2023 eLearning Academy Schedule & Sessions

All sessions will be recorded and shared via Panopto in this Canvas shell after the Academy.

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Tuesday, Sept. 12, Pre-Conference Sessions
Noon- 12:50pm	Canvas Essentials This session is designed for the beginning user that has little or no experience using Canvas. You will be shown how to: Log into Canvas; access your Canvas courses; create Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes; navigate the gradebook; use Canvas Messaging; and where to find help. *Jerry Troupe, eLearning* Recording: Canvas Essentials Links to an external site.
12:50pm-1:00pm	Coffee Break, take a walk up and down the hall!
1:00pm-1:50pm	IT Presents: Making Microsoft 365 Work for You This session is designed for users at all levels to learn about the latest tips and tricks for making Microsoft tools work for you. You will learn about the value of setting up Bookings for appointment and calendar management, learn best practices for document management and sharing using OneDrive, and how to make SharePoint teams an excellent collaboration environment. *Leslie Dawson, IT* Recording: Making Microsoft 365 Work for You Links to an external site.
1:50pm-2:00pm	Coffee Break. Listen to your favorite song! Right now I'm digging this one. Links to an external site.
2:00pm-2:50pm	Panopto Essentials This session is designed for the beginning user that has little or no experience using Panopto. You will be shown how to: Access Panopto from within your Canvas course; download the Panopto Recorder; understand the Recorder settings; record a video; and manage the video after it has been recorded. *Jerry Troupe & Rick Suhr, eLearning* Recording: Panopto Essentials Links to an external site.
2:50pm	End of Pre-Conference, see you tomorrow for the eLearning Academy!
Wednesday, Sept. 13, Conference Day One
11:30am-11:50am	Lunch for in-person attendees, sponsored by eLearning SFCC Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning (SFCC Library, North Second Floor) SCC Teaching and Learning Center (Building 1, Room G208)
11:50am-Noon	Conference Kickoff and Welcome Video 2023 eLearning Academy Welcome Video Links to an external site.
Noon-1:30pm	Hope in a Time of Monsters: Supporting Faculty and Student Mental Health Teaching is a vocation. When supported with resources and security, it is a constantly renewing source of excitement and richness. The last several years of disruption, uncertainty, and overburdened workloads have exhausted teachers and students alike. Monsters have reared their heads, and we have understandably shrunk from them. Faculty are burnt out — sacrificing their own mental health, phoning it in out of desperation, or leaving the profession entirely. Students are experiencing an epidemic of mental health problems, especially of anxiety. As instructors, we can support and encourage student mental health through pedagogies of care. A pedagogy of care involves high-touch practices like frequent communication, flexibility, inclusive teaching practices, learning new technologies and techniques, and being enthusiastic and passionate. All these practices involve both a heavy investment of time and a high degree of emotional labor. How can we support our students without burning ourselves out? How can we revive our sparks? In this interactive keynote, Sarah Rose Cavanagh will present some research and food for thought based on her upcoming book on how higher education should respond to both faculty depletion and the student mental health crisis. *Sarah Rose Cavanagh* Recording: Hope in a Time of Monsters: Supporting Faculty and Student Mental Health Links to an external site.
1:30pm-1:45pm	Coffee Break, practice some Square Breathing! Links to an external site.
1:45pm-2:30pm	Fostering Inclusive Excellence: Trauma-Informed Teaching for Empowered Learners In this presentation, we will explore the principles and practices of trauma-informed pedagogy and its transformative impact on students' well-being and academic success, including strategies applicable to both traditional and online classrooms. By understanding the core principles and implementing trauma-informed practices, educators can create safe and supportive learning environments that foster resilience and promote equity, regardless of the instructional setting. Francisco Salinas & Ben Whitmore Recording: Trauma-Informed Teaching for Empowered Learners Links to an external site.	*SCCubed: Spokane Community College's Communication Community of Practice After a brief overview of the purpose, history, and goals of SC4 – SCC’s Communication Community of Practice – the majority of the conversation will be focused on discussing the course communication tools and resources used in the development of communication policy projects by CoP participants during Fall ‘22 and Win ’23 quarters and implemented Win and Spr ‘23. The focus of the session will be exploring the process of creating and maintaining unique, equitable, efficient, and supportive course communication policies that simultaneously support student engagement, retention and success and instructor productivity, well-being, and mental health - all with the underlying foundation of being uniquely tailored by each educator for their specific courses for maximum fit, efficiency, and benefit. Time will be scheduled into the session for participants to discuss their current communication policy challenges and successes. Stacy Kowtko** Recording: SCCubed Links to an external site.*
2:30pm-2:45pm	Coffee Break. If the weather is cooperating, go get some direct sunlight!
2:45pm-3:30pm	Be the Match that Supports the Flame: Inside the Learning Support Department Join us in expanding your knowledge about the SFCC Learning Support Department. Understand the importance of connecting students to supports that increase their success. We will guide you through the different areas within Learning Support so you can accurately refer students to tools and services provided by the SFCC Learning Support Department and team. In this information-sharing session we will introduce team members, describe our focus areas, share the most pertinent information, and provide a path for you to collaboratively refer students to the areas that can best serve their individual needs. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session that will allows us to learn how Learning Support can help fulfill your learners' needs. SFCC Learning Support Team Recording: Inside the Learning Support Department Links to an external site.	Embracing ChatGPT in Career Transitions Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, often uses the example of a calculator — how does a calculator change the way we figure out math problems and teach math? He goes on to say that “It actually got integrated into the way we work quite quickly; My expectation is this new tool — this ability to generate text quickly in a foundational, quite generic but logical manner will get embedded quite quickly into the way we work.” How can we embrace this new technology, help our students feel comfortable using it and integrate it into assignments so they can transition into the workforce with confidence? Join this session and talk about ways we are using ChatGPT for Canvas assignments and introduce it into live class discussions. Other topics will include how we help students effectively utilize ChatGPT specifically for career decisions and practicing interview questions. This session will give examples of how we use ChatGPT to introduce ABE students to AI, how it can be used in everyday life, and how you could find productive uses for these tools in your own teaching practice. Kari Hubbard Recording: Embracing ChatGPT in Career Transitions Links to an external site.
3:30pm-3:40pm	Coffee Break. Stretch your eyes, focus on something at least 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds.
3:40pm-4:00pm	Lightning Sessions You Hold the Keys: How to Keep a Hacker Frustrated 80% of cyber attacks begin with a person. This is a ten-minute presentation going over simple strategies to protect your own private data, as well as the CCS network, as an end-user, using the human element to outsmart would-be hackers. *Nate Walker and Shane Fuller* Recording: How to Keep a Hacker Frustrated Links to an external site. Building Bridges: Collaborating with Faculty to Build a Multiple-Section Course This session delves into a collaboration among a dozen Humanities faculty members and Instructional Designers to re-design a course that is taught in multiple sections by multiple faculty members each quarter. Together, they crafted outcomes, lesson plans, and assignments for Humanities 101, resulting in a versatile Canvas course suitable for online, hybrid, and in-person classes. This course design grants faculty the flexibility to showcase their individual strengths while maintaining consistency. The result of the collaboration provides both faculty and students with a dynamic and inclusive learning experience. Lyn Megow To be rescheduled later!
4:00pm	End of Day 1, have a relaxing evening and we'll see you tomorrow!
Thursday, Sept. 14, Conference Day Two
11:30am-11:50am	Lunch for in-person attendees, sponsored by the IT department SFCC CETL (Library, North Second Floor) and SCC TLC (Building 1, Room G208)
11:50am-Noon	Day Two Kick-Off and Announcements
Noon-1:30pm	The Human Advantage: Achieving Equity Online in the AI Era Ensuring the future of online teaching and learning is inclusive and supports the success of all students requires an understanding and prioritization of our authentic human characteristics. Where does AI hold promise and where should it be avoided in the terrain of teaching online? To answer this question, we will examine learning science and explore a model of humanized online teaching that centers connection and high expectations and is linked with high rates of belonging online. You will feel inspired to make your online class authentically yours! *Michelle Pacansky-Brock* Recording: The Human Advantage: Achieving Equity Online in the AI Era Links to an external site.
1:30pm-1:45pm	Coffee Break. Try a five-minute stretching routine. Links to an external site.
1:45pm-2:30pm	Finding the Human in the Syllabus: Takeaways from the CCS Liquid Syllabus CoP Inspired by Michelle Pacansky-Brock’s Liquid Syllabus concept, which aims to start building a sense of belonging even before the term begins by humanizing the instructor, a group of faculty from SCC and SFCC met during spring quarter to support each other in developing our own liquid syllabi. We will showcase the syllabi we created using Google Sites, discuss the obstacles we overcame, and answer questions from session participants. Jared Anthony, Angela Rasmussen, Amy Anderson, Angela Smith, Cindy Trujillo, Jenny Wilson, Jennifer Barson, Ben Cartwright, Craig Rickett Recording: Takeaways from the CCS Liquid Syllabus CoP Links to an external site.	Rocketbook Hacks from A Real Teacher Technology in the classroom can be overwhelming. Rocketbook is a simple, yet futuristic idea--digital notetaking. Both you and your students, either face to face or online, will benefit from the ease of this simple idea. Rocketbook allows for creation of content, ease of use, and some smart ways to save your information and present it to your students. Susan Williams Recording: Rocketbook Hacks from A Real Teacher Links to an external site.
2:30pm-2:45pm	Coffee Break. Tell a colleague how much you appreciate them!
2:45pm-3:30pm	Pop-Up Professor: Zoom Office Hours Reconstructed This session is to introduce my course's communication policy inclusion of live Zoom office hours, how they work, and discuss the benefits to both students and myself. This is the only element of synchronous live interaction with my fully online students and since I began including it, communication with my students has grown, dare I say, exponentially. Pop-up Professor imbeds the human connection in my online environments in ways no other communication tool could. Stacy Kowtko Recording: Pop-Up Professor Links to an external site.	Panel Discussion: Avoiding Professional Burnout After the pandemic, high levels of faculty burnout led to "the great resignation." Faculty must creatively balance meeting the needs of our students with innovative approaches to learning while avoiding professional burnout. This difficult balancing act stresses dedicated, hard-working instructors the most. This session will share insights from last fall’s TLC community of practice focused on avoiding burnout. We will review the negative impact of stress on our personal and professional lives, why it is an especially complex issue in the context of higher education, as well as several specific strategies to improve work/life balance. *Angela Rasmussen, Amy Anderson, Anna Gamble, Kathy George, Samantha McCann* Recording: Panel Discussion: Avoiding Professional Burnout Links to an external site.
3:30pm-3:40pm	Coffee Break. Un-tense your neck, shoulder, and back muscles!
3:40pm-4:00pm	Previewing Upcoming Communities of Practice Liquid Syllabus CoP: What is a "liquid" syllabus? It is a living document that is made available online in the public domain for the purpose of connecting students to their instructors in a more engaging way. Liquid syllabi often integrate text with photo, audio, video, and other graphic materials related to the content of the course, and they can be made available to students beyond Canvas even before the before the start of the quarter. Pressbooks OER CoP: Join us this fall to learn how easy it is to create a Pressbooks book with engaging multimedia and abundant opportunities to make your curriculum more relevant, culturally responsive, and less expensive for students. At this lightning round session, you’ll see a draft book and get the key pieces of information you’ll need to start drafting your own books. Write on! TLC Communities of Practice - While many of the TLC ongoing CoPs will continue (the book discussion group, tenure-track group, and adjunct faculty learning community), there will be some new CoPs this quarter. Come learn about the group focus on avoiding burnout! *Jared Anthony, Jenny Wilson, & Angela Rasmussen* Recording: Previewing Upcoming Communities of Practice Links to an external site.
4:00pm	End of Conference, keep in touch and good luck this Fall Quarter! Also, please take a moment to fill out our Post-Conference Survey Links to an external site..

All times are listed for Pacific Standard Time.
Academy schedule may be subject to change. This page will always be the most up-to-date version of the schedule available.