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 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

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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 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. This session will prepare you to create your own Liquid Syllabus with Google Sites!

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

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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 growth in their teaching.

This event is part of a 3-day Humanizing Challenge. For more information, please go to: https://onlinenetworkofeducators.org/humanizingchallenge

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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 foster positive instructor-student relationships at a distance to ensure all students are poised for success. This session will illuminate how humanized online teaching provides a foundation of trust you can build upon in your course and foster rigor through empathy.

This event is part of a 3-day Humanizing Challenge. For more information, please go to: https://onlinenetworkofeducators.org/humanizingchallenge

Register here.