DE Week 2023 Recorded Sessions
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| A Leap Towards Bridging the Digital Divide |
Our technology initiative is to help advance and "A Leap Towards Bridging the Digital Divide" for all students, staff and faculty.
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| Accessibility and the Canvas Mobile App | 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. |
| AI Demystified: An Introduction for Educators | AI has become a buzzword in academia. This presentation aims to demystify artificial intelligence for educators, addressing risks & benefits, and offering an overview of its history and current applications" |
| Beauty’s Not a Beast with Accessibility |
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:
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| Building Better Learning Experiences: An Active Learning + Digital Literacy Approach | 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. |
| Building Formative Assessment into your Content Pages | Kelly Spoon discussed the importance of incorporating formative assessments into course design to guide students' learning. She highlighted the difference between formative and summative assessments and the benefits of providing ongoing feedback to students. She also emphasized the need for accessibility in resources and discussed the potential limitations of students skipping content and moving directly to answers. She shared resources for creating interactive learning materials and emphasized the importance of student readiness in assessments. Furthermore, she discussed upcoming events and resources for improving teaching techniques, including a Canvas Quizzes 101 session and archived webinars on H.5 P. Wendy and Kelly also discussed their experiences with managing and grading coursework in asynchronous and synchronous courses, respectively. |
| Cultivating Community throughout the Semester: Strategies for Asynchronous Classes | 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. |
| DE Week 2023 Keynote- Justin Hodgson | 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. |
| Evaluations coming up? MOST’s Course Checkup to the rescue! | 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. |
| Welcome and Opening Remarks | 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. |
| PlayPosit | 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. |
| Shaping the Future with Empowered Educators - and How CC Can Help | 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. |
| The HyFlex Solution | Collaborating to create equitable student access and success with innovative HyFlex instruction |
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Using Pronto to Level Up Student Engagement, Communication, & Collaboration in Your Classroom
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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. |