We are excited to announce the production and release of a brand new podcast by MiraCostans and for MiraCostans – a podcast placing students and faculty into dialogue with each other over the dangerous topics that impact teaching and learning experiences in the community college.
We hope to be funny, sometimes salty, and always relevant.
Episodes will be released every Wednesday so be on the lookout for our first one next week!
The S.A.F.E. Topics Team:
curry mitchell – Faculty, Letters (Co-host) Sean Davis – Faculty, Sociology (Co-host) Kelly Barnett – Intern and Music Technology Student (Audio Editor) James Garcia – SDICCCA Fellow and Associate Faculty, Sociology (Show Notes)
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
Oceanside Campus 1 Barnard Drive Oceanside, CA 92056 P 760.757.2121 x7713 sdavis@miracosta.edu
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
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.
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.
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.
