Monday, April 22, 2019

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (4/15/2019)

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.
  
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20 Minute Online Professional Development
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 15th is What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered 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 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-5-play-based-activities-to-create-an-active-learning-centered-class-15160-1.html. The complete spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2019/01/20-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 
  • Annual Law Day Lecture. This year’s Law Day topic is Victims Rights and Restorative Justice. The keynote speaker is Karen Baratta from Concord Prison Outreach, the oldest volunteer-driven prison education program in Massachusetts. The lecture will be held on Thursday, April 18th from 7:30am to 9:00am in the Danvers Campus Math & Science Building, DS119 and will be teleconferenced to the Lynn Campus Gym. More information is available at http://www.northshore.edu/news/2019/free-law-lecture.html. 
  • North Shore Community College’s 2019 Visiting Writer. Oompa is a nationally acclaimed, Roxbury-born slam poet, hip-hop artist, and self-described “hood, queer, black, womynist, orphan, sister, friend, and teacher.”  She is the winner of the 2017 Women of the World Poetry Slam and a finalist at the 2017 National Poetry Slam.  She has been featured in magazines such as The Huffington Post and DigBoston and has appeared at colleges such as Boston University, Boston College, and the Berklee College of Music. You can find out more about Oompa on her website oompoutloud.com, including sample audio and videos. The event will take place on Monday, April 22nd Tuesday, April 24th, at 9:30am and 11:00am in the President’s Board Room (LS328) on the Lynn Campus and on Tuesday, April 23rd at 9:30am and 11:00am in the Library on the Danvers Campus. More information is available at http://www.northshore.edu/faculty-staff/bulletin/04-08-19.html#oompa. Please direct any questions to John Zamparelli at jzampare@northshore.edu.       
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Share Your Teaching Resources and Professional Development OpportunitiesIf you have any teaching 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.

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Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation
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