iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (10/2/2017)

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 the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI).
  

20 Minute Online Professional Development
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of October 2nd is How Do I Create a Lively, Yet Functional, Online Classroom? 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 Bulletin or the email version of iDevelop.
 
More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at https://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/how-do-i-create-a-lively-yet-functional-online-classroom-14464-1.html. The complete fall schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2017/09/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html.
 
Looking for transcripts of past Monday Morning Mentor sessions? Please email ctli@northshore.edu with the session title and we can provide you with the transcript and supplementary materials.   

Other Professional Development Opportunities

• Save the Date: NSCC’s Office of Student Engagement will be offering two co-curricular programming events this fall semester. The theme for this year is "Respect and Inclusion" (from the college’s Mission statement). The second one, Gods & Goddesses, will take place on Wednesday, November 8th from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Lynn. Please see the flyer in the iDevelop email. For more information, please contact Dennis Hicks.  

Resources

• For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video  https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-03-17-for-online-class-discussions-instructors-move-from-text-to-video
• Tweeting as an Alternative to Discussion Forums (page 1) and Generating Lively Online Discussion (page 6)
  http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/OET/files/2016/04/Tweeting-alternative-to-Discussion.pdf
• Creating a Community in the Online Classroom
  https://teachingwithtechnologyonline.com/2017/05/09/creating-a-community-in-the-online-classroom/
• How to Foster Critical Thinking, Student Engagement in Online Discussions
  https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/how-to-foster-critical-thinking-student-engagement-in-online-discussions/   

Share Teaching Resources or Professional Development Opportunities
If you have any teaching strategies or resources that you would like to share with other NSCC faculty or know of any other professional development opportunities that NSCC faculty might be interested in, please feel free to send them to ctli@northshore.edu and we will share them in the upcoming issues of iDevelop.
  
We hope you have enjoyed this weekly eNewsletter and would love your input. Please let us know if you have any feedback on the format, content, and resources or if there is anything else you would like to see in the eNewsletter.
 
Thank you,
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation