SHOW & Tell Tech Day

Come learn about new strategies, tools, and tricks to improve your online teaching experience. Bring your laptop and your own ideas to share. There will also be a "Get It Done Genius Bar" staffed by the DE Committee and the incredible Quan in NC 2121 from 11:30-2:30 if you want to drop in for some specific assistance with courses you're working on.

8:30-9:30: Online Course Approval Process in CurricUNET - NC 2120

Have you been thinking about taking an existing face to face course and moving it to a hybrid or fully-online format? Come and learn how the curriculum approval process works for online and hybrid courses.

9:00-9:50am Basics of Accessibility in Canvas - NC 2122

Come learn about the basics of accessibility in online instruction from Roberto Santiago. Topics will include: heading styles, descriptive links, lists, alt text (for images) tables, color, and the basics of how to auto edit your own videos in YouTube. Bring your computer and leave ready to build accessible materials in Canvas.

10:00-11:30am Master Teacher Panel: Tips, Tricks, or Tools to Foster Student Engagement & Retention - NC 2122

Andy Bloom will facilitate his wildly popular Master Teacher panel, but this time with a focus on online teaching. Alison Kuehner will be sharing her strategies for creating student to student contact in online courses. Debi Lemon will introduce us to ways to humanize our courses and build interaction and community online. Tracy Virgil will demo some of her favorite interactive tools, including Flipgrid, Padlet, Google Forms, and Answer Garden.

11:40-12:50pm BYO Lunch: Grading & Assessments: The Good, The Bad, and Helpful Tools - NC 2123

Bring your lunch and your laptop, and let your colleagues share their favorite tips, techniques, and tools related to grading during this working lunch. Terry Exner will walk everyone through how she uses speedgrader. She will also share the features used to measure attendance within Canvas and how to use the information to follow up as needed in Starfish. Shelly Spratt will present grading rubrics in Canvas and how to post a coaching video in your feedback. Heather McCarty will share how she uses video feedback for discussion boards. Mark Grabiner will offer some examples and tutorials for how to efficiently use Canvas to give students practice problems and auto-grading quizzes. He will go over how to use Respondus 4.0 (Windows PC only) to efficiently generate and upload practice quizzes to Canvas from problems in text files.

1:00-2:00pm: Voice Thread - NC 2122

This training is designed for those who want to learn how to use VoiceThread. Topics covered in this training include: VoiceThread navigation, creating and commenting on your VoiceThreads, creating graded VoiceThread assignments in Canvas, reviewing examples from actual courses, and discussing accessibility features.

2:10-3:00pm Soup Up Your Course for Student Success: Online Tools and Resources - NC 2122

Kathy Sparling and Barbara Duggal will present “Spice Up Your Soup! Infuse Films, Readings, and Research Help Right into Your Course.” They will provide a very brief overview of databases and other e-resources available through the library, and demonstrate specific methods for easily embedding these resources into Canvas. Examples range from single articles, to streaming videos, to “Ask a Librarian” widgets, to complete mini-modules on “Evaluating Sources” or “Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism.” Maggie McKenzie will share how she provides students with links in Canvas to resources they may need in order to be successful in college and in life. These resources include TOP (The Ohlone Pantry), STEP Up Ohlone, and the Ohlone College Career Link. Tijan White and/or Jennifer Harper will teach us how to effectively use Starfish with online line class. Starfish is a student success and communication tool available to all faculty and students. It can be used to make referrals to counseling, refer students to tutoring, “flag” and notify students who aren’t doing well in your classes, send “kudos” to students who are performing well or trying hard, and look up whether or not students in your class are eligible for accommodations.

11:30-2:30: "Get It Done Genius Bar" - NC 2121

This drop in help bar is staffed by the DE Committee and the incredible Quan. Stop on by in if you want to drop in for some specific assistance with courses you're working on or even if you just need some support with the DE Course Approval process in CurricUNET.