2 Powerful Tools to Humanize Your Online Course with Video

Video is a powerful way to humanize your online course and provide content in multiple formats which creates a more equitable experience for students. Screencast-o-matic is a simple-to-use video recording/editing tool. Studio is a Canvas integration that turns passive viewing into active engagement. Pair the two together and you’ve got the power to create dynamic learning experiences that capture—and hold—your students’ attention (with assessment built right in!). In this webinar, you’ll get a taste of what these two tools can offer and how to get started using this match made in heaven to power-up your course content.

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The CVC Exchange is an innovative tool that allows students currently enrolled in a California Community College to instantly enroll in online courses offered at eligible colleges without filling out a separate application. Student services personnel are key to the success of the project, which reduces students' time to completion. Join both the CVC and Cal CSSO to learn more about the CVC Exchange and its impact on student services.

Register here: Student Services and the CVC Exchange Webinar Registration Page

What cues does your online course send to your students? Join Michelle Pacansky-Brock for a fireside chat with Maritez Apigo and Jennifer Ortiz about why cultivating trust in an online course is foundational to supporting our racially and culturally diverse students, especially in times of trauma. Do these cues cultivate psychological safety and trust for your racially minoritized and socially marginalized students? We will discuss strategies for building trust at a distance, as well as highlight deal-breakers that should be avoided.

This session is part of the 3-day Humanizing Challenge. For more info, please go to: https://onlinenetworkofeducators.org/humanizing-sp21/

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Presenter: Fabiola Torres, Glendale College

Do you think humanizing an online course takes a lot of work? Well, it does. But it takes radical love to break down instructor-student hierarchies. Fabiola will share examples of brief, imperfect, captioned videos that help students sense there is a caring person on the other side of the screen and encourage them to lean in. We will also consider the important topic of managing your public digital identity when using instructional videos. You’ll see videos recorded with a smartphone using Clips (for Apple iOS devices only) and photomontages using Adobe Spark. Introverts and extroverts welcomed. This session will prepare you to create your own welcome video by the day’s end! Allow the love to shine through.

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The weeks and days leading up to the start of a new term are filled with anxiety and nerves for many students. This term, your students will have even more questions about what to expect and how to get started. An equity-minded strategy to improve these barriers is to transform your syllabus into a Liquid Syllabus! A Liquid Syllabus is a mobile-friendly, public website with a friendly welcome video that is written with welcoming, validating language. While you may create a Liquid Syllabus using any website tool of your choice, this session will prepare you to create your own with Google Sites.

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To navigate through these unknown and traumatic times, educators must be knowledgeable about how learning happens (and why it often does not). Recognizing the affective and cognitive dimensions of learning illuminates the need to understand our students as humans with rich, complicated stories and foster positive instructor-student relationships at a distance to ensure all students can achieve their full potential. This session will illuminate how humanized online teaching provides a foundation of trust you can build upon to foster positive instructor-student relationships and inspire engagement and rigor.

Hosted by Michelle Pacansky-Brock and Lené Whitley-Putz

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Do you support professional development for online teaching on your campus? If so, join your CCC colleagues for this supportive meeting of the minds to share creative approaches that are working on your campus in this time of uncertainty and Zoom fatigue. Bring links to Creative Commons-licensed materials you’ve developed; ideas for fostering equity-minded teaching; new online event tools you are trying out; institutional strategies for prioritizing self-care; and hot topics that faculty want to learn more about.

Online Art Think Tank

Hosted by Michelle Pacansky-Brock and Hilary Gomes

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Are you teaching studio art or/and art history lecture courses online? If so, join your CCC colleagues for this supportive meeting of the minds to share strategies that are working and untangle sticky problems that need improvement.

Speaker: Fabiola Torres, Glendale Community College

Fabiola will share examples of brief, imperfect, captioned videos that break down the instructor-student hierarchy and encourage students to lean in. We will also consider the important topic of managing your public digital identity when using instructional videos. You’ll see videos recorded with a smartphone using Clips (for Apple iOS devices only) and photomontages using Adobe Spark. Introverts and extroverts welcomed. This session will prepare you to create your own welcome video by the day’s end!

This session is part of the 3-day Humanizing Challenge. For more info, go to: https://onlinenetworkofeducators.org/humanizingchallenge

Register here.