Events Calendar
The CVC offers a variety of events throughout the year which can be found on our calendar below. If you missed an event, many past events are available on-demand on our YouTube channel. Both self-paced and facilitated courses may be found in our course catalog.
Additional systemwide technology events are hosted by the California Community College’s Technology Center and may be accessed on their events calendar.
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The Anatomy of Learning: Sending Cues of Trust & Belonging from the First Click
Speaker: Michelle Pacansky-Brock 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
Taking Off Our Emotional Armor: Reflections From First-time Online Instructors
Speakers: Dayamudra Dennehy, City College of San Francisco, Gayathri Manikandan, Compton College, and Michelle Pacansky-Brock, CVC-OEI/@ONE Join us for a heart-to-heart conversation about teaching online for the first time. Dayamudra and Gayathri will share their successes and candidly reflect on how leaning into vulnerability resulted in professional
Practicing Radical Love: Breaking Down Instructor-Student Hierarchies
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
Humanizing Pre-Course Contact with a Liquid Syllabus
Speaker: Michelle Pacansky-Brock 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