DE Summit
2023 Online Summit: Shaping the future with empowered educators
a week for growth and inspiration
Monday October 9th - Thursday October 12th
Thank you to all the faculty, staff, and administrators who joined us last week for the SDCCD Online Summit 2023.
Also, a big thank you to the presenters, staff, and support that made it all possible. 🙌
Listed below are the fabulous recordings from the week of innovative thought, new technology techniques, and perspective learning.
Monday October 9th
Time: 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Description:
Online & DIstributed Learning Dean Weston will kick off the 2023 Online Summit with a presentation on distance education efforts across the District, updated numbers on our students, and support for the 23/24 year.
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20663
CCE Flex- 31154
About our Presenter:
Brian Weston started working in California Community College’s as an American Sign Language Interpreter and progressed into Information Technology and Teaching. Brian serves as the Dean of Online & Distributed Learning at San Diego Community College District. He leads the Districtwide Distance Education Steering Committee, Educational Services Software Workgroup, and Student Textbook Affordability Committee for the district. His focus is enhancing online programs and course offerings while ensuring that students have access to necessary college services.Title: Keynote Address
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Description:
Empowering Faculty and Students through Digital Literacy: Lowering Barriers to Success- This talk will focus on the transformative impact of integrating digital literacy into the curriculum. It will highlight how bringing digital literacy, digital creativity, and digital learning into our classrooms can lower barriers to student success by empowering both faculty and students in new ways, by helping to bridge the digital divide, by opening greater access to course content and practices, and by providing new avenues for engagement. It will feature example approaches and inspiring student project and provide a few entry points and (re)orientations: from low-stakes in-class activities to embracing failure pedagogy to innovative course (re)design.
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20648
CCE Flex- 31139
About our Presenter:
Justin Hodgson, Ph.D., is an award-winning educator and digital transformation leader at Indiana University, where he Co-Directs the system-wide Digital Gardener Initiative, a series of programs focused on faculty development and student success designed to integrate digital literacy, digital creativity, and digital learning into the classroom. Dr. Hodgson also directs the Online First-Year Composition program at IU Bloomington and is the founding editor of the Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects. His research focuses on the intersections of rhetoric and writing studies, emerging media, digital learning, play and game theory, and art and aesthetics.
Title: Building Better Learning Experiences: An Active Learning + Digital Literacy Approach
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Description:
This workshop is design to help faculty move beyond just mapping learning outcomes into a course or syllabus and instead to see themselves as learning experience designers (and to see the classroom as a learning experience design space). To help in this process, the workshop will ground participants in basic concepts for integrating both Active Learning practices and Digital Literacy approaches into the classroom, showcase examples and discuss possible considerations, and then invite participants to redesign one class experience in a way that leverages some of the practices and concepts introduced in the workshop. This will be a hands-on (virtual) workshop and invite participants into collaborative engagements as part of the experience.
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20650
CCE Flex- 31140
About our Presenter:Justin Hodgson, Ph.D., is an award-winning educator and digital transformation leader at Indiana University, where he Co-Directs the system-wide Digital Gardener Initiative, a series of programs focused on faculty development and student success designed to integrate digital literacy, digital creativity, and digital learning into the classroom. Dr. Hodgson also directs the Online First-Year Composition program at IU Bloomington and is the founding editor of the Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects. His research focuses on the intersections of rhetoric and writing studies, emerging media, digital learning, play and game theory, and art and aesthetics.
Title: Creative Commons
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Description:
Shanna Hollich, the learning and training manager at the San Diego Community College District, emphasized the importance of open access to knowledge and culture for everyone in the public interest. She highlighted the role of Creative Commons in empowering educators and facilitating collaboration through shared knowledge. Shanna also discussed the impact of the pandemic on the need for global scientific collaboration and the role of open access content in addressing such challenges. She clarified the definition of an Open Educational Resource (OER) and explained the advantages of CC licensing over traditional copyright. Shanna also discussed the complexities of fair use and fair dealing in copyright laws and provided best practices for attribution in relation to Creative Commons (CC) licenses.
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20653
CCE Flex- 31144
About our Presenter:
Shanna Hollich
Title: Beauty’s Not a Beast with Accessibility
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Description:
Adapt or create a new homepage all your students and your peers will rave about. Quickly design an effective and striking home page layout that you can use every semester!
Content presentation is essential to guiding our students through our courses and ensuring our students’ success. Create a home page that will minimize the number of navigation and class information messages in your inbox. Learn the top five basic things you can do in Canvas course design today to enhance your students’ learning experience and course usability today!
This is an exclusive preview to the new and free digital goodies for all those in attendance.
Session Takeaways:
- Describe elements of online website course design principles to enhance the learning experience, usability, and accessibility.
- Use Canvas’ rich content editor tools to apply proper formatting.
- Apply basic coding to assist course content presentation, organization, and student navigation.
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20651
CCE Flex- 31142
About our Presenter:
Liesl Boswell, M.Ed. in Learning Design & Technology, focuses on designing and developing effective “just-in-time” online self-paced instructional design and accessibility resources for staff and faculty. With an extensive background in partnering with faculty in instructional design and accessibility, spanning back to 2013, Liesl has led online teaching efforts for the California Community Colleges (CCC) through statewide initiatives such as the CVC-Online Education Initiative and CCC Accessibility Center.
Currently serving as the Instructional Designer Supervisor at the San Diego Community College District, Liesl remains dedicated to her mission of fostering equitable educational experiences. Her goal is to provide a robust faculty support infrastructure throughout the district that empowers educators to excel in online and innovative teaching.
Wednesday October 11th
Title: LibreText's Adapt and Studio
Time: 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Description:
Introduce educators to LibreTexts ADAPT open homework and assessment platform, as well as our H5P creation platform, Studio. Currently sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab (CELL), both platforms are free for all California instructors and students for the next four years. During these workshops LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Delmar Larsen, will demonstrate how instructors can use ADAPT to augment existing and newly constructed OER textbooks with summative exercises and embed them in LMSs, LibreTexts textbooks, in a standalone application, and in-class clickers. Discussions will demonstrate how the ADAPT homework system empowers faculty to build and use existing questions in multiple modalities. Participants will learn how to build autograded questions based on four technologies – H5P, WebWork, IMathAS, and native (QTI) – that can be used interchangeably to allow for maximal impact.
Delmar will also introduce the Studio platform for construction, storage and distribution of H5P assessments. Participants will be able to join Studio to create and share H5P assessments, review the H5P of other authors, and build/join a community within Studio.
Location: Miramar College L-309
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20652
CCE Flex- 31143
About our Presenter:
Dr. Delmar Larsen is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Biophysics Graduate Group in the University of California, Davis. Delmar’s current research interests extend across many scientific disciplines including biophysics, physical chemistry, molecular biology, and computational modeling, with a common thread of investigating and characterizing of rapid condensed phase dynamics. Delmar is the Founder and Director of the ever expanding LibreTexts project which now includes a curatatory which hosts over 600,000 pages of openly licensed content that can be easily adapted or adopted into OER for courses spanning all disciplines; the project also hosts a corresponding project management site, open homework and assessment platform, interactive H5P studio, and much, much more.
Title: Accessibility and the Canvas Mobile App
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Description:
In this workshop, Mesa Web Development Professor Kris Secor will take you on a tour of Canvas’ mobile application from both the instructor and the student perspective. Older devices and emulators will be used to demonstrate the student experience. Recommendations will be made to cater to those older devices as a progressive enhancement approach will be introduced.
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20656
CCE Flex- 31147
About our Presenter: Kris Secor
Title: Using Pronto to Level Up Student Engagement, Communication, & Collaboration in Your Classroom
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Description:
Join this session to learn more about Pronto, SDCCD's communication platform fully integrated with Canvas. We will focus on how to take engagement and student success to the next level, by exploring use cases and features of Pronto. You will even hear from some of your very own SDCCD instructors sharing ways Pronto has helped increase engagement and create more efficient communication in their classes.
Flex Credit:
College Flex-20684
CCE Flex-31169
About our Presenter: Eric Mille, Patricia Manley, and Sydney Dutson Pronto Customer Success Manager
Title: The HyFlex Solution
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Description:
Collaborating to create equitable student access and success with innovative HyFlex instruction
Presentation Slides
Faculty can self-enroll in the SDCCE HyFlex Canvas Self-Paced professional development course
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20657
CCE Flex- 31149
About our Presenter:
Dr. Ingrid Greenberg provides advanced level consultation and delivery of learning solutions to meet performance gaps for students, faculty, classified professionals, and management across institutions and disciplines. Her leadership supports onboarding and training 300+ new and existing faculty in serving 40,000 students in fully online, hybrid, HyFlex, and on campus instructional settings. provides advanced level consultation and delivery of learning solutions to meet performance gaps for students, faculty, classified professionals, and management across institutions and disciplines.
Thursday October 12th
Title: Cultivating Community throughout the Semester: Strategies for Asynchronous Classes
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Description:
Are you looking for strategies to increase the community in your online class all semester long? If so, join this session! The presenter will share specific strategies that have been successful in her online classes. Strategies will include student-to-student community building as well as professor-to-student strategies. There will be time to share and discuss strategies that attendees have used in their classes.
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20658
CCE Flex- 31150
About our Presenter: 
Dr. Stefanie Johnson Shipman is a Professor of English and ELAC (English Language Acquisition) at San Diego Miramar College. She has been teaching online since 2016 and loves it! In particular, Stefanie appreciates the one-on-one connections she can make with online students while supporting them in their writing, reading, and research goals, including students who may not have been traditionally served in the face-to-face environment, such as working students and students who are parents. She also loves the community of the online classroom, including student-to-student connections. Stefanie currently serves as Miramar's Online Faculty Mentor and Assistant Chair of the Languages and Ethnic Studies Department. Stefanie is a proud mom of twins, and she loves spending time with her family, reading, and running.
Title: PlayPosit
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Description:
Stephanie Gates will introduce PlayPosit, a tool that adds interactivity to videos, providing more engagement and accountability in the learning process. She will explain how PlayPosit works, highlighting its flexibility in usage, including for skills practice and repurposing existing video lectures. Stephanie also detailed how to add a PlayPosit activity to Canvas, and the options for controlling and grading participation points.
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20659
CCE Flex- 31151
About our Presenter:
Stephanie Gates
Title: A Leap Towards Bridging the Digital Divide
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Description:
Our technology initiative is to help advance and "A Leap Towards Bridging the Digital Divide" for all students, staff and faculty.
- Office 365 - An introduction
- Wi-Fi Expansion Updates - SDCCD Campus Connect
- Cybersecurity Awareness - Safe at Home and at Work
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20660
CCE Flex- 31152
About our Presenter:
Dr. Maharaj has more than two decades of information technology and business-related experience and has a strong background in project management, business development, data center management, telecommunications, and process improvement. Dr. Maharaj has a bachelor of science degree in business administration, information systems, from California State University Long Beach; a master of science degree in educational/instructional technology and information systems from National University; a master of business administration from UC Irvine; and a doctor of education in organizational change, leadership, and innovation from the University of Southern California. His Dissertation, Leadership in an Age of Technology Disruption, was based upon qualitative, single-case research demonstrating the value of effectively adopting and managing technology to support student success.
Title: Evaluations coming up? MOST’s Course Checkup to the rescue!
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Description:
Are you being evaluated soon for your online course? Are you evaluating a peer's online course? Our MOST Course Check Up is a helpful tool to assess and highlight online course elements for the evaluation process.
Flex Credit:
College Flex- 20661
CCE Flex- 31153
About our Presenter:
Christina Crosby & Kimberly Lacher