If you missed the live Teamwork Tuesday demonstration of Yuja, here is the recording that will demonstrate how to get started, manage media using a video editor, and sharing content with direct links and moodle. This will be followed up with a more advanced session on Friday the 5th of November @ 2pm. The CTEI digest will send links before the event.
Passcode: *uc%2U3#
Employers demand a talent pool armed with both hard and soft skills. Sadly, the focus on the development of soft skills ends somewhere between kindergarten and college. This 20-Minute Mentor (Opens in a new window) discusses core power skills which include: teamwork, communication, positive attitude, critical thinking, professionalism, and time management. You’ll also learn a four-phase approach to integrating soft-skill education into a curriculum and how to design-related activities to unleash the full potential of your students.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Have an increased awareness of the need to integrate soft skills into the curriculum
http://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: workplace11
This 20-Minute Mentor (opens in a new window) discusses “high tech” and “low tech” solutions for ensuring academic integrity in online classes. While “high tech” solutions include strategies like proctoring services and plagiarism detection software, these strategies can be costly and may require institutional support. “Low tech” solutions, however, are ones that individual instructors can employ in their course and assessment design to help to ensure academic integrity in their online classes.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Identify “high tech” solutions for ensuring academic integrity in online classes
• Recognize “low tech” solutions that instructors can employ for ensuring academic integrity in their online classes
• Examine the pros and cons with incorporating different solutions
Link: http://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: integrity21
Before March 2020, we were skeptical that a polysynchronous learning platform, which allows face-to-face and online learning to occur at the same time, would be effective. However, not only can students learn in this environment, some may thrive given the flexibility and convenience it allows.
This 20-Minute Mentor shares lessons learned from the expert presenters’ polysynchronous teaching and provides ideas to help create a more effective learning environment. These lessons include: building rapport and encouraging interaction with your students, holding students accountable for their learning, developing different small-stakes assessments, and increasing empathy and flexibility as an instructor.
http://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: classroom76
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
• Become a more effective polysynchronous teacher
• Hold students accountable for their learning
• Increase empathy and flexibility in their classrooms
• Develop and implement small-stakes online assessments
• Cultivate deeper teacher-student relationships
If you missed Dr. Ryan Showler’s (Philosophy) session on how he used sabbatical leave recently to do academic research, this recording (passcode *@u0S0T4 )will show you how he used his time effectively and productively during the pandemic. Even if you’re not planning to take sabbatical leave in the near future, this session is of interest to anyone who wants to do academic research or is interested in how to stay focused.
Passcode: *@u0S0T4
Responding in a discussion forum can be a struggle—for instructors and students alike. At its most challenging, it can feel like you’re filling out aform, skimming along the surface, disconnected from any real sense of the direction of the course
In this 20-Minute Mentor, (opens in a new window) you’ll discover how you can use your responses to create a narrative for the class—a story that inspires students to move forward by kicking things off with an infusion of humanity. Additionally, you’ll receive guidance on making explicit connections to course and career outcomes, and will finish the program with asking the right questions to spark transformational change.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
*Develop strategies to put an indelible and engaging stamp on the discussion forum
*Establish a larger sense of the discussion-based workflow in the class, and create a series of “context windows” which reflect the student- learner journey
*Consider the different types of questions that can be asked of student learners in discussion responses and create a deployment strategy
http://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: discussion79
We’ll be reading “An Urgency of Teachers: The Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy” (Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel) this semester. The first meeting will take place on Zoom (opens in a new window) on Tuesday, September 21 at 3 p.m. At that time, we’ll decide on a regular meeting day/time for the Book Club. You can RSVP here Bookclubz app
Feel free to listen to Faculty Focus Live Podcast for the inspiration, energy, and creative strategies that can be utilized in your everyday teaching. These short ’15’minute podcasts can offer tips, tricks, and pedagogy techniques to give instructors an extra boost of creativity and motivation. They are perfect for your drive to work or can be integrated as a 15-minute think session to get your wheels turning before stepping into the classroom or “zooming” onto the computer screen.
Question banks allow instructors to significantly increase the security of their exams while providing an opportunity to create more flexibility. A robust set of question banks can improve question organization and control, thus promoting academic integrity and honesty among students.
This 20-Minute Mentor (opens in a new window) demonstrates how to creatively apply question banks both to increase security, and also to refresh and reinvigorate exams. Participants will receive easy instructions on how to create more secure exams by randomizing questions into a vast combination of options.
Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:
http://mondaymorningmentors.com
Password: secure932
The following workshop is part of an NSF ATE Project to offer professional development and mentoring services to 2-year college Technical Faculty, in an effort to improve the effectiveness and/or access of their technical courses, by implementing instructional elements from successful competency-based/hybrid instructional models used throughout the country. Each of these Faculty workshops will consist of three, 2-hour training sessions delivered across the Zoom platform. Faculty can choose one of the following workshops:
Faculty Workshop #5: September 10, 17 and 24, 2021. Times: 1:00pm to 3:00pm EDT.Faculty Workshop #6: October 8, 15 and 22, 2021. Times: 1:00pm to 3:00pm EDT. Faculty Workshop #7: November 5, 12, and 19, 2021. Times: 1:00pm to 3:00pm EDT.
For more information, or to register for these workshops contact Tom Wylie (Project PI) at NorthwestStateCommunityCollege, Archbold, Ohio. Email:twylie@northweststate.eduOr Sarah Stubblefield , Project Manager, at Northwest State, Email:sestubblefield@northweststate.edu
