iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (9/30/2019)

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 (CTLI).
  

20 Minute Online Professional Development
The topic for the week of September 30th is How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention? 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-can-i-use-microactivities-to-engage-students-and-improve-15212-1.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

• Faculty Conversations: Small Teaching Online. This fall, the CTLI will host informal faculty conversations around making small changes in your teaching practice that can increase student engagement and learning. The second meeting will be Thursday, October 17th from 2:30pm to 3:30pm in the Danvers CTLI Conference Room, DB301. Check your email as additional information about the October session will be sent out this week. 
• QM Accessibility and Usability Resource Site. Quality Matters (QM) has recently opened up access to its Accessibility and Usability Resource Site (AURS) to the entire educational community. “AURS is the go-to — and FREE — resource for educators to get information on how to address key accessibility and usability concerns, including: Universal Design for Learning, Alternative Text, Video Captions and Audio Descriptions, Hyperlinks, Accessible MS Office products, Readability: Color Choice and Contrast, Readable PDFs, and Accessible Design in Learning Management Systems. This resource site was built by the QM community and provides helpful guidance to anyone interested in making online materials more accessible." If you do not already have a MyQM account, you can create one on the https://www.qmprogram.org/myqm/ login page. Once you have created your account and are in MyQM, you can go “Workshop - Register” in the side navigation and select "Register for Accessibility & Usability Resource Site”. More information is available at https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/resource-center/articles-resources/accessibility-resource-site.    

Resources

• Supporting Underprepared Students in the Online Classroom, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/supporting-underprepared-students-online/
• Activities for Metacognition, https://resources.depaul.edu/teaching-commons/teaching-guides/learning-activities/Pages/activities-for-metacognition.aspx
• Promote Learning with Metacognitive Microactivities, https://www.mtholyoke.edu/stories/71267/promote-learning-metacognitive-microactivities 
     

Share Your Teaching Resources and Professional Development Opportunities

If 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.

Thank you,
CTLI