Wednesday, October 25, 2017

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (10/23/2017)

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).
  
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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 23rd is What Are the Secrets to Making Highly Effective Educational Videos? 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/what-are-the-secrets-to-making-highly-effective-educational-videos-14331-1.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
  • Technology Across the Curriculum Grants. The Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) Committee invites all NSCC full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and professional teaching staff to submit applications to develop a TAC project in the spring of 2018 with implementation in the summer or fall of 2018. Fall application materials are now available and proposals are due by 11:59PM on Tuesday, November 14th. More information on the TAC Grants is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2017/10/technology-across-curriculum-grant.html.
  • Liberal Studies Lecture Series. This semester’s Liberal Studies Lecture Series is “Lessons from Cyborgs: What they can Teach us about Disability, Community, & Kindness” and will take place on Thursday October 26th from 11:00am to 12:15pm in the Lynn Gym. Join Dr. Laurie Ann Carlson as she discusses what Cyborgs in the Visual Media can teach us about rethinking disability, community, and kindness. She will show clips from popular films and television to engage the audience in analyzing how presentation impacts bodies/minority communities. More information is available at http://news.northshore.edu/blog/lessons-from-cyborgs-what-they-can-teach-us-about-disability-community-kindness/.
      
Upcoming Webinars of Interest
Webinar: 7 Strategies for a Student-Centered Course [Higher Ed BITS]
Do you want to create an engaging course that allows students to construct knowledge through participating, interacting, and sharing? Join the presenter for more information about how to make your course student-centered in order to successfully engage your students. 
-Thursday, October 26, 2017 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm
-Register at https://community.blackboard.com/events/1569-7-strategies-for-a-student-centered-course
   
  
Resources
Share Teaching Resources or Professional Development OpportunitiesIf 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

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