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 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

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Art and other visually-oriented disciplines have unique needs when teaching and learning occur online. In this share showcase session, Hilary and Michelle will describe strategies for facilitating group critiques and image curation assignments with VoiceThread*, an asynchronous voice or video discussion tool with a free mobile app to support students that rely on a phone for connectivity.

*VoiceThread is not a native tool provided in Canvas, nor is it provided or support by CVC-OEI. It is an external tool that can be integrated into Canvas if an institution has a site license. With a site license, VoiceThread integrates into the Canvas gradebook, auto-generates student accounts, and (if purchased with the license) includes auto-captions. Sixteen California Community Colleges and two districts have independently purchase a site license for VoiceThread. This session is of particular interest to faculty who teach at the following institutions: Chabot College, Citrus College, City College of San Francisco, College of the Desert, College of Marin, Cuesta College, Foothill College, Laney College, Lake Tahoe Community College, Merced Community College District, Modesto Junior College, Ohlone College, Saddleback Community College, Santa Monica College, Santa Rosa Junior College, Sierra College, Southwestern Community College, West Valley-Mission Community College District 

Speakers: Hilary Gomes, Foothill College and Michelle Pacansky-Brock, CVC-OEI

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