Join us to learn more about the inter-district collaboration between Los Angeles Pierce and East Los Angeles College (ELAC). Members of each POCR team will share their experiences working together as two campuses in the CCC’s largest district to build their respective local POCR teams and processes, and discuss ways in which other institutions might use their model to achieve similar positive outcomes.
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HyFlex (hybrid + flexibility) courses provide a hybrid learning format for campus-based and online students while adding a flexible equity-based participation policy for students. In this webinar, we will present Hyflex solutions through real-world lived experiences and successes, review relevant data, and make recommendations to help institutions develop a robust system for onboarding students in Hyflex learning.
Wendy Mazon is a Distance Education (DE) Support Specialist at Los Angeles Pierce College and has been in this position since Fall 2020. Wendy helped to support moving all courses online with a specialty in working with the Art and Performing Arts area faculty. Wendy helped to develop and then implement trainings on Dual Delivery at Pierce College and taught several courses using Dual Delivery this Spring. Wendy is a full-time Associate Professor in Music, has an Online Teaching certificate from @One and has been a peer reviewer with @One. Wendy also holds an M.M. and D.M.A. in Music Performance from CSU, Northridge and the University of Arizona, respectively.
Dr. Ingrid Greenberg - Dr. Ingrid Greenberg provides advanced level consultation and delivery of learning solutions to meet performance gaps for students, faculty, classified professionals, and management across institutions and disciplines. Her leadership supports onboarding and training 300+ new and existing faculty in serving 40,000 students in fully online, hybrid, HyFlex, and on campus instructional settings. provides advanced level consultation and delivery of learning solutions to meet performance gaps for students, faculty, classified professionals, and management across institutions and disciplines.
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What do grades really measure? Is there a more accurate indicator of our students’ skills and abilities? The traditional grading system used in higher education in the U.S. is often more a measure of privilege or personality than of learning. It also creates a competitive, chilly course climate that can undermine efforts to build community with students and positions instructors as gatekeepers, as opposed to partners.
In this session, we will introduce alternative strategies for indicating student learning that are more equitable, more accurate, and more effectively promote student agency and motivation. We will also discuss some simple changes instructors can make to their syllabus policies and course design that can increase grading equity and student engagement with the learning process. Please bring your syllabus to use in an interactive activity.
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Investigate traditional grading as a source of power that privileges some students and leaves others out.
- Reflect on your current grading practices and grading strategies that can make your course more equitable.
- Identify resources to help you further your knowledge of this topic.
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The first step is to ensure that students with disabilities see STEM as accessible to them and that all students, can access all materials to learn. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses have unique issues to solve when it comes to designing accessible materials. Professor Kelly Spoon was bitten by the accessibility bug after she won a “Teach Access” Grant to create modules for her statistics course on accessibility for data visualization. While creating those materials, the lightbulb went off! All materials in all courses need to be accessible. Join Kelly and our panel in discussing topics including Canvas built in accessibility options, Desmos, PreText and other tools important to accessibility in her math courses.
Kelly Spoon is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at San Diego Mesa College where she serves as a member of their Online Success Team and involved in all things related to professional learning. She loves trying new things in her classrooms – whether it’s experimenting with ungrading options in Calculus or teaching students about accessibility in Statistics – and sharing her successes and failures with others. When she’s not saying ‘yes’ to too many things, she is probably on a soccer field or chasing after her preschooler.
Accessibility Specialist Panel: Shawn Jordison, Assistive Technology and Alternate Media Specialist
Albert Gareev, Accessible Media and Assistive Technologies (Prior Sr. Technical Lead, Accessibility (AODA / WCAG), QA / Agile Testing)
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From Art History to STEM, video is an important way to connect to your students and provide humanized instruction. Studio is the video tool embedded within Canvas* that allows you to record, edit, annotate, and caption a video all within Canvas. More importantly, your students have access to Studio, too! And you can engage them with embedded questions, discussion prompts and opportunities for collaboration. Come hear how faculty from across our campus are using Studio to support their in-person, hybrid, and online courses. *Check your local instance of Canvas to determine if Studio is enabled.
By the end of this session you will:
- Use Studio to record and host short instructional video
- Use Studio to record feedback for student work
- Edit, annotate, and caption video
- Embed Studio videos in a Canvas page
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Student-created videos are an essential element of the online learning experience that invites students to tell their stories, build community, and deepen connections with each other. Digital storytelling is an equity-minded, asset-based, humanizing practice centers student voices. The presenters, Maritez and Denise, will introduce you to asynchronous technology tools and share their example assignments and student videos.
Session outcomes:
By the end of this session you will:
- Analyze the significance of digital storytelling as an equity-minded, humanizing practice.
- Identify technology tools to create your own digital storytelling assignments.
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In the mobile era, video production does not require access to a fancy recording studio. If you have a smartphone, you’re on your way. In this session, Carolyn Brown will introduce you to social media tools that you can use to break down the instructor-to-student hierarchy and spark engagement with your students online.
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Identify simple video tools to use in your teaching
- Describe the uses and benefits of short spontaneous videos
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In this session, Professor Juan U Bernal and Professor Kelly Spoon will be showing how they use video in their asynchronous math courses. This includes embedding of lecture videos, video projects, video assessments, and more. Juan will focus on an asynchronous Statistics course and Kelly will focus on a Precalculus and Calculus course.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Create and embed humanized microlectures to support your students
- Assess student understanding using video assignments
- Write clear instructions and rubrics for video assessments
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Are you an educator who values creativity in teaching, networking within your field, and empowering students through effective communication? Then this session is for you! LaTonya Washington will demystify what personal branding is, how it can work for you, and provide techniques and resources to support your goals.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Articulate your personal advantage points/value proposition
- Sharpen your art of storytelling
- Enhance content creation through video
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Research supports the importance of student autonomy and intrinsic motivation to deep and transferable learning. Although many of us post videos in our online courses, we may be missing a valuable opportunity to engage students’ sense of wonder, curiosity, and autonomy through interactive video with an emphasis on ungraded interactions. In this session, I will show you how to take videos that are already in your courses such as instructor-created videos or OER content/videos you find on YouTube (Ted Talks, etc.), and add interactive elements, such as “Easter Egg” surprises, ungraded optional pop-ups, and inquiry-based pauses to increase learner engagement and spark inquiry. We will use PlayPosit, a tool embedded in Canvas that all California community college (CCC) faculty have access to via a grant from CCC TechConnect. We will end the session with a goody bag from PlayPosit instructional designer Brady Venables, of easy-to-use step-by-step demonstrations to implement these ideas! All of the recommendations are available free of cost to CCC faculty.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Apply principles of asynchronous learning and content-design related to student agency, inquiry, and sense of curiosity and wonder to interactive video learning objects.
- Apply equitable grading assessment research to the creation of ungraded interactive video interactions.
- Utilize supplied PlayPosit interactive video models and technical knowledge of the PlayPosit interactive video platform to create an interactive video.
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