
Connecting with Students in Zoom (Spring 2020 workshop) – Letters faculty member curry mitchell shares a few simple activities and methods for scaffolding an interactive, collaborative Zoom workshop with students. curry also discusses flexible and compassionate practices–such as attendance policies and creating asynchronous means for participation–to ensure we’re using Zoom to help each other. (Note, this session included 10 minutes in breakout rooms but the recording was not paused, so you can skip from when that happens at around minute 39 ahead to minute 49 of the recording.)
Sharing your iPad screen on Zoom – Math faculty member Angela Beltran-Aguilar demonstrates in this short (under 3 minutes) video how to use an iPad as your sharing source for teaching with Zoom.
Capturing a separate screencast of a Zoom session – Psychology faculty member Robert Kelley demonstrates in this very short (under 2 minutes) video how to capture a portion of a Zoom session, excluding student participants, in order to be able to share the recording more widely without FERPA concerns.
Sending Zoom Recordings to Canvas Studio – Automatically!
Enabling Automated Real-Time Captions in Zoom – We now have access to automated captions inside our Zoom meetings – both live and recorded. While automated captions are a great resource for our students, they are not a replacement for professional captions when those are needed.
Zoom cloud recordings auto-transcribe and caption recorded Zoom sessions within a few hours (typically) of completion of the recording. Zoom’s interface makes it easy to fix up the captions so they are fully accurate.
If you have a student who requires professional live captions and you are using Zoom, please contact MiraCosta SAS.
You will need to make a one-time change in your Zoom account settings to enable live captioning, and at the start of each Zoom session with captioning, you will need to assign the captioning role to the proper person in your meeting. See directions for both.
Hello campus community and once again, happy Friday!!! This week the SAFE Topics Podcast team is releasing part two of our latest episode that gets into the idea of academics as a culture, “It’s Our Classroom, But Whose Culture?” If you enjoyed part one, the second part gets even better! Our hosts Sean and curry were joined by some awesome MiraCosta College faculty members that included Jade Hilde (Letters), Alexis Tucker Sade (Anthropology), Rica French (Astronomy), Karl Cleveland (Media Arts & Technology), and Rick Cassoni (Computer Science & Information Technology). Join us and listen in!
curry mitchell – Faculty, Letters (Co-host) Sean Davis – Faculty, Sociology (Co-host) Mana Tadayon – Student, ASG President (Co-host) Kelly Barnett – Intern and Music Technology Student (Audio Editor) James Garcia – Associate Faculty, Sociology (Show Notes, Online)
