Week 4, Spring 2020

How do Course Design Features Influence Student Performance?

Welcome to Spring 2020!

After a short hiatus, we are back with all the usual information to support you in teaching online. If you have suggestions, ideas, and/or would like to be a guest blogger please email Denise Maduli-Williams, Online Teaching Mentor at dmaduliw@sdccd.edu

Canvas Hack: Enabling Personal Pronouns

Did you know there is a new feature on Canvas to add pronouns to a profile? Pronouns are then visible in your account profile, and after your name throughout Canvas.

For step-by-step directions, click here: Enable Personal Pronouns

Professional Learning Opportunities

HOOPLA (Hands-on Online Practical Learning Activities) Workshop Series. 

These workshops are designed to share ideas and activities to enhance your online, hybrid, and onground classes.

If you missed our first workshop, you can view the workshops site with slidedeck and resources here: Regular and Effective Contact, Part 1: Instructor-to-Student Interaction.

Head to the Flex site to sign up for the other upcoming workshops. Hope to see you there:

Canvas Institute Spring 2020

Dave Giberson is hosting an amazing series of Canvas workshops held online via Zoom. If you can't make it live, the workshops are all archived. Click here for the full schedule: Canvas Institute Schedule

Upcoming workshops include:

• 1/29/2020, 2-4 pm, Flex # 1737, Grading in Canvas
• 2/3/2020/ 10 am - 12 pm, Flex # 1738,  Accessibility in your Canvas Course
• 2/7/2020, 9-11 am, Flex # 1739, Screencasting for Canvas

Zoom URL https://cccconfer.zoom.us/my/dgiberson

SPACES - Social Presence, Accessibility, Collaboration, Engagement for Students 

This self-paced online training series is hosted on Canvas and includes a variety of training modules that you can complete and earn badges on your own. 

Head to the Flex site to sign up:

• Social Presence, Flex # 1230 
• Clips App and Spark Stories

• Accessibility, Flex # 1231 
• Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

• Collaboration, Flex # 1232 
• Flipgrid and Discussion Board Strategies

• Engagement, Flex # 1233 
• Zoom for synchronous interaction &  asynchronous engagement

• Student Tools, Flex # 1234 
• Technology for Optimizing Online Learning for Students

Online Teaching Conference (OTC 2020)

June 17-19, 2020, Pasadena Convention Center

Register here: OTC 2020

The Online Teaching Conference (2020 will be its 20th year) is a unique face-to-face premier gathering of faculty, staff, and administrators leading the way in developing innovative and effective online education. As an inter-segmental conference focused on curriculum, pedagogy and technology to improve online instruction, learning, and student success, the Online Teaching Conference is an opportunity for educators to network with colleagues, connect, share knowledge, impart and receive best practices, and develop professionally.

Links and Resources

I just learned about the DoubleTake app which allows you to film simultaneous footage on your iPhone and I can't wait to level-up my videos. Here's a quick tutorial: Dual Lens Recording

These are all new to me: 6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2020

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, How to be a Better Online Teacher (Thank you Dean Ben Gamboa for sharing this!)

This handy Canvas Course Checklist may encourage you to try out something new.

From Faculty Focus, Pedagogies of Online Welcome