20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Fall 2021 Schedule

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) offers faculty a professional development series from Magna Publications, called the 20 Minute Mentor. The goal of the 20 Minute Mentor series is to offer faculty practical professional development opportunities in twenty minute snippets that can be accessed from anywhere and at any time during the given week. Session topics cover the areas of student engagement, teaching and learning, teaching online, assessment and learning goals, and classroom management.

Information on how to access the 20 Minute Mentor sessions is available each week in the Bulletin and the iDevelop e-newsletter.

New video presentations (with supplementary materials) go live at 10:00am each Monday morning and are only accessible through Sunday. 

The following sessions are on the schedule for fall 2021. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below. 

• August 23 - How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
• August 30 - How Can Understanding Group Dynamics Lead to Better Group Work?
• September 6 - How Will OER Benefit the 21st Century Student?
• September 13 - How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
• September 20 - How Can Discussion Responses Give Narrative Shape to an Online Class?
• September 27 - How Can I Adapt My Teaching So Students Thrive in a Polysynchronous Classroom?
• October 4 - How Can I Ensure Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom?
• October 11 - How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?
• October 18 - How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
• October 25 - How Can I Effectively Move Peer Reviews Online?
• November 1 - How Can I Develop Opportunity-Minded Learners?
• November 8 - How Can I Manage the Disconnect Between Faculty and Student Perceptions of Rigor to Increase Learning?
• November 15 - How Can I Help Students Who Are Struggling with Online Learning?
• November 22 - How Can I Grade In Less Time with Greater Impact?
• November 29 - What are the Differences Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching, and How Do I Best Choose the Format for My Online Class?
• December 6 - What Can I Do to Manage and Reduce Academic Job Stress?

We would love to hear your feedback on the usefulness of these sessions. Please send your input to ctli@northshore.edu.

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (9/28/2020)

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 September 28th is How Can I Use LMS Intelligent Agents to Increase Interaction in My Online Classes? 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/product/program/how-can-i-use-lms-intelligent-agents-to-increase-interaction-in-my-online-classes/. The complete fall 2020 schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2020/09/20-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. 

  

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• The Dawn of the Age of Digital Learning [Virtual Summit sponsored by Arizona State University] from SEP 29 –OCT 1, 7 & 8. "The dawn of the age of digital learning has created an awakening of ingenuity, innovation and perseverance that is not defined by an individual, company, school or technology. It is an ecosystem of heart, energy and passion driven by purposeful change. This is why we bring you ASU+GSV Virtual Summit 2020 – imagining a new era in which all people have equal access to the future. Attendance will be free of charge." [from the event description on their website]. Visit https://virtual.asugsvsummit.com/2020 for more information.
• Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques [League for Innovation webinar] on Thursday, October 1 at 12:00pm EST. “Our knowledge of how students learn has grown significantly over the last few decades. In keeping with this trend, the quality and sheer amount of research on instructional strategies has also grown, and active learning has emerged as an instructional method that can improve learning outcomes for all students, including students from marginalized backgrounds and populations. In this webinar, participants will learn about active learning techniques that have been shown to improve student learning in the college classroom.” [from the program description] More information and registration link available at https://www.league.org/istream-other/engaging-college-students-using-active-learning-techniques. 
• Empower Students for Academic Success: Teaching Students Study Skills Informed by the Science of Learning on Friday, November 6, 2020, from 8:30 am until 3:30 pm EST. “This free webinar from the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and Learning at the University of New Hampshire should be of interest to faculty who want to assist their -students in acquiring and using study strategies that may improve their learning, retention, and transfer of academic material. It also should be of interest to staff of teaching and learning centers, faculty/educational development programs, student learning assistance programs, student academic success programs, etc.” [from the program description] If interested, please register at https://www.unh.edu/cetl/empower-students-academic-success-teaching-students-study-skills-informed-science-learning-0.
• Instructor Webinar Series: Remote Instruction from Basics to Advanced [Blackboard]. In October, Blackboard is hosting a series of free webinars to help with the transition to remote teaching. "This webinar series is designed for Instructors who are just getting started with teaching using Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Collaborate, as well as those who have started to transition to deliver instruction remotely and are looking to make some improvements." [from the webinar series web page] For more information and to register for any of the webinars, please visit https://go.blackboard.com/Instructor-webinar-series.
      

Interesting Resources

• Syncing with Students: Valuable Qualities of Synchronous Online Teaching, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/syncing-with-students-valuable-qualities-of-synchronous-online-teaching/ 
• Reimagining Service Learning in the Digital Age, https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/09/23/how-adapt-service-learning-hybrid-or-online-classes-opinion
• Dear Professors: Don't Let Student Webcams Trick You, https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/9/dear-professors-dont-let-student-webcams-trick-you
• 5 Ways Open Educational Resources Can Help Students Succeed This Fall, https://nebhe.org/journal/5-ways-open-educational-resources-can-help-students-succeed-this-fall/ 
       

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

August Instructional Technology Workshops

We hope everyone is having a great summer!

In August, Instructional Technology and Design will be sponsoring a series of workshops on a variety of topics around integrating technology into the teaching and learning environment.  All North Shore Community College faculty are welcome to attend.  The workshops will be in Danvers Berry 202 unless otherwise indicated.  Check out the workshop descriptions to learn more about each workshop.

If you are interested in attending any of the workshops, please take a moment to RSVP.

Tuesday, August 20th

9:00am to 10:15am, New to ANGEL
10:30am to 12:00pm, ANGEL Discussion Forum*
1:00pm to 2:00pm, Blogger
2:15pm to 3:30pm, Flipping the Classroom [DB304]

Wednesday, August 21st

1:00pm to 2:00pm, Communicating with your Students Virtually (Google Chat, Skype, Google
Hangout, etc.)
2:15pm to 3:30pm,  Screencasting – Creating Videos

Thursday, August 22nd

9:00am to 10:15am, ANGEL Rubrics*
10:30am to 12:00pm, ANGEL Gradebook*

Tuesday, August 27th

9:00am to 10:15am, Smart Classroom [DB304]
10:30am to 12:00pm, Encouraging Student Collaboration with Google Documents and Google Sites
1:00pm to 2:15pm, New to ANGEL
2:30pm to 3:30pm, Advanced ANGEL - RSS Feeds, Automated Agents, etc.*

Wednesday, August 28th

9:00am to 10:15am, Getting Started with Clickers [DB304]
10:30am to 12:00pm, Creating Accessible Online Course Content [DB304]
1:00pm to 2:00pm, ANGEL Assessment* [TBD]

*Note: Participants attending these ANGEL workshops should have already attended a New to ANGEL workshop or have experience in using ANGEL. 

Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you at the workshops!

What workshops are you planning to attend? What other workshops would you like us to offer?

Extending the Classroom with Google+

Recently, Information Services made two new Google tools available through our northshore.edu Gmail accounts.  These tools, Google+ and Blogger, were implemented at the request of several faculty who wanted to experiment with them in their classes.  One of the benefits of having access to these tools from within our NSCC Google suite is that faculty and students will not have to sign-up for a separate Gmail account with an additional username and password.

Google+ is Google's social networking platform.  Faculty, staff, and students now have access to this tool from within our Google suite by clicking on the +You (or +Your Name) option in the black toolbar at the top.

Google+ has several features and one of them is Google Hangouts which is a tool that allows for video conferencing with up to ten people.

Here are just a few uses of Google Hangouts inside and outside of the classroom:

• Hold small group meetings with faculty, staff or students
• Conduct virtual office hours
• Share computer screen to walk through a web site or demonstrate a software program
• View and discuss YouTube videos
• View and/or edit Google Documents collaboratively for writing workshops or group projects
• Bring in a guest lecturer

To use Google Hangouts, you do need to set up a Google+ profile within your northshore.edu Gmail account.  You can do one-on-one video conferencing without a Google+ profile.

 

Note: When entering your birth date, make sure you do not select a year that will make you 13 years or younger. This will lock your North Shore Gmail account.

 

For more information on social media in the classroom and using Google+, please take a look at these resources:

• Social Media as a Teaching Tool
• 3 Ways to Hack Your Class with Google+ 
• 31 Ways to Use Google+
• Ways for Faculty to Use Google+
• 30 Ways Colleges Are Using Google+ Right Now

Please do not hesitate to contact us at itd@northshore.edu to brainstorm ideas for integrating Google+ and other social media into your teaching or for assistance in using any of these tools.

• Do you see a use for Google+, especially Google Hangouts, in the teaching and learning environment?  What goals might this tool help you meet?
• What challenges do you see to using Google+?
• What role, if any, does social media play in the classroom?