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 spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of February 6th is Is There a Solution to Students Multitasking in 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 http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/is-there-a-solution-to-students-multitasking-in-class-13204-1.html. The complete spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2016/12/20-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.
Upcoming Webinars of Interest
Program/Department Learner Outcome Statements
For those participating in program review, the fourth installment on writing program/department learner outcome statements was attached in the iDevelop email. This details the importance of drawing from NSCC Gen Ed outcomes when writing these statements. Have questions or need assistance? Please contact Cate Kaluzny.
Share Teaching Resources or 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 upcomimg 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
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: Beyond the Discussion Board: How Can I Engage Online Students?
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 31st is Beyond the Discussion Board: How Can I Engage Online Students? 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 http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/beyond-the-discussion-board-how-can-i-engage-online-students-13725-1.html. The complete fall schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2016/08/20-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 2017 with implementation in the summer or fall of 2017. Fall application materials are now available and proposals are due by 11:59PM on Tuesday, November 15th. More information on the TAC Grants is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2016/10/technology-across-curriculum-grant.html.
Upcoming Webinars of Interest
Resources
Share Teaching Resources or 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 upcomimg issues of iDevelop.
We hope you enjoy 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
The latest edition of the Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) newsletter, The Edge: Where Classrooms Meet Technology, is now available on North Shore Community College’s public site at: http://www.northshore.edu/faculty_staff/resources/tac.html.
The TAC program at NSCC "promotes academic excellence by stimulating and nurturing innovative ideas by faculty and professional staff that employ technology in support of teaching and learning". The TAC program supports creative uses of instructional technology inside and outside of the classroom as well as the development of new online and hybrid courses.
Check out this year's issue to learn more about the innovations of NSCC faculty, staff, and administration in the area of academic technology.
The current issue of The Edge includes:
- Comments from TAC faculty on their projects.
- An article by Andrea Milligan, Director of Instructional Technology and Design, on the implementation of Blackboard Learn.
- An article by Lance Eaton, Coordinator of Instructional Design, with an update on the Open Text Initiative at NSCC.
- An article by Larry Davis, history professor, about the presentation that he, Lance Eaton, and Andrea Milligan made at the March conference of the League for Innovation.
- An editorial by Terri Whitney, english professor and TAC Coordinator, urging the college to become more involved with the League, a national organization focused on teaching with technology that hosts some of the best conferences available on this topic.
