C3-2-1 Weekly Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 1, February 10, 2020

Hello, Colleagues! 

Your Joyful Teacher in Residence here! The latest C3 Teaching and Learning Center professional learning opportunity is this weekly newsletter. Each week, you will get 3 resources for teaching and learning, 2 online tips and tricks, and 1 question for you to ponder. 

C3-2-1 newsletter

3 resources:

I. The Marginal Syllabus – 

Looking for a community of educators to join? The Marginal Syllabus might be the space you are looking for to network with professionals who share your passion for equitizing higher education through the use of Connected Learning Principles. Check out the resources, blogs, and events available on the website. 

From their About page: The Marginal Syllabus convenes and sustains conversations with educators about issues of equity in teaching, learning, and education. Through author and organizational partnerships, and by using the web annotation platform Hypothesis, the Marginal Syllabus fosters a participatory and open experiment in professional learning for educators eager to join critical conversations about equity and education.

The project’s name is an intentional reference to multiple interpretations of the term marginal.

II. ASCCC OER Initiative Canvas Page

Do you want to know where to start with Open Educational Resources? Have you been implementing OER in your courses and want more? The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has a ton of resources on their OERI Canvas page. You can simply explore the available resources or self-enroll in the Canvas course to participate in the OERI conversation – your choice! 

More info from the ASCCC webpage: The ASCCC OERI was funded in trailer bill language during the summer of 2018. Preparations for its launch were made during the fall 2018 term and this state-wide faculty-led effort had its kick-off with a webinar on February 1, 2019. This page serves as a collection of resources related to the structure and development of the OERI.

III. @One Introduction to Teaching with Canvas – Self-Paced Course (FREE!)

Are you still trying to figure out Canvas (we all are!)? Do you want to learn more about the basics of our institution’s Learning Management System? @One (Online Network of Educators) – a division of the CVC-OEI (California Virtual Campus – Online Education Initiative) – provides a variety of professional learning courses for online educators. Some (like the one featured here) are FREE! 

2 online tips and tricks:

I. Posting announcements on your Canvas Homepage –

Did you know that you can post your most recent announcements to your Canvas course homepage? This practice can help students with another way to view the most recent and relevant course updates. If you are interested in implementing this feature in your course, click the title and check out the step-by-step tutorial. 

II. Hiding unnecessary navigation items – 

Is your Canvas navigation list cluttered with items you don’t even use in your course? Do you want students to navigate your course in a particular way without accessing pages, assignments, files, etc. unnecessarily? Click on the tip title to learn how to clean up your Canvas navigation list. 

1 question for you to ponder:

If you were a student who stepped into a college classroom, campus library, counseling office, etc. for the very first time, how would you feel, and how would you like to be received?

Have a great week four of our spring semester! 🙂 

Be joyful,

Sean Davis
Joyful Teacher in Residence
Coordinator, C3 Teaching and Learning Center

C3 Teaching and Learning Center

Oceanside Campus
1 Barnard Drive
Oceanside, CA 92056
P 760.757.2121 x7713
sdavis@miracosta.edu

Chai, Coffee, and Canvas – Monday, February 10 from 9:45am to 10:45am in the Pedagogical Lounge

Hello, Colleagues!

This email is an invitation to join Jim Julius (Faculty Director of Online Education), Karen Turpin (Online Instructional Technologist), and me (Sean Davis – Joyful Teacher in Residence) for a morning beverage and an open-ended discussion on all things Canvas. Come with questions, concerns, ideas, and anything else relating to Canvas.

We are here to help with tools, tricks, resources, walk-throughs, and more to help you get Canvas to be what you need it to be and continue to provide the best possible educational service to our students.

What: Refreshments and Canvas Support
When: Monday, February 10 from 9:45am to 10:45am
Where: The Pedagogical Lounge in the C3 Teaching and Learning Center

We hope to see you soon! 🙂

Be joyful,

Sean Davis

Conversations Connecting Colleagues – A C3 Professional Learning Opportunity

Hello, Colleagues! 

I am excited to introduce new programming from our C3 Teaching and Learning Center. Conversations Connecting Colleagues is an effort to get us discussing important issues related to our profession. Once a month, I will release an article related to teaching and learning. Over the course of the month, you can engage with our faculty community by annotating the article and responding to others’ annotations. We will use a program called Hypothesis. Hypothesis is a tool that allows us to have a shared and social reading experience. You can jump in and out of the conversation anytime over the month. Once the social reading period is over, we will host a debrief session (On the first Wednesday of the month from 9:45am to 10:45am) in the C3 Teaching and Learning Center and online via Zoom. 

Conversations Connecting Colleagues. A C3 Professional Learning Opportunity

Here’s how to get started:

  1. Create an account on the Hypothesis website
  2. Once your account is confirmed and live, use this link to join our group: MiraCosta C3
  3. Return to the Hypothesis site and click on “Get Started”
  4. On the “Get Started” Page, you will be able to add Hypothesis to your browser by installing an extension.
  1. Next, you can access our article for the month by clicking on – A call for promoting ownership, equity, and agency in faculty development via connected learning. Now access your Hypothesis browser extension and open the sidebar menu on the right side of the screen. Next, use the dropdown menu to get into our group discussion by selecting “MiraCosta C3.”  

From here, you can start annotating by selecting any text, clicking “annotate” and submitting your text. You can also see what other folks in the group have noted and reply to their submissions. 

My hope is that Conversations Connecting Colleagues will engage our community and start important discussions on issues that matter to us. 

Our article for February 2020

A call for promoting ownership, equity, and agency in faculty development via connected learning by Maha Bali and Autumm Caines

***Conversations Connecting Colleagues is FLEX Eligible***

Our first debrief session will be on Wednesday, March 4 from 9:45am to 10:45am. I will send out a reminder one week prior to our meeting. 

Be joyful, 

Sean Davis
Joyful Teacher in Residence 
Coordinator, C3 Teaching and Learning Center

C3 Teaching and Learning Center

Oceanside Campus
1 Barnard Drive
Oceanside, CA 92056
P 760.757.2121 x7713
C 760.521.1387
sdavis@miracosta.edu

DirectShare in Canvas (NEW)

Direct Share allows users to copy individual course items to another course and share individual items with other users. This change allows content to be shared directly in Canvas without having to use a secondary repository like Commons.

Assignments Direct Share Release Video Screencast
Start Assignments: Direct Share Video

Tutorials and Guides

Course-Level Features

User-Level Features

Online Ed News to Use – Jan. 2020

Canvas updates & reminders

  • MiraCosta’s Start of Semester Canvas Checklist has great tips and links to tutorials as you set up your classes in Canvas.
  • If you haven’t heard, Canvas Studio is a video tool built into Canvas that allows you to create screencasts, turn videos into discussions, and even embed quiz questions within videos. Check out our local introductory page or jump straight to Canvas’s full set of Studio tutorials.
  • Point your students to the Student Support button on the left in Canvas for quick access to online support from the library, tutoring, writing center, counseling, career center, and more!
  • Reminder: we are still working on a process for combining Canvas classes that address FERPA concerns, so this is not being done for spring.
  • MiraCosta’s main Canvas page for faculty includes tons of support resources, recorded workshops, and much more – be sure to check it out!

Preferred names & pronouns for students in SURF & Canvas

  • Please make sure that students know that if they prefer to be known by a different name from their legal/formal name, they may indicate their preferred name via SURF – instructions are here. Preferred name is used in Canvas, on class rosters, and elsewhere around MiraCosta.
  • Canvas also includes NameCoach, a tool that allows students to voice-record their own names and indicate their pronouns, making it easier to establish respectful relationships in classroom communities, whether the class meets online or in person. Encourage your students to record their names and specify their pronouns – share this MiraCosta NameCoach tutorial with them (and make sure you do it, too!).

Teaching classes with textbook costs under $40 this spring?

  • If you are teaching any spring classes that have course material costs of $0 (zero) or under $40 (low), please be sure to designate those classes as such in SURF. This enables your class to receive a special denotation in SURF and also to be listed on the ZTC/LTC page. See directions here.

Teaching online or hybrid classes this spring?

  • I’ll be offering many Student Orientation to Online Learning student workshops over the first three weeks of the spring semester – see all dates and times on the TASC site and in Canvas announcements. Encourage your students to attend and, if you like, find out which of your students participated in order to award extra credit.
  • In addition to our standard online tutoring support, online and hybrid classes may also use NetTutor, which you can provide access to directly within your canvas class.
  • Remember that regular effective student-to-student contact is now required for all distance education classes by California Title 5. We’ll be updating our local DE policies and guidelines this spring to address this.

Online Teaching Conference and other professional learning

  • The CCC Online Teaching Conference moves to Pasadena this year, June 17-19. Online Ed will fund attendance including hotel for MiraCostans who present at OTC. The Call for Proposals is open now through Jan. 31. If you’d like to go but don’t want to submit a proposal, look for more information later in the spring about potential support.
  • @ONE offers classes for CCC faculty ranging from introductory and intermediate courses about online education, to more focused learning experiences related to topics such as culturally responsive teaching, accessibility, assessment, and much more. New facilitated classes begin January 13, and there are many self-paced classes available anytime – check out the catalog. MiraCosta travel funds can be used to pay for classes that have a cost – if you need funding please reach out to me!
  • If you teach a fully online C-ID approved course, you are eligible to receive support from the Online Education Initiative. Learn more about the Course Design Academy and/or signup p for an upcoming informational meeting.!

Happy spring!

Jim Julius, Ed.D.
Faculty Director, Online Education

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