iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (4/27/2015)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice. iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.  

20 Minute Online Professional Development: How Can I Improve Lessons with a 4-step Plan?The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of April 27th is How Can I Improve Lessons with a 4-step Plan? The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week. For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the email version of iDevelop or the Bulletin notice.

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/how-can-i-improve-lessons-with-a-4-step-plan-3189-1.html. The spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2015/01/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html.  

Other Professional Development Opportunities

• Last Professional Development Meeting. The last professional development meeting for the spring semester will be this Thursday, May 7th from 2:00-4:00pm in the CTLA. All NSCC faculty and academic support staff invited! The featured speakers will be discussing UDL strategies, career discernment, and academic advising. Refreshments and good conversations served...all are welcome!
• Path of the Peacemakers Gathering. The Path of the Peacemakers Gathering will be two days (May 1st and May 2nd) of art, communication, and embodiment focused on inner and outer peace and harmony. Spirituality, ecology, peace, and justice will be explored through film and music, with practitioners and guiding teachers from the spiritual traditions of Bhakti, Zen, and Sufism. Hosted by the Multi-Cultural Society, the Muslim Students Association along with associated faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
• Calling all NSCC Faculty. Bonnie Orcutt, Assessment Director for the Mass Dept. of Higher Education, seeks out faculty who would be willing to participate in practice scoring for the Multi-State Collaborative Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes. Massachusetts is one of ten states in which faculty in public colleges and universities may voluntarily submit student work as artifacts in the Student Learning Outcome areas of Written Communication, Critical Thinking and Quantitative Literacy. All of the artifacts are anonymized (scrubbed of faculty, student, and institutional markers) before submission for practice scoring, and as this is just a pilot assessment, no data will be reported out except to institutions who contribute artifacts. Planning for scoring over June/July is beginning. There is an estimate of 3 hours for norming/calibration and 6 hours for scoring for a total of 9 hours. Compensation will be $40 per hour for a total stipend of $360 per scorer (9 hours * $40 per hour = $360). Calibration will likely take place at an institution near Worcester (Central Mass). Though the state will not pay for travel to and from the calibration (the scoring can be done at home), the CTLA will. The state is looking for 7 scorers in total for Critical Thinking, 5 for Quantitative Literacy, and 8 for Written Communication. If you are interested in scoring, please let Andrea in the CTLA know ASAP by forwarding your name and the area of scoring interest. More details will be forthcoming in iDevelop as soon as we receive news from the DHE.

  
Resources

• 5 Minute Teaching Development: Lesson Planning
  https://pharmacy.unc.edu/research/labs/adam-persky/teaching-and-learning-resources/faculty-development/5-minute-handouts/5-minute-handout-lesson-plan

Share your Teaching Strategies

Please send your teaching strategies to itd@northshore.edu and we will share them in the upcoming issues of iDevelop. 

iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.  If you have any professional development events, best practices, resources or tips to share with other faculty, please send them our way.  Also, we would love your input on this eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Blackboard Learn for All Courses – Summer 2015

Over the past year, Instructional Technology and Design (ITD) and Information Systems (IS) has been working on the implementation of the latest version of Blackboard Learn and the migration away from ANGEL.

Starting this summer, all courses (online, hybrid, and face-to-face) will be delivered in Blackboard Learn. ITD will be offering training for NSCC faculty as well as open labs throughout the spring and summer. To view the complete schedule of workshop sessions (with descriptions) and to RSVP, please visit this web site: http://goo.gl/UIkoUk.

ITD has migrated over content from summer 2014 and fall 2014 ANGEL course shells into Blackboard Learn. You will see them listed in the My Courses module on the Blackboard Learn My Home page. Spring 2015 course shells will not be migrated over to Blackboard Learn until June. If you need a spring 2015 course shell migrated over before then, please contact us at itd@northshore.edu.  

ITD has also created several resources to aid faculty in the transition from ANGEL to Blackboard Learn.

• Course Migration from ANGEL to Blackboard Learn: A handout that outlines how course shells and everything that they contain are migrated over from ANGEL and displayed in Blackboard Learn. http://goo.gl/SidmX4
• From ANGEL to Blackboard Learn: A handy reference sheet that lists the common tasks in ANGEL and how to perform them in Blackboard Learn. http://goo.gl/ohN4S5
• Blackboard Learn Course Checklist: A quick reference checklist of course areas that should be looked at and updated if necessary, especially as it relates to the migration from ANGEL to Blackboard Learn. http://goo.gl/JfGxka

NOTE: ANGEL will be unavailable to faculty and students starting May 18th. You may see summer 2015 course shells in ANGEL but please do not add any content into those shells. You will want to add any new content for your students into your summer 2015 course shells in Blackboard Learn.

  

Please do not hesitate to contact ITD at itd@northshore.edu if there are any questions about the Blackboard Learn implementation.

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (4/20/2015)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice. iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. 

20 Minute Online Professional Development: What Should I Do When a Student Challenges My Authority?

The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of April 20th is What Should I Do When a Student Challenges My Authority? The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week. For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the email version of iDevelop or the Bulletin notice.

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/what-should-i-do-when-a-student-challenges-my-authority-3140-1.html. The spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2015/01/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html.  

Other Professional Development Opportunities

• Assessment Conference. Are you interested in learning more about what assessment means to your institution and to the state? Consider traveling to the AMCOA (Advancing a Massachusetts Culture of Assessment) conference in Boxborough, Massachusetts on Friday, April 24th. It's friendly, informative, fun and free for NSCC faculty. Registration is open and space is limited!
• Blackboard Learn Workshops This Week. Starting in summer 2015, Blackboard Learn will be available for NSCC faculty members teaching a face-to-face course that uses the learning management system as a supplement. ANGEL will no longer be available. If you teach a summer or fall course and currently use ANGEL, we will be offering a series of Blackboard Learn workshops throughout the spring and summer. If you would like to get a jump start on learning how to use Blackboard Learn, we encourage you to sign up for any of these workshops. To view the complete schedule of workshop sessions (with descriptions) and to RSVP, please visit this web site: http://goo.gl/UIkoUk.

Share your Teaching Strategies

Please send your teaching strategies to itd@northshore.edu and we will share them in the upcoming issues of iDevelop.

iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.  If you have any professional development events, best practices, resources or tips to share with other faculty, please send them our way.  Also, we would love your input on this eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (4/13/2015)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice. iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. 

20 Minute Online Professional Development: How Can I Incorporate a Group Poster Session into my Class?

The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of April 13th is How Can I Incorporate a Group Poster Session into my Class? The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week. For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the email version of iDevelop or the Bulletin notice.

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/how-can-i-incorporate-a-group-poster-session-into-my-class-3166-1.html. The spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2015/01/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html.  

Other Professional Development Opportunities

• Food for Thought and Action Workshop. Please join The Food Project, professor Yusef Hayes, and a group of amazing Speech students for an opportunity to learn more about the food movement, directly from workers and activists in the field Thursday, on Thursday, April 16th at 6:30pm in the Lynn campus cafeteria. Food for Thought and Action is a workshop series that focuses on food systems, food justice, and healthy eating. The workshops are intended to address the causes and social impacts of food access inequity. Individuals, classes, and the wider community are all welcome. 
• NERCOMP Virtual Workshop on Open Educational Resources. On Friday, April 17th at 1:00pm, Andrea Milligan will be facilitating a virtual workshop on open educational resources. More information on the workshop is available at http://nercomp.org/index.php?section=events&evtid=453. NSCC is a NERCOMP members so the workshop is free to attend. Please contact itd@northshore.edu if you would like to attend so we can send you the access information.
• NSCC Faculty Feedback Needed. Andrea DeFusco-Sullivan in the CTLA respectfully requests that all NSCC faculty take a couple of minutes to fill out a very brief and anonymous 5-question survey regarding how the CTLA can better serve faculty needs. The survey will be accessible until April 15th. THANK YOU! The survey can be accessed at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7BXBLVK.
• Assessment Conference. Are you interested in learning more about what assessment means to your institution and to the state? Consider traveling to the AMCOA (Advancing a Massachusetts Culture of Assessment) conference in Boxborough, Massachusetts on Friday, April 24th. It's friendly, informative, fun and free for NSCC faculty. Registration is open and space is limited!
• Blackboard Learn Workshops. Starting in summer 2015, Blackboard Learn will be available for NSCC faculty members teaching a face-to-face course that uses the learning management system as a supplement. ANGEL will no longer be available. If you teach a summer or fall course and currently use ANGEL, we will be offering a series of Blackboard Learn workshops throughout the spring and summer. If you would like to get a jump start on learning how to use Blackboard Learn, we encourage you to sign up for any of these workshops. To view the complete schedule of workshop sessions (with descriptions) and to RSVP, please visit this web site: http://goo.gl/UIkoUk.

Share your Teaching Strategies

Please send your teaching strategies to itd@northshore.edu and we will share them in the upcoming issues of iDevelop. 

iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.  If you have any professional development events, best practices, resources or tips to share with other faculty, please send them our way. Also, we would love your input on this eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Faculty Resources for Blackboard Learn

The year-long Blackboard Learn implementation is wrapping up this summer as all courses (online, hybrid, and face-to-face) will be delivered in Blackboard Learn for summer 2015 sessions.

Instructional Technology and Design (ITD) has created several resources to aid faculty in the transition from ANGEL to Blackboard Learn.

• Course Migration from ANGEL to Blackboard Learn: A handout that outlines how course shells and everything that they contain are migrated over from ANGEL and displayed in Blackboard Learn.
  http://goo.gl/SidmX4       
• From ANGEL to Blackboard Learn: A handy reference sheet that lists the common tasks in ANGEL and how to perform them in Blackboard Learn.
  http://goo.gl/ohN4S5    
• Blackboard Learn Course Checklist: A quick reference checklist of course areas that should be looked at and updated if necessary, especially as it relates to the migration from ANGEL to Blackboard Learn.
  http://goo.gl/JfGxka

Please do not hesitate to contact ITD at itd@northshore.edu if there are any questions.

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (4/6/2015)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice. iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. 

20 Minute Online Professional Development: How Can I Use Student Feedback to Improve My Teaching?
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of April 6th is How Can I Use Student Feedback to Improve My Teaching? The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week. For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the email version of iDevelop or the Bulletin notice.

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/how-can-i-help-students-develop-critical-thinking-skills-3139-1.html. The spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2015/01/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html.  

Other Professional Development Opportunities

• Your Feedback Needed. Andrea DeFusco-Sullivan in the CTLA respectfully requests that all NSCC faculty take a couple of minutes to fill out a very brief and anonymous 5-question survey regarding how the CTLA can better serve faculty needs at NSCC. The survey will be accessible until April 15th. THANK YOU! The survey can be accessed at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7BXBLVK.
• Assessment Conference. Are you interested in learning more about what assessment means to your institution and to the state? Consider traveling to the AMCOA (Advancing a Massachusetts Culture of Assessment) conference in Boxborough, Massachusetts on Friday, April 24th. It's free to NSCC faculty as well as friendly, informative and fun. You can check out the schedule and event details at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-annual-amcoa-conference-tickets-16106865067. Space is limited!
• Blackboard Learn Workshops. Starting in summer 2015, Blackboard Learn will be available for NSCC faculty members teaching a face-to-face course that uses the learning management system as a supplement. ANGEL will no longer be available. If you teach a summer or fall course and currently use ANGEL, we will be offering a series of Blackboard Learn workshops throughout the spring and summer. If you would like to get a jump start on learning how to use Blackboard Learn, we encourage you to sign up for any of these workshops. To view the complete schedule of workshop sessions (with descriptions) and to RSVP, please visit this web site: http://goo.gl/UIkoUk.

Resources

• Gathering Feedback from Students
  http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/student-feedback/
• Improving Your Teaching: Obtaining Feedback
  http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/p9_1
• Mid-term Student Feedback
  http://fod.msu.edu/oir/mid-term-student-feedback
• Using Student Feedback to Improve Teaching
  http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1392&context=podimproveacad

Share your Teaching Strategies
In what ways do you gather feedback from your students? Please send your teaching strategies to itd@northshore.edu and we will share them in the upcoming issues of iDevelop. 

iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. If you have any professional development events, best practices, resources or tips to share with other faculty, please send them our way.  Also, we would love your input on this eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (3/30/2015)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice. iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. 

20 Minute Online Professional Development: How Can I Help Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills?
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of March 30th is How Can I Help Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills? The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week. For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the email version of iDevelop or the Bulletin notice.

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/how-can-i-help-students-develop-critical-thinking-skills-3139-1.html. The spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2015/01/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html.  
  

Other Professional Development Opportunities

• All NSCC faculty who are interested in learning more about how Service-Learning or CAS can help them and their students are welcome to the CTLA on this Thursday, April 2 at 2:15pm for refreshments and shared learning. It's going to be a fantastic workshop! 
• NSCC faculty, are you interested in learning more about what assessment means to your institution and to the state? Consider traveling to the AMCOA (Advancing a Massachusetts Culture of Assessment) conference in Boxborough, Massachusetts). It's free, friendly, informative and fun. You can check out the schedule and event details at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-annual-amcoa-conference-tickets-16106865067. Space is limited!
• Starting in summer 2015, Blackboard Learn will be available for NSCC faculty members teaching a face-to-face course that uses the learning management system as a supplement. ANGEL will no longer be available. If you teach a summer or fall course and currently use ANGEL, we will be offering a series of Blackboard Learn workshops throughout the spring and summer. If you would like to get a jump start on learning how to use Blackboard Learn, we encourage you to sign up for any of these workshops. To view the complete schedule of workshop sessions (with descriptions) and to RSVP, please visit this web site: http://goo.gl/UIkoUk.

 

Resources

• Helping Your Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills
  http://ideaedu.org/sites/default/files/IDEA_Paper_37.pdf
• Questions Provoking Critical Thinking
  http://www.brown.edu/about/administration/sheridan-center/teaching-learning/effective-classroom-practices/discussions-seminars/questions
• Teaching Critical Thinking through Online Discussion
  http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0048.pdf

    
Share your Teaching Strategies
How do you promote and encourage critical thinking in your classes? Please send your teaching strategies to itd@northshore.edu and we will share them in the upcoming issues of iDevelop. 

iDevelop is being brought to you by Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.  If you have any professional development events, best practices, resources or tips to share with other faculty, please send them our way.  Also, we would love your input on this eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Instructional Technology and Design and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment